"If you want to enable cheats, you have to add the "cheat" command line parameter (note: that's 'cheat' [singular], not 'cheats' [plural]) to a shortcut to the application and you need to add it *outside* the quotes that enclose the application path in the shortcut
For example: "C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\galciv2.exe" cheat"
"Ctrl +
V- United planets meeting
B- Adds battleship
C- Clones selected ship
0-9(NOT on Num Pad)- Hail's major races
J- Completes social projects
R- Research current tech (Hold Shift for ALL techs)
H- Heals selected ship
T- Teleports selected ship to cursor
L- Assigns remaining planets to major races
S- Saves
W-???( 1st time I hit it, it deleted all my ships. 2nd time, it crashed the game)
A- Upgrades selected ship
M- Adds 10,000bc
N- Restart on a new map with new race
P- Adds 1 to planet class"
"edit the CurrentCustomRace.raceconfig in My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2, look for something like
< ECONOMICS >10< /ECONOMICS > or < RESEARCH >10< /RESEARCH > and pump it up to
< ECONOMICS >100000< /ECONOMICS >... You'll never go bankrupt again"