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I've just had my base wipe out, utterly destroyed by a several Sol long meteor storm.

Nothing I could do about it, way too early in the game for me to have lazer defence, so I just had to sit there for several minutues and watching my base getting destroyed.

People are dying, I have no machine parts, no power, no water, no oxygen and soon there will be no one on earth willing to come to Mars.

How is this fun?!?!?!

These metoer storms are crazy, stupid, overwhelming kicks to the players nut sack.

And how come they seem to pick on me? Youtubers I've watched get one or two meteors, I get several day long storms that somehow magically concentrate on my buildings and beat me into a pulp.

Its not fun.
 
Maybe for you, it's not fun. Also, you do realize you can choose an area with low meteor spawns right?
 
Well, it depends. I like meteor storms the most of all the disasters. Because they can easily cause you to suffer cascade failure which is the type of FUN I'm looking for in the game. It's not about being able to always do something about disasters, but whether you happen to survive them. That's basically in the name of the game.

But to be honest, it seems that meteor storms are always concentrated on a small part of the map, and I guess that you just had the bad luck of that part being right on top of your base.

I do have to say that I had a lot of scurrying about when once I had my second dome up a meteor storm started coming down on the plain where all of my water extractors were. I don't think all of them were up and running at any point during the next three sols, and sometimes it even dropped down to just one out of four.

But yeah, in the end, I like the idea that there is a possibility of suffering a cascade failure in the game, but in the future, perhaps just start in an area where there are no meteor storms? If the value is at one bar out of four there aren't basically any of that disaster. Or at least in my current colony on a map with one bar dust devils, I haven't seen any of them yett during a bit over hundred sols.
 
No game is truly fun without an element of risk. You got incredibly unlucky. The question is, do you sit in a forum and whine, or do you dust yourself off and try again?
 
Then you got unlucky. Crap happens. Try again, and you probably won't be screwed in exactly that way -- but Mars is not about everyone being perfectly safe all the time.
 
If there was something I could do, either before or after the storm to recover that would be fun or could be, but all you do in this game is sit there with time on max speed and wait till things sort themselves out.

I order more machine parts from Earth and I moved all my remaining colonists into a one dome (by setting filters) and that was it, now I'm just sat here, waiting, my base will recover or it will die, nothing else I can do. How is there any fun in that?
 
Imgran said:
Then you got unlucky. Crap happens. Try again, and you probably won't be screwed in exactly that way -- but Mars is not about everyone being perfectly safe all the time.
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Well I'm averaging 100% so far every time I've played the game I've been hit by early game heavy bombardment meteors.
 
Meteors are actually quite nice disasters, a 5 sol long sold wave coasing you to have increased energy usage and limited water supply can be way worse, and that hits the entire map, no chance to avoid. Also Meteors give you the metal you need to stand up after them (and some polymers and anomalies), the others just take away from you.
 
Thorin said:
Meteors are actually quite nice disasters, a 5 sol long sold wave coasing you to have increased energy usage and limited water supply can be way worse, and that hits the entire map, no chance to avoid. Also Meteors give you the metal you need to stand up after them (and some polymers and anomalies), the others just take away from you.
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Huh? Increased power usage and water shortage? Yes, meteors cause that too, and oxygen shortage, and factories to stop working, and destroyed infrastructure, drones stop working as they have no power so can't repair the broken infrastructure. And the meteors bring trivial amounts of metal and polymers, my guess would be a 7 Sol long storm is enough to wipe out an entire base (it took out all my power gen bar a couple of solars) but the metals retrieved post storm, 20? 30? maybe?
 
Keep space between everything you build so that a meteor can't take out multiple items at once.

Only place fuel on fuel storage and keep it away from everything else. Always turn off fuel on universal storage.
 
NosajDraw said:
I don't think people understand the intensity of the storms I'm talking about.

I have some 40 odd wind turbines, every single one got hit.
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Sounds like you're playing in the asteroid belt, not on Mars. I have played on a map with 4 bars for meteors multiple times, and not experienced the level of destruction you're describing. Not sure why you are getting such frequent meteor showers.
 
Played with maxed meteor storms, yes, that can clear out the targeted map square and some of the nearby ones, but in those map you need to spread out fast and hard (and hope in the early part and keep enough money for a restock ship)
 
Note, with regards to meteor showers, that they concentrate on a specific region of a map. The OP may very well just have had a terrible stroke of bad luck.

That said, disasters are part of Surviving Mars. You can't cover every possibility, and you can't always avoid taking a step back, but you should always consider contingencies (your infrastructure should, for an example, always be capable of enduring a dust storm or a cold wave, and you should always at the very least be able to provide enough parts to repair critical infrastructure). Even very tight budgets can afford them if you don't aim unreasonably high.
 
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