SE4 Deluxe

[AMF]

I encountered this whole settings.txt thing a while back, and thought it was an exploit too. I realized one could use it to make the atmosphere of all the planets breathable. But since the hosts settings.txt is the one used, I eventually figured it didn't matter.

Alarik

[geoschmo]

There are a couple things you could do by changing settings.txt that would allow you to cheat a little. There is nothing earth shatteringly unbalancing, as all the stuff that would seriously affect game balance is not processed until the host turn and thus would ignore the player's settings changes anyway.