Totally self sufficient with the Mohole, the Space Elevator and an Open Farm. Apartments are still quite comfortable with Hanging Garden and Home Collective. Just twiddling thumbs for a couple of Seed Vegetation missions.

Started IL mystery on an old save using ecm, and now I'm stuck at "step 75 out of 130", after I get a scientist to examine the "cure". I have 300+ colonists that have dreamer trait and nothing is happening, does the event fire at a specific value or a proportion of dreamer/nondreamer among everyone?

Also tried to start philosopher stone and st elmos fire on the same save but nothing is happening. Do they have predetermined spawn of certain object like BB underground entryways? I could do the sphere mystery just fine so I'm kind of confused of whats blocking them from starting

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After terraforming Mars, the surface turns into a mirror everywhere. I plant trees or terraform a few more times and this appear

I tried a mixed road, but the corporation makes not too much money and needs a significant amount of the resources. Research is fine in the beginning. I had 5 rare metal mines, but the deposist are slowly ending and the tourists are fine, but still not much. I am considering a system of micro domes near all the possible rare metal deposit connected with a miriad of transporters but I dont know.

I am fine with a silver ending.
How did you do it ?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been trying to figure out how long a sol lasts in Surviving Mars at normal speed. I’ve looked online and even asked ChatGPT, but I haven’t gotten a clear answer.

Anyone here happen to know? Would appreciate it if you do.

Thanks!

Same as title just curious as I do love this game and stopped playing for a while and have always wanted the teraform dlc which is included (meant £6.99)

how do you decompile a savegame into like json or something

Seems to be some misinformation around, even including dev diaries, or game isn't working as intended? Opened domes to martian atmosphere, have a Mega with Basic wall to wall to it, Basic filled with workshops. Jobs in workshops are not occupied, even when Mega has notable unemployment. If I connect them with passage - jobs started being occupied. If I destroy passage after that - jobs are empty again.

Yet even dev diary said that passages aren't required after opening domes! What gives?
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/green-planet-dev-diary-6-opening-domes.1177894/#:\~:text=Congratulations%2C%20you've%20just%20opened,walk%20around%20without%20pressure%20suits.

I know they reduce the comfort needed, but my guess is that they need to run at right too, but this is a sanity problem for specially early game. However, Im not sure if the night turn is needed for the effect for all day

edit: while searching for something else i found this excellent guide. it says 1 turn will work for the next 24 h, and it says some other very interesting things, like how important is to have residences and services set when colonists land or it could make the baby making phase take several other days

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurvivingMars/comments/bv6z9m/guide_optimizing_the_founding_era/

I'm challenging myself now playing 900% difficulty and all area has cold winter, earthquake, and electro static dust storm. I'm able grab my breakthrough of nano material and spiral while doing save and load before I got it. Right now I'm about to stable advanced resources so hard to do.

My first few playthroughs I struggled to manage my drones and resources, what I ended up doing is marking off the limit of the drone hub range with wires and building inside the range and having different hubs deal with different things like a water hex, mining hex, All purpose hex and so on. But I fell like it kinda limits me mostly with domes because of how big they are.

There is a way to remove the cables because some are preventing me from placing the buildings the way I want. I can't delete them like other buildings

I just found a rather large concrete deposit in the middle of a mountain when terraforming. First time I've come across. Is it common to have hidden deposits in inaccesible terrain?

The worst thing in this game is maintenance It drives me crazy Especially when there is a devil storm

Just trying to find out if the breakthroughs are consistently the same if you replay the same map/sponsor... as I specifically want to play with one particular breakthrough.

I just want to build a colony on a terraformed mars and it's a great friggin' game to let me do that. Night time is annoying, though.

Is there a mod that would let me build with the sun always on?

How stupid is it that a single player game without an internet connection can't go beyond the"press any button" menu?

I have a dome with and excess of colonist and another one that lacks them. I can't cover the 2nd working shift despite having some unemployed colonists. The shuttles seem to be transporting them only for the 1st shift... Is there a way to permanently transfer some colonists to a different dome? Obviously I have vacancies in the dome I wanna move the colonists.

I'm feeling incredibly petty and would like to remove 'Elon' from colonist name list, is there anyway to do it?

So, here I was working at my job and this thought came to me. It is technically possible that all 3 "Surviving Series games" are connected.

Surviving The Abyss, which got an update this week, is where the technology for colonization of hostile environment is created (including cloning technology).

Surviving Mars is the main game. In my head canon it takes place in 2036, exactly 100 years after the beggining of HOI4 (I am a HOI4 player too). And there is where the great events of the timeline happen, with the stabilishment of permanent human settlements in space.

But then, back on Earth, a nuclear war breaks out in The Last War storyline. The human colony in Mars now sees itself politicaly independent from Earth, but struggles with sudden end of commerce with Earth. The colonists spend a few years with no contact, reorganizing the colony.

While on Earth, years after the nuclear war, Surviving The Aftermath takes place, where you manage the rebuilding of civilization. But to spice up the story: one of the founders of the new city has a family member who fleed to Mars. But now we are entering the realm of fanfiction.

What do you guys think? Can the 3 games be connected?

I feel like I get to this point in the past several playthroughs and still fail the perfect score challenge.

I have 400+ tourist applicants

$10B in Bank

6 Rockets

Resources are all under control.

What would you do next? (please help)

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so I left the game running while getting something to eat and I come back to this. I’m kind of curious what will happen if I do go through with revenge, but Japan is my biggest trader, giving me most of the materials I need. I would be thankful if somebody could let me know what the outcomes are :)

Hey there, I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers as to how the planetary anomalies work? I recently researched one of them for which I needed 9 colonists. It randomly picked some colonists from dome 1 and some from dome 2, problem is the 2 domes are not in walking distance and also don't have shuttles yet, so that kinda borked it for me. Is there a way I can select the colonists myself, or do I just need to hope for the best/wait for the shuttles unlock?

Hi i was just playing a map, get the Black Cubes Mystery and since I did the research and got the new monument buildings I get this error everytime I try to open the right click menu. I think is one of Choggi's Mod telling me that those buildings miss something but don't know how to fix it, the game doesn't crash or anything but got this pop up everytime I try to open the menu and is very annoying.

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