The option is always available. You need someone with the right skill and some parts from the wreck. You are told whats needed when choosing the task (craft + detail = greenhouse). You also need at least one free energy slot (recover a solar collector) to activate it.
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Which character has the skill? I really dont see it as an option to even select and i only ever saw the option once. I used saved states with pre selected parties for most of my plays.
Questions.
Can the ship be prevented from falling in the canyon, or just try to get as much stuff before it does?
Can you heal a character if you only have one medic and that character has an injury?
How do you recover the rover you find on the map, which i assume has at least one battery which would be used to explore the rest of the planet?
Can you prevent your characters getting injured or this appears to be a slightly random event throughout the game?
This game plays much more like a puzzle, in that you have to do things specifically, at certain points or you wont get far. Its not a strategy game, and that is completely fine. I actually had an idea for something similar to this for a game i want to create eventually.
I plan to do a longplay of this for my channel if i can get some answers to the above from you :D
Goto task menu, select craft and then alter the task details to see what you can craft.
The ship always falls. Everyone can cure injuries, but that might hurt. A mechanic is a good choice to fill the second seat when inspecting the rover. Injuries cannot be prevented.
The puzzle part is to figure out what to do. The strategy part is to optimize the order of what you do. Finishing the game is not the only challenge as you might see later. Good luck :-)
Thanks for that. So i select tasks, scroll down to task then i get these options
Build Shelter (12 days) Craft Water Pump (8 days), Research Geology (8 days), Assist Max (infinite days), Meditate (4 days), Seek Shelter (0 days), Activity None, Then loops back to first entry. Am i in the wrong menu? I have just tried with 3 different parties. So im not even given an option to build it, though i did see it once in one of my plays.
Also, it appears after 50 radiation damage the characters start to take damage. Is it possible to reverse this damage?
Aaagh, forget where i asked about the greenhouse above. I found it in detail below task... Silly me!
Very good game and am happy someone with coding skill made this natively for the C64. It reminds me a bit of 'reunion' i played back in the day as well as a recent game on the PC, forgot the name, but was basically about 12 or so characters in the Siberian wilderness scavenging to stay alive. The gameplay and layout is surprisingly very similar to this game.
I managed to finish the game with 2 stars. I can probably get one more on another play through. Can you tell me what the biology, and other skills do? I had biology maxed out but it did not appear to give me any bonus to food production? Can you have 3 greenhouses running while everything else is powered? It does not seem there will be enough power.
The game i think this is similar to is 'Help Will Come Tomorrow"