Scorching is a feature that allows one to burn cities within a nation. Scorching can be manually initiated by clicking on a city and pressing "Scorch City", while other methods for scorching can be inflicted through combat, such as bombers and nuclear weapons. However, one can only scorch cities that they fully own or occupy, including enemy territory during war. Scorching also only becomes possible after 10 minutes of playing as a country, as it is a mechanism to prevent excessive vandalism or damages. You can only scorch 20 cities at a time.
When a city becomes scorched, the city's production of money, resources, manpower, and population growth falls significantly, while unrest will instantly skyrocket. Ground units can also face severe attrition upon moving through scorched lands. The city remains scorched for around 10 to 30 minutes, or approximately 1 to 3 in-game years.
Strategies[]
Scorched Earth Defense[]
Example of a Line of Defense
Using scorching to cause unrest on a capital city.
In this strategy, you scorch cities at your defensive line, while moving your troops behind. This forces your enemy's troops to get attrition from the fire. This is like the A.I. Luring strategy.
A.I. Luring[]
You can also build artillery and use the A.I. Luring strategy, where you capture an enemy city. You should evacuate all your troops right before you scorch the city and get artillery. While the AI troops capture sit still inside the scorching city, move your artillery and attack the enemy. The enemy will receive additional damage from scorching and artillery bombardment.
Intentional Unrest[]
In this strategy, you invade a large city of your enemy and then scorch it. If you white peace, the enemy will have to deal with the unrest. If you are annoyed by a toxic person or just want to cause chaos, you can scorch a city of yours and cede it to another person, making them get lower stability from the unrest.
History[]
- December 13, 2021: a Roblox Update caused the intricate scorch effect to break, resulting in Hyperant switching from particle emitters to a simple image (shown in second image within the infobox above).
- September 5, 2022: The intricate scorch effect was subsequently restored and replaced the image version.
- September 21, 2022: The detailed scorch effect continued to have problems with Roblox, causing Hyperant to reinstate the image version.
- October - November 2022: Somewhere around this time, the detailed scorch effect officially returned and is currently used to date.
- March 2025: A limit to the amount of cities you could scorch was added, now you're only able to scorch 20 cities at a time.
Trivia[]
- Before this issue was fixed in the 07/10/2024 Minor Update, scorching inflicted by bombers or nukes could persist for up to 10 to 15 in-game years, which is around an hour or more, or sometimes forever.
- A scorched city will have its resistance reduced by 3x since scorching maximizes unrest. This allows enemies to capture the scorched city 3x faster than those that are not scorched. However, the enemy will suffer from rapid attrition if they are moving through scorched territory.