Hi all,
I'm probably about 24 hours into my first game now, with a couple of auto mine colonies and a human colony starting to (finally) flourish on Mars. From about when I started the Mars colony, I noticed civilians, and that they were moving colonists for me; from there I found contracts, and started my first huge productivity boom. Here's my question: after pouring about 100k wealth into civilians, with about 250-400k tonnage last time I checked, is it worth continuing down this path, using civs as my slave labour? I've noticed that while they are ruthlessly effeciant, and involve much less micromanagement, they can be somewhat unpredictable, and if I overlook a contract, they drag my increments down to 6 hours. Is it worth building a fleet of freighters to move my terraforming complexes/mines/etc. , or should I stick with (and expand on) the civs?
Thanks guys,
Vermilingua
Also, once Mars' atmosphere gets close to Earth's (about 7 years by my reckoning), how will that effect the colony? Will they no longer require infrastructure, or less of it? Will their productivity increase? Will I still need to resequence their genome to cope with the reduced gravity, and if so, how?