what does it mean when you are mousing over the map with an ICBM and a square turns green? is this a recommended bombing spot? i figured bombing directly on an important city would be better. also, has anyone tried bombing an ocean space? there is one spot with transports, battleships, and 12 land units coming right for my shore and i would love to take it out if that actually works, but i doubt it would. hate to waste one.

If it turns green, that means that there is an improvement or a city underneath your cursor.

It takes two nukes to completely wipe out a city (i.e. destroy all the units on that tile) so for an ocean tile, I'd imagine it would be the same.

I really have no idea if it would work, why don't you try it and tell us what happens? ;) Either you can nuke 'em, or you can't. (Note: if they are already in your coastal waters, you won't be able to do it...apparently you can't nuke your own territory, no matter what.)

Do you still piss everybody off by nuking somebody in Civ4?


I remembered once in Civ3 I have mistakenly removed the only defender in my second largest city and the Indian surprise attacked and destroy it (right at the back of my territory), it pisses me off so much that I basically ICBM all of his cities with at least 3 nukes each, the global warming turns the whole world into a desert, while all the other civs declare war on me, so I nuke all of their cities, ahh... the sweet memory :D:D

Do you still piss everybody off by nuking somebody in Civ4?


I remembered once in Civ3 I have mistakenly removed the only defender in my second largest city and the Indian surprise attacked and destroy it (right at the back of my territory), it pisses me off so much that I basically ICBM all of his cities with at least 3 nukes each, the global warming turns the whole world into a desert, while all the other civs declare war on me, so I nuke all of their cities, ahh... the sweet memory :D:D
Yes. -1 to everyone and -3 to the guy you nuked. Desertifaction is still insane.

wait a minute - i'm new to CIV - there are actually environmental effects from nuking??

yeah, its called global warming. You'll get a message during a turn that "Global Warming has affected [city x]" and one square in that city will turn to desert. Theres a variable in the ini file that affects the chances of this. Theres a global warming thread around here somewhere that will tell you how to change it.

Yes, global warming can be a big problem after awhile if you are constantly nuking, unless you have the worker manpower to scrub fallout. So nuke only if it is absolultely necessary. Or if the enemy AI has REALLY ticked you off. :goodjob:

Yes, global warming can be a big problem after awhile if you are constantly nuking, unless you have the worker manpower to scrub fallout. So nuke only if it is absolultely necessary. Or if the enemy AI has REALLY ticked you off. :goodjob:
I'll share a favored tactic of mine, what I like to call "Glow in the Dark Diplomacy". If I am short of the votes necessary for a Diplo win, but have the largest population, I use my ICBMs to reduce one of my opponents surplus population, thus giving myself a greater share of votes at the UN just in time for the next vote. Everyone will hate you, buts its only for a turn or 2, and then you win.

Global warming? What about the nuclear winter? :mischief: In the 80s everone expected the clouds to be so thick it kept all the sunlight out...

Global warming? What about the nuclear winter? :mischief: In the 80s everone expected the clouds to be so thick it kept all the sunlight out...
Same thing, really -- turns terrain into a wasteland. They only call it "global warming" as a hangover from when pollution triggered the effect.

Actually im not sure at which it (nukes) is directly related to global warming. Is just that I got so sick and tired of the global warmings that i searched a whole bunch of XML sheets, and finally found the one, set it to "0", and now i dont have any problems anymore. Anyway, the point was that i rarely had any global warmings after 2050. Seems more likely it a effect against "forever-play", like the inflation-effect.