What money exploit? I've searched and there is no way to cheat. The only thing I found is a fake program that makes you complete endless surveys with no download at the end. Unless thats a real program.....
Doubt it.
04710471dsfdsfgd wrote:What money exploit?
I suspect they mean this: Demo all residential areas in your city. Set (but don't upgrade) two residential areas. One will need nails, one will need metal. Set aside the one that needs nails (i.e. move it out of your way but don't upgrade or demo it). Upgrade the one that needs metal. Pays about 700 Simoleons. Add a new residential area and demo the one you just upgraded. The new one will need one metal to upgrade. Rinse and repeat. Depending on the speed of your device, you can repeat this several times per minute and make several thousand Simoleons per minute.
So let's talk about the difference between cheating and this.
First, a couple of cheating examples: A friend's 13-year-old son found a program he can use on his laptop to help him with his gaming. The program reads the memory registers used by games and allows the player to change those registers. Need a million gold or a million lives? Just type it in and the program changes it. That's one form of cheating. Another is when someone uses an alternate program not approved by the game designer to automate some task or tasks in a game. This is often referred to as using a "bot" and is also cheating.
The steps I mention above are not cheating because they are all steps that are part of the game, even if they are being used in a way that might not have been anticipated by the game designers. The game designers set rules in the game that determine what resources are needed to upgrade; they set a cash payout when you upgrade; and they allow you to demo or move residential areas. It takes hours of very boring repetition to build up any significant bank using this method, and many players will find that it's not worth their time and boredom to bother. But it's not cheating because it's within the rules, such as they are.
There is no way to code something that can't be hex edited. Even if all the code is on the server side and only a client that recieves basic input from the user on the client side it can still be hacked to do things outside the scope of game design. I've seen hacks for MMOs that have all code on server side that allowed players to teleport at any time and many times repeatedly in seconds to only be seen for a split second as they appear to perform a task then disappear again. Somehow despite all the code being server side they still hacked the game to do something outside the design of the game. This historically has been established as cheating. It doesn't matter how you manipulate the game outside of the game to make the game do something it is not designed to do.
On the otherhand there is exploiting which is by definition something different. Exploiting is doing something the game was designed to do in a way we were not intended to do it. In my typical experience as it related to online (MMOs etc) that have a game economy get rich quick "methods" typically are considered exploits and the developers will patch and then punish everyone who took advantage of the exploit. The punishment typically ranges from a permanent ban to removal of all goods gained from the exploit. However given the length of time this has been known to be a possible exploit nothing has come of it to patch it. Which leaves the question of do they concider it an exploit. My guess would be no because you would artificially speed up your leveling process there by making it significantly harder to actual develop your city after you amass a rediculous amount of simoleons you could get as you play at the designed pace of the game instead of all of it before you start. By that I mean I think it would take you longer to get to your goal of X population by doing that vs simply playing the game as intended.
