GLOBAL WARMING BLUES - How to stop it?

[njoel]

Hello,

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this question. I've been playing a good game and am hoping someone can answer a couple questions.

So everything is going fine and 1 nuclear missle and 9 nuclear reactor meltdowns later I'm in the midst of a global warming siege . Random cities all over the place every few turns get hit with global warming. At this rate everything will be desert in no time.

My questions are;

1) Is there something I can do to stop the global warming?
2) I've built recycling centres in all my cities. is this enough? If so how long will it take to stop global warming?

3) Is it a good idea to build nuclear reactors in my cities or should I stick with something else?

Thanks everyone I appreciate any help offered here.

 

[CitizenCain]

"Scrub" the fallout!! (Requires ecology.... I think. Check the science advisor.) Recycling centers do nothing for global warming in Civ IV. As I recall, they only eliminate unhealthiness from buldiings.

Also, how in the hell did you manage to have 9 nuclear reactors melt down? That's insanely high... I haven't have that many total meltdowns, and I've been playing Civ IV since two days before its official release. Nuclear power plants, however, do provide the benefit of providing unhealthiness free power - coal plants come with a hefty health penalty. Try to build the Three Gorges Damn, which gives free power to every city on that continent. Failing that, hydro plants are definitely best, but only available if there is a river in your city radius. If the nuclear meltdowns are giving you trouble, build coal plants with recylcing centers - the recylcing centers will eliminate the downside of coal plant, and they won't explode on you.

 

[njoel]

Hi and thanks for the reply,

As for the meltdowns yeah I thought it was suppost to be a rare event but I had a few meltdown on me in the game. The workers cleaned the fallout right away however Global warming has started happenning and I don't know how to reverse it.

 

[Jecrell]

As far as I know global warming can't be stopped. Also... are you running the game after 2050? I don't recommend playing that long afterwards.

Any nuclear activity will boost the chances of global warming, but I have yet to experience it myself.

 

[Junuxx]

In all the 11 long years I have played Civ, I have never, I repeat never, experienced a meltdown. And you get 9 in one single game?

 

[njoel]

Yup, make that 10 now. They are happenning quite often now. I'm in year 2138 in the game so perhaps like Jercell has said that the age of them is causing this but like I said the meltdowns are a regular occourance, I remember from playing previous versions of civ that this was rare but happenned. If it isn't because I'm in year 2132 then I don't know why this would happen.

 

[njoel]

and yes surprisingly enough I not even playing as Russia (ha ha) and still these meltdowns are crazy.

 

[Kazper]

Global warming is one of the worst implemented features of the game - closely followed by Nuclear Meltdowns.

Once you get hit with global warming sit back and watch your empire (and the earth) crumble to constant deserts - deserts that are incidentally not just bad land - but worthless land that can never ever be improved to give just a single resource.

 

[Ybother]

Global warming is one of the worst implemented features of the game - closely followed by Nuclear Meltdowns.

Once you get hit with global warming sit back and watch your empire (and the earth) crumble to constant deserts - deserts that are incidentally not just bad land - but worthless land that can never ever be improved to give just a single resource.

makes u wonder if our world will be like arrakis dune in the next century

 

[EdCase]

makes u wonder if our world will be like arrakis dune in the next century

Wouldn't bother wondering..cos we'd all be dead were that to happen

 

[Jecrell]

I think by 2050 we wouldn't be using nuclear power or nukes. Certainly we'd find much better ways to wipe ourselves off the planet.

Although I'm sure there's a way to mod it out if it's really that big a problem.

 

[njoel]

Yes I wish there was a way to turn that feature off. In the game I am playing global warming is happenning almost every other turn. I tried replacing the nuclear power plants with coal plants, I thought in previous civs building a type of power plant (nuclear, coal, hydro) would replace whatever type of power plant you currently had in the city however that didn't happen, I also could find a way to destroy the nuclear powerplant like the sell building feature from civ3, unless I missed this?

 

[joethreeblah]

njoel - just curious, can you tell us what's up in your game that late?

Has nobody gotten a victory condition or are you the only civ left, and just building?

 

[ledhed]

Use the world builder editor to rid yourself of the effects .

 

[njoel]

Well it's myself and 2 other civs left. The AI hasn't declared war on me much to my surprise. I just started playing a custom game with myself and 3 other AI civ's.

 

[Soryn Arkayn]

I've experienced a nuclear meltdown in Civ3, but not yet in Civ4. If I remember correctly if there's civil disorder in a city with a nuclear reactor there's a possibility of a nuclear meltdown. I remember that the one that melted down was a city I had recently captured and it already had a nuclear reactor built; then, while the citizens were still resisting it melted down.

I'm not sure if a meltdown can just randomly happen without any disorder. I'm sure it's possible, but highly unlikely.

In regards to njoel's freak chain of accidents, my guess would be that the nuclear strike or first meltdown (which ever occurred first) caused a chain reactor. The first incident made a second more likely, and it just spiralled out of control. That's the only explanation I can think of.

 

[Mrdie]

How does global warming happen? I have not gotten it yet in Civ IV, I assume a lot of nukes being launched in a few turns?

 

[yendorII]

Any nuke being launched or by a nuclear reactor melting down.

 

[Mrdie]

Any nuke being launched or by a nuclear reactor melting down.

So it pretty much starts spreading all over the world rapidly? Or mainly around the area the nuke hit/reactor melted at

 

[werdna]

In my current game I've had 5 melt-downs so far (large map, epic game, prince level). The year is 1960s and I've had nuclear reactors since about 1900.
Worse thing is that when it happens, the game doesn't center on the city and only later on when I move to that area I notice empty spaces next to my cities. Very annoying. It seems meltdowns in civ4 occur more often than civ3.