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Originally Posted by The Dark
There was a bulk storage unit still in use with 1,249,867 barrels capacity, and the refinery was progressively demolished over the course of the 1980s, with some structures (other than the tanks) surviving into 1989.
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HW was written in 1988 - have a feeling Loren was using an old encyclopedia when he put the list together - i.e. you leave Robinson intact but nuke some storage tanks and a demolished refinery with a .5Mt nuke?
Thats one reason also to argue for a rewrite of HW and other modules to bring things up to date - it allows corrections to some details and also to add some new stuff as well that would have changed
Prime example would be Reset - great plot idea in 1985 - looking back now and remembering what we had for computers and other devices by 1997 its definitely an anachronism - or for that matter the fact the the Soviets didnt hit Silicon Valley at all or other centers of computer development - because they were in their infancy when the game was written
in "real life" a 1997 target list would have taken places like Apple and Microsoft for sure as an example of how you could update HW
And I know a lot of gamers who after years of suffering at the hands of Bill Gates would probably love to read how he got nuked big time
And Admiral Lee - that is an interesting point you make as well - but Russian intelligence officers wouldnt have missed something as obvious as a demolished refinery -