When does Wildfire Crisis finish?

[R3sistance]

Currently playing a map where I got wildfire and after a grueling research period... I finally got to the crop and have launched two rockets full of the crops back to Earth, just how much do you actually need to send? I don't see anything that says just how much you need to keep sending? I am assuming since I have already sent ~120 crops, Extinction event is now basically impossible?

Cas kinda relying on Martian Patents (which I got down to 2,250 research points a hit somehow... and copyrights are 1,1750...) so really don't wanna lose my lifeline for surviving a little longer. lol.

[Denim Chicken]

I would like too know aswell. I have sent over 6 rockets and they keep coming back.

It does not really make sence. The earth should be able to grow it themselfs after 1 rocket.

[rightfn]

Interesting. Much to my surprise, I think I managed to beat this crisis, with a rating of 'adequate'. You will know the event has 'ended' when the Infection Level is no longer permanently listed as a pop up, and you will get a celebratory story text pop-up with a reward of sorts. When the crisis is resolved you still can send back the cure to earth, only this time you get $200M per rocket (indefinitely as far as I can tell). But this was chump change compared to a rocket full of metals, so I was not overly impressed at this point.

Supposedly, this has to do with how bad the infection got on earth. The worse it got, the more rockets you have to send back to resolve the crisis. I beleive that with me it escalated past the point where I got a bonus for sending back metals, unfortunately I forget the name of the infection level I had. If I had to guess I would say it took 3-5 rockets to resolve the crisis.

If your infection level escalated multiple times, I would expect more rockets are required. If you have already sent about 6, you SHOULD see your infection level downgrade (at least once?). I knew I was on the right track when my infection level was downgraded to "Contained" before I ultimately resolved the crisis.

[Denim Chicken]

Yes, the infection level says contained, but that was two rockets ago and they keep coming.

It really annoying to deal with as it constantly consumes fuel and takes away farms that i need for food.

I'm endlessly juggling between curtatos and cover crops to prevent bad crop harvests due to the soil quality degradation from the curetatos.

[R3sistance]

To be fair, I saw it go from Pandemic to Endemic from the 1st rocket... guessing I got A LOT more to go tho. Since I had to focus that research. Was barely mid-game when the infections started... Sol 50...

[morph113]

Question regarding this cure. Is there a hard time limit or can you take as long as you want as long as you can keep your colony alive? So far it seems that the birth rate of my citizens make up for people dying by the infection but I'm not sure if it will stay that way as they seem to have died at an increasingly rate recently. Also currently I can't take any passengers from Earth anymore due to their quarantine. Will this quarantine persist till I find a cure so I have to rely entirely on mars born citizens? Also I need 90,000 research points but I only make like 450 research per sol currently, that will take forever and there is still like 50% of the tech tree to research. I'm wondering if it's even worth continuing or if my colony is doomed because I was not prepared for that mystery? If I would have known I would have concentrated more on having a high amount of research per sol.

[Denim Chicken]

Originally posted by morph113:

Question regarding this cure. Is there a hard time limit or can you take as long as you want as long as you can keep your colony alive? So far it seems that the birth rate of my citizens make up for people dying by the infection but I'm not sure if it will stay that way as they seem to have died at an increasingly rate recently. Also currently I can't take any passengers from Earth anymore due to their quarantine. Will this quarantine persist till I find a cure so I have to rely entirely on mars born citizens? Also I need 90,000 research points but I only make like 450 research per sol currently, that will take forever and there is still like 50% of the tech tree to research. I'm wondering if it's even worth continuing or if my colony is doomed because I was not prepared for that mystery? If I would have known I would have concentrated more on having a high amount of research per sol.

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Mentioned in this post you can fail and everyone dies.

I pumped an much energy as i could in research. I filled a dome with scientist and reseach centres (I isolated the dome with fresh colinists before the lockdown). I invested all money into outsourcing research. You want to find the cure asap.

[morph113]

Ok thanks, I guess I'm gonna start a new playthrough then, I don't think I am even remotely able to manage to do all of that in time as I was unprepared and although my colony is stable, I don't think I can push my research enough to be able to find the cure (I know you have to produce it via farms afterwards and send to earth) in time. Plus all my domes are infected so I assume it will spiral out of control anyway. Didn't expect mysteries to be so harsh that they can destroy your colony. I guess next time I prepare for every possible scenario.

[R3sistance]

Time is finite but I got the cure at around sol 127 when infections started at sol 50, so I am guessing there is like 80~100 sols. I think there are alternative ways to cure it too by killing everybody who is infected early. Personally I was already out of funding and only had 3 research labs at the time, I managed to push resources enough to get more research going in other places but it sure ain't an easy one, lol. keeping research going as people are dying...

[thisroughbeast]

I've currently beaten the infection, Mars is free of infected, Earth is saved and the darn rockets will not. stop. coming. I've got ten of them flashing annoyingly in my pins and they keep sending more. My guy, you are cured. Stop.