{"id":28694,"date":"2014-11-16T00:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28694"},"modified":"2018-04-11T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:59:42","slug":"in-civilization-games-gandhi-is-the-most-likely-leader-to-use-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/in-civilization-games-gandhi-is-the-most-likely-leader-to-use-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"In Civilization<\/em> games, Gandhi is the most likely leader to use nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Kotaku<\/em>, Luke Plunkett<\/a> explains why of all the AI leaders in the game, none are more likely to espouse the philosophy “nuke ’em ’till they glow, then shoot ’em in the dark” than India’s Gandhi:<\/p>\n

\"Civilization<\/a><\/p>\n

In the original Civilization<\/em>, it was because of a bug. Each leader in the game had an \u201caggression\u201d rating, and Gandhi \u2013 to best reflect his real-world persona \u2013 was given the lowest score possible, a 1, so low that he\u2019d rarely if ever go out of his way to declare war on someone.<\/p>\n

Only, there was a problem. When a player adopted democracy in Civilization<\/em>, their aggression would be automatically reduced by 2. Code being code, if Gandhi went democratic his aggression wouldn\u2019t go to -1, it looped back around to the ludicrously high figure of 255, making him as aggressive as a civilization could possibly be.<\/p>\n

In later games this bug was obviously not an issue, but as a tribute\/easter egg of sorts, parts of his white-hot rage have been kept around. In Civilization V<\/em>, for example, while Gandhi\u2019s regular diplomatic approach is more peaceful than other leaders, he\u2019s also the most likely to go dropping a-bombs when pushed, with a nuke \u201crating\u201d of 12 putting him well ahead of the competition (the next three most likely to go nuclear have a rating of 8, with most leaders around the 4-6 region).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update, 16 November<\/strong>: Fixed the broken link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Kotaku, Luke Plunkett explains why of all the AI leaders in the game, none are more likely to espouse the philosophy “nuke ’em ’till they glow, then shoot ’em in the dark” than India’s Gandhi: In the original Civilization, it was because of a bug. Each leader in the game had an \u201caggression\u201d rating, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[495,1195,107,92],"class_list":["post-28694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-india","tag-civilization","tag-gandhi","tag-nukes","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7sO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28706,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28694\/revisions\/28706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}