but that wouldn't be like the original.
Pretty sure it
would. In CivDOS (which was about the only game I played, between 2002 and 2009 — when I switched to playing Civ3 obsessively instead!), nuke-plants could
definitely go kablooie, and buildings could
definitely be (randomly) destroyed during riots (but maybe you were such a good player that you never suffered any rioting?
).
What I can't remember
for certain is, whether the nuke-plant kablooie was classified (by the game) as a 'Disaster' (like Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Floods, Pirate raids, etc.), or whether it happened in response to a riot (obviously, only in a town with a nuke-plant). But since unlike other Disasters, meltdowns were
caused (rather than prevented) by a specific building, and
preventable by researching Fusion(?) (IIRC), I'm >90% sure it
was the building-destroyed-by-rioters mechanic, which could/would cause a meltdown. Prior to Fusion, I remember this made running a nuke-plant quite risky under a Republic/ Democracy. (Ironic really, considering that the worst nuclear-power accident in the world
to date, the Chernobyl disaster, happened in the USSR...)
Really, the only reason for that <10% uncertainty, is that I last played CivDOS nearly 10 years ago, and I don't remember ever actually seeing more than a couple of meltdowns (if that), in
any of my games — but I
do remember at some point adopting a precautionary policy of
never building nuke-plants before I got Fusion. Not only was the fallout (Pollution) a pain to clean up, since it took a long time, and you only had Settlers to do it with (which themselves cost 40[?] shields, plus food-upkeep per turn), but I
think the meltdown would also cause population-loss in the town as well — like from an ICBM-attack. (Also, I was >15 years younger, and a lot more ideologically opposed to nuclear power on principle — even in a computer game!).
So by the time I felt 'safe' building nuke-plants, I would
also usually be about ready to launch my Ship.
I was only thinking in terms of higher viewing resolution and not actually changing any textures or graphics as I love the original look (hell I just used the CivDos graphics mod on CivWin because of love the original look so much haha). But hey if some talented folks fork your work to do something like that it'll certainly be interesting. Come to think of it there's probably quite a few people who love the CivWin textures over the dos ones (basically opposite to me lol) who might want to mod your game to support them. The lovely SNES Civ1 graphics is another nice tile set.
