There are three passwords:
Spacemaster: Entered at the start of a game and set up by whoever creates the game
Designer: Which allows you to see NPRs as if there were player races. There are two major issues with using this:
1) It takes away the fog of war because you can now see everything about the NPRs, including their location, ship designs, colonies, etc. Fog of War adds a lot to the fun of Aurora, which means that using designer mode will take away a lot of the fun. Once you know information about NPRs, you can't unlearn it so this is a permanent reduction in the fun element.
2) NPRs rely on certain things (Fleets, colonies, systems, etc) being in place and if you change those things, you can crash the game or cause bugs.
Database: This is where you can really screw things up
. Without a UI there is no safety net that will ensure you can't delete or change something critical. If you access the database directly, you are changing data without any safeguards on what will be affected and it is
really easy to corrupt your entire installation, not just one game.
