Surviving Mars - A Guide for Complete Beginners! - #4: Factories! [Sponsored]

[@Howlrunner82]

You know what I like about your Videos? You do all the stuff while explaining it. Not showing stuff on an already build colonie like other channels (and yes I watch this 5 years after release cause I just bought the game. Its still helpfull)

[@zendog8888]

😢🎉😢i

[@wgitelman]

another tip that I learned is to keep your pipes and cables as short as possible, the longer they are the more frequently they will fail.

[@VanillaPCStrategy]

This has been a great series. The game is short on real-time tutorial information for some of the more difficult concepts, like colonist mood management. Your dome setup makes a lot more sense than those I was building. I think I now understand why so many colonists were giving up on the colony and asphyxiating themselves outside the domes. Thanks for the great info!

[@shinkicker404]

Vanilla PC Strategy they were actually committing suicide? Damn that’s harsh, lol.

[@VanillaPCStrategy]

Well the game didn't explain it very well but from all appearances yes. Basically they were leaving the expedition, then they would die of asphyxiation. Since I had open homes and jobs for them, plenty of food/water/air/etc it didn't make any sense... now I feel like it was because their moods were too low, and I was also trying to have people move between domes to live/work and that doesn't work.

[@puritan745]

These are probably the best tutorials I have ever seen, thanks for taking the time to learn and explain the game so well quill !!

[@CaptainCafe]

Ive been following this series. Thanks for teaching the game so clearly.

[@mackdyegames3035]

The shuttles break the game in a good way for the player. Solves lots of long distance problems from streams i've watched.

[@seancolorado]

This has been my favorite "series" other than Civ on this channel in a long time. I really hope quill does a full-length Let's Play

[@progman965]

Thanks for your patient description, easy to follow. Especially liked info on what to do first, and how to properly place items. I think I get it now.

[@melissablick779]

Thanks for explaining the game mechanics so clearly. Love this style of video.

[@duskeyowl2507]

Quill is awesome when it comes to explaining and teaching the mechanics of any game. The Quantum Sonics Radio Station is Hypnotic...

[@keithball7392]

Loving your surviving mars uploads 👍. Very informative. Keep up the good work.

[@polyanima]

Thank you so much for the tutorial! I picked up most of the stuff from the earlier videos just watching the alpha build and early access players, but most people have to stop before they get to setting up the domes and I'm not sure how well I would have picked up happiness management without someone at least pointing out that it's important. On an unrelated note -- asdfghjkl; it bugs me SO MUCH that finished research options are grayed out and ones you haven't started are colored in. I don't even know why my mind insists that the opposite makes more sense, but it does and I'm kind of hoping really hard that someone in the modding community is going to have the same issue and figure out how to swap them. Urk.

[@ScattershotOG]

This is not a rant merely and FYI. For those that are thinking Quill's play thru looks too easy is because he is playing on a very low difficulty mode. His sponsor gives him lots of money, research and rockets. The area he landed in has a low chance of threats. This play thru is meant as a teaching guide on how to play which is hard to do if the planet is constantly trying to destroy everything. Go back to the first video and check the options he could have chosen.

[@edmartin875]

Want an example of higher difficulty ? Watch Pravus play at 1075% difficulty. You will see a few threats.

[@AMan-yo3sy]

This series is so damn useful. I literally want to give you an astronomically amazing kiss.

[@ikkis264]

Love these, Quill. These are super helpful and I would love to see more for other series

[@wgitelman]

research is critical early in the game..you have to have a certain number of techs researched before 100 days are over, failing to do so doesn't constitute a game failure but it affects your overall score. Also the tech that appears in the tech tree is completely random.

[@OsamaBinLooney]

i'm playing along with the let's play, thx for explaining the pipes and the tunnels my map is divided in half by a ridge so i didn't know how to get to the other side, i had tunnels unlocked but i didn't know how to build the "other end" of the tunnel

[@ErynnSchwellinger]

Also, thank you for this tutorial series, it's really, really, really helpful waiting for this game ebcause there's a lot of cocnepts I had no idea about dispite having watched everythiong out there

[@zschumacher1834]

Great videos mate.. very helpful. Thank you for your efforts in making them.

[@markmaravelas6385]

Excellent video series. Well done quill18.

[@goldninja9374]

These Surviving Mars tutorial videos are really really helpful and are so thorough and detailed! :D

[@doobh]

I'm making myself watch this because I realized that I might want this game, also because I hope Quill does a series on this soon and I want to voice my support really want to see him launch a mission with the Paradox sponsor :D

[@illuindb]

Loving the series

[@LightsaberAddict]

Thanks for the video. I notice that your snail mail is the same city as I live in. Sudbury, Ontario. Awesome. 🙂

[@Gurumediatationgamer]

I agree on the rockets blinking withouth being empty thing, on the other hand, I guess its good if you REALLY need another resource really fast.

[@chrisgarrett898]

"What was I talking about?? Oh yeah... MAKIN' BABIES!!!"

[@Pixelatedaddiction]

literally cannot wait to play dis game

[@anuragshah6243]

ifkr

[@EveFlow]

That's a SUPER tutorial

[@hetzz]

Like what i see. Looking forward for your next LP of this.

[@jones81381]

It's too bad he either didn't know or didn't cover how you can hand pick exactly which specific colonists come on the transports. He ticked a few boxes then let RNG handle the rest but you can hand select colonists so if you want 10 engineers and 2 medics, you can disallow everything but engineers and medics then click the review button and approve two medics and 10 engineers. Letting RNG handle it means you're just as likely to get 10 medics and 2 engineers (assuming enough pass other filters).

[@bredemeli]

9:02 "What was i saying? Ah yes, making babies!" clearly this is the most thorough guide out there x)

[@Shideous]

Good intro series. Can't wait for your "Let's Play" of this.

[@VictorFernandes8]

Sooo....this is the part where things start to develop and there's much going on that I lose interest. Lose interest in playing it since this isn't my type of games but I love to watch and listen quill playing this, I love his process of though!

[@jacobwillis57]

Great vid quill. Just wondering if anyone knows if people can travel through tunnels as I’ve built my dome too far from the closest metal deposit? Cheers

[@greg5176]

Grrrrrr, I really want to get started, hurry up 15th!

[@Falconite]

Loving this series, thank you!

[@Kaeridan]

I need more Surviving Mars since I won't be able to play it myself for a while, D:

[@sO_RoNerY]

So would the first tower to scan areas-which finished the scan, be useless and should destroy it for parts, or just leave it alone? It is scanning at 10%.

[@TekGriffon]

The one thing I see that I THINK is wrong in this is that Quill isn't managing the shifts effectively. From what was explained on the Paradox streams, people can work the first two shifts without complaint, but don't like working the third (midnight) shift. Quill has the morning shift activated for everything, and the afternoon shift is only active on a single building (med center). That means there's not enough workers in the morning, and not enough jobs in the afternoon. What he should be doing is balancing things out. So, for example, make the machine shop work in the morning and the hydroponics work in the afternoon.

[@edmartin875]

This is a tutorial and he is just showing us the ins and outs of what is available to do and how to do them.

[@TekGriffon]

​@@edmartin875 A tutorial where he uses the building incorrectly and doesn't explain that he's using it incorrectly, leaving people to not understand the way workshifts work and how colonists satisfy their needs on non-work shifts.

[@leaxo-o]

I wanted to see more of this game, but every KZbinr I've saw was so bad at it. Thanks to your videos even without playing I think I would be better than them. Cant wait for next one.

[@ShadowPuppet3001]

great video easy to learn thanks - CyberGod :)

[@reneerjavec3950]

Will you be making this guide in to an actual series?

[@gressorialNanites]

I expect that for a let's play series, he will restart, probably on some greater difficulty.

[@edmartin875]

@@gressorialNanites This guide is in a 5 video series.

[@adjboy]

Too bad workers can't live and work in different domes. I'd like to think it would make more sense from a colony building standpoint to separate productive and leisure areas into distinct domes, and having commute as another challenge in the game.

[@TekGriffon]

It becomes a lot less of an issue with the medium, large, and super-large domes. With those you have more than enough space to cater to all the comfort stuff and still have plenty of room for production jobs.

[@Loalrikowki]

Moving citizens around outside of domes is a costly and potentially dangerous prospect. Having the colony's survival depend on it would seem to be an unnecessary risk; better that every dome be at least somewhat self-sufficient.

[@Latronibus]

IRL, you would absolutely use sealed hallways between your habitation areas, instead of self-contained domes like in Surviving Mars. But you are right that what colonists actually do when they leave their dome (suit up and brave the elements) would be risky. Except that they do this *every day* in order to work in mines and polymer factories, so it's just kind of weird and arbitrary.

[@Gurumediatationgamer]

I agree on this. Perhaps a dlc in the future though :)

[@mr.battle20]

They now can. The new DLC "Opportunity" has added passages between domes. Colonists can now move freely between domes, which means you can specialize the domes (residential, work space, agricultural, leisure, etc.) Pretty much how the game should've been in the first place.

[@TheSurvivemer]

Great episode, as always. I'm loving this game so far! Thanks +quill18

[@peterknutsen3070]

Your list of positive Traits has two pages. At the bottom there’s an arrow to go from page 1/2 to the next. My list only has one page. How come?

[@edmartin875]

Random factors.

[@Gurumediatationgamer]

Are there any way to que the explorer to two or three different sites?

[@can13]

What is difference between "Surviving Mars: Digital Deluxe Edition" and "Surviving Mars"?

[@davidkellyjr2092]

I realize this is paid content, but man I need MORE!!! When is the embargo lifted?

[@EricLidiak]

3/15

[@nourse]

30:24 "Ho we had a baby!!" LMAO xD

[@HibinoKafka0210]

Qina the best part of the video HAHA!

[@anonviewerciv]

Martian babies apparently need only a few days to gestate.

[@AlexSDU]

Just like Xenomorph

[@edmartin875]

And not long to grow up either.

[@FlodurT]

I have got the extractor AI breakthrough researched, but still my extractors dont do anything without crew.

[@Jono98806]

So the tunnels are like Nydus worms in Starcraft?

[@StartSelectGay]

Quill periodically sounds like Eugene Mirman. It struck me a few times watching this. I don't mean it as a good thing or a bad thing just something I noticed. :)

[@10aDowningStreet]

I launched a shuttle and now its drones are flashing read, why haven't those cute buggers switched over to my drone hub, or my very nearby RC rover?

[@10aDowningStreet]

Orphaned drones is the term, assigning them to the RC didn't work, assigning them to the drone hub did. I need to stop being a weenie and asking for help everytime a cat farts within a hundred mile radius :D

[@EricLidiak]

Replace the dome homes with apartments

[@Strazman]

One visual that I wish was in the game is that as a basic resource, like concrete, is being mined, the little icon on the map starts to dim or gray out. And when the resource is completely exhausted, the icon disappears completely. I get that there is graphical representation of the area being cleared out, but having the icon still there is kind of distracting and misleading.

[@ScientistDog]

That happens with the other sources (water, metal and rare metal), but concrete deposits are bigger than the area a single extractor can mine. You can demolish your extractor when depleted the zone and build a new one at the side and keep mining (especially in the bigger ones). Though is not very profitable to mine the last remains (the borders), so there will usually be some concrete to mine.

[@Strazman]

ScientistDog Ah ok thx for the explanation.

[@migueq77]

You have the exact same voice as Dandelion from The Witcher.

[@Linketh]

Interesting that you cant connect domes to each other. What happens when children mature and your dome population exceeds the living cap? It seems as if each dome is its own little colony.

[@TaohRihze]

Anyone else seeing those space ships as sharks?

[@saelin00]

Taoh Rihze me too

[@Hydragn]

Taoh Rihze reminds me of the planet express ship

[@nigelsookram882]

more like orcas

[@bdufka]

it's so annoying that all the tutorials are pre-update, so there are a lot of in game changes. My colony is doing fine, but I am in a shitty position and wanted to build another dome, but I don't have shuttles yet, so I need a tunnel, but now the tunnel has to go inside the dome, which takes up space, oh and it also goes above the surface, so most of my piping is in the way... ughhh it sucks

[@edmartin875]

Real life interferes with many games.

[@milocarter1082]

Just bought the game it’s like crack

[@ErynnSchwellinger]

It's kinda sad that hydroponics grows less than traditional farms since in reality it works the other way around.

[@doriny5863]

Bro thank you but how do you know that many things :))

[@1adventureboy539]

If pipes carry water and oxygen where does sewage go...

[@garywilson8272]

what are the differences between 3 pre-order options on steam?

[@tgm9991]

Gary Wilson read the comparison chart on the steam page.

[@owbu]

Today Quill taught me how marsians have babies!

[@v41.3ry9]

March 15th is so close!!

[@edmartin875]

Instead of thinking about it I instantly checked my calendar since next March 15th is my daughter's 48th birthday. But no, today is November 14, 2021.

[@sweetdaddydee1314]

Your going to need more drones eventually

[@MichaelHenfrey]

Does this game have any kind of endgame? (besides not killing off all your colonists from bad planning!) So far it looks interesting but I could see me getting a little bored after awhile.. It would also be better if the domes worked like planetbase too, and have it all connected.

[@Loalrikowki]

If you check the first video in this series, there's a tab in setup called Mysteries or something like that. Seems to be some sort of late-game special thing.

[@saelin00]

If u completed the mystery, researched all things and achieved all milestones, maybe builded all the wonders... And u done. Nothing remain the end of the game. In this state u only can play when the deposits have materials, when it's depletes u colony can't self sustain. Except when u can buy resources for funding, but not rare metals. So u can't manufacture electronics. Pretty lame.

[@edmartin875]

Survive and you are a winner. Kinda like those grade school races where all the runners get a ribbon.

[@Atrick25]

What is the range on the shuttle hub?

[@saelin00]

the whole map. I tested it.

[@advkow]

Is there a way to set a building so that only people with that specialty work there? For example, can I set the Infirmary so only Medic specialists work there to control the population more?

[@onredj4326]

advkow yes! You can prefer or block people from working similar to when you draft a rocket

[@advkow]

No I get that you can do it when you draft the rocket. but can I set the building to only allow certain people to work there?

[@edmartin875]

@@advkow Yes. He showed that is this video when you went for a coffee refill.

[@prexst]

I love this game. It’s like sims for nerds and engineering students looking to not do their homework but feel like they’re not evading their homework by playing a video game

[@Chris-ul1iq]

Update with the new dlc.

[@leejames929]

The mars mission faction seems like it would be boring to play

[@OtherSideOfMorning]

leejames929 it's a tutorial

[@MandalorV7]

When I get the game I’m going to start with the USA then do something like SpaceX for my second one.

[@sammydabid]

Makes sense noe

[@jasonlortie5390]

Looks like a cool game, but maybe too simple? Is there more depth to this game outside of what has already been done?

[@edmartin875]

Not really. It's a survival game. Unless dust tornados, week long cold spells, dust storms, or meteor falls causing major problems count as depth

[@mali9876]

how they paid you they paid less you deserve more

[@MegaMightypower]

29:15 u didnt have to place the tower close to the power grid, just saying.

[@edmartin875]

He has a lot of stuff packed in much closer than I would site them.

[@williamgreenough8350]

you need the art shop to make more babies, believe it or not

[@shotsfiredandmissed9068]

major major

[@lexsduck6892]

Can we get a real playthrough at some time ?

[@vineheart01]

the concept of "they wont goto another dome to shop or work" is one of those really weird game mechanics that make no sense in an IRL setting. Of course if you had to don spacesuits to move between the domes, i'd understand it, but theres supposed to be connected pressurized tubings between the domes. Lazy martians....

[@edmartin875]

There are tubes between domes available in the game but he hasn't touched on that yet.

[@vineheart01]

@@edmartin875 Actually i was speaking about them not solving that problem either. They used to only allow workers to go between domes but they got a huge morale penalty for some dumb reason. Apparently in the recent patches the tubes allow leisure stuff too. Wasnt aware of that. Still causes annoying unrealistic negatives though....because again they are like 5-10m walks!

[@nulnoh219]

That shuttle hub looks like the one in Wakanda vibranium mine.

[@konradtheman]

I can't believe you just let the explorer sit there idle for sols at a time :(

[@edmartin875]

He is busy talking/teaching instead of playing.

[@ranosian1135]

Quill - my first Dome will be named after you. Or you can choose a name ^_^

[@mikedmp]

16:22 kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3-odKqMa9eDn80 cant unhear

[@Activisionincz]

Second

[@naksu444]

got average comfort 15 and satisfaction 0 the fuck is this they got jobs and shit to do

[@justinboggin9086]

Quill has had the game for far less time than the official streamer and hes already better at it than her.

[@Adjuni]

She is showing off the game and having fun, Quill is teaching how to play the game. It's much more of an info-dump than anything else.

[@justinboggin9086]

Playing a game competently and having fun are far from mutually exclusive. In fact I'd say you maximize your enjoyment of a game by playing it competently.

[@poilboiler]

Official people like that (devs, marketing in particular) tend to be utterly terrible at playing anything.

[@Adjuni]

True, but you have to play a game without concentrating on it because you have to entertain the people watching you. Not many people can focus on playing a strategy (City builder but close enough) game well and still engage with ones audience. Sitting in complete silence and playing does not make for something entertaining to watch for most people.