A question on the effect of nukes (and a subquestion on interception promotion)

Evening gonad · Mar 13, 2015

I was playing the Babylon OCC DCL, and a nuclear exchange happened, a first for me so it was quite entertaining.

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I had a few questions about nuclear weapons as a result.

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Thanks for any replies!

stormtrooper412 · Mar 13, 2015

As far as I know about 1 and 2, no it doesn't make the peace any more probable. In the DCL16 I already had around 4-5 nukes by the endgame and while that made instantly everyone Afraid, India went along and attacked me anyway. Naturally I retaliated in full swing (see screenshot in thread) but the point is, even though he was well aware of my nuclear capabilities, he proceeded to attack me anyway and while that didn't end well for them, I have to wonder what was the reasoning behind it.

When I played that map, I had nukes early because I was sitting on massive amounts of gold and the last SS part was well away, and nobody dared attack me. I do remember Germany being pissed off for the good part of the game because I stole his wonders, he suddenly coveted my lands yadda yadda and even though I was under a denouncement at that point, once he saw the shiny warheads of death, he reconsidered his foreign policy and offered a DoF very soon afterwards. I turned Germany to dust anyway

beetle · Mar 15, 2015

High military strength means the AI is more willing to negotiate, and the AI overvalues nukes in this regard, so yes they should help. But they are not a guarantee.

There is a red modifier for nuking, but I don't think new hate matters during a war.

Despite the help text, there is no intercepting nukes.

Evening gonad · Mar 15, 2015

That's too bad the game doesn't implement any ability to intercept nukes. I miss that ability from earlier games. Nuclear weapons probably come too late for that to matter too much anyway.

reddishrecue · Mar 15, 2015

Evening gonad said:
That's too bad the game doesn't implement any ability to intercept nukes. I miss that ability from earlier games. Nuclear weapons probably come too late for that to matter too much anyway.

Yeah, sdi from civilization 4 is gone. Only way to intercept nukes now is by using bomb shelters. Did you miss civilization 4 because of this?

Evening gonad · Mar 15, 2015

Sadly, I've never played Civ 4. And I've only played a little of Civ III. So I guess I was primarily referring to SDI in Civ 2

and whatever Civ III had. And no, I don't really miss those games, though I liked the animated advisors and Wonder building videos in Civ II. Really prefer the happiness mechanic in Civ 5, as opposed to all corruption issues in Civ II, for example, and I love ideologies, religions, etc. But all that is probably on a different topic.

A question on the effect of nukes (and a subquestion on interception promotion)

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