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Been playing this the past few days, just the base game. It's fun, but am I right in my impression that electronics are an enormous and possibly slightly unbalanced bottleneck? Once you have a solid foundation almost every new building or tech just seems to hunger for them to a ridiculous degree. Despite knowing this and thinking I'll prepare in advance, my second game kinda spiraled out of control because I couldn't really make any meaningful advancements or expand beyond three domes, being constantly starved for advanced resources. Tried to rescue it with a university but eventually got absolutely wrecked by the spheres (I had no idea what was going to happen); entire colony perished, everything frozen, etc. Maybe it's salvageable if I slow-research my way to the Decoy Building but I don't know, there are like 16 of the things floating around now. My first game was pretty comfy and I retired it after only six domes cause I felt kinda done (having built a wonder and finished a mystery), but in hindsight I think as the US I just bought my way out of trouble all the time. I was India this time around. Sway Grunt fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Alkydere posted:At the start it's more important to be profitable than it is to be self sufficient. Maybe this is where I went wrong. I was definitely gunning for the latter, it didn't really occur to me to lean on selling to Earth more heavily, I thought of that option more as backup. The metal extractor was one of the first things I built. I have a save from before I woke up the sphere though it's a long, long way back, before I even built a third dome. But it's a chance to course-correct, maybe, I think I made a mistake building a micro dome as my third, just a basic one would've been better (but I was trying to save on precious resources...). And I might move all food production to fungal farms to free up in-dome space for more services because I didn't have room for a casino or the open-air gym and I couldn't maintain proper comfort levels as a result.
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Thanks for the replies! I rolled back to the earlier save and am doing much better now, getting electronics and machine parts from Earth but making polymers locally. I have three basic domes and I think short-term I'm going to work on getting research up more. After that I'd like to build a medium dome near another rare metals deposit and that's when I'll start working to become self-sufficient and also put down a university etc so I can focus on specialists. Once all that is stable then I can start thinking about waking up the sphere again, cause I do wanna do the mystery. Hopefully I'll be in better shape to deal with it.
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