100% Vegetation Terraforming endgame?

[dvalmont]

So I think i'm doing my first full run where i'm going to 100% terraform Mars finally...
All my terraforming ratings are 100% except vegetation. I'm at like 75% now and it's going sooo slow. It seems like "Seed Vegetation" special project is the only way to increase your vegetation rating at this point and it only comes up after X number of days since last completed? Terraforming Plants no longer affect the global parameter so there's no real point in them anymore?

The game is just totally dragging at this point because i've nothing else really to do.
Is there a faster way to do this? Is that the last thing to do to "win the game" or am I just "spinning my wheels" after completing the mystery or whatever? I assume I at least get an achievement for 100% terraform?

[SkiRich]

There are a few mods out there that speed this up a bit, but yeah, getting to 100% veg is sort of anti climactic.
At that point I typically turn my game into a city builder and make all sorts of outposts everywhere and play with strategy.
One of my games has edge to edge forest covering the whole map with neat mountaintop outposts of living space domes.

[NiceGuy]

I would also like to know why vegetation does not grow everywhere. I have several forestation stations with lichen. All started working at the same time and had enough seeds. But while one has most of its spot green and can already plant bushes and trees, the other still has only a view green spots with low soil quality... 🤔

[SkiRich]

Originally posted by NiceGuy:

I would also like to know why vegetation does not grow everywhere. I have several forestation stations with lichen. All started working at the same time and had enough seeds. But while one has most of its spot green and can already plant bushes and trees, the other still has only a view green spots with low soil quality... 🤔

Do three shifts of planting. Two lichen and one grass. That should speed things up a bit. Once grass takes hold its the fastest spreading and has the same benefits of soil improvement as lichen.

[Holce]

With each step of vegetation boom plants start appearing on their own if soil quality is good enough:
- At 30% vegetation => lichen
- At 60% vegetation => bushes
- At 90% vegetation => trees (I Suppose, currently 81%)

Rains improve the soil quality. I do every rain cloud missions and I have spot ready for trees without any forester nearby.

[Nanaki]

Cloud seeding projects are randomly triggered. It's a wait and win sorta end game which I don't enjoy. Vegetation is capped at 40% spread on its own and requires special events or projects to complete. Mods fix this but it's rather silly to me. I got an event that gave 2% or .2 for every moisture evaporation in 1 sol so I spammed the out as many as I could not caring about placement penalties and then went from 80->100%. Game was just like "GO TO BED! YOU WIN HERE!" Hahaha.