Sow and Sell Scenario

[wcbarney]

Is there a super good seed available for this scenario? I am currently a couple of weeks into year 2, playing on normal difficulty on the DUMA-KEY seed on the green planet with the easiest moon, and can't seem to get anywhere. I can't really sell anything because there's no way to replace the 400 fuel in the trading ship. I am just finally researching oil extraction, so will soon be able to make fuel from vegetable oil; but there is no research available for the bugs-to-fuel or the poop-to-fuel techs.

Then I see that there is an achievement which you get by completing this scenario within 3 years. No way!!

[Flin Fredstone]

The poop-to-fuel becomes available at your workbench after you observed some manure. It requires no research.

[tkraftson]

Weight-Ring
I could've won this in 3 years but I didn't know that I could win with $1Mil galactic coins, so I kept playing until I noticed I could buy the planet for that amount which I already had. I was playing on Hard mode.

[Seelander]

MOTOR-FIGURE (on green planet) is quite good, a lot of debris, plenty of fuel from scavenging etc., very good farm land, tall grass in the area, Giant grass can be observed, but is quite a walk, other than that a perfect seed for sow and sell, look to build where the landscape opens up some 80 ish tiles from your landing spot, you can fit in 80-90 by 90 for big build/farming.

[metalsingh]

I will start a new game immediately with those infos.
Thanx!

[wcbarney]

In the developers' synopsis for the Sow and Sell Scenario: Some workers might also offer to join you for free, if you meet certain criteria. On another thread in this forum one of the devs said that, for instance, Hugo would join you if you tame more than a certain number of animals. Would it be cheating to know how many animals we must tame in order to attract Hugo? What about other volunteers? What are the criteria we should shoot for to attract others?

[sarasyrah]

@wcbarney I got the Hugo offer randomly once I posted for recruits. If you agree to let him tame 5 animals in a half a year, he works for free for that time. I messed up and only trained 4 animals in time, so he left. I'm not sure how long he'd end up staying if I hadn't, but I think he has to tame them all himself. :-)

[Martin]

I've found as a general rule grow insane amounts of cotton.. and wheat and gather as much scrap as possible and turn it into steel bars... and then wait for a trader to turn up.. he buys at 90% get 3-4 traders and sell 3-4000 units of cotton, wheat and 1000 steel and you'll have your 1 mill coins.

It does help to make cpus/electronics or find them and sell as well or wine, tea, coffee, medikits etc all sell well.. and fuel.. if you can make it from insect parts.

This is why sometimes harder difficulties are actually easier games, because you get more bugs, so more parts, so can make more fuel and synth cloth etc..

The blue pills sell the best i think.. sex aid drugs always do.