Can someone explain sea level to me?

[SanityBasket]

The only way I have found to flood all the flood plains is to assign around a dozen space ports to importing ice for thirty or so years before introducing oxygen. This doesn't seem to be the intended way of playing, but everything else I have tried face plants.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

[Panterich]

Originally posted by SanityBasket:

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

It is not excatly clear what you are after.
If you want to progress in terraforimng, then you don`t need to flood all the plains.
If you want to flood all the plains, then you will have to keep importing ice and waiting.

[SanityBasket]

I don't know, it seems a little silly that having a nice blue planet would require four of five hundred times the investment of end game objectives, and as a result I figured I was doing something wrong?

[Panterich]

I`d say silliness of execution depends on silliness of objective. After all, drowning the planet is your own idea. I don`t understand why you would question time investment after reaching end game objectives. And i don`t see why initial 500m of water is not nice.

I`m still not sure if i got your question right, so FYI ice =/= water. The way the game works is something like this. Planet has separate storages for ice, water and surface water. Ice will gradually (1% per sol) transfer to water if temperature allows. Water will gradually (1% per sol) transfer to surface water. Surface water will slowly (0.1% per sol) transfer back to ice if temperature falls. Player only sees surface water, while the rest is not shown anywhere. Ice storage is limited and initially fully filled with equivalent of 500m surface water.

1 trip from Europa adds equivalent of 1m surface water, but not directly to surface water storage. So it takes more time to put that ice onto surface after special project completion.
Reaching 0 altitude level with surface water requires equivalent of 2000 1755m. Planet has 500m initially, so it will take 1500 1255 trips to Europa. If you just want to see this, use console.

The reason for ice import to exist is probably the same as for other aerobrake/collision techs from space branch, all military techs except the first one, and a couple of others - to add a false sense of having a choice and content filling where there is none. Or to spend months of real time on drowning the planet of course. Which you can`t actually do, because water levels are only set up up to 0 in planet configuration.

[MechaShadowV2]

Am I wrong with the impression that you hate this game? I haven't seen a single thread your'e you don't post some negative about it, but never a positive.

[Panterich]

Originally posted by MechaShadowV2:

Am I wrong with the impression that you hate this game? I haven't seen a single thread your'e you don't post some negative about it, but never a positive.

Kind of. I don`t hate the game, i hate how things are rushed all around, for the sake of rushing even more. I have no idea if this was a planned release or someone pushed the agenda, and i totaly understand you can`t print "half done" on the store page. But it doesn`t make it easier to read official statements like "it was considered release-ready" and "it was checked by QA team" while this is clearly not the case.

As for negativity and positivity, i`m posting in the context of topic. The only positive part without any buts i can think of is audio, and i don`t think i ever posted anywhere it was mentioned. Soundtrack is good, voice acting is welcomed, sfx is ok-ish. And for every other thing i like there is a serious but that negates it.