Terraforming Mars

[blue emu]

Luna, Mercury and the Asteroid are probably not habitable. Once you have a few dozen million people on Mars, the civilian shipping lines will probably start investing.

They won't start servicing colonies in other solar systems unless you design jump-capable civilian ships for them, or... my own preference... build jump gates to connect-up the areas that you WANT the civvies to service.

[metalax]

Mercury is inhabitable by baseline humans, though the colony cost is fairly high, Luna isn't unless you have heavily genemodded a race or started with an 83% grav tollerance range.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

You need quite a few people on a colony before its really a viable trade route, 20 million is a pretty good target minimum.  You can do that on mars without terraforming, tho its expensive in duranium.   On the plus side it makes a really easy/fast trade route.   

I wouldn't subsidize civilians until/unless you have a good wealth income. 

[zazu (OP)]

I got the hang of terraforming now and now Mars is no longer supported by infrastructure

I decided to terraform a pretty much almost perfect planet, this wouldn't take long I thought.

Only thing I needed to raise were oxygen pressure levels.

I did that and got it to 0.060 which is the minimum for humans.

The event log then said the planet was suitable, but it still has a colony cost attached to it. How can I fix this, did i miss out on something?

[Erik L]

I got the hang of terraforming now and now Mars is no longer supported by infrastructure

I decided to terraform a pretty much almost perfect planet, this wouldn't take long I thought.

Only thing I needed to raise were oxygen pressure levels.

I did that and got it to 0.060 which is the minimum for humans.

The event log then said the planet was suitable, but it still has a colony cost attached to it. How can I fix this, did i miss out on something?

Colony costs include temp, pressure, gravity, and water (I think). So it's more than just getting some O2 into the atmosphere.

[zazu (OP)]

Hah, alright

But I wonder why I got the message then in the first place...

[blue emu]

It gives you a message when the atmosphere becomes breathable, and another when the ice melts (if you are warming up an ice-house world).

[zazu (OP)]

Well, it was -2.0 Celsius when I encountered it

The tectonics line says it's dead though, could this be why?

Also, there's a little bit of Neon and 60% Nitrogen in the atmosphere, could this be why it won't go?

[blue emu]

The tectonics line says it's dead though, could this be why?

Also, there's a little bit of Neon and 60% Nitrogen in the atmosphere, could this be why it won't go?

No, both of those are fine. It's probably the temperature. Add a bit of Safe Greenhouse Gas.

It could also be the gravity... but there isn't much you can do about that except for biological engineering.

[Vanigo]

There's a very badly-explained thing where if the atmosphere is more than 30% oxygen the colony cost is 2.0 as if the air was unbreathable. Is this the case here?

[TheDeadlyShoe]

If you look at the planet in the System Information panel, you can see what specific factors are causing a colony cost problem. Oxygen 30% will be noted here, as will the temperature multiplier or the presence of noxious gases or an unbreathable atmosphere.

[zazu (OP)]

Where can I find System Information?

[blue emu]

Big yellow sun button in the center of the top row on the main window.

[zazu (OP)]

Ah, it says it has no breathable atmosphere

Also, it says something about being above 30% oxygen

But how can I get a breathable atmosphere if I have to lower oxygen levels?

[blue emu]

Just add another gas to dilute the Oxygen concentration.

If it's still a bit chilly, add "Safe Greenhouse Gas". If the high Oxygen levels are the only problem, add something harmless like Nitrogen.