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Surviving Mars is a game of systems. Systems that don't work.

TekDragon · 2018-03-17T19:38:56+00:00

I've put 30 hours into this game. So far the parts I've enjoyed have been the parts that have been showcased heavily in sponsored content - the early/mid game. I'm currently sitting at late-game, and I'm no longer having fun. I have a medium-sized dome where I wanted to train my colonists. Heavy on nurseries, schools, and martian universities - this dome was where colonists were supposed to grow and train before moving on to other domes. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. I have 40 scientists in my training dome. The dome is set to not allow scientists. Some distance away is another medium dome. This is where I wanted my scientists. The dome is set to prefer scientists. The science labs are staffed by people who aren't scientists. There's plenty of available residences. The scientists won't come. The science labs continue to under-perform. In another dome I have all my engineering facilities. I don't have nearly enough engineers. The facilities are staffed by people who aren't engineers. Back at the training dome, my martian universities say I don't have an engineer shortage. I'm not enjoying late game because over everything is a looming specter - needing to manually select a colonist, click the assign job site, zoom out, zoom into another dome, find the building, and click it, then repeat the process another 200 times. I don't want to do that. Paradox, this game is half-baked. It's not just that it doesn't have any late-game structure, it's that the systems you need to even attempt to enjoy the late-game are simply not coded properly. Shame on you.

Thread starter TekDragon
Start date Mar 17, 2018

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candyalien

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Mar 20, 2018

Hey I just wanted to let you know that we are reading all of your feedback taking it on board and feeding it back to the devs. Everyone that has posted on here may be interested to know that we are doing a special stream on Wednesday at 17:00 CET to answer any questions and address any issues you might have. You can check out the stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive

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