@cryptotalk96 19 June 2022 more from that month

Million on Mars - Update - skip to end if you want the brief. Been playing MoM for about 2 weeks daily, scavenging turned into preparing various coffee ingredients and selling those off in batches. It worked well for 2-3 days before market prices shifted and made it too expensive to brew, eating up profits rather aggressively. Here's an example: You need 2 power cells to brew / prep coffee grounds = 20+ DUSK Then you need 5 coffee grounds = 6 DUSK You resell the empty power cell = + 10 DUSK You finally get the harvest of coffee products and sell them for ~ 26 DUSK What's the net profit here? Not much. I ended up harvesting sunflowers and seeds, selling some of those or replanting for the special event. The event yielded special collectables that are redeemable for lands and buildings. I did that and got 2 more lands from different events. The actual grind (brewery, upgrades, etc) didn't pan out at all. The lands were worthwhile and sold profitably, but all the upgrades and recipes are extremely expensive and easily devour your progress. Sometimes some recipes seem to be altered suddenly, costing more than they did before (unconfirmed, suspected). It seemed to me scavenging worked better overall because you could spend 8 DUSK on coffee (for 7 stamina) and scavenge 7 times = maybe get METIS or other items from that and sell for 10+ DUSK. MORE profitable to scavenge than all that grind with facilities and upgrading etc. So the downfall for this game is sadly overly expensive recipes and market pressures sustained by other players making it near impossible to grind out profits consistently. If you do make a profit overall, it will be almost equal to normal scavenging without those extra steps. Finally, there are bugs and issues plaguing the game that don't let me scavenge consistently anymore. I don't know what was done, but it doesn't work on Chrome or Firefox, or barely and sometimes. The map is also having issues responding to clicks in Chrome for some reason (new bug). And recently the marketplace isn't automatically populating latest prices for limit orders(complicating sell/buy orders adding an extra step to the user). tl;dr - sold 2 lands, going to scavenge but that's probably it for this one. Too little reward for too much time, and game is barely functioning now. I wouldn't recommend playing it now unless you are great at grinding out a complex game and have the funds for it. I'll interview some other players to see what they're doing or if they've given up as well. #milliononmars #p2e #mostlymeh