10 Overpowered Video Game Exploits You Can Use In The First HOUR

8. Riskymoney - SimCity 4

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Using cheats is already a form of exploiting a game, but one of SimCity 4's cheats, riskymoney, comes with a penalty for using it, so in order to get the most out of it, you'll need to find an exploit for an exploit.

That's right. We're going into full exploit-ception mode!

Riskymoney is a cheat that instantly grants the player 10,000 Simoleons, but there's a catch. Every four times you use it, it causes a massive earthquake, so you can only use it three times before the amount of damage it causes to your city outweighs the reward.

However, this doesn't mean you can only get thirty grand from riskymoney without suffering the penalties. You just have to realize how to use it efficiently.

So what if the cheat causes an earthquake? The tremors can't destroy anything if you don't build anything!

If you just use the cheat code at the very start of a game, before you place roads and districts, you can get as much money out of it as you want, and the only thing the earthquakes will ruin are mounds and hills.

You can even call your empty patch of dirt something nice while you funnel funds into it, like Money-Printing Central.

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