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NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Goddamn space balls are sucking up all my power and giving people migraines.

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NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Krogort posted:

Can't you lower comfort enough so they dont reproduce but not enough so they stay sane?
For old people there is a breakthrough that let them work until they die

If a dome has too many homeless people will stop having babies.

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Aug 9, 2010
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double nine posted:




Does anyone know whether anomalies are pregenerated? I had a choice between a rare earth deposit and a deep metal deposit and misclicked.


Breakthroughs are all set to specific anomalies on map spawn ie. that one anomaly that gave you super pipes will always give you super pipes if you reload. I don't know about event anomalies though.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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On the main info outliner select people view and then search by traits.

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Aug 9, 2010
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Fans posted:

Paradox are pretty good about releasing content for their games post launch and the Tropico team loved their expansion packs so I'm fairly sure we're due to see more official stuff too.

Paradox is already selling a season pass that contains two content packs and two full expansions so we have that much to expect as a minimum.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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AFAIK it's randomized based on your coordinate seed. Try the same location with an easier sponsor and see if you get the same ones.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Yeah there are 55 breakthrough techs but you only get 13-19 per game. It's a neat way of shaking up "optimal" build orders and priorities each game.

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canepazzo posted:


Gameplay: Biorobot gurus no longer create biorobots


The best patch note

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

I had to abandon my first game due to a bug that makes it impossible to repair a fractured dome. Then had to abandon my second game because a rocket glitched out during launch preparations and is now stuck in rocket launch limbo for all eternity. Not very enthusiastic about starting a third game. I haven't even seen a single mystery yet. :(

These bugs were fixed in the latest patch.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Does anyone else think the Dreamer message comes from the future instead of the past?

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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They announced a new update adding pedestrian corridors between domes and some other stuff. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/dev-diary-9-opportunity-by-boian-spasov-from-haemimont-games.1088848/

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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I think it works as follows: if comfort goes high enough they'll breed, if sanity goes too low they do something stupid and if their morale stays too low they'll take a ship back to Earth but if it's high they'll work harder.

Pretty sure having high or low comfort and sanity give bonus/malus to morale.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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With all this free content I'm going to be disappointed if the first DLC isn't something really substantial.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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It looks like they're doing the paradox thing of splitting the DLC into gameplay, music and cosmetic packs. So Space Race is the gameplay, Marsvision Song Contest is a new radio station and the Colony Design Set adds 25 new buildings. It's not clear if the new buildings add new gameplay or are just different sizes of existing ones. You get them all if you have the season pass though.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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New trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stznAOwFaCw

The expansion(s) drop on the 15th and it looks like each sponsor has unique structures and vehicles.

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Aug 9, 2010
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MazelTovCocktail posted:

Yeah, I was actually thinking about doing that. I was wondering if it’s better to teach her how to play the game and succeed or just have fun. I think I’m going for fun considering last night she wanted to to some things, but I said let’s figure out how it works first and it was just me doing the tutorials. I think I might just do that for CS too. She really wants me to get the disaster pack for that lol

Also in learning through stupidity: I didn’t realize to build in other sectors you need to land a rocket there first if you can’t directly access it by land. I figured you had to do something, but I didn’t realize it was rocket based until after playing for two hours. It was really confusing when I couldn’t move the the explorer to look at new anomalies I thought I had just picked a well bad location.

You can build tunnels that give you access to plateaus and valleys.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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The marsvision song contest isn't nearly campy enough.

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Aug 9, 2010
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Alkydere posted:

Also they changed how Wasterock Liquefaction works now. Instead of your drones running to a dumping site to convert rock to concrete by hand there's a building that does it now. I was wondering why my wasterock wasn't disappearing for a good while until I figured that out.

India starts with a version of this that turns waste rock into metal, plus their transport rover can build stuff with the cargo it's carrying around which lets you sprawl quickly in the early game.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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I have 90 hours in the game so far.

There are 55 breakthrough techs of which you can only get up to 19 each game. The standard techs are semi-randomised on each seed and there are 12 different mysteries each of which can change up your run quite a bit.

Then you have the sponsors who have been made cooler with the DLC and different map terrains and weather variances can change up your priorities. Then you have a whole list of levers to change the game difficulty etc etc

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Aug 9, 2010
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I prefer generalist domes as they tend to be more resilient to resource or population shocks in the event of a disaster.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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94 hours in and I just realised you can make shifts work harder by clicking on the clock next to them.

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toasterwarrior posted:

Mind you, I only use that feature when I get a breakthrough that lets colonists recover sanity. Otherwise it feels kinda dangerous.

I'm playing with Japan as my sponsor which makes immigrants hard to get. I lucked out and got human cloning as my second breakthrough so now everyone is pulling double shifts at the spank bank.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Space race adds the sponsor specific unique units and buildings as well as the sponsor goals, both of which I wouldn't want to play without anymore. The colony design DLC adds the different sized buildings which I've found to be pretty handy.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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It's part of the colony design set DLC:

nine new buildings:

Living Quarter – 3 hexes (Large building was renamed to Living Complex)
Small Space Bar – 3 hexes
Small Electronics Factory – 3 hexes
Small Machine Parts Factory – 3 hexes
Small Art Store – 1 hex
Small Grocer – 1 hex
Large Wind Turbine – 6 hexes
Large Oxygen Tank – 7 hexes
Large Garden – 10 hexes

The rest are alternative models of existing buildings:

Apartments
Stirling Generator
Shuttle Hub
Drone Hub
Moxie
Arcology
Smart Home, Smart Complex (new models for both sizes)
Infirmary
Polymer Plant
Rare Metal Extractor
Metals Extractor
Concrete Extractor
Hydroponic Farm
Research Lab
Diner
Water Extractor
Living Quarter (new models for both sizes)

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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You can get space race, colony design and marsvision all together as a bundle or buy them piecemeal.

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Aug 9, 2010
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Mayveena posted:

Hey folks, noob here :). How do I get the drones to bring parts from one part of the base to another? I was trying to set up another fuel refinery some distance from the existing one and where the rest of the bast is, but they won't bring the machine parts from one place to the other. Help appreciated.

You need to make sure drone hub service areas at least slightly overlap and put a universal depot in the overlapping area, also make sure to put universal depots near the hubs themselves. Your drones will travel back and forth to make sure each depot has supplies in it.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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The season pass has been updated with the title of the next DLC. It looks like we're getting terraforming:

NoNotTheMindProbe
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Yeah the storms aren't as strong up on the plateaus.

NoNotTheMindProbe
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They might have been out of power. Send a command rover there to charge them up.

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My name idea: Marsaly Inept

NoNotTheMindProbe
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You can still get your sponsor goals I guess. The game is pretty sandboxy so stick with it if you like your colony or start a new one if not.

NoNotTheMindProbe
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No, why would it be free?

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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The developers said that they considered it but they wanted tunnel attachments to have more decision weight behind it so that's why it takes a hex.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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They've started doing dev diaries on the paradox forums: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/green-planet-dev-diary-2-new-buildings-and-tech.1168118/

You can make some pretty drastic changes to the planet.



NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Paradox has been showing off the new expansion. It can't be too far off as it looks pretty far along:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKVJSSfVU8

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Why don't you just convert the domes to research/farming instead of destroying them?

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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So I just discovered that if you get the printed electronics and positronic brain breakthroughs in the same run you can construct biorobots for 5 metal each.

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Arsenic Lupin posted:

8-buck DLC. Worth it to a new player? And anything else I should pick up along the way?

Get the terraforming DLC. It adds a lot to the game.

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NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
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Arsenic Lupin posted:

Why does this dome have no life support and no power? What isn't connected?

You'll want to add air, power and water storage to that so you have a buffer in the event of a storm or meteor strike.

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