The Mars Project: Ideas

[Hendrik the Great]

I will start testing tomorrow that's when my final exams or over so I do have the time I need.

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[PolarisGL]

Thanks Hendrick. I appreciate it.

Technology List (in no particular order):[*]Terraformation[*]Terraforming Tools[*]Terraforming Location I[*]Terraforming Location II[*]Terraforming Location III[*]Terraforming Location IV[*]Terraforming Location V[*]Terraforming Location VI[*]Terraforming Location VII[*]Terraforming Location VIII[*]Terraforming Location IX[*]Terraforming Location X[*]Ecopoiesis (Martian Biosphere)[*]Air Purification[*]Wind Power[*]Water Pumping[*]Permafrost Heating[*]Hydrochemistry[*]Atmospherical Sphere[*]Radar Seismology[*]Canyon Farming[*]Soil Mining[*]Silicon Purification[*]Solar Power[*]Adv. Water Pumping[*]Hydrogen Gelling[*]Nano Robotics[*]Adv. Nano Robotics[*]Nano Agriculture[*]Hydrogen Fuel Cells[*]Geothermal Power[*]Geothermal Development[*]Developed Alloys[*]Expanded Atmosphere[*]Breathable Capsules[*]Soil Irrigation[*]Ceramic Microtubes[*]Primitive Plantae[*]Plantae Growth[*]Plantae Modification[*]Plantae Engineering[*]Bacteria Examination[*]Pole Heating[*]Purification Engine[*]Biomonitoring[*]Thermal Appliance[*]Thermal Suit[*]Water Absorbtion[*]Water Condensation[*]Thermofusion Mining[*]Robotic Agriculture[*]Coastal Units[*]Solar Dynamic Power[*]Plumbing[*]Coastal Sail[*]Pressurized Boating[*]Underwater Robotics[*]Outgassing[*]Soil Processing[*]Commerce Capsules[*]Intercolonial Commerce[*]Microfusing Transportation

And maybe more. I don't know if all of them will fit, of course.

[Hendrik the Great]

Just to give you a small update on my testing. I devised a suitable map for it now and will start polluting it today. Expect first results by, well, sunday, perhaps monday.

BTW, I'm not just doing this out of kindness, although I am a nice guy, but more because I'll need it myself but I figured why keep it a secret...

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[PolarisGL]

Hendrick, if you give me your secret scenario (?) or secret thing via PM, I will give you mine. (seriously)

I have work off for about 9-10 more days, so that's alright with me.

[Hendrik the Great]

Alright I didn't have anything more important to do so here are my results. I played on a pre-made map, normal size and round. Diffculty level of deity and no Barbs. The distance from the equator did not seem to make a large difference although I think that the change to all jungle and swamp is a bit faster there than closer to the poles. But I still have to test that...

[Edit] How can I make this look like a neat table? It looks all messed up...

--------Coast:---------Inland:----Endresult:

Desert: Swamp----------Swamp----------Swamp
Praire: Swamp,Desert---Desert---------Swamp
Grassland:Swamp--------Prarie---------Swamp
Forest: Jungle,Prarie--Prarie,Jungle--Jungle

Hills: No Change Whatsoever
Mountains: No Change Whatsoever
Swamp: No Change Whatsoever
Jungle: No Change Whatsoever
Tundra: No Change Whatsoever
Glacier: No Change Whatsoever
Ocean: No Change Whatsoever

The Planet will heat up more rapidly if no action is taken against the polution and larger areas will be affected at once. The pace of global warming will level somewhere between 10 turns min and 20 turns max.

Desert and Prarie will only turn into Swamp if neighbouring squares are swamp already.

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[Hendrik the Great]

So far this idea of mine is still that, an idea.

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[PolarisGL]

Journal

Event per terra-forming will replace rules and terrain.gif.
Pop-up text will tell the player to switch these with 1 out of the 10 different terrain files and rules files just for the terrain. There may be just two terrain files and then 10 different rules files to change statistics of terrains.
Testing on this must go on first, however. It might disrupt the technology and unit rules if it modifies by accident.
Terrains will include the following:[*]Permafrost[*]Mars Dust[*]Genetically Engineered Fungi[*]Canal[*]Soil[*]Rock Fields[*]Water Ice Field (in the Poles)[*]Volcanic Plains[*]Canyon
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Res:[*]Buried Brine, Ice, Water[*]Oxygen Deposits[*]Nitrogen Deposits[*]Thermals[*]Superoxides[*]Minerals
---[*]Swamp (-permafrost)[*]Plains (-Mars Dust)[*]Forest (-gen. eng. plants)[*]Rivers (-canals)[*]Grassland (-soil[*]Desert (-rock fields)[*]Oceans (-water ice field)
???[*]Mountains (--volcanic plains)???
???[*]Hills (-canyon)???
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Res:[*]Toxic Ocean (-buried brine, ice, water)[*]Purified Oxygen (-oxygen deposits)[*]Purified Nitrogen (-nitrogen deposits)[*]Purified Thermals (-thermals)[*]Developed Suberoxides (-superoxides)[*]Developed Minerals (-minerals)

I need some opnions on Mountains and Hills with Volcanic Plains and Canyons.

That's not all the terrains by far.

[PolarisGL]

Very interesting, Hendrick. Thank you. I might use it somehow, but I can't think of how now (perhaps purification?).

Ideas are fine.

[Hendrik the Great]

I'd say keep the mountains. There are mountains on Mars and also Hill ranges. If I remember correctly there are large hill ranges on the northern hemisphere but I could be mistaken.

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[Hendrik the Great]

I'd say keep the mountains. There are mountains on Mars and also Hill ranges. If I remember correctly there are large hill ranges on the northern hemisphere but I could be mistaken.

If the "polution" option is used for terraforming it can be applied well I believe. What do you mean by purification?

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[PolarisGL]

Alright, Hendrick; but a lot of mountains on Mars are red barren mountains; so the graphic and stats will just change.

Purified is Nitrogen or Oxygen or whatever taken from the ground and processed and developed (taken from the ground via permafrost and soil).

[PolarisGL]

[PolarisGL]

Mountains: Mountains
Hills: Low Elevation/Low Mountains
Grassland: Soil
Plains: Lowlands
Desert: Canyon
Forest: Genetically Engineered Fungi
Water: Ice Fields
Swamp: Permafrost Fields
Jungle: Volcanic Plains
Tundra: Canyon
Glacier: Mars Dust

[PolarisGL]

Map without:
Ocean/Ice Fields
Tundra/?????
Rivers/Canals

[Hendrik the Great]

I'm not sure but I don't think that you can only take allevation levels as a measure to determine if to put down mountains or not or to determine the terrain type IMHO. Although the allevation in certain regions is very high above the Marsian mean they can still be flat like panecacke. If you stood on Olympus Mons for example you would not be able to determine whether you are on a mountain or not. It's the same with all the plateaus.

Can't you find a map that shows terrain features instead of allevations levels?



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