Posting here to suggest that those that have cheated are simply flagged as such with an 'achievement' or note or something of the sort.

Personally the only cheats I've used are evoadvantage and adding consequence abilities for starting games past Cell stage. Sometimes I just want to play the game with a creature I created in the CC earlier in the year, or with someone elses great design. Unfortunately the only way to do this and experience the game is through console commands.

This shouldn't lock me out of collecting achievements for my own interest. I couldn't care less about comparing my achievements with others, I just like them as goals for a single player experience.

I seriously hope this is something in the next patch. I've already lost so much time and data from bugs, crashes, and this issue in particular.

What is the deal with all this about cheating and achievements? Does it block you from collecting achievements on your other save games or something? Is it really so hard to just have certain save games you use for cheating, and the others you use for legitimate, achievement-earning gameplay?

There's a bug that may disable all achievements across all games if you use cheats in any of your games.

...or so I've heard.

Ohhh, well that explains a lot. Yeah, kinda sucks I guess.