Oh my goodness, The Last War mystery is brutal.
Cut off supply lines - I can make it work I guess.
Start taking my only source of income (Rare Metals) - Umm...okay, please don't take too much.
HOLY CRAP, 100 extra colonists overnight - good thing I have a Mega dome!
Annnnd, I'm out of food and water. Good night everyone.
Posted May 22, 2019, 1:06 PM UTC
I got it on random on my first game. I managed to run out of metal. Relying heavily on wind turbines I ran out of machine parts and that was that. Reloaded and did it second time out!
I'm seriously concerned that after I fill their rocket with 400 (?!?!?!) metals that I'll be hamstrung for the terraforming to come.
I had loads of spare rare metals because I stayed in the 'no rockets at all' phase for quite a while. I was surprised to find I only had to send one of the endgame supply rockets. Are you having to send all of them?
I got it on my first play through too! Damn, it was hard. I got into a position where it was impossible to progress.
The voice saying "A colonist has died" has made me so angry I've turned off the voice forever.
That mystery would have killed my previous colony.
My first game play was Last war. Thought Mystery's was cool.... start more games... saw others mystery's and shiiit
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I'm fairly new to this game. Only started a week ago. The first time I got that event it sent my colony into a death spiral. Most of my colony starved, until the remaining started committing suicide.
I quit and started a new game only to realize I really liked the location. So I went back and loaded an earlier save and recovered it. Tips: When resources first get cut-off, you can still buy pre-fabs. So leverage your funding onto that. Buy stirlings for energy problems, but most importantly get a factory for each advanced resource. Set those up and set maximum priority. When the refugees arrive you'll have plenty of extra manpower (even if it's not efficient). Consider what you don't need and turn them off (obviously). I recommend closing stirlings. MDS lasers are helpful because the offworld bombardments are much more targeted than meteors, but expensive. For the final (spoilers) shipments of 200 resources, each shipment grants about -15% war tension. Only land the ones you are willing to supply, because if you finish the event any partially-filled rocket just takes off with your resources.
I was plugging along pretty well, traded electronics for the food I was missing. Then one of the factions bombed me. Then the refugees arrive. Between the morale damage and wasted resources I'm now going to have a ton of starving angry colonists on my hands. The game is hard enough at times, this was just brutal. Might restart in the same spot, though I'm getting concerned about the tech tree in the expansion. I have HUGE holes in my capabilities and no access to deep resources.... ground water only lasts so long.
The bombing runs are terrible - the only way to mitigate them is to research the MDS lasers...which require Electronics to build and service.
And Electronics aren't really a given resource at Sol 100. Almost bankrupted the whole colony just for some protection.
I don't even have the option to research them unlocked... I'm screwed. Looks like another restart. My tech tree is REALLY wonky, some playthroughs lose thanks to a RNG.
They were fairly far down on my tree, but I spammed a bunch of Physics (?) techs before so I could eventually get it. I survived the first run without them, added a bunch for the 2nd.
Curious, what is your sponsor?
Space Y, love the rockets and solar arrays.
I was kind of in the same place as you, but I was short on rare metals. Put everything into the Mohole mine and as soon as I got it up and running I got bombarded and it got totally destroyed.
Alt F4'd out of frustration.