One of the things that can be traded is a currency simply referred to as coins. When a trade ship arrives, players can exchange excess resources for different items their base might need or for new technologies. Let’s really dive into the minor annoyances with trading. Access to vitally important UI options, like bringing systems to a minimal power state or putting the base on high alert for a solar flare, feels inconveniently put behind two or three clicks, when it could be readily available. For some reason, colonists can’t sleep in beds when a room is not powered. Trading is slow and grinds the game to a halt while you click several hundred times to finish your late game transactions. On the game’s Steam page, developer Madruga Works claims Planetbase has been beta tested, but there are so many little things that should have been caught and fixed prior to release. The problems with Planetbase seem relatively minor at first, but slowly magnify as the base grows and more colonists enter the mix. Random events could happen at any time around the base and result in some tense challenges. As all of this is going on, remember that you are usually only one poorly timed solar flare or meteor strike away from complete disaster. New blueprints could mean being able to construct a massive solar array or gigantic wind turbine or it could be the ability to construct new robots to more efficiently perform menial tasks around the base. Trading is the only way to obtain powerful new technologies through blueprints. It is a tricky balance to maintain if you don’t put enough resources toward the power and water grids, you could find your facility completely powered down and running out of oxygen.Īs you expand your facilities and become self-sustaining, you’ll be able to build a landing pad which allows for trade and population growth. Simultaneously, players must expand the power grid and its support systems to be able to accommodate those structures. As soon as the basic necessities are taken care of players need to begin working toward sustainability by building mines, processing plants, bio-domes, labs, and more. Planetbase shines in those opening hours, capturing that elusive just-one-more-turn vibe that the best simulation games offer. Juggling the limited resources available at the outset with the immediate needs of shelter leads to some really moment-by-moment, do-or-die scenarios. The opening hours of base building are really quite great.
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Unfortunately, Planetbase stops just shy of realizing its full potential. A game that asks players to solve the problems of oxygen, food, shelter, and isolation (among other things) through brilliant base construction is a truly tantalizing prospect. It represents perhaps the ultimate test of human will and ingenuity. I don’t think it is a stretch to say we’re all interested in the inherent drama of inhabiting space, where one small mistake can spell doom for everyone involved. Space colonization has become a part of the cultural zeitgeist and looks more and more like an impending reality. It’s a fairly topical release, coming days after NASA released a 36 page plan to put humans on Mars in the next couple decades as well as the recent critical and financial success of The Martian. Planetbase tasks players with the construction of a facility that will allow these colonists to survive and eventually create a self-sustaining community. A small group of colonists have come to tame a deadly new frontier.
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Planet Base appealed possibly because of my recent enjoyment of The Martian film and book, plus the graphics looked very pretty.A lone pod lands on a distant, inhospitable world under an unfamiliar star. I used to really enjoy the Age of Empires series, perhaps a bit simplistic on the resource gathering aspect compared to these but they were great fun. Thanks for the mention of the other two games, I’ll check them out Hehe… nope, *BOOM* was the sound of something positive occurring in my day… don’t worry if it scared you though, it won’t appear often!
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Planetbase has become more fun since I changed the approach to playing, it wasn’t overly obvious initially… one of those, if you build somethings in a bit of the wrong or, everyone starves to death, or runs out of oxygen… wh00ps… thankfully we didn’t lose to many intrepid explorers during my learning process… the biggest advance has been getting over this issue though and so thankful it was, seemingly, something as simple as de-dusting the inside of the laptop! As you say, there’s nothing really a lot less fun than trawling the web for answers to a seemingly unique issue and reading things like “I ended up wiping my PC, reinstall Windows and no it works”… yeah, those days are long gone… hehe… I don’t have the time or patience to sit there through all of that! Not tried those two no, although Rimworld I think I saw a link to on Steam.
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