how is it now compared to launch? I dropped it because you couldn't connect domes, but I read that they added that in not too long ago.
really itching for some city building, but I wanted to know what anons think of improvements made in the last few patches.
I have no DLC btw
They made colonizing Mars boring. Its pretty boring without the DLC and even so its still boring.
Try it for yourself - pirate the GoG versions.
>Try it for yourself - pirate the GoG versions.
I have it already, I just stopped playing after like a dozen colonists.
as long as I can make it challenging enough I think it'd be fun
ah shit you meant pirate the DLCs. unfortunately I got it on ps4
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its a turd. boring and bad UI
>bad UI
wonder if it was improved with updates
Living under glass domes on the surface of Mars is stupid. Everyone will develop all sorts of cancer really fast. Only way to be safe from the constant radiation would be to live deep underground.
let's just assume the glass is super UV repellent.
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what are the best events to choose from the beginning
Play rimworld an pretend it's mars
There are mods too
got a shitty PC but I'll keep it in mind.
It's a bubble.
there are other shapes too
>couldn't connect domes
were they retarded?
I think they intended each dome to be self-sufficient, but it fell apart when you start to need domes nearby for different extraction things and need more types of people to work different equipment
at least they fixed that tho
Not deep. Just a few meters of soil over your head is enough.
UV can't go through any glass. Gamma is a bitch though.
ok then they're all radiation repellent.
that might even be addressed in the game idk
>wants a good city builder
>anno 1800 JUST came out, literally the best anno ever released, surpassing even 1404 in terms of quality
>this chucklefuck makes a thread about colonizing mars
Why
because if I want to dick around in the 1800s, I'll play the superior NATION builder, Victoria 2.
but I've been on a space kick and haven't thought about this game in awhile, that's why I made the thread.
Fuck off chink
I don't like Epic Store's practices of buying exclusivity deals. It is their right to do it, and it's my right to tell them to fuck off.
Nation builder is not the same as city builder, and this thread is about the latter.
You can just get it straight from Ubisoft. You know, the game's publisher.
It's available on uplay and was available on steam up to the launch date if you didn't live under a fucking rock. Fags who cry about EGS but didn't preorder on steam are literally retarded
yes user, I know that. user asked why I don't play anno 1800. I meant that if I wanted to play anything in the 1800s, I might as well play vicky 2.
however, there are not many options for Mars city-building.
>whines about store preference
>didn't preorder it on steam like anybody who likes the very niche genre of city building would have known to do MONTHS ago
>regardless of what platform you get it for it still needs to launch through uplay
I think this is actual autism. Where's your handler? You aren't allowed to post things online without supervision
Living on Mars is stupid to begin with.
crack when?
Be honest with me: is this just an ebin meme now?
I think it's pretty rad. some people would rather be drowned by hordes of brown people here on Earth, but that's their choice.
no, people want cracks
>if you don't look into literally every release all the time, and preorder every game, you're a rEtArd!!1!
fuck off, you dumbasses, and I didn't know it was on Uplay, that's fine with me, my only issue is with Epic Store
how is living on a dead planet better?
>and I didn't know it was on Uplay,
it's an Ubisoft game, of course it's on uPlay
Anno 2205 literally has a moon biome that does everything SM does but better
I don't know, shit is so crazy nowadays. Diablo 1 is only available on GoG, not on Battle.net. Same for Warcraft II, I think.
the sheer amount of scientific and engineering advances that would be created/found.
if you don't understand the necessity of space exploration then this conversation isn't going to go anywhere.
i tried to role play as the soviets, but no joke half my colonists were niggers. game is boring too
>how is it now compared to launch? I dropped it because you couldn't connect domes, but I read that they added that in not too long ago.
It weirdly sucks. I still can't quite put my finger on what the hell is wrong with this game, it has so many good ideas and on paper it sounds like it should be excellent but it... sucks.
Part of it is the really bad and inconsistent tone. Part of it is that basically, it feels like you literally explored 99% of all the mechanics once you get a single self-sufficient dome. There is so little variety, so few production chains. The construction is awkward, it feels like the logic should be building specialized segments and making them interconnected but the game feels like it actively hinders you in that, and it never feels atmospheric due to lack of stakes, weird art direction that mixes hard sci-fi with some fucking Jetson's garbage, lack of variety...
I don't know. I wanted to love this, it felt very close to my dream colonization game, but MAN was it a disappointment, and the DLC and updates did not save it in the end. It's flawed fundamentally.
City builders are few and far between, especially ones that are actually good. If you are one of the few who enjoy the genre, I'd advise you recognize the franchises that actually have some quality and are worth following. Otherwise you end up like this, making threads about bad, dead games when literally the savior of the genre just released one week ago
Are there any good planetary colony builders? I swear all I want is a modern version of Outpost that isn't broken.
>Otherwise you end up like this
aw, c'mon, haven't you ever tried playing weird inferior games to try different stuff out? I did, with Lords of the Fallen, and while I don't regret it, I don't recommend it and I'll probably never touch it again, ever
thanks for the most detailed, honest answer ITT.
Shower with your dad simulator
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
I'd only recommend that if you are already very much tuned in to the releases and you know which games are good and which ones to avoid. Not if you are just a casual if the genre, which is fine to be, but if so you should prolly stick to the big ones like anno or cities skylines. Frost punk is a neat game but not worth more than a single play through
Rimworld is toaster friendly bro I played it on a $200 toaster that had 2gbs of ram and a 1.5 ghz dual core with decent performance
>colonizing Mars
Eugh.
Two things which enable an atmosphere to remain on a planet:
- Electromagnetic field so the solar winds don't blow the atmosphere away. Let's say this is the most doable task. So this can be checked as a done deal.
- Gravity almost to the level of Earth to keep the atmosphere in.
Mars's gravity is 10 times weaker than Earth's.
Gravity is created by increasing the MASS of an object.
Mars's gravity being brought up to the level of Earth's according to some scientific calculations requires colliding and combining Venus into Mars or an equivalent mass of asteroids and shit.
Problems:
1. You need to do it in such a way where Mars's circumference doesn't go beyond Earth's, meaning you need to compress 10 fucking Mars planets into 1 which isn't larger than Earth.
2. Increasing the mass fucks the orbit, dooming the planet and even other planets in the solar system currently in a miraculously stable system of orbit. Fucking with Mars's orbit can basically doom all life on Earth.
Let's say you can counteract it by each asteroid impact precisely negate the next one. Engines on Mars to fix original orbit won't work because you turned the planet molten from increasing its mass via asteroids sooner or later, maybe controlled nuclear explosions might work.
3. Adding all that mass would create so much energy during the process that you'd end up with a heated proto-planet that takes millions of years to cool down before you consider atmosphere and terraforming.
Basically, forget about the idea of Earth-like even with tech from 10 000 years in the future if we survive so far.
Maybe if the ENTIRE Mars is encased in a transparent sphere barrier which can not only survive meteor impacts but also never melt or distort from heat/cool waves and somehow is kept stable (let's say dozen megatowers connected to Mars keeping it tightly connected).No matter how retarded this is actually THE most realistic way to achieve atmosphere containment on Mars. Grav however?...
>when literally the savior of the genre just released one week ago
you arent referring to anno 1800 are you? anno is not a city builder
Uh, colonizing and terraforming all of Mars are two very different things, pal.
>anno is not a city builder
Here's your (you) now where the fuck are you going with this, because you look like a fucking moron
>playing ubishit
>ever
thanks but no thanks
Have fun ignoring the best franchise in the genre because of your autism
Colonization is a doomed process without establishing stable atmosphere containment on the planetary level. Colonization facilities however we build them are doomed to eventually cease existing because of the irretrievable atmosphere leakage and waste.