Nuclear suggestions for civ4

[GePap]

Also, fallout should not contribute to Global warming. If one whishes to introduce a "nuclear winter effect" once enough fallout is out there, it would be interesting.

[pollyworth]

make nuclear war a non-feasible option

If a nuclear war breaks out between two countries, I think it should have a devestating effect on the entire world, not just pollution-wise. I think a nuclear war should spiral all countries into recession, making it a very non-feasible option by all--a very last choice by all (except terrorist supporting countries who--if they can get their hands on one--can use it with little ill effect on their own country... one of the benefits of using terrorism.)

[johncmcleod]

I really like GePap's ideas. I was going to mention the one about cities under a certain size being wiped out by nukes, but I decided not to because at first I thought any city should be razed by a nuke. I mean, if New York got nuked I think no one would live there anymore. They'd all die or the people at the outer edges of the city who didn't suffer immediate damage from radiation would move out of the city. Radiation would cover the whole city, and radiation greatly multiplies the chance of getting cancer. So I don't think anyone would live there. But now I think the best way to do it is all buildings with an upkeep above 2 gpt (what Gepap said) should be destroyed, no food or commerce within the city radius can be produced, all towns 6 and under should be razed, and the population should be lowered to one. I decided on the last because a large city getting nuked would still be there, even if hardly anyone was there.

And how about if one civs fires off any nukes, all civs will nuke that civ immediately unless they have a military alliance with the civ that fired the nuke against the civ that got hit by it.

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by GePap

Two: introduce a new type of pollution, "fallout", that appears only with respect to nukes or nucelar meltdowns. Make it 500% more time consuming than normal pollution to clean up.

Very interesting. I've always hated that "fallout" counted against global warming. I guess I always thought of that as "different" pollution.

Good idea.