I hate global worming

[wmtrexler]

You only have Al Gore to blame.

 

[Ahoogah!]

Quite a while back I was playing my first game that I actually was able to build nukes. I was in the process of building an arsenal of about forty when I completed my first one. Ghandi was the second most powerful civ (strange huh?) and had been giving me a hard time for centuries. So, like Kruschev, I decided to do a little "sabre rattling". I detonated my first nuke two tiles from his coastline, just to let him know what I was capable of. I thought that if it went off over the ocean I would be okay. Two turns later, the global "worming" started.

 

[Catharsis]

Beat me to the joke

By about six and a half months, in fact.

 

[Arnesson]

For a change, I turned off the Time Victory option. It is now 2005, and Global Warming is hitting me about every 10 turns or so. I have zero coal, nuclear or hydro plants. But Hattie has been nuking Monty into submission, which I have to assume is the source.

Off topic a bit, but is anyone out there also frustrated with the "battle odds" presented for each combat round. I consistently win twice as many battles with odds below 50% as I do when the odds are anywhere in the 60-70% range.

 

[2222love3333]

I also hate it.

 

[meatwad4289]

get rid of it lol...

Damn that Al Gore. As soon as the Ozone starts gettin fixed hes gotta throw out the Global warming crap, couldnt he of done it while he was Vice President, then we could of killed both of the problems at once

 

[CivDude86]

Then he wouldn't have had enough time to invent the internet.

 

[Psyonif]

While global warming is annoying (today it turned my carefully, painstakingly cultivated Siberian tundra farms to desert), I actually quite like it; by the time global warming strikes I'm almost always in an overwhelmingly dominating position (though I'm only on Noble, to be fair), and fighting random tile degradation as well as everyone else keeps you on your toes. I'd prefer if it melted ice and tundra first, though...

 

[meatwad4289]

i would keep global warming if it made sense.. but it doesnt..

 

[Charles 22]

Today, I haven't built not single one coal plant, nuclear plant, or hydro plant. Not a single one. Just Three Georges Damn. And the rest of the world is in middle ages.

So, Izzy tried to attack me
An, just so it happens I have nuke. One nuke. I will repeat: ONE
And I "destroyed" her holly city (who could resist) cause I didn't want to invade one more continent.
So, that ONE nuke, and global warming strikes. Random parts of my land turned into desert. Tundra near river turned into Sahara style desert

I naturally won (first cultural on noble ), but this really really sucks.

This is perhaps the largest joke of this game. People "theorize" that nuke strikes would cause some global warming, I suppose a reactionary great amount would be the usual tact. Look at "history" though, there's all the evidence you need. So how many nukes have gone off, 2? Nope, over a thousand. There have been over a thousand that have gone off in history due to testing, and yet no global warming. Of course, even if there were global warming, it sure wouldn't work like some laser beam from the sky as this ridiculous treatment in this game gives it which destroys everything.

Curious isn't it? The global warning strikes are actually more powerful than the nukes in the game, whereas history has proved to be exceedingly the opposite.