When do you give up on a playthrough?

[Chaon]

Well when do you give up?

When you run out of money? When you run out of resources? When you figure out you made a total mess of the attempt?

What is it that really makes you stop and say to yourself, 'Yeah this is not going to work out. Time to restart.'

 

[Gilmund]

So far i've not stopped any run but i'm between 3 of them cause it depends what i'm in the mood to play.
For example i'm doing the wildfire mystery it's hard and i like it very much but sometimes i just want to build my way and not be forced by the mystery so i switch to another run.
Most times i decide to start again to try another build strat.

 

[Lordban]

2 scenarios:
- I figured out something I didn't realize before and want to try again
- Something hit me so bad I'd have to use Martian Patents to recover

 

[Eled the Worm Tamer]

when I realise that a breakthrough needed to complete the mystery hasntspawned, its been 100 sols since anything happened and theres nothing to do that I havent done already. ( Twice now).

 

[Zinegata]

Well when do you give up?

When you run out of money? When you run out of resources? When you figure out you made a total mess of the attempt?

What is it that really makes you stop and say to yourself, 'Yeah this is not going to work out. Time to restart.'

When I have won the map and want to try something else .

 

[Qoff]

I usually play until I get the achievements I want, right now I'm doing the blue sun sponsor and then I'll do the China.

 

[Damocles316]

When the colony has hit a suicide spiral due to a meteor storm. Could I probably recover, yeah. But it was more fun to learn from it and start again.

 

[Kadera]

- No water or insufficient/missing surface metals after expending all starter probes (restart map)
- Made some fatally boneheaded early mistake in building my colony and less than 10-20 Sols have passed (restart map)
- Colony death spiral for whatever reason, assuming it's obviously unrecoverable
- Colony basically destroyed by disaster (had that happen once w/meteor storm)
- A whole bunch of times as I was learning the game and wanted to apply the lessons learned from my numerous mistakes

 

[Ri0Rdian]

- When NO Oval Dome happens

 

[DominusNovus]

- When NO Oval Dome happens

Or the automation breakthroughs.

 

[Mauer]

I ran out of metals and my colony was heavily dependent on them because I didn't realize I would need so many of them. I could have gotten metals from earth until I expanded my colony to a more rich area, but it would have taken too long and wanted to try again.

 

[starkaos]

There is always the chance of the final breakthrough from completing a mystery granting the Oval Dome technology.

 

[Kexessa]

I've had meteor storms take me out twice on two different maps. Then I had some sort of invasion that took out all my vehicles and necessary equipment. I had all my citizens die to starvation. One map I just built so badly there was no way to make it viable. I usually try and play out the map I started until I can't hold on.

 

[Tiakatt]

when I realise that a breakthrough needed to complete the mystery hasntspawned, its been 100 sols since anything happened and theres nothing to do that I havent done already. ( Twice now).

Are you trying the Power of Three?

That one can get stuck at one point until you

Spoiler

build a new Concrete Extractor.

If you've already got other things

Spoiler

producing concrete for you,

it's easy to get stuck there because there's absolutely no indication that it is needed to continue. All you'll have is a message in your event log telling you to research something that isn't yet available and you've gotten no popup for, with no indicator of what to do to proceed.

 

[Eled the Worm Tamer]

Are you trying the Power of Three?

That one can get stuck at one point until you

Spoiler

build a new Concrete Extractor.

If you've already got other things

Spoiler

producing concrete for you,

it's easy to get stuck there because there's absolutely no indication that it is needed to continue. All you'll have is a message in your event log telling you to research something that isn't yet available and you've gotten no popup for, with no indicator of what to do to proceed.

The cubes, I cant seem to shepard my colony through it. Same problem though, message that I need to reserch a tech that wontshow up no idea what to do.

 

[Tiakatt]

The Power of Three is the cubes (the name's a math joke). Do what's in my spoiler tag and you'll get unstuck. It's really silly and not at all obvious. The game just assumes that you have what I listed, even though between techs and wonders there's really absolutely no guarantee that's the case.

 

[Kyd Rok]

When I have won the map and want to try something else .

What are your conditions for "winning" the map?

 

[Magdaki]

When my colonists start doing the walk of death.