Live Events/The Dream of Mars

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> *Before I founded the Horizon Corporation, Kenya's largest export was tea. Now it is the center for all spaceflight operations across the globe, a booming economy of potential and prosperity and the home to over 1,000 space launches per year.*
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> *But we are not content to be a simple launching pad. Horizon has been gathering investors and making plans for years, and now we are prepared to take the next step: establishing a permanent foothold on another planet.*
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> *You have the support of the largest economic force in human history, but the task will not be easy. Many of these technologies are untested, and all of them are unrefined. It will be difficult, but that will only make success that much impressive.*
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**The Dream of Mars** is a live event that runs occasionally, usually starting at 12:00 AM UTC on some Saturdays. During the event's runtime it can be reached by tapping an icon of Mars underneath the icon that allows you to Fast Forward worlds. Tapping the event icon would take you directly to the event planet, a Normal mode Mars. The world is played with the Horizon Corporation faction.

Four milestones can be reached in the event, each giving different rewards. This event starts with the Culture values that come with the Horizon Corporation. (30% Wealth, 15% Plutocracy, No Knowledge Values, Orbital Surveyor construction cost halved)

## Milestones

Milestones can be viewed by clicking the event icon (in this case it is Mars) while you are already on the event world. This is also the place where you collect your rewards after you have completed the milestones.

You can earn these milestones in any order (except the final milestone, that one is last - achievable by earning and **maintaining** all of the previous milestones).

### Initial Investment

*Many have landed on Mars, but none have stayed. To begin our efforts, we will need a broad base of infrastructure from which we can begin work.*

Goal: Construct 6 cities

Rewards: 5,000,000c & 10 GP

Achievement text:

*Very good, with these cities in place we can begin our efforts to make this a viable local economy.*

### Asset Management

*Anyone can found a startup, but being ready for rapid scaling is where many stumble. Make sure our installations will be prepared for the coming influx of personnel.*

Goal: Increase habitations to 5,000,000

Rewards: 25 GP, Bronze Governor Pack, & 10,000,000c

Achievement text:

*Excellent, finally some breathing room, as it were. Our investors are pleased, you are doing fine work.*

### Scaling Up

*With infrastructure in place, we can focus on hiring. We will need a significant investment of human resources, both to execute our future operations and to validate our claim on the planet.*

Goal: Increase population to 25,000,000

Rewards: Silver Governor Pack, 50 GP, & 20,000,000c

Achievement text:

*Nicely done. We have our personnel and our infrastructure, at this point all that remains is to ensure our profitability.*

### Return on Investment

*At its core our operation exists to generate profits, and an investment of this magnitude requires a significant return. Grow your revenue stream quickly, our investors have very high expectations.*

Goal: Get revenue to 50,000,000 credits per minute (used to be 50,000,000,000 c/minute)

Rewards: 12 Fast-Forward Hours, & 50 GP

Achievement text:

*Well done! You* *have officially secured humanity's place on the Red Planet, and the future of the Horizon Corporation along with it!*

### The Dream of Mars

*It is time for the Horizon Corporation to make its mark on history. Are you up to the challenge?*

Goal: Complete all milestones

Rewards: 10 cards for Appolo Matiba, 48 Fast-Forward Hours, & 200 GP

## Random Events

These random events can only happen during this live event. All live-event-exclusive random events have the title of their respective live event.

### Facility Destruction

*An experimental habitation technology has failed, causing a rupture in one of our cities.*

*[number] of our facilities have been destroyed:*

*- [facility] in [city].*

Destroys anywhere from one to seven random facilities. These facilities can be in different cities.

## Strategy

The Dream of Mars is considered to be the hardest live event due to its last goal of reaching 50,000,000c/min revenue. This makes it almost impossible to do it with no or low-level governors without running out of city space or lagging the device, making the game unplayable.

To complete the last goal of this live event, it is recommended to have Temmujin Battulga at at least level V (preferably level VI+), Makuahanai "Duke" Kalama at at least level II (perferably level III+), Xochi Vela at at least level II (perferably level III+), Nubia Matiba at at least level IV (preferably level V+), and Vivica Matiba-Cavalcanti at at least level IV (preferably level V+). Any lower than that will require spending massive amounts of GP or placing more than 200 Spaceports V if it is not already impossible due to lag or lack of space to place cities. Following will be some tips to complete every milestone in this live event:

* Rush researching Spaceports.
	+ This will cost 28 GP with Horizon culture.
	+ This will save a lot of time and help with early game, which is crucial in every live event.
* Multislot in cities.
	+ Multislot is a community term used to describe buying slots in cities with GP to be able to build more in a single one.
	+ Focus on the city you plan to boost with Temmujin Battulga. For beginners of this live event, multislot until it requires you to spend 13 GP for an extra slot. This will cost around 200 GP combined with slots in other cities.
	+ The most efficient way (spending the least amount of GP) to multislot is to demolish all facilities in a city and then start buying slots.
		- You will only be able to buy habitation facilities. After you have bought enough slots, simply cancel the construction for the facilities.
		- Use this useful tool made in Desmos to calculate how many extra slots you'll need.
* Spend all culture points on Industrial.
	+ Getting to 50% Industrial will not only help with building time, but it will also help with building satellites.
* Build satellites.
	+ Building satellites will take 12 hours with 50% Industrial culture. Legendary governors can reduce this time.
	+ Building the Langrage Academy will allow you to freely adjust the culture. When it is build, adjust your culture to 50% Industrial (if you haven't already), 50% Conservation, 50% Plutocracy, and 50% Wealth. Conservation will help with the second milestone, Plutocracy and Wealth will help with the final milestone. You may also want to adjust to 50% Democracy when you need to complete the third milestone.
	+ Building the Sky Farm will allow you to bypass the water and biomass requirement for human habitability. This will help with the third milestone.
	+ Building the Soletta is optional but will allow you not to worry about the temperature requirement for human habitability. This will help with the third milestone.
* Use facilities well.
	+ Use Boreholes to increase temperature, unless you have already built the Soletta.
	+ Use Biofixture Labs to stabilize the pressure released from Spaceports.
	+ Disable some Spaceports to stop increasing pressure when there aren't enough Biofixture Labs.
	+ Use CyanoVats to increase oxygen to habitable levels.
	+ Use Hab Domes for habitations. Beware of the increasing water. It is recommended to set some Hab Domes to level I and disable some, but using water reduction buildings also work.
	+ Use Spaceports for population and money.
* Reach habitability.
	+ Habitability will help with the third milestone, and it is recommended to reach it. Using the methods above should help reach habitability.
	+ Completing the live event using only Hab Domes for habitation is possible but not recommended.
* Use the "4 GP for 4×" boost.
	+ Spending 4 GP to quadruple your profits after a boost or logging in after a long time will help with building the many Spaceports required for the fourth milestone and placing the six cities for the first milestone.
* Disable facilities then re-enable them later to prevent changing planet stats.
* Make use of governors.
	+ Some governors are required to complete this live event, but using all governors well will make this live event easier.

## Completion Text

*Human behavior is economic behavior, and you have proven that once again on Mars. What governments failed to achieve for a century, the Horizon Corporation has finally achieved.*

*You have my gratitude, and that of the entire Board of Directors. If you need help with anything in the future, you need* *simply ask.*

**Important: only press 'Complete Event' when you are ready to leave the event world, because you cannot continue playing that same world after that. You also can't restart and complete this event more than once.**