Hi good people of the undersea!
Few weeks ago we've made and released a video called „Tips & Tricks“ with some suggestions and best practices to tackle mid to later game challenges in Aquatico. Since there are a number of fresh players coming into game, we've decided to make another video more focused on first couple of ingame years.
In this video we're covering the initial tasks you should be mindful in the early game. There are only a few possible „hardships“ that can hamper your advance in first couple of years, and in this video you can see several ways to help yourself get a good headstart. It's always tricky in early game because you tackle lack of resources and lack of manpower at the same time. However, start of the game also offers some opportunities that aren't present later, so the better you use these early opportunities, the easier it will be going forward.
You'll see all the details in the video itself, but some highlights for early game would be the following:
- Try planning ahead. When underwater colony is still small, you have a chance to set the stage for all subsequent development. Observe the grid view and determine where your future locations for extracting certain resources will be. Plan the pipeline system and be mindful that this system will eventually be very extensive. Note that certain buildings have bonuses when contructed near some other building
- If you're low on resources, and you can't yet produce everything you need, remember there are number of essential resources that can be scooped from the environment in early game – plastics, iron, stone, various advanced resources from dismantling derelicts on the seabed. If you decide to pick up a lot of these resources, make sure you have additional depots to store them
- To avoid severe worker/drone shortages in early stages of the game, try conducting as many upgrades to production buildings as you possibly can. These will significantly increase efficiency without the need to dramatically increase worker numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFiI0Fh2JqQ
Aquatico is a game where dozens of elements are interlinked, and you'd be surprised how big of a difference good foundations can have on longer playsessions. If you set up everything smoothly and efficiently, you'll always have enough time and resources to tackle advanced challenges that come later. And viceversa – unefficiently created basic layout can cause chained hickups later, and it is always harder to reorganize already existing colony then to try making it work from earliest stages.
When it comes to other things we've been working on – in about a week we'll be releasing second part of „community suggested“ improvements. In next update that will include the upgrade to research system that will allow for stacking of multiple researches in advace, additional Steam achievements linked to new content introduced after release, another batch of memory and graphics optimizations and more…
That's it from us on this fine Thursday. Have fun and see you next week with next update!