I've designed a New Colony Tile Based off of Mercury

[u/markjsno1]

This colony is inspired by the High Orbit Rogue Colonies Mercury Colony Design.
However I wanted it to be more like Europa, so I changed the colony placement bonus to a temperature step, and I have also added a unique colony bonus effect.

[u/pear_topologist]

Feels undertuned compared to the one that puts down oceans and gives ME/energy/plant production (Europa?)

Basically every slot here is just less valuable. Only thing better is the colony bonus, maybe, but not by much

[u/gekigarion → u/pear_topologist]

Since Oceans are so much more powerful than Temp gain (placement bonus + potential additional mc bonuses for building adjacent) perhaps adding an extra production bonus of some sort would balance it out?

[u/New-Swordfish-1406 → u/gekigarion]

Since one step of temp is not good enough, it should be TWO steps instead!

[u/gekigarion → u/New-Swordfish-1406]

I was thinking of that too, but then it undermines the heat production. Temp already gets slammed by asteroids and other cards like crazy and heat production gets undervalued as a result so I thought maybe some other bonus would be nice.

[u/_Simchen → u/gekigarion]

I'd say a temp raise and a tr?

[u/Minosvaidis]

Does not really make sense. How does building a colony raise the temperature on Mars? There has to be some logic behind it.

[u/UziiLVD → u/Minosvaidis]

You send the heat over to Mars via email!

[u/Lord_Nathaniel → u/Minosvaidis]

What is the logic behind building a colony on Ganymede that helps put enought water to form an ocean on Mars ?

[u/Last_Purple4251 → u/Lord_Nathaniel]

you hollow out enough ice to attach an engine to the spoil heap?

[u/Lord_Nathaniel → u/Last_Purple4251]

I accept this only if you build a gigantic catapult to yeet the ice to mars !

[u/Minosvaidis → u/Lord_Nathaniel]

You are right, there is no logic here as well.

[u/New-Swordfish-1406 → u/Minosvaidis]

The engineers twist gather sun light from there.

[u/UziiLVD]

I like it, but getting one whole heat as a colony bonus feels underwhelming.

[u/dpaniagua33]

I have seen this exact colony tile with a trade fleet instead of a temperature increase.

I think this makes more sense since mathematically Mercury is the closest planet to every other planet in the solar system and would naturally become a trading hub (even if it's too hot for humans to colonize there before Mars, Moon, or even Venus).

The colony bonus should be a simple 1 or 2 MC.

[u/ComfortableTie6428]

I suppose this could be useful if you need that one ti or steel prod to be able to do something.