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sillyrobot

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Jul 18, 2015
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G'day Folks,
I started a new game (base game only, no DLC, single mod "Game rules - Breakthroughs" in case it is relevant).
I found the sphere around Sol 75 and by Sol 105 nothing happened so I went looking for spoilers and discovered I needed to interact with the sphere to get things rolling so to speak. Things got off to a bit of a slow start as I have very few batteries but I now have 4 spheres and have researched how to protect the colonists and how to capture them. The last mission update occurred with my first capture and I was teased further research would become available.

It's been about 4 Sols since the first capture and there is no new research project, building type, or anything else I noticed. I have 3 spheres captured in decoy buildings and one is still roaming free. I cannot interact with the captured spheres or the decoy buildings. The options to take the spheres apart are still greyed out.

Is there another player or game event trigger that I'm missing? Is it waiting for me to capture them all? Is there something else I need to do or am I just being impatient?
 
It's been a long while, and my memory is hazy at best... but I think you need to capture them all.

Actually, I think the problem ended up being twofold: I was too capable of limiting their actions against my colony (as I had effectively no batteries -- I had developed eternal fusion early) and the multi-decade countdown I thought was to a failure turned out to be the countdown to the next development. So about 40 years after showing up, and a mere 30 years after all 4 were captured, the next event happened.
 
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