I nuked the Chinese capitol city of Beijing because they launched the spaceship. However once the spaceship reached its destination they still won. Is this suppose to happen?
Do you mean you nuked them AFTER they launched the spaceship? If so, there's your problem. After the launch the spaceship, the only way to stop them is to wipe out their entire civilization before the spaceship arrived.
Alright, so I tried this out on Emperor with Rome. China launched space ship (16 years, 8 turns) so I nuked their capital and captured it. It didn't give me any notice saying that I stopped their possible victory. I waited 8 turns and nothing happen, so if you nuke their capital and capture it, you stop their space ship, even though it doesn't give you any notice.
However, if you wait too long to do this the enemy probably will have built an SDI in there capital. (which realy stinks, loosing the only nuke in the game)
That's why you save before you launch it.
And THAT is the definition of what I call cheating.
I know it is not cheating because you do something that everybody can do and that is part of the game, but I still consider it cheating. You should be able to win the game without redoing things you don't succeed in otherwise you should play on a lower difficulty level. I promise you the game will be more fun if you do not "cheat". I know because I did that in the beginning but have stopped and realized that some problems along the road is actually good for the fun of the game.
Sorry for being off-topic.
I guess loosing a nuke would fall into that catagory because 750 hammers just to have it against a 200 hammer building isn't fun.
SciGuy, please don't be hypocritical.
I agree with Hertsh here though. Whenever I decide to play offline, I never ever save my games. If you do have the nuke, don't be stupid about it. You can always press SELECT-WHO'S WINNING"- then look to see if the person who you're about to nuke has near 40ish techs. If they do; they most likely have the SDI.
So you just play thru for 2-4 hours straight?