Concrete

[LiquidDisease]

Not sure how to make concrete once you've depleted all the sulfur...

[soldier6661111]

You should have gotten passed that stage way before depleting all your sulfur...

[DanekJovax]

Originally posted by LiquidDisease:

Not sure how to make concrete once you've depleted all the sulfur...

Well, this sounds like you've taken too long to get to the end-game, which can happen as cities still consume resources even when "idle" and not growing.

Just keeping practicing, and you'll eventually get the hang of things. My first game took me 500 years! My next one only a little over 240 years.

One thing I'll have you think about is designing central processing for certain resources around your globe and route your raw materials to them. Cheers!

[LiquidDisease]

Originally posted by DanekJovax:

Originally posted by LiquidDisease:

Not sure how to make concrete once you've depleted all the sulfur...

Well, this sounds like you've taken too long to get to the end-game, which can happen as cities still consume resources even when "idle" and not growing.

Just keeping practicing, and you'll eventually get the hang of things. My first game took me 500 years! My next one only a little over 240 years.

One thing I'll have you think about is designing central processing for certain resources around your globe and route your raw materials to them. Cheers!

I just fast forward the game. Too slow for me and the tedium of routing everything... Fun game but not for me I fear.

[BladeofSharpness]

You can indeed deplete all the sulfur on the planet if you play at max speed, launch the game in the morning and then play it again in the evening. Barring that, I fail to see how you can lack sulfur!

[soldier6661111]

Originally posted by LiquidDisease:

Originally posted by DanekJovax:

Well, this sounds like you've taken too long to get to the end-game, which can happen as cities still consume resources even when "idle" and not growing.

Just keeping practicing, and you'll eventually get the hang of things. My first game took me 500 years! My next one only a little over 240 years.

One thing I'll have you think about is designing central processing for certain resources around your globe and route your raw materials to them. Cheers!

I just fast forward the game. Too slow for me and the tedium of routing everything... Fun game but not for me I fear.

lol I play paused most of the time and then run it at normal pace. Only time I might fast forward is at the very start. Probably not your kind of game, need more patience.

[BladeofSharpness]

Somehow like soldier but less extreme. I usually play at normal speed, with occasional pauses, but the game is sedate enough that you can play without pausing, IF AT NORMAL SPEED.

[soldier6661111]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

Somehow like soldier but less extreme. I usually play at normal speed, with occasional pauses, but the game is sedate enough that you can play without pausing, IF AT NORMAL SPEED.

It is a bit extreme, but I do all the big stuff (major changes or upgrades to production) in pause and then tinker or watch the trains go in normal speed. I don't get the appeal of speeding up. I feel there's always something worth keeping an eye out for when growing three cities. Especially when you start new processes because of new unlocks (whether new item, building or waste product).

[Kyrros]

I was only a couple 100 years in my first game, there were 4 'water' basins. Once I got the temp up to ~ -20, those basins filled in, and I lost over 1/2 of my available sulfur (some very large patches containg a significant amount of the planets reserve). Just bad RNG, I suppose, but it did make things interesting(?), as I was doing fine making 3 cities grow to full at each milestone. After that happened, I had to cut down to 1 city at a time, until each outgrew the need for concrete, one by one, so that i could then use it to make the next one grow, etc, etc.

Without proper surface water management mechanics/tech, progressing too far in the game tends to actually shoot you in the foot, resource-wise due to water formation covering key resources, like Sulfur and Fluorine.

Every game after that, I intentionally use up as much of the resources IN water basins first (4-5 giant white circles in the 'water map') before raising the temp above -30. The closer to the center a resource is in a basin, the sooner I try to use it up.