What I have found...is one picture within a thread on this forum, which shows some kind of USB controller with a big red launch button and what looks to be a few other switches/buttons on it. Apparently named "the big red presidential button" or whatever most people refer to it as. Obviously a hardware version. I see all kinds of mods, people talking about hacking specific files, etc. So...why is it that people do not seem to think that a software version of the "red button" within the DEFCON program itself can be made? Is there an issue within the program that blocks creating/using such a feature? Mods take advantage of the program and allow otherwise non-standard features to be performed by the original game software. So I'm wondering: why exactly hasn't anyone created an actual mod to automatically launch all nukes at the same time...perhaps automatically targeting the largest cities first, with the right amount of nukes to take out the entire city in itself? (e.g. 5 nukes for 4.5 million people, for instance...to completely destroy the entire city. Afterwards, launching on a new city with the remaining nukes left). If you are playing against a country halfway around the world...you could realistically launch about 20 nukes from even a single launcher before the other country's nukes would even make it to yours. I'm not well-versed with creating mods or editing the program files as of yet - but it seems to be just a matter of the features of the game being switched around and linked within the game itself. I'm sure it's probably not a "walk in the park" to do...but isn't this realistically possible to make a single button inside of the game control panel that would launch all nukes at targets? In various threads, I have read where some people have stated that there "really isn't a need" for such a button. However...half of the forum seems to differ on the topic and most of the people actually want one. When playing against the computer as a single player (especially against multiple computer players)...they launch just about all of their nukes at once, in tandem. For the human users...this is pretty unfair because we can't do this. So...to clear this up completely for myself and past/future users who have asked and will ask this question: Why has a software version of this 'one button' within the game not been created to make things fair when playing against multiple computer opponents?
Note: I didn't list this in the "mods" section because I'm not sure if it would be a complete mod in itself, or just a matter of editing the game software itself. So, I just put it here in the general section, since it is just a general discussion at the time.
Thanks.





