Sure. I was nuked into stonage a couple of times. In my opinion the AI is a littlte bit careless with those nukes. If they have them, they will find a way to get rid of them by nuking neigbours.
Really?
In a way this is good news.
Because I eventually did win the game that I had posted about in this thread. I won the space race even though America had a nuclear missle. So the question is: why didn't they use it to obliterate my ONLY city?
It's true, I had only ONE city.
All America had to do was nuke me, and that would have been it. I think that this is a definite weakness with the A.I.
It was a surprisingly close game. I believe that had I not landed on Alpha Centauri on that turn, then on the very next turn, America would have won an economic victory (for five turns in a row my advisor had been warning me that America was close to economic victory, and on my second to last turn in the game I was advised that they were fewer than $1000 away). Which makes it all the more baffling why they didn't launch their nuclear missle at me? They should have switched their government away from democracy and nuked me, which is what a normal person would have done. That makes me wonder though - when another civilization launches spaceships to Alpha Centauri, as I did, do the other civilizations know of the arrival date? Maybe, in my game, America didn't know that I was about to land on Alpha Centauri, which is why they didn't nuke me?
What's the penalty for launching a nuclear missle, by the way? Is there one? There ought to be one. If you launch a nuclear device then all the other countries should either cease to trade with you, or should declare war on you.
