How to convert Ocean into Grassland/Plain/Desert

Moonsinger · Nov 8, 2002

Did you know that it's possible to convert the water tiles (ocean, lake) into land (grassland, plain, floodplain, and desert)?

1. Build a stack of at least 100 tactical nukes (the more the merrier). Tactical nuke is good enough; don't waste time and money on the ICBM.

2. Nuke the planet until the sun turns red.

3. Within about 50 turns later, you will see the dramatic results.

Note: This process in irreversible! After most of your beautiful grasslands turn into plains or deserts, you will start seeing the ocean and lake turning into land (this new land could be grassland, plain, floodplain or desert).

cracker · Nov 8, 2002

Is this strategy? or :smoke:

Let's see, you destroy 1400 terrain units of food to randomly gain 1 or two units of food? and it costs you 30,000+ shields of production and who knows how many bizzilions of pop pouint plus it cuts your game score in 'who knows' can we say half.

Interesting observation though.

Skyfish · Nov 8, 2002

Some people REALLY have nothing to do with their time

And I thought cracker exagerated when he decided to build 1580 vet MAs to occupy every single tile in the GOTM12 game

AAHAHHAHAHHAHA

cracker, you found crazier :crazyeye:

real good LOL guys

thanks

Moonsinger · Nov 8, 2002

Originally posted by cracker
Is this strategy? or

Of course, it's starting out as a valid strategy. Originally, I build those nukes to convert plain into floodplain to double the food source. Since I have over 400 workers working overtime to clean up all pollution; therefore, pollution is not a problem. I was doing well and successfully converted over 300 plains into floodplains. I was so happy; my world was beautiful and all my citizens are happy...until...

I didn't realize that the game has some kind of counter that remember the number of pollution on the planet. And worst, cleanning up pollution won't decrease this counter. When this counter hit certain level, the beautiful world as I know it changes forever.

cgannon64 · Nov 8, 2002

I've actually thought for a LONG time that global warming should turn land tilesinto water tiles. This is, of course, if you believe in global warming

Good point, Cracker. This isn't strategy, its just some fun and playing with the system. I highly suggest you don't try this in a competition game.

CG

Rammstein · Nov 9, 2002

Nuke the world 'til the sun turns red... sounds like a environmentally conscious rock song

Tassadar · Nov 9, 2002

Originally posted by Rammstein
Nuke the world 'til the sun turns red... sounds like a environmentally conscious rock song

But it seem this is exactly what human do, crazy human, get me off this planet someone, help :cry:

tctatheel7 · Nov 9, 2002

Originally posted by Rammstein
Nuke the world 'til the sun turns red... sounds like a environmentally conscious rock song

yeah, lol

Datheus · Nov 10, 2002

..wait...

This is true? You can nuke the planet until the ocean squares turn into land squares?

Sgt.Hellfish · Nov 10, 2002

i gotta say that wud be funny especially if u then charged over a new bridge like land piece and took out a civ or trapped loads of shis in a tiny lake

Datheus · Nov 10, 2002

But why bother nuking land when you can use those 100 nukes to bring yourself and a disgustingly easy Conquest win

Perfection · Nov 12, 2002

Originally posted by Datheus
But why bother nuking land when you can use those 100 nukes to bring yourself and a disgustingly easy Conquest win

Because Its not weather you win or lose but how you play the game.

Theroretically couldn't you create a giant desert with nothing else on it, that would be so cool!

Rammstein · Nov 13, 2002

What could possibly be cooler than nuking your way to supreme leadership?

earendil 1 · Mar 30, 2003

Actually its much easier and better if you just nuke ocean-sea-coast squares. It only takes a minimum of 1 nuke . When I did that to an Ai capital one of its ships was grounded.

Moonsinger · Mar 30, 2003

Originally posted by earendil
Actually its much easier and better if you just nuke ocean-sea-coast squares. It only takes a minimum of 1 nuke . When I did that to an Ai capital one of its ships was grounded.

That was exactly how I got the fish onto the railroad.

Bamspeedy · Mar 30, 2003

But doing this would change the domination limit, wouldn't it? By turning ocean to land, you are affecting the domination limit so you could claim more land without triggering domination.

Grille · Mar 30, 2003

The question is: When is the limit set?

Hygro · Mar 30, 2003

Uh, this doesn't work well with PtW, as (at least in 1.14f) global warming--even with a red sun--is pretty weak. Plus, in PTW (again 1.14f) nukes don't actually terraform, they just polute.

Moonsinger · Mar 31, 2003

Originally posted by Bamspeedy
But doing this would change the domination limit, wouldn't it? By turning ocean to land, you are affecting the domination limit so you could claim more land without triggering domination.

Theoretically, yes it would increase the domination limit. I have seen it happened to someone in the HoF; at the time, we had no idea why his domination limit suddenly increased. Blowing up one or two nukes may dry up a lake, but to drain the ocean, that would require a lot of nukes. If we are playing for the high score, that isn't a good way to do it.

farting bob · Mar 31, 2003

you can tchange ocean into grassland or plains, only desert. and then you could have a huge empire made entirly of size 2 desert cities! true egyptian...

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