eric (04/16/83)
#N:whuxlb:1100004:000:159 whuxlb!eric Apr 15 18:34:00 1983 Does anyone know how much megatonnage is required to do at least 10% damage to every sector of a 64 x 64 sector world?? Eric Holtman harpo!whuxlb!eric
alb (04/16/83)
It is impossible in the current implementation of the game to damage every sector of the world from a nuke blast. The damage is limited to a vertical or horizontal (I forget which) strip 16 sectors wide around the world (after you reach one end, you wrap around to the other and add to the previous damage)
bch (04/16/83)
As a test one time, in between games, we detonated a 300 megaton nuclear device just to see the damage effects. It destroyed a large number of sectors several times over and took 70% of the CPU time on a Vax 780 in doing so. Exploding these devices is not recommended if the powers that be at your site frown on games in the first place... Byron Howes UNC - Chapel Hill