console commands cheating or not

THIS IS GOING BE A VERY LONG POST

As with The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Console commands are available in the PC version of the game.

Opening the console can be done through the tilde-key (~), it sits before the "1" key and under the ESC-key.

Codes using Toggle command:

■Addshout - Add selected shout to player skill list. Shout Codes
■coc qasmoke - This brings you to the testing hall with all items in the game. Be careful as opening enchanted armor and weapons cabinets may cause your game to crash.
■coc <cell edid> - This will teleport you to any location you type in.
■Example: coc riverwood, or coc whiterun
■fov x - Adjust field of view (insert fov value into )
■showracemenu - Bring up character customization menu.
■NOTE: Your health Magicka, Stamina, and Health levels will be spread evenly on using this depending on your character's level. It will remove any point distributions that were custom.
■NOTE2: Make sure you are in the third person view before editing your character, otherwise you will be invisible, and unable to see the changes made on your character
■TGM - Toggle God Mode (invincible, also removing encumbering effect and unlimited magicka and stamina)
■TCL - Toggle Collision (no clipping mode; interacting possible, walk pointing up to fly into the air)
■TM - Toggle Menus (Removes the HUD and other dialogue texts)
■TMM (0) - Toggle Map Markers (all locations, tmm 1 turns on, tmm 0 turns off)
■TFC - Toggle freefly cam (removes the body and set the camera free, you will not be able to interract)
■TAI - Toggle Artificial Intelligence (freezes npc, they can't walk, move, or anything.)
■TCAI - Toggle Combat Artificial Intelligence (same as TAI; however only makes the NPC not being able to combat)
■TDetect - Toggle AI Detection (You can steal all you want and no one will see you, doesn't work with pickpocketing)
Codes using player target command:

■player.addperk <variable> - ( 000581e7 for Augmented Flames level 1 ; "player.addperk 000581e7")
■(To find the perk id type 'help "perk name" 4', then add each level in order). Make sure to put double quotes around perks with a space in them.
■player.addspell <variable> - ( 0007e8e1 for Raise Zombie : "player.addspell 0007e8e1")
■player.additem <base_id> <amount> - (F # for gold, A # for lockpick ; "player.additem F 100" adds 100 gold for example) Skyrim Item Codes
■player.setcrimegold XXX - Set it high if you want to fight, set it at 0 if you want to be free.
■player.setlevel X - Make X equal your desired character level.
■player.setav speedmult X - Where X equals your movement speed in a percentage value. (100 = 100%)
■player.setav skill X - Sets skill without messing with level gains. The skill name can be found from the skill list, and X equals the value you want that skill to be. This also works for health, stamina, magicka, and carryweight. Example: [player.setav marksman 50] sets your archery to 50.
■player.modav skill X - Buffs or debuffs a skill. The skill name can be found from the skill list, and X equals the value you want that skill to be. Example: If your Block skill is 30, you can "player.modav block 10", activating a buff to your Block and setting it to 40 (with the skill level appearing green as if a spell or item is affecting the skill). The same can be done in reversing by using a negative integer. Using "player.modav block -10" would activate a permanent debuff to your Block and set it to 10 (with the skill level appearing in red).
Other helpful codes:

■movetoqt - teleports you to quest target (currently not working for me, but is recognized by console) (will only work on quests with target markers, Bethesda quests; will not work on side quests with the new variable target locations.)
■AdvSkill - Give the player the desired amount of skill usage points [AdvSkill onehanded 100] (after some testing the number placed at the end of the command would indicate usage points, not skill points, for example: if you used advskill onehanded 100, it would be the equivalent of 100 swings of a one handed sword, not 100 skill points.) - Skill List
■IncPCS - Increase the players skill points by one point [IncSkill onehanded] - Skill List
■player.modav carryweight ## - Adds amount to weight limit (Can also use health or magicka or stamina instead of carryweight to increase those totals.)
■qqq - quits the game without exiting to the main menu.
■unlock - Target the desired chest or door by clicking on it and then type "unlock"
■lock XXX - You can lock chests and door, or people by targeting them and typing "lock" followed by the level of difficulty you wish to set it at.
■kill - Target your enemy by clicking on them once in the console menu and type "kill" and it does just that.
■killall - Kills all hostiles in your immediate vicinity
■resurrect - Killed someone you didn't mean to? Target them once in the console menu and type "resurrect" and it will bring them back from the grave as they were before the fight started. (add a one after ressurrect, and they will just stand up alive, their items won't respawn, so if you take all the gear, weapons off a character, then [ressurect 1] they will stand up naked. Useful for giving characters gear they wouldn't have normally.
■removeallitems - Target the desired character from the console menu and then type "removeallitems" and they will be stripped of everything in their inventory, including their clothes.
■player.forceav dragonsouls # - Adds the specified # of Dragon Souls.
■psb - (Player Spell Book) Unlocks all spells in-game and unlocks all shouts.
■caqs - Complete all Quest Stages
■advlevel - Force a Level Up
■enableplayercontrols - This command is used to enable controls during cinematics when they're disabled. Occasionally the game will glitch, instead of reloading put in this command and carry on.
■sexchange - Changes the gender of the player's character (Helpful for getting stubborn arrows relieved from the body)
■set timescale to # - Set the rate at which time passes. (16 is the default, 1 is realtime)

So far I've only done "kill" on a dragon in mid-air to see how it died.

It's only cheating if you use them to cheat really. I've used several console commands yet I haven't cheated once since I use them for debugging and whatnot, such as using noclip to get out of a terrain bug. I've also used the free camera, disable HUD (for screenshots) and fov (have a hard time playing in first person without raising it) ones a few times.

i honestly use console commands for 2 things.

1-TCL since some areas i couldn't get to, and it seems unnatural not being able to get to.

2-unlock. I completely and utterly hate the lockpick system. hated it in oblivion and I hate it here. Only difference is I found a skeleton key in oblivion (on PS3, so not cheating). But here, it is completely BS... well until i find the skeleton key again, if it is available.

For gold, and items, yes. I don't see the point of ~ing in gold when you can just use it to get the item, but yeah. TGM, definitely, TCL, only when you're using it to gain an advantage. Standing in the sky to pelt that troll with arrows, or flames is playing dragon. Oddly enough, that's not one of the playable races, so it's cheating.

I run into trouble with Esbern, he won't open the door, so I have to clip through it to continue the main quest. It's the only way past that point, because it does it every time now, I don't call that cheating. I also like to `additem clothes which have no defensive value, nor enchantment just because they look cool. You can't get them any other way, nor do they affect game play, so I'd say not cheating.

God mode and giving yourself super skills/items/gold etc yes, i suppose you can call that cheating, using them to get out of bugs or glitches isnt really cheating as i see it though.

As long as people dont brag about using them it's all cool, otherwise they just look stupid

I see your point, it all depends if you want your game to be a relaxing experience or a challenging one, i tend to avoid the exploitations from glitches when i can. It makes the game as whole last longer for me. I do/have used commands/exploits to get things from Oblivion and Skyrim before however just because it was interesting to do.