One click to start a game with neutered AI (economy rate 0) and cheats enabled.
I was always creating games against an AI x0 to test my mod, so borrowed a bunch of code from the PAStats matchmaker (after cross-referencing with the game code) to add an item to the main menu.
Some of the most common settings can be changed in the game settings:
- Option to spectate or play
- Option to go into configured lobby to change unsupported settings
- Land anywhere or in zones
- Player economy rate
- AI economy rate
- AI personality
- Number of armies (including player)
- Number AI commanders per army
- Load a system
I've tried to concentrate the settings in once place, so if you're comfortable with text editors it is possible to fully customize things. Changing the config property of the defaults object to Code will cause it to use the defaults object instead of the user settings.