Turn Off Nukes?

[TheBossInTheWal]

Is there a way to turn off nuclear bombs/missles? Such as a mod.

 

[Spatzimaus]

Yes, it's extremely easy to make a mod that turns off nukes altogether. The simplest way is to just set their costs to -1, making them unbuildable. Note that this'd have several other impacts, like increasing the number of Nuclear Plants people build (since other than the GDR, there'd be no reason to save Uranium). But if you're just completely anti-nuke, it's the easiest way to deal with them.

There are also mods, like my own (in .sig), that add interception mechanisms to nukes, to where you can build an SDI project that shoots them down part of the time. This requires a little knowledge of Lua programming, as the existing stubs do nothing, but it's not very complicated.

And if you just want to keep nukes in the game but reduce the numbers that get built, there are several ways to do that as well.

 

[TheBossInTheWal]

Yes, it's extremely easy to make a mod that turns off nukes altogether. The simplest way is to just set their costs to -1, making them unbuildable. Note that this'd have several other impacts, like increasing the number of Nuclear Plants people build (since other than the GDR, there'd be no reason to save Uranium). But if you're just completely anti-nuke, it's the easiest way to deal with them.

There are also mods, like my own (in .sig), that add interception mechanisms to nukes, to where you can build an SDI project that shoots them down part of the time. This requires a little knowledge of Lua programming, as the existing stubs do nothing, but it's not very complicated.

And if you just want to keep nukes in the game but reduce the numbers that get built, there are several ways to do that as well.

Thanks for the response. How would I make their cost -1? I have no idea how to go about it, never modded anything, etc.

 

[Spatzimaus]

If you want to learn how to make a mod, go over into the Creation & Customization forum. It contains a "Reference" subforum, and stickied at the top of that is a PDF of a beginner modders' guide, written by Kael (the guy responsible for things like FfH in earlier civ games). It explains most of the basics necessary for creating simple mods; there are only a couple bits of it that have become out-of-date in the year since it was written.

 

[vonbach]

It would be a nice option when your starting the game.