Help w/ Mirror Sphere Myster (Potential spoiler alert)

[KJ]

So I'm legitimately frustrated with this right now. I have no idea what to do and my base is barely hanging on right now. Luckily I have enough of the bare essentials to get by, but everything is frozen right now and it's really slowing my progress.


So far, I've done the "- "Sphere Protection" and "Purpose of the Spheres" research, as well as the "Xeno-Terraforming research". Is there something I should be doing now that I am not aware of?

I would REALLY appreciate any help I can get with this.

[KJ]

I'm pretty certain that this part of the game is just a bug at this point. I'm convinced that there is no way to get past it.

[Binks]

Have you trapped some (or all) of the spheres? If so, click on a building with a trapped sphere. The xeno terraforming tech gives you three new options for that building (next to salvage). Try one :)

[Nox]

It's buggy I think. I got a message that the spheres were entering into a stasis and causing a cold wave, and then they just kept reproducing. There were something like 9 of them at that point? Obviously this is a geometric progression. At that point there's no way to fight it really.

[123]

Yea this mystery is way too long, lost its fun like 40 sol's ago....

[FalseGiraffe]

Don't give up. I was very frustrated by this.

If you are at the stage where you can convert them, you need to make enough lures for all of them plus a couple. Make sure you can hold the power level through the night or they will break free. It helps to have heaters nex tot them, it takes less energy to keep them trapped. The electronic requirement for the lures was really driving me wild. I ended up converting a few for the rare metals and then selling htem to buy electronics. I was sorely tempted to milk them for a while, but when I was done I had something like 600+ rare metals. I'm flush with cash now,
and they're gone!

[123]

My people couldn't handle the depression of living in the disaster and most of the killed them selves which lead to mass production issues, then renegads decided it would be a good time to blow things up which makes no sense since they are basicaly dooming their families to a cold death filled with starvation.

[A Big Hairy Monster]

Wait til you do Marsgate and you've got 20 Rocket-Artillery buggies bearing down on you, shooting up your whole colony.

[Attila Starwar]

I think I've found a bug. 2 of spheres just hover in place and don't do anything. They don't move so I cant capture them and they don't suck up power. Got the rest of them captured. Also had an automated rocket and then turned it back to manual but the landing pad lights didn't go away. The spheres are hovering above that landing pad which makes me think it might be related.

[GrandViking]

It`s very frustrating for me too...

I think I achieved the mystery too son. My collony is now barely surviving. Basically spheres are sucking all my power like mad... stopping the few heaters I have left. Population is suiciding by the bunch like The Happening. I`m nowhere near finishing the terraforming research. Water shortages, power shortages, oxygen shortages... no more working mines so the factories are just down.

Basically it was an overkill for me. My collony is done.

[jsauce]

Yeah I basically had to quit something I was working on for like 10 hours, I'm super pissed. I'm almost ready to just stop playing this game entirely now. I understand my colonists dying because of something I did, but martian technology? Come on.

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen added to a game designed entirely to frustrate and basically make the player not want to play the game. Just a travesty. 10 hours of work down the drain.