Fixing the environment

[The Caltrop]

In Civ3, once global warming sets in, you are eventually stuck with a desert-world. Because all the land sqaurs start turning to les and less productive sqaures, and there is not much you can do about it.

One of the future techs (and yes, these should be speculative technologies, not just pointless 'happiness increasers' or whatever they are planned to be...) should be land reclaimation, which allows you to convert desert squares or plains squares to more useful terrain. Or at least some ability to slow it down.

 

[orven]

Nice idea.

I've always had this fear of nuking enemy cties because of what will happen when a number of nukes have been droped, so much so that I saved the only game where I used over 20 nukes, under the name "Nuclear winter".

 

[NP300]

It should be possible to have a small wonder that stops global warming. For instance, it is said that detonaing many nukes would cause a "nuclear winter". Well then, it should be possible to stop global warming by detonating enough nukes to put the right amount of dust into the atmosphere.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I think when you reaserch an appropriat tech, you should get a worker action allowing you to convert desert terrain. It should take a long time to complete, though, and destroy all improvements preiviously made on that square.

 

[Himalia]

The abilty for the enviroment to correct itself should be in there it seems once it has started it never goes back even if you do behave and try not to polute the place.

 

[mastertyguy]

I don't think it should be possible. The objective of global warming is that you can't fix it, you have to p;lay with. Anyway, when global wrmaing comes, the game is nearly over, so there is only three squares that change and you win!