Very fun! Mars' biosphere is minimal so there's little natural sequestration, making emissions prevalent throughout the whole game and requiring a constant fight against climate change.

Great challenge! Nothing without any patience. My approach was a slow development of my city and leting the AIs overtake. Of course, they were polluting everything, but from my small income, I bought all the shares and took over their other cities for a green transition :)
But actually, the AIs weren´t so bad, they have done a lot due to the fees placed by the USN.
However, I wish settling the real Mars would also be so smooth without exploiting and war...

Haha I found the path to success. get paid to plant trees lol. In the world congress thing just institute carbon tax and emissions, then every time upvote increasing them. Can kick back and bus expand and reforest mars lol. Currently my emission levy is +200 and world pollution is roughly balanced

Man this one has gotten me a few times, every time the AI just f's it and destroys the world. 2nd try, I went for trying to only aim for weapon production to try and slow them down but didnt help.

I tried doing mostly parks and pollution centers, and was +50 env, but doesnt cope with one AI at -1200 and the other -800

After I won the second galaxy of the campaign almost "hands down" this was the real challenge I was looking for. Took me four attempts to enforce the measures that prevent the planet from going down the drain (having a climate collaps), but yes, it's doable (and this is important).
Thanks a lot.

Useless map,
Planet crash all the Time because of the NPC building it down...
Progress VERY slow and absolutly random to play...

Sad.

Amazing map, but it would be nice if AI can actually manage to do anything on it. In my game AI utterly fail to build anything sustainable and one faction go bankrupt with other were close to it without me doing anything at all to them when I manage to win. I even donate a bit of resources every now and then so they would stop rivalry and would not waste resources on me.

Nice. Really enjoyed it as a different challenge after playing through the 2 galaxies in the main game.

Difficulty must've gotten easier through the updates, haha, that and the fact that players just get more experience with the game, but this map was made when the workshop update came out. I appreciate the comment and thank you!

Difficulty? What difficulty? Nice map though.

hi!
after reading this topic, i would want to play another game to test it but I noticed that my last won savegame was 17 days ago .; so nothing to to say more about ..

Difficulty is intended, I had been able to play test it and complete it

Global warming killed me on this one. This one seems really hard with the items you modified in update 1.6. Since almost all the trees are gone, there is not any way to really reduce pollution and since the wood factory is the lowest pollution generating industry, all the other industries generate much higher pollution levels. With the large quantity of rock, it makes the stone quarry the primary industry - which is a high polluting one.

Largest land area, highest productivity, and population.

That's pretty much it, just try to reach 20 victory points which is around 9-10 million population given the other points available.

Since the objectives can't be displayed, can you state what those objectives are (if you remember)? I've played a few more hours but don't know what I'm trying to shoot for.

1 Thank you!

2 The objectives were getting the victory points however it appears that at some point through an update the level could have been bugged to not show you the things you find in competition mode. (This probably means I might have to remake the planet entirely in a new update)

3 When I planned out this planet and the 6 others it was supposed to be a fanmade prequel to the main game you experienced, the lack of technologies is because of that It's like playing tuto for the first time again.

4 Same reason for here, In the 6 planet series I made, mars is the first on the timeline so It's supposed to experience difficulties in trade as a universal space trade network isn't established.

I'm playing it now on my 2nd try and here are some of my thoughts....
* I like the map design
It would be nice to see what the objectives are for Mars
* I noticed that victory points are awarded, but the Victory button at the bottom of the screen is missing - so I can't see what victory point categories there are.
* I would have preferred that the Mars mission use the existing tech status that I had achieved instead of starting with it's own researched techs.
* I wish all the traders would have been available instead of just the Special Trader. It forces me to keep building rockets.

Very Strange, I tried playing the mars mission on my computer plus my old laptop and they both worked fine, I don't know what could cause such a bug

OK, I tried the other 5 missions you created, and they all work fine. Only the Mars one does not load.

Yes, only your workshop levels (Mars) isn't working. I'll try downloading your other 5 missions, and see if any of them work.

That sounds like an issue with the game itself; Is it only my workshop levels not working for you?

I can subscribe, but it doesn't let me play the game. When I click the 'Start' button, nothing happens. I posted about this issue also on the main discussion page.

Updated to 1.6, Changes were made

Thanks again for your view on the planet, I'm thankful you think it's enjoyable despite being very old, it makes me really happy to hear that.

There's 5 other planets in the series to which goes in order, which I think you already are aware of, however many people are surprisingly not.

I completely agree, after just starting your second planet I have started to understand the story line and so take back what I said about an additional company and invaders as it doesn't go with the story, instead like you said just simply removing some tree's will help with global warming.

It's really difficult to provide feedback for a planet that is over a year old, but actually think the fact it is so old and yet I still enjoyed it as much as I did shows how well it is designed.

I will look forward to trying it again if the temperatures and fertility is reduced to make it even harder, but given some of the challenges on this first planet I am looking forward to seeing how it progresses through the story.

Adding onto a previous comment:

I cannot currently access the planet file for editing, as I have a new computer and with it a new storage drive and I am trying to figure out how to get this planet from the workshop.

I'll hopefully be able to make your feedback possible as soon as possible :)

Thanks for the feedback Ishau, and you are correct, these planets are old and updates have made them easier since then, as for the feedback, my series of planets follow a story line and the planet was designed to have no threats from outer space.

As for global warming, I can quickly change that as I was very forgiving on the trees at the time of making the planet, and I don't have a need to add any more companies as it would involve changing more than what could be achieved with removing some trees.

Food production being hard was supposed to be a challenge on this planet, I will try reducing temperature and if not, fertility

Thanks again for the feedback, I'll get to work on bringing these changes!

Thanks for uploading this planet.

Game mode was hard, speed was set to fast. Overall it was a good play through, although a little easier than I was hoping for, however I appreciate that it was made over a year ago and I'm not sure what updates may have happened to make this easier.

Constructive feedback would be to add another challenger to make global warming a potential threat (I didn't get anywhere close to it being an issue) and look at lowering the temperatures to make food production harder with thermo buildings required. Also, really would have liked to see some invaders to bring up the challenge.

That said, definitely enjoyed playing through it and looking forward to trying to other plants. Really well designed overall and I liked that you didn't have any Nitropumpkins forcing me to buy from special vendor as well as buy artifacts from special vendor and build temples to get that fertility up.

On the original copy of the planet I marked the volcano by making it a high elevation zone, It might be harder to notice now that rebalancing has made it harder to notice, When ill get to it ill mark it out and update it!

Small question: Is Olympus Mons on this map? It´s the biggest volcano in the solar system after all.

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Thanks!