I don't have the patience to search for it, but I'm sure I saw a mod once post that the KA and CC platforms are quite different in many ways. Having played KA for the first year of its existence before "winning", I would agree with that statement. I haven't played KA in a long time though, well over a year, so I don't know what's changed.
Why would you hack a game? To get 54 billion pixel cash? Trying to compensate fir other deficiencies eh?