# Editing, modding...cheating? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [March 15, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/editing-modding-cheating/8105 "2015-03-15T15:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Farsight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/farsight/32/2763_2.png) [@Farsight](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Farsight)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/editing-modding-cheating/8105/4 "2015-03-17T03:44:17Z")
Technically it’s only classed as cheating if you’re trying to make the game easier, otherwise it’s expanding game play, but that’s just a minor quibble on my part. I’ve modded a few COG games before, it’s pretty straightforward and relatively easy compared to some other games (I’m looking at you Eador) you just use a file opening program, I use 7-zip. Open the desired games application file with it and extract all the files in it to a new folder. If it’s “maxing all stats” that you’re after then just go into Scenes and edit the Startup files, both of them and set yourself a 100 stats in each and that should do the trick. Though sometimes the stat is a percentage between two things, in which case setting ti 0 might be required for the desired outcome. After that save everything and run the Index web file, I use Firefox, mostly because it has all the tools I need to mod facebook games and because Chrome has a built in tracker that monitors your browsing activity and their pro-advertising. Other browsers might work okay too. I hope this helps you in your future modding endeavors. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/editing-modding-cheating/8105)._