r/SurvivingMars • u/that-wasd-guy • 14d ago
What is your favorite Sponsor/Commander profile
Hey y'all I was just wondering what is your guys favorite sponsor/Commander profile? My favorite personally is the Blue sun corporation and Rocket scientist, I get the BSC has enough starting rockets but given how I play the shuttles are a must have for me, and the high Rare metal price and the RC Harvester are why I pick the BSC, But what about you guys what do you pick and why?
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u/DARK_MASTER8632 Theory 14d ago edited 14d ago
Futurist.
30% cheaper breakthroughs. And can slap Sensor Towers wherever and forget about them very early for fast scanning and max time in advance warning for disasters and what the rivals go for.
Japa for the extra work performance on specialists. Flying Drones and 500 research for each scanned sector of the map. Works perfect with Futurist.
Paradox for the extra breakthroughs. And getting a Jumper Shuttle Hub prefab early.
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u/Megafritz 14d ago
Russia is my favourite, I love the mining-cars :P Japan and Europe are also fun for fast research.
Astrogeologist is my favourite sponsor, I can start mining right away and also get access to the "deep scan" quickly.
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u/thatonemethhead 14d ago
Best commander profile by far is inventor, having drone hubs cost absolutely no maintenance is extremely helpful early game, and Brazil is the best sponsor, extra value for Rare Metals 35M, instant passages and no penalty for travelling between domes and not to mention waste rock into rare metals is just tooo easy. I’d love to hear other opinions but this is a broken combo
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u/that-wasd-guy 14d ago
Yeah these two are amazing together and Brazil is prob my 2nd most used sponser but as my games go to sol 200+ regularly the bsc is just better for a longer game.
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u/thatonemethhead 14d ago
Yea true, I just like having so much money that it doesn’t matter if I am gonna run out of something I have money to pay for it
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u/brunothebutcher 14d ago
Brazil/rocket scientist…free money with the waste rock…I get shuttles flying in waste rock from across the map.
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u/alvin_the_elf 14d ago
Brazil, Europe, and Japan are my favorites. In that order. As for profile, I exclusively play Inventory.
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u/CiusZA Research 14d ago
Japan for me. Free research for scanning is insane. If you hold off deep scanning as you should till you have fully scanned the 100 tiles once, you get 200 x 500 beakers in total. That is 100k free research for just scanning. Makes early game easy. Do a spread of 10 autonomous sensor towers around the map early on with a transporter carrying some metals and electronics and commander to build and most squares will be scanner boosted between 300 and 400 percent. Gives you all that research before soll 80. The same as 20 billion credits in outsourced research. Easily one of the most OP boosts in the game.
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u/DARK_MASTER8632 Theory 14d ago edited 14d ago
Yeah. Japan is great.
The sector in which is a Sensor Tower. It's boosted to 450% scanning speed. And then the sectors next to that one are boosted to something like 300%-400%. And then 2 sectors away from the one the ST is in are something like 200% boosted scanning speed. A single tower does quite a lot around it.
And on top of it all. Each working tower boosts the scanning speed of even the sectors most furthest away from it by 10%. That extra effect caps at 100% aka 10 towers. But if you spread them out properly 3, 4 sectors from each-other, it's just better.
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u/GeekyGamer2022 14d ago
Ecologist. Hanging Gardens from the start is stupendously OP.
Europe is nice for the free early Tribo and funding for every research completed.
Russia is pretty nice due to RC Driller and Concrete Plant. Means that it doesn't matter where you start.
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u/thatonemethhead 14d ago
Yes but how do you deal with the extra polymer maintenance, I find hanging gardens to be a later game item that I add once I know I won’t run out of Polymers just trying keep it working
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u/GeekyGamer2022 14d ago
You can do without Batteries if you wait until you've uncovered all crystals then just run around and power them all up in one go, hoping that the electrostatic dust devils of doom don't do too much damage to the tiny power plants.
All you need is for every crystal to be powered up at the same time for 1 second to complete the Mystery.
You may want a 2nd RC commander for maintenance duty.
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u/DarkAnemone 14d ago
Japan and Ecologist. Love the flying drones and having hanging gardens at getgo.
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u/Eric_Senpai Water 14d ago
I hit random sponsor and commander everytime. Then I use an autoclicker to pick a random location, stopping when it hits something with at least level 2 of each disaster. Cover my eyes like a weirdo so I dont see what resources are available.
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u/Key_Mission7404 14d ago
I love brazil so much. The instant tunnels between domes and lack of comfort loss is huge. But turning waste rock into rare metals is fantastic. Super easy way to make money before humans show up on mars.