Take Time to Understand What Resources Are Used For
Surviving Mars: Tips and Tricks For Beginners
Don’t just go building things just to build it. Unlike some other strategy games where it’s in your best interest to spend your resources quick, even sub-optimally, in Surviving Mars, you want to be stingy, lest you wait around for resupply rockets. Just as you could imagine what starting a colony in real life would be, you want to be conservative. Build only what you need.
Keep your resources well organized in depots, know how much you have, and know how much every building you makes costs. If you know you’re running low on metal, or something else, get a rocket going ahead of time rather than waiting until you realize you’re running out and you start wasting time, or worse, cause some kind of power/oxygen/water shortage.
Pause the game, dig around the build menu, and familiarize yourself with what everything does, and how much it costs.
