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Shame you didn't catch it about a month ago. A nice comment like this might have given me the motivation to continue a bit longer. Sadly, the viewership on the first couple FTL episodes was so unbelievably poor (even worse than my other series, which wasn't doing that well either frankly), that I gave up on the channel. Still, glad I at least got FTL some more attention. It's such a great game, it deserves it!

It's a giant content mod called Multiverse, but it's still running the base game.

Thank you! However, the timing is unfortunate. A nice comment like this might have given me the motivation to continue a bit longer, but sadly, it's about a month too late. The viewership on the first couple FTL episodes was so unbelievably poor (even worse than my other series, which wasn't doing that well either frankly), that I gave up on the channel. Still, appreciate it all the same!

It worked out pretty well. And based on your positive comment, I just let her know that I have officially recruited her to be involved more often. :)

Oh yes, for sure, I used the space elevator for many materials (not just parts) quite often, as I recall. If anything, it got to be a bit of a crutch. :)

I guess it doesn't matter now, but I'm pretty sure I did have a food stall, janitor & speaker at the time. Let me see if I still have the save from before I started over... Yes, yes I do, and can confirm, those 3 buildings definitely exist. That's why I thought (and still do think) the problem was a lack of neighbours nearby, so no immigration, no trade... It would've been a painful run anyway. Probably for the best I restarted. :)

Quite possible. I gave up trying to wrangle them into co-operating. :)

That's quite clever, I like it! For now, I've just cranked up production, but having a set import would absolutely smooth over the gaps just before harvest. Very nice! :)

I'll probably end up picking up the DLC at some point, but not right away. The game updating to support the DLC (even though I didn't have it) already caused me a lot of grief with mods breaking, so I thought it'd be best to stay away from it for now. Most likely Season 2 (whenever that ends up being) will have it. :)

@@GHondo makes sense. It looks pretty cool(pun intended)from what I’ve seen.

Very cool! :)

Definitely don't remember seeing that, but then, wasn't really looking for it. I'll take a look, thanks! :)

I don't think there is an actual bridge construction (or at least I've not seen any sign of it), but there is a "remove water" function which might do the same job. I'm just not sure if it works on deep water or only on shallow water. I'll leave myself a note to try it out next time I'm in the game. Good call! :)

@@GHondo I wasn’t sure if it existed or not(it should though) but the remove water might be the only option. I don’t think it works on deep water though unfortunately

I'm not sure either, so I'll test it next time I'm in game. :)

I did find some Diamond on Drippal, but it was way less than I thought I would. I don't know if it's just hiding really well, or if I was just unlucky when the map was generated. Either way, I'll be getting a Press going soon. The suit thing was just weird, I have a vague half memory of switching them from "Vacancy" to "Always" at some point, but thought I had put it back. Apparently I hadn't, so that's something that will be fixed later as well. Sometimes I really do wonder what the heck I was doing... :)

Glad you like i! :)

Yes, absolutely. Over the course of the series, many of the Domes are connected, although I always like the shuttles.

Great Escape is certainly an interesting goal, although it was never one I really focused on. Originally I was planning on Cosmic Archaeology (the artifact one), since I've got a few of them, but I have since shifted focus towards the Home Sweet Home (the monument one), as that's my favourite.

Absolutely! I'm glad it's working this time, and that I managed to figure out what to look for right at the beginning to make sure it would work. And while I personally agree 100% that there can never be too many roads, the poor janitors who have to maintain them all might eventually disagree... :)

@@GHondo well it’s not like they aren’t already busy enough lol

Oh no! That's terrible! I'll have a look. Sad face. :(

Yes, it definitely is. From what little I've played so far, it seems more focused on the city builder side than the management side, although it might transition in the middle to late game. Not sure yet! :)

@GHondo City builders do tend to have a management side to them too lol

I was hoping to save it, simply because I spent so long looking around the map for a good start point (there really needs to be an overlay or something for that), but you're probably right, I don't think it can be saved. Unfortunate, but hopefully whatever it was that broke was just a one-time fluke.

@@GHondo look at it this way. You might find an even better place next time

I've thought about that a few times now, and I'm still torn on that one. On the one hand, it would eliminate the need for a pump, as it would be a completely enclosed loop once it's been primed once, thus saving power, which is very good. On the other hand, unless I go up to 5 skimmers (which is how many 1 sieve can support), it's wasting some of the cleaning value (where as now, I get the excess clean water back in my perpetually low clean water pool). So I'm really not sure. I suppose if I ever feel the need to add yet more skimmers, then it'll definitely be worth it, but with just 3, I'm torn. On the wood/ethanol side, no, I haven't actually run the numbers but you're right, I probably should do that at some point. :)

As a follow up - the math was doing my head in (I'm having a bad headache day today), so I wimped out & asked the ONI Wiki, something I normally hate doing. Turns out the Wood Burner and Ethanol versions are very close to identical in terms of efficiency, so I'll probably just have some of each. The other thing it told me is I probably have too many trees. Oh well, can't be bad to have more trees than you need, right? :)

@@GHondo if you have more trees than you need then that means you can send some to the other planet for power

A marvelous idea, as always. Thanks! :)

Oh, yes, excellent call. I had forgotten about that one, and you're right, it does look quite promising. I'll add it to the list! Thanks! :)

I decided that rather than fight with it, I would just add a mod that lets me force the direction without messing around. Not the ideal solution (I hate adding mods mid series in case something breaks), but I figured it was better than having a long, one-sided argument with the game, an argument which I would probably lose... :)

That'd be a great start, also I'm subbing to your channel, I haven't watched any vids but Ima do it

Awesome, thanks so much! I hadn't heard of Undertale, but I'll check it out. :)

Good eyes! I definitely didn't notice any sleet wheat over there, but I wasn't really looking for it, so I could easily have missed it. And it's fair, I was planning on leaving that huge area open for a large pool, but it's never going to have anywhere near that much liquid, so I probably should just close it off into a much smaller pool. I'm sure the pump will handle it. Thanks for the great tips! I'll leave myself a note for my next recording session. :)

Yes, you are absolutely right, coal has been a problem for some time, and it won't be getting better any time soon... I will be spending the next couple episodes working on coal alternatives, both for the home planetoid and the other one. :)

It has come a long way, that's for sure! :)

That's very helpful to know, thank you! It's definitely the slowest progressing meter, and then getting slowed down even more by all these Toxic Rains. Seems to be the game's favourite event at the moment.

@@GHondo The forestation plant can only take it to 40% anything above that has to be done using cloud seeding, 100 seeds into a rocket with some extra fuel at a time gaining 5% a pop, but the kicker is like I said before that what you seed on your area will start creating seeds from bushes onwards and that adds up if you spread your foresters out a bit

What a simple, yet fantastic idea! I can't believe I never thought of it. All this time I've been getting things in place to haul crude over, yet it never even remotely dawned on me to also bring water (polluted or otherwise). I'm already a few episodes ahead (I pre-record a lot), but I'm going to leave myself a note for my next recording session. Thanks! :)

@@GHondo don’t feel too bad it’s easy to miss things when you are juggling playing and entertaining at the same time.

They sure do! I later (finally) got smart, and put down several water towers to ease the burden while the lakes are filling. I'm surprised at how long it took to think of that, but anyway. :)

@@GHondo I love making lakes, that being said water is so effectively taken care of by planetary stuff that lakes feel more like just cosmetics.

Well, I do really like the look of them, so I certainly don't mind it. ;)

@@GHondo Oh and the higher the water the better your moisture vaporators are going to work.

I've pre-recorded a few episodes ahead now, so I can say yes, I will soon have 3 forestation plants going, and getting into the grasses. Haven't got to trees yet, but the grasses are looking good. :)

@@GHondo Trees takes forever getting to grass is nice, it starts paying for itself not long after that.

@@GHondo Also the forrestation plants only takes you to 40% globally, so trees are more or less just for your own viewing because the rest have to be done by rocket seeding.

@@GHondo As you progress though the forestation plants start making plants which actually produce their own seeds and that helps feed the rockets to seed the planet.

Thankfully, I don't consider watching your stuff as work, though - I do that for pleasure. :)

I am sorry if you are not enjoying it as much as you could be. It is absolutely true that while I have learned a fair bit about this game through playing it for half an hour a day, I still don't really know what I'm doing, but let me address your points in order if I may: 1 - The trucks driving under pipes part I did know about, but I still like to use ramps all over the place just to make sure the excavators can still get around. I do recognize I am placing way more of them than are really necessary most of the time (and often mention that while placing these excessive ramps), so it's now a bit of a joke. I guess isn't as funny as it could be... :) 2 - I do try to at least partially automate everything, but to actually fully automate everything at this point would likely require ripping almost the entire island apart and redoing it properly. I'm currently working around the legacy of the stuff I build at the very beginning when I had absolutely zero clue what I was doing. I had already been thinking about making Season 2, whenever that is, as a 100% automated setup. My idea was I have no more than a couple trucks, and they are only allowed to haul stuff for new construction, and absolutely nothing else. I thought that would make an interesting challenge. 3 - The turbines part I definitely did not know. From what I was reading in game, it sounded like they had to be short, but I guess I should have done more experimentation, so that's on me. In any rate, I definitely appreciate the tips, and I don't consider it back seating or being mean spirited or anything like that, so do not worry about it. I'm just trying really hard to put out content that people may actually enjoy, so any feedback is good feedback. Thanks so much!

Oh, it's not a problem. If it turns out I have way too much, I can always research the liquefier, or go back to my old build/destroy decorations habit. I'm sure it'll be fine either way. :)

I'm quite happy with the Green Planet DLC, that's for sure. The Space Race one (assuming that's the one that added Rival colonies to trade with), is also very good.

Ah, that would make sense. The fact that it already has a plug outlet made me think it already does, and that I simply didn't happen to have an exposed plug in enough spots. And yes, I have no doubt I could be doing things more efficiently - probably *far* better - but I give myself a pass because what makes sense to me when I record very early in the morning (with nowhere near enough coffees yet!) is not always good. Besides, sometimes it leads to fun discovery moments a few days later when I try to puzzle out what the heck I was thinking. :)

@@GHondo it does make good content when you don’t know what you were thinking lol

Perhaps I should fail more often... :)

@@GHondo as long as no one ends up like stinky it’ll be funny at least

I miss him terribly. Bubbles is lovely and all, but... it's just not the same. :)

never mind, you got it

I'm not sure how much I'm even going to try doing with Underground (or Asteroid) stuff this time around. I want to thoroughly conquer the Terraforming side, as it's definitely the coolest, so I don't know if I'm going to do anything with the others at all or just save them completely. Maybe make them a focus for a fresh game later? Haven't decided yet.

@@GHondo It's hard, the other underground is hard and dark and I don't think it will make for an interesting play through. I send an explorer down there if I can but that's about it.

So I should just skip it entirely for the YT series, then mess about with it on my own time later. Got it. :)

@@GHondo The mechanics down there are much different, you cant see anything other than what the drones light up so you have to micromanage everything.

Wow. It makes sense, but it just sounds annoying!

Absolutely. While I have no idea how long it will take, I definitely wanted to continue. Had I wrapped up after finishing the Mystery, the series would have been way too short. Although the Mystery was certainly very interesting in it's own right. :)

@@GHondo I like the mystery, but the green mars dlc kinda makes it a secondary thing :p Like it is a thing you need to get past to get to the goal which is known now, it's different that way.

I'm sure all the Mysteries are different, but this particular one felt very short to me, which in this case was a good thing. It seemed like it started very early (way earlier than Season 1's did) and just didn't last very long at all. I certainly didn't mind, it's basically just a distraction from the Terraforming, but I thought there should've been more to it.

@@GHondo Well they are random, but I think the game lowers the chance of getting the same one again if you finished one

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times... :)