I hope once all research and breakthrough are done they return back to normal or perhaps an unlock that reboots the deposits or something
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That would be an interesting solution.
Once you research everything you can work on projects to uncover new Water / Metal / Rare Metal deposits (could be normal, or deep, or even both) that will become available once the research is complete. This could be repeated forever. Though someone would likely focus on Rare Metals and break the balance (again) or something like that. This could be solved by the discovery being random but then.... behold, you last 10 deposits discovered were 9x Water and one Metal, so another problem.
...One giant leap for Surviving Mars.
I also think that there should be a stable source of income from Science after all the (ordinary) techs have been researched. Maybe after all the (ordinary) techs are researched, you could have a special or idle option that automatically converts Science into funding each sol with a set ratio, but with a caveat that it completely ignores outsourced and sponsor Science gain. It would only register martian science production. If I understand the exploit correctly (research Martian Copyrights, then outsource more science than it costs), this should completely sidestep the issue.
So you'd use these repeatables as a way to gain funding or outsource research earlier in the game, but in late-game you'd essentially use the research facilities as a sort of citybuilder "office" building that generates stable funding without an end.
I also think that there should be a stable source of income from Science after all the (ordinary) techs have been researched. Maybe after all the (ordinary) techs are researched, you could have a special or idle option that automatically converts Science into funding each sol with a set ratio, but with a caveat that it completely ignores outsourced and sponsor Science gain. It would only register martian science production. If I understand the exploit correctly (research Martian Copyrights, then outsource more science than it costs), this should completely sidestep the issue.
So you'd use these repeatables as a way to gain funding or outsource research earlier in the game, but in late-game you'd essentially use the research facilities as a sort of citybuilder "office" building that generates stable funding without an end.
That's easy to solve. Use pseudo random. Just throwing numbers out there but lets say it's 45% water 45% metal 10% rare metals. You get water your first roll, that means next roll would be 30% water 55% metal 15% rare. Eventually rare metals would be 100%That would be an interesting solution.
Once you research everything you can work on projects to uncover new Water / Metal / Rare Metal deposits (could be normal, or deep, or even both) that will become available once the research is complete. This could be repeated forever. Though someone would likely focus on Rare Metals and break the balance (again) or something like that. This could be solved by the discovery being random but then.... behold, you last 10 deposits discovered were 9x Water and one Metal, so another problem.
One of the mysteries involves growing what is essentially a cash crop so that would be an obvious start.
Companies were slightly less complacent back then and the amount of games that released bug-free was relatively higher. The complexity of games was lower too, meaning less could go wrong.
The "release now, fix later" attitude is far more widespread nowadays.
I don't get why people insist on quoting it without the article regardless of what he actually said. The full quote without the "a" does not many any sense.
Good ol' times ... I remember my first C64 with a Datasette. And typing listings from game magazines...In the days before Internet became prevalent, there were game magazines with 3 1/4" disks (and later CD-ROMs) containing demos and patches. I still have a bunch of them - I'm a bit of a packrat, plus I want to have the patches in case I ever install the games again.
@topic: So no fix to the "walk of death" (colonists suffocating because they don't use shuttles for transfers)?
I remember, we visited the bbs of the local computergame magazine to download any patches the maker had distributed, or a bit later scoured the internet for any patches from the most trustworthy sites, which definitely did not include any viruses in the exes.
We were so easy to amuse in the 1980's i.e. no internet, no smartphones, only 4 TV channels (in UK), no play-stations, no home PCs etc. Days when the following two lines of code would always get a chuckle when typed into the BBC workstation/Amstrad at the local electronic hardware shop.
10 Print "Bob is a big fat idiot"
20 Goto 10
Happy and innocent days.
10 Print "Bob is a big fat idiot"
20 Goto 10
Happy and innocent days.
