At a time when the earth's resources are almost exhausted, leaving home and looking for new hope in the sea of stars has become a common theme in many science fiction works and games. Endless Colony is an Android game that brings this urgent issue to your phone screen.
Business challenges in the context of science fiction
This game is set in the not-too-distant future. Due to the deterioration of the earth's environment and the depletion of resources, it is no longer suitable for human habitation. The colonists played by the players who come to start the adventure need to drive the spaceship to find the fire for the continuation of human civilization in those star fields that are not yet known. Such a background is not just a simple decoration, it directly plays a decisive role in the core gameplay logic of the game, that is, all actions revolve around survival and reconstruction.
Different from the past pastoral management simulations, the management here has a strong sense of crisis. The first outpost you create from scratch may be on a planet with abnormal gravity or a thin atmosphere. The initial resources are extremely scarce. Every construction or research decision you are forced to make is directly related to the life and death of the colony.
Exploration of diverse planets and resources
The universe is not presented in a uniform way. The game has created many different planets with very different climate behaviors, such as the so-called purple "Amethyst Star" covered with purple crystals, and the "Gaseous Giant Satellite" with endless perpetual storms. Each of these environments has its own unique specialized resources and specific exploration challenges, and exploration is the foundation for development.
Sending a reconnaissance plane to explore the unknown land is a routine operation. In this way, you may discover veins rich in rare metals, or you may encounter radioactive contaminated areas. Each exploration is a risk assessment and profit decision, and this requires players not to just immerse themselves in construction, but must actively explore outside to obtain key resources for development.
Core Steps in Colonial Construction
Laying the foundation of the colony is the first step, and this step is the first priority. You have to choose an area on the surface that is relatively flat and rich in resources to place and deploy the command center device. What follows is that facilities related to power supply, equipment related to water source extraction, and equipment related to oxygen generation must be constructed as a priority. If there is a delay in any of these links, it is very likely that the life value of the colonists will be reduced.
When the initial infrastructure is slightly improved, it is necessary to change the direction of development, start building an ore refinery, process raw materials into usable parts, set up biological farms to solve food problems, and gradually upgrade residential areas to increase population capacity. The construction sequence must be flexibly changed according to the planet's environment and immediate needs.
strategic resource management system
The core strategy of the game is resource management. There are various types of resources in the game, ranging from basic metals and electricity to more advanced scientific research data and rare gas conditions. The operation of all buildings and the consumption of the population will continuously consume resources, thus forming a dynamic balance. Players must always pay attention to the resource panel like a real city manager.
Excessive construction of production buildings will lead to overload of electricity and paralysis. Excessive hoarding of certain resources will also cause storage pressure. Therefore, players must continue to adjust the priority and efficiency of each production line, and use methods such as building warehouses and upgrading logistics technology to ensure that the economic cycle of the entire colony proceeds smoothly without hindrance.
Respond to existential threats and events
Smooth and stable development is just an ideal situation. The game introduces a variety of survival threats to add challenges. In addition to natural disasters such as meteorite impacts and magnetic storms, there is also the possibility of encountering hostile alien biomes. These events will occur in a random manner, causing the buildings built by individuals to be damaged or the residents to be harmed.
For this situation, you must be prepared in advance. Building defensive turrets, conducting research and development of shield technology, and forming quick reaction forces are all essential defense investments. Sometimes, events also bring opportunities. For example, after repelling an alien invasion, it is possible to obtain the technological debris of the alien invasion and use these debris to speed up one's own research process. This phenomenon is real.
Technology tree and long-term development
The key to becoming an interstellar civilization lies in the technological research and development of colonies as they develop from medieval workshops. The huge technology tree in the game can be divided into many branches, such as industrial branches, ecological branches, military branches, including aerospace branches. At the beginning, you may only conduct research on improving the efficiency of solar panels, but in the later stages, you will be able to unlock technologies such as antimatter reactors or warp engines.
Conducting scientific research requires the investment of manpower such as scientists dedicated to scientific research, as well as a large amount of data resources, and it takes a long time. This requires that players who participate in the game and play corresponding roles must have long-term plans and rely on their own development routes such as gradual military expansion or peaceful trade exchanges, etc., and then select the science and technology that are prioritized for research, so as to build a unique development advantage that is different from others.
In this game that combines the pressure of survival with the sense of accomplishment of construction, are you more inclined to choose to transform into an adventurer who puts development first, or a consul who is good at calculating all kinds of things? If you find this helpful to players, you are welcome to share your own colonial strategies in the comment area after the article. If you think this article has a certain effect, please give a thumbs up to support it.
