So getting them right off the bat can lower your profits early on and delay your upgrade path. Both are hard to capitalize on quickly - geothermals are expensive to build, and water often gets dirt-cheap in the early game before becoming insanely expensive in the late game. If you get it wrong, you'll be stuck with no profits, no cash, and no upgrades.Īnd finally, if there's only one geothermal, or very little water, you might want to spend a claim snapping them up before anyone else does.
If you get it right, you can sell your resources for cash and buy the upgrade materials you need, and thereby be able to upgrade even sooner. So to be safe, make what you need for your HQ upgrade - Steel/Carbon, Al, and Glass.Īlternately, you can go for something that you think will be more profitable - energy often spikes early on, or maybe there's lots of scavengers and not much carbon so you'll want to get into carbon even if you're not a scavenger yourself. Otherwise you'll get stuck without any new claims for a long time, and you'll fall badly behind. Getting the resources to upgrade is the most important. So you have to make some trade-offs and decisions. You don't have enough claims to do all three.