🚀 Mars Recruit – Full Tutorial & Strategy Guide

A complete self-reliance colony sim – Earth → Mars → Independence

🎯 Core Goal

Build a self-sustaining Mars colony that no longer needs Earth shipments. The ultimate win is having positive resource production of food, water, oxygen, metals, chemicals, and fuel entirely on Mars.

🌍 Earth Economy (Your Starting Engine)

• Recruit → Train → Build Factories → Produce Robots – classic automation loop
• Robots on Earth revolt if they massively outnumber supervised capacity → keep factories staffed or risk losing everything!
• Buy/Sell materials & robots on Earth market (prices fluctuate)

🪐 Mars Economy (The Real Game)

Every single Mars unit now costs metals + chemicals – no more free lunch!

🤖 Two Ways to Build on Mars

1. Instant Build Buttons – costs full materials upfront, 8-second timer
2. Assign Robots (slow but continuous) – robots work every turn, consuming materials proportionally. Stops automatically when you run out.

🚀 Shipping & Fuel

• Return trips from Mars require 10 fuel (burned on launch)
• Only way to get fuel on Mars right now = ship it from Earth
• Later-game: arbitrage metals/chemicals mined on Mars → sell on Earth → buy more fuel/robots

⚠️ Failure Modes (Very Real)

• Life support depletion → colonists die (10–50 % per turn depending on severity)
• Power shortage → all Mars production slows dramatically
• Earth robot revolt → can wipe factories and robot army

🏆 Winning Strategy Path (Proven)

1. Automate Earth robots & factories
2. Ship first wave: 10–20 robots + plenty of metals/chemicals
3. Rush Power → Hab → Life Support basics
4. Build 3–5 Water Mines
5. Go material-positive on Mars
6. Ship mined metals/chemicals back → sell → fund more fuel & robots
7. Achieve full independence!

The red planet doesn’t care about your excuses.
Self-reliance or extinction.

Good luck, Commander 🫡