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| I don't know how! by pinback 09/21/2014, 4:49am PDT | ||||
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| Okay, I'll try to sum up how a game is played out, and you can tell me if it's helpful:
1. You start on an unexplored Martian landscape! You are given a number of "scans", and you get a new "scan" every five seconds or so. With these "scans" you can "scan" the landscape, looking for a resource or resources that you're interested in. 2. Once you find a good starting spot with your "scans", you "found a colony" on or near them. At this point the entire map gradually, automatically reveals itself to you. 3. Along with your new colony, you're given a number (and not a big one) of "claims". With these "claims" you can lay "claim" to any of the hexes on the map. Generally you use these "claims" for two purposes: 3A. To lay "claim" to a hex with resources in it, so you can mine/extract those resources. 3B. To make room next to your colony for additional buildings. 4. After laying "claim" to your "claims", the idea is to generate/collect resources, either to sell (hopefully at a good price), or to support/expand your colony. You expand your colony by "upgrading" it. There are five levels! You start at level 1! Each upgrade provides you with more "claims" to use. Each level also introduces a special type of building you can build. For instance, at level one, you can build a "pleasure dome" which brings in a bunch of extra cash. At level 3 you can get a "research lab" which allows you to upgrade your resource gathering/creating efficiency. Level five basically forces an end game by offering you the "Offworld Trading Market" where you can start shipping your goods back to Earth at an ASTRONOMICAL (hehehe) markup, flooding your coffers with cash and allowing you to end the goddamn game! 5. Each building/upgrade requires a certain amount of various resources. So, say you need glass. Are you generating your own glass, by collecting your own silicon and oxygen, and building a "glass furnace"? Or are you generating consumer goods, and can sell them off to get cash to BUY the silicon from someone else? Aren't these good questions? 6. Additionally, you will occasionally have the black market available, from which you can clandestinely purchase things like additional claims, or offensive actions like EMPs/underground nukes/etc. which you can use to put other colony's buildings and/or claims out of order for a period, hopefully crippling their economy and making you some money -- hey, if they can't make that steel themselves anymore, they gotta buy it from someone, right? Might as well be you. 7. Additionally, every once in a while an "auction" will pop up, and everyone is given an opportunity to outbid each other for things like, extra claims, and... other things. (Mainly extra claims, I think.) 8. As the game progresses, each colony has a "stock price" which fluctuates up and down based on the calculated value of the colony, or in other words, how well you're doing. Each company has 10,000 shares, which can be bought (in 1000-share chunks) by any player with the cash to do so. So if my stock is at $12, you can buy 1/10 of it for $12,000. 9. The GOAL of the game is to buy out (own all of the stock of) all the other companies/colonies. I hope that was educational/comprehensible. I will now field your questions about: OFFWORLD TRADING COLO-- COMPANY! |
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