Has anyone ever had the AI start a nuclear war with you--i.e. nuke one of your cities?

If so, could you please describe the situation briefly concerning that? I am very interested to hear.

(Or has amyone seen the AI nuke another AI?)

I have never been in or seen a nuclear war per say. The closest I have ever come is in my current game. I shot off 3 nukes to see what would happen. Two cities got hit, I think. Very small flames shot up and a couple tiles went dead. (In SMAC, you know when a nuke hits from the massive explosion.) One nuke just disappeared into a city and did nothing. I am assuming they had SDI. A few rounds later, the Civ I hit shot a nuke at one of my cities. Right when it got there, it took a 90 degree turn and flew off over the ocean. I still scratch my head on that one. I had SDI in the city but the nuke actually turned and went off in another direction. I built a couple more nukes and lo and behold what did I have. Why a couple of warwalkers sitting right outside the very cities that had the nukes. I fired them off and the warwalkers shot them down while they were still in my city. (I just love the way the AI cheats on stuff like this. It is like the Barbarians, they know exactly which city you have undefended and that is the city they go for.) That was the last of the nukes. No Civ ever tried to fire one on me again. I'll probably fire off a few more for the fun of it.

Also, I have never seen the AI nuke another AI Civ either.

I can't say much about attitude changes because I have been at war with every Civ for so long now that I can't ever remember anybody liking me.

i just nuke the hell out of em

the only time i've had return fire is when the AI was a "militant" nation... (attribute: "WarMany")

not sure if this is a coincidence but i've never been nuked by a civ with a lower setting... (agreeable, aggresive, etc)

After my last post, I went in cheat mode and put Nukes in 6 cities of every other Civ to see what would happen. So far nothing has. I might also add that every other Civ in this game is non-Peaceful, ie. militant or aggressive. That is why I just have stayed at war this game. The non-Peaceful don't want to play a friendly game in any way. No stop trespassing or treaties and only 2 tech exchanges, which were to their benefit.

I'll let you know if I ever get nuked again.

Not that I don't like using nukes course in CIV II I use nukes on a regular basis or let the little lady-spy (a little "Red Alert Tania") do the job for me. The pollution there are easily removed by Engineers.

Yes, definitely the AI should be able to use Nukes. I think the AI most inclined to do so should be the Militant one. After that the Aggressive one, but less likely. I think the other AIs should be disinclined to use Nukes unless some one has used a Nuke on them. I think the Militant AI and possibly the Aggressive AI should have the option to use Nukes as a first attack, but I think it should carry with it heavy political or diplomatic consequenses.

Does anyone know what the code looks like for Civ2? Or if it's similar to CTP's? Since Civ2 had this aspect done pretty well, I thought, even though I was only nuked (in retaliation) once in Civ2 (and I did a whole lotta nukin!), I'd be interested to see what the diplomacy files look like.

Timothy, yes, I agreee--I'd also have it so that any type "could" use them if at war, like the example I gave above...no matter what the type, if it's losing the war, it would be capable of doing so. But for a nasty offensive, though, I think only the warmonger types would dare to do that.

Lord Sigma:
I'll answer that while I'm here
You enter cheat mode, find the option that gives you units, then find "airforce" types, and then nukes. You then cycle thru the civs you're playing with (small *+* and *-* buttons beside the name of whatever civ you are on the main cheat screen) and place whatever unit you want in whatever city. Viola!

Select the 'plus' or 'minus' next to player. This will cycle through all available Civs. When the Civ you want is showing, do one of the options below. When that is done, select another Civ and again follow the instructions below. If you put a new city in while you are an alternate Civ, the city will disappear when you change Civs. This is okay. When you get back to normal and play the game, everything you did will show up.

There is 2 ways. Go into cheat mode and you will see 2 icons, 'Unit/City' and 'Edit City'.

Unit/City: Selct this and a box will pop up with 'city', 'army', 'navy', etc. If you want a new city, click on the number and then click on the map. That is where the city will be and the size will correspond to the number you picked in the cheat menu. If you want a unit, click on the unit, (like the legion under the army tab). If it is highlighted in red, then click on the map where you want it to go. If it is not red when you click on it, you don't have the required technology. Click on the 'Legal' icon to change it to 'All Tech'. Now you can use any unit. Go back and click on legion. It will now be red. Then click on the map where you want it to go.

Edit City: Selct this icon and a box will pop up asking for the City name. Click on the city you want to edit. When you do that, the city name and size will appear in the pop up box. Now you can go into the city and do anything you want. To make a unit, select it from the build list and hit 'Rush Buy'. You now have that unit. This can be done for any unit, wonder or improvement available. When you are done, close the pop up box. Your done.

Nordicus,
Sorry for stepping on your toes. I was reading through the posts and when I got to LS's question, I answered it. When I was done, I continued reading and saw you had answered it.
BTW, I never could get a Civ to fire a nuke at me.

That makes me think, though...why would there be global warming after a nuclear war??? Everything we know about that scenario would suggest that the earth would undergo a drastic cooling, not warming. Yunno? I mean, it's called a Cold War for that reason, right?

I wonder if that can be done?--in case of a nuclear war, have the world get colder, not warmer...more realistic, dontcha think?

Any ideas, anyone...?

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"There can be no maximum of creation without a concomitant maximum of destruction, no supreme good without supreme evil"--Heller, paraphrasing Nietzsche.

"The more passion for the argument, the less evidence for it"--Russel.

Nukes destroy the ozone. When the ozone gets destroyed, more heat, light, radiation passes through thus warming the entire continent, melting the polar caps, etc.

I am only talking in regards to CTP, not the real world. In CTP, it is strictly based on ozone damage. Sorry I didn't make that clear.

Well, it's not something I'm currently working on, but a few of my new AI personality types will be given the ability to nuke another civ, that I will try hard to implement....If it does happen, though, all I'm saying is it would be nice (?--for want of a better term) to have a realistic outcome in that case, as far as the environment goes. So, I think the environment would of course be damnaged, just not how CTP currently has it happen.

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"There can be no maximum of creation without a concomitant maximum of destruction, no supreme good without supreme evil"--Heller, paraphrasing Nietzsche.

"The more passion for the argument, the less evidence for it"--Russel.