Surviving Mars: Space City Builder (Paradox/Haemimont) (Looks Not-Shit!)

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Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

I'm on my very first colony. Made it through the first 10 sols, everybody alive, self-sustaining in food, oxygen, and water. Here's the catch:

The only minable materials are way, way outside the range of my domes. What should I be doing, assuming that research and life support are ticking along normally? Invest in another dome that sits next to the rare minerals? Other?

# ¿ May 23, 2022 22:51

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 03:29

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

Alkydere posted:

Trains.

No seriously: Trains. They let your workers commute to distant locations so you can place mines far away. The far deposits look a bit distant but you can likely get the near iron deposit. You could also eventually place a dome near that deposit and people will be commute between them. You may have to use a drone commander/transport to haul the resources out there at first.

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

# ¿ May 23, 2022 23:09

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

The trains DLC has horrible reviews, including that it breaks the game?

# ¿ May 24, 2022 00:46

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

Thanks, everybody!

If I buy DLC from the Epic Game Store, I can only apply it to a Surviving Mars bought through Epic, correct?

# ¿ May 24, 2022 15:15

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

Will colonists walk from dome to dome if they're within each others' radius, or must there be a passage built? I just realized I'd built one dome on the wrong side of another, and it's impossible to run a passage.

# ¿ May 24, 2022 16:34

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

I bought the Mars Express DLC, but I don't see trains on the Build menu. Do I need to start a new run to have access to trains?

# ¿ May 24, 2022 19:41

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

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

# ¿ May 24, 2022 21:37

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

Nukelear v.2 posted:

Hard to say for sure, but it looks like your vaporator isn't connecting with a pipe. It can get a little fiddly if you build pipe and producer at the same time. Also overlapping two things that need pipe connectors can cause issues.
Power wise you might be overdrawing what that circuit can handle. The game doesn't report very well when you have split power grids. There's a power grid view you can use to see.

Aha! I've been wanting that view quite desperately, but didn't find it in the menus. Will look again. I know that's a ridiculously low power supply; it's just the starter motor to get the dome beginning.

# ¿ May 24, 2022 22:16

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 03:29

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

For the record, this is my first remote dome, there are two happy and well-supplied domes back where I landed. I'm bootstrapping up the one you see: some power, some water, some air, more power, more storage, lather rinse repeat.

# ¿ May 25, 2022 01:13

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