Historical nuke production times.

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Hello!

In real life, the first few nuclear weapons were essentially one-of-a-kind laboratory devices. Very quickly, however, production was standardized and the weapons (starting with the US Mark 4 device) became mass production items. The US arsenal, for example, went from 3 or 4 bombs in 1945 to a few hundred weapons by the late 40's.

How would I go about modding this effect into Darkest Hour? I'm aware that the last few nuke techs (miniaturization, for example) double production rate, but if I wanted to mod more realistic nuke production times, and enjoy the resulting game dynamic of flying-off-the-shelf nuke production, how would I go about that?

 

[Vanguard44]

I just looked at the techs and the command is "double nuke production." What you would have to do is simply C&P the command loads.

mods > Darkest Hour Full > db > tech > secret_weapons_tech

Techs either 16010 or 16020 have the following:
command = { type = double_nuke_prod }

So sadly there's no value (50, 100 etc.) However, simply repeating the command might work...

application =
{ id = 16010
name = TECH_APP_SW_101_NAME

position = { x = 24 y = 216 }
picture = "16010"
year = 1948
component = { id = 16011 name = TECH_CMP_SW_101_1_NAME type = nuclear_physics difficulty = 10 }
component = { id = 16012 name = TECH_CMP_SW_101_2_NAME type = mathematics difficulty = 8 }
component = { id = 16013 name = TECH_CMP_SW_101_3_NAME type = chemistry difficulty = 10 }
component = { id = 16014 name = TECH_CMP_SW_101_4_NAME type = nuclear_physics difficulty = 10 }
component = { id = 16015 name = TECH_CMP_SW_101_5_NAME type = nuclear_engineering double_time = yes difficulty = 10 }
required = { 7190 }
effects =
{ command = { type = max_reactor_size value = 9 }
command = { type = nuclear_carrier which = flying_bomb }
command = { type = nuclear_carrier which = flying_rocket }
command = { type = double_nuke_prod }
command = { type = double_nuke_prod }
command = { type = double_nuke_prod }
command = { type = double_nuke_prod }
command = { type = double_nuke_prod }
command = { type = double_nuke_prod }
command = { type = double_nuke_prod }

}
}

Or that might just crash your game. I don't know whether that can be an event command or not, unfortunately.

 

[alekseevic]

Well, maybe adding this command once to all nuclear researches of the secret weapon area may simulate the exponential nukes production. But in this way you may have in a few years enough nukes to strike any single province of the world.

 

[unmerged(359305)]

Thanks a lot for the useful feedback! So I just add

command = { type = double_nuke_prod }

to, say, ALL the nuke or reactor build techs, not just miniaturization and hydrogen bomb? It seems like it should work.

It's totally gonna break the game balance, but I see no plausible reason that countries shouldn't have arsenals of dozens/low hundreds of weapons by the mid '50's.

 

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Now if only the AI understood Mutual Assured Destruction......