Asking you to play Half Earth if you didn't catch the thread from a couple days ago. I can find literally nothing on this game but it's so amazing, it combines all the good vibes of the socialists and the ecologists from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and manages to make a very hopeful message out of a very very bleak situation. Just bumrush BECCS to save the planet 4head.

Also the faction icons are just adorable. Look at these little guys. So cute. In real life fashion if you just follow the whims of the Fanonists, prioritize nuclear, and reduce meat consumption as much as possible you can just stop climate change within fourty years and make a little society worth living in. Have y'all found any strategies for this game that work well for you? I kept seeing lots of comments about getting to space but the game always ends too early for me to get that far, either because I die or because cooling goes below 1.0 C.

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    • hypercube [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I found the best strat was to adjust to the max it says you can do in one cycle, doing stuff that takes more than one tended to cause shortages. No clue why, the elasticity in the resource model is weird - in the last thread I picked up a space tech that has the fuel cost set orders of magnitude too high and my 40% terrestrial solar energy supply managed to provide 5-10% of the Sun's energy output. Not, like, the tiny tiny portion that hits earth, the output of the entire Sun