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Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Astus posted:

Haven't had a chance to play this myself yet, but I picked up a very important tip from watching a video of this on youtube:

Make certain that you actually bring some drones on your rocket. Apparently the game doesn't give you a warning if you remove all the drones from your loadout, and worse, the random loadout the game gives you for your rocket has a chance to just not have any drones in the first place. Which is kinda like starting a new fort in Dwarf Fortress but somehow embarking with zero dwarves.

Reminds me of the old Outpost game. You could lose the game during game setup before ever landing on a planet.

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Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
I picked this game up for free from Humble Bundle, is there a good beginner's guide anywhere? I'm familiar with the Anno series as a frame of reference.

In terms of what I'd like to do, I like the idea of terraforming Mars if that's something the deluxe edition lets me do.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Splicer posted:

The Green Mars expansion lets you do that. Fanatical have 77% off (so $15 bucks) off first colony edition at the moment, which includes it.

Ah, so the deluxe edition giveaway didn't include that.

That's a shame. I'm one of those people who kind of needs a clear objective to be working for in games, and without that Surviving Mars doesn't appeal much to me.

Oh well.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
So, I was given a copy of this game a while back, just the base game, and I finally booted it up. I've completed the tutorial and poked around a little bit in creative mode, but I do like earning achievements.

Is there a handy beginners' guide for things I should be doing/not doing and what I should be looking for?

Edit: For reference, here's what I have so far, restarting in regular game mode.



I don't know if I'm ready start moving in colonists or if there's anything else I need to be aware of right now. I'm International Mars Mission/Inventor, and on a whim picked Inner Light as my mystery, which I know nothing about.

Cythereal fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jun 4, 2022

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
Well that was fast. About three sols after the first colonists landed, the first Martianborn happened. :v:

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