Happiness is a warm nuke

Of course, you're absolutely right. Unleashing nuclear holocaust upon your own citizens should result in a net happiness gain throughout the rest of your country. How could anyone have thought otherwise? :cool:
If the government nuked one of the major cities in your country, and the next day government agents showed up and said: "In the interest of national welfare, we had to nuke one of the big cities, since the people there created just too much unhappiness. We're here to make sure that happiness in the empire has indeed increased. If not, we may have to nuke another city. Do you feel happier today?"
I bet many people would feel quite happy.
 
Yes
Because i found it a very twisted topic :D
But fun though
 
you guys are either incredibly lazy or are just trolling. not only does nuking eliminate valuable productivity (hammers, gold, and beakers) it costs about the same production as other equally effective means. While it may be fun to nuke your own cities, it isn't a viable strategy

If it makes the difference between being over or under -10, it actually increases hammers. Now that I think about it, it also increases military strength, since as everyone knows, post-apocalyptic troops are awesome.

So, in summation, nuking your own cities:
1 - increases happiness
2 - increases production
3 - increases military might
4 - causes golden ages to occur faster (which increases gold and hammers even more)
5 - makes your people stay happy longer

That's an awful correlation...why pick up that extra puppet city that puts you over -10 in the first place? Just nuke AI cities.
 
That's an awful correlation...why pick up that extra puppet city that puts you over -10 in the first place? Just nuke AI cities.

Why would I nuke an enemy civ and make them all happy like? Much better to nuke my own peeps.
 
*BUMP* Here are some nice quotes from my collection, for your happiness (so I don't have to nuke you ;)), edited for your convenience by yours truly - updated for the modern age, so to speak:

"To nuke or not to nuke, that is the question (to nuke is the answer!)."
-this is in someone's sig here, ofc Hamlet said it first

"In Nukes We Trust."
-US Dollar bill

"If it doesn't glow - nuke it."
-someone

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you nuke."
-Gandhi

"With freedom, flowers, books, and nukes, who could not be perfectly happy?"
-Oscar Wilde

"I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you nuke."
-Jeff Buckley

"Success doesn't come the way you think it does, it comes from the way you nuke."
-Robert Schuller

"When people say: 'She's got everything', I've only one answer: I haven't had nukes."
-Elizabeth Taylor

"'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best,' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Nuking People was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to nuke which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called."
-A.A. Milne [I'll help you out here Pooh: it's called DEFCON 1 :nuke:]

"Tough Times Don't Last. Tough Mutants Do. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't nuke than by the ones you did nuke. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Nuke."
-Mark Twain

"It's easier to nuke a child than it is to raise it."
-someone

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without nukes. And I can picture us nuking that world, because they'd never expect it."
- Jack Handey

"Excellence is... Nuking more than others think wise. Nuking more than others think safe. Nuking more than others think practical. Nuking more than others think possible."
-Tulsa Boy Scouts [incidentally, boy scouts with nukes has got to be the best idea since... Well, girl scouts with nukes I guess. :dunno:]

"When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to CiV. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'nuked.' They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand CiV."
-someone

You're free to add quotes of your own, or, if you don't like spam, discuss the actual topic. I think nuking your own cities is a neat trick if you accidentally go over (or under?) the happiness limit.
Someone might devise a real strategy out of it, although I imagine it'd be very situational in any case.

Edit: how could I forget this: :nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke: :cool::goodjob:
 
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