rwg (11/06/82)
I remember seeing this problem brought up before, but don't recall the answer: why do I get thrown out of empire (Export Version of Jun 26, 1982) when I try to build in a nuclear center with enough dust/light/heavy for two megatons and a tech level of 320? It's not crippling, so long as your Deity will swap the resources for the bombs, but it is annoying. By the way, has anyone tried nuking a sanctuary? I would think it would be unaffected, but if you had enough energy to fry all the adjacent sectors to wasteland, good enough, eh? How much of a blast would I need? Not afraid to starve civilians, destroy natural resources, divert resources to the military, and behave xenophobically (sounds familiar, don't it?), Rich Getlak, idis!mi-cec!rwg
sjb (11/06/82)
No matter what size nuke you use, sanctuaries will be totally unaffected. I ended the last game we had on harpo by creating and detonating (as God) a 100 meg nuke on 0,0 (the center of the world and God's sanctuary) It created a nuclear wasteland of about 20 to 30 sectors radius and the normal damage wrapped around the world three times! However, I got the message: bounced off 0,0 [where it was aimed!]