Nuclear defence shield

[Big_Time_Charlie]

My mate said he read somewhere that in Civ III there was going to be a new Wonder called "star wars" that gave every city an SDI improvement. This sounds like quite a nice idea but I have not read anything about this, is he bullsh*ting me?

Anyone confirm this?

 

[thealien_83]

I can neither confirm nor deny that, but if it's anything to you, I in my personal opinion don't think this is true. Most of all because all of the Wonders in Civ 2 have been "realistic" ( as to that they actually have EXISTED, despite hardly providing the services they do in the game ), which "Star Wars" would not.

Can't tell you for sure though...

 

[Big_Time_Charlie]

Well in all honesty the SDI in Civ II is already unrealistic and is meant to be the Star Wars program I thought.

I think the Star Wars wonder would be okay, it would be a good way of protecting all your cities, but might provoke an arms race, with your opponents trying to nuke you before you built it or something.

Also I think the SDi should only have an 80% chance of stopping Nukes, therefore if you built enough you could destroy a city 9 needed to maybe get through the SDI therefore.



------------------
"It is a well known fact that a bird does not fly on one wing"

 

[Conditional Zenith]

There will be a small wonder (these are new to civ 3 and can be constructed by anyone, even if it has allredy been built) called the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) in civ 3. I think it is different to the SDI in civ 2 in that in Civ 2 it is a city improvement, in civ 3, I think once you build the SDI small wonder, all your cities are protected by it.

 

[PinkyGen]

I hope it stays a city improvement. If it's a wonder, you only have to build it once, and all your cities are protected. (And if its not one of the new mini-wonders, only one country can build it.) Now, you have to build them in most of your cities (ones more than 3 apart). I think now it costs a lot more, which I think more accurately reflects the recources that would go into creating SDI.

 

[Heffalump]

Given the protective power SDI provides (and the obvious technical difficulty in construction) I'd think a minor wonder should first be built, with this allowing construction of SDI improvements in each city. As big_time_charlie suggested, it would also be more interesting if an SDI were not foolproof .... perhaps an 85 or 90% interception rate.