I have just learned about this game's existence and I am surprised i had never head of it before(found out about it from the Dwarf Fortress forums) and it looks like lots of fun. The problem is that i am kind of lost as to where to start. I went through the tutorials on the wiki, and while I know how to create ships and techs, I have no idea what I should do with them. What are some of the first things I should be doing? I am trying to get some people over to mars to set up some manned facilities there, but i need to send infrastructure first. I have 3 freighters each capable of carrying 10 infrastructure, but I need 218 of them sent there, do I have to manually command each cargo run or is there some way to automate the ferrying of all 218 infrastructures?
Now that I'm done building the infrastructures on my planet to be sent to mars, what should i be manufacturing? What should my shipyards be doing at the moment?
I'll probably find tons more questions as I go and will probably just add them in here.
Edit: It seems that mines require people to run them. Does that mean I have to get people down on asteroids to mine them?
Edit2: Well snap, I wanted to send someone who had bonuses to terraforming to b e the new governor of mars, selected the person in the first box selected mars governor in the second, clicked on the move button, got an error and a crash
. Guess i did something wrong.