Yes, thanks for the video, I would add that depending on where you land, but in your case, you have small stones surrounding your landing area, I would have flattened the area before laying any building. In my honest opinion, your biggest mistake was not getting the concrete mining up and running from the get go, almost every basic product needs concrete. Then water is your second priority, if none then moisture evaporators must be imported.

[sigh] you got me on that one. Haha. I'm Glad it was helpful, though.

Early game you’ll want to purchase a few. But it’s cheaper to build them on Mars.

Thanks, Kevin. You're definitely right about the tunnels. They do solve a lot of problems that long Pipelines create. I didn't think to mention those. They come in handy for the towards the mid game because of their high price.

Overcoming these challenges is one of the fun parts of the game but, when it seems like all hope is lost, you can't help but feel bad for the colonists. I hope my tips help you out! Thanks for the comment.

Thank you for the kind words. I definitely appreciate it.

Glad you like the tips. Have fun playing Surviving Mars!

Surviving Mars can be pretty difficult even with all the tips. But that's what makes it a great game, I think. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!

@@FailroadExpress yeah I have plenty of time spent in Civ and SimCity so this feels right at home, but it has its own intricacies which are very fun but hard to fully implement in the first couple play throughs.

@@bonghornleghorn761 Yeah, and the fun thing is, when you get used to Surviving Mars you can just up the difficulty rating for an even tougher experience.

Happy to help!

Thanks for sharing. I've not heard of Aven Colony. I'll have to check it out.

Don't!!! You'll spend way too many hours playing it! Buuuuuuut, if you do, I highly recommend the expansions.

The whole game is a delicate balance. Use your transports to find metal from rocks on the surface. Send a rocket on a mission to capture more meteors if you run out of surface materials to harvest. Scan the surface on your map to discover more resources. See if there are alternative buildings you can build that use less metal and don't require metal for upkeep. Be sure to send rockets loaded with rare metals back to earth to gain more money. There are also techs you can research multiple times to earn more money. That's a start but, of course, it gets more complicated than that.

@@FailroadExpress also I just found out there are different difficulties, and I’m playing on spacey I got 0 money and I’m screwed

@@mrfluffybeehive Oh no! Abandon ship. Yep. Definitely check that difficulty level when you're starting your next campaign.

@@FailroadExpress what do you I think I should go, like the normal east one

@@mrfluffybeehive I'd say normal or easy for the company/nation and when you choose a landing sight at the beginning of the game check the stats of that landing sight. Make sure it's rich in metals and water, doesn't have cold waves and has few dust storms. A difficulty rating of 200 or less should be fine.

If it's the first map you're talking about, you can type in the coordinates of the landing sight and you should get something similar. You can see the coordinates on the upper left part of the screen when I'm looking around on the Mars map.

Good news. It's really easy to find your explorer and pin it back up. Click on your Command Center Icon at the bottom of the screen or press "Z" to bring it up. In the Command Center Menu on the left side, click "Transportation." Then click on "RC Rovers" and double click your RC Explorer. This will take you right to it on the map. You can then re-pin it by clicking on the pin button at the bottom of the explorer's sidebar.

There's a couple ways to do this in the base game. Manually controlling your transport rover is one of them. You can also automate your rover to pick up resources in one location and drop them off in another. When you click on your rover, you will see buttons in the upper right portion of the screen. One of those buttons allows you to set up a pick up and deliver route for the rover. You first click on the area you want the rover to pick up from and choose what resources it should take and then move over to the drop off point and click to designate that area. The rover will deliver these resources until it either runs out of resources to deliver or is commanded to do something else. The other option is to research the CO2 jet propulsion which unlocks the shuttle hub. Shuttles will automatically transport resources across the map. You must make sure that you have a storage area, such as the universal depot, in the desired location for the shuttles to deliver the resource to. You can click on each depot and adjust the amount of resources you want stored there at all times. Hope that helps.

you eventually get trains and shuttles in research

Thank you.

I've never seen the Monorail. Is it a part of one of the expansions? It sounds like it would be awesome.

@@FailroadExpress It’s part of the newer content creator packs they’re beginning to add to the game, and it’s called Martian Express. Considering whether to pick it up in a sale (I already have the base game and Green Planet). I’d be interested in your take on B&B, because I’ve only ever heard bad things about it on the forums and on Reddit.

That's strange. You should also be able to right-click to bring up your build menu. That's what I always do when I play the game. See if that works for you.

@@FailroadExpress I'm gonna uninstall the game and install it again

@@randomhobbies5796 I hope that works for you. Good luck.

It's a breakthrough tech. So it's completely a roll of the dice when your explorer scans science points on the map.

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I don't know, but I consider that a complement. haha.

Got any questions? Hopefully I can answer them.

"Good." No. "Incredible." Yes. If you are in to city building games, Sci fi, and Mars then this game will check all those boxes for you. This is a city builder on Mars, in which your citizens can die horrible deaths due to your mismanagement. They can suffocate, starve or freeze, amongst other things. But if you keep an eye on your resources, manage your supplies well, and get lucky, then you can create a bustling utopia. There are several scenarios you can play as you build your Mars colony with varying difficulty levels and many other ways you can change up the way the game plays and difficulty as well. It's easy to sink hours into this game and you won't want to stop. The larger DLCs add a ton more to the game. I recommend playing the game by itself at least once and then, if you like, download some of the DLC to change it up even more. Terraforming Mars is extremely satisfying with Green Planet and mining asteroids is a new challenge with Above and Below. You can't go wrong.

This is true. No need to be sorry. but for a first time player, I figure they won’t want to take the time to do that. Let them focus on other elements of the game on their first play through.