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Surviving Mars

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Because we Care

Because we Care

Play as Europe and research 5 Breakthrough Technologies before Sol 100

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How to unlock the Because we Care achievement in Surviving Mars - Definitive Guide

When starting a new game, select Euopre as the Mission Sponser. It can be advantageous to also select the Futurist Commander Profile, as Breakthroughs research faster. Futurist also gives Autonomous Sensors early, which can be useful for placing a large number of Sensor Towers.

Breakthroughs are discovered by analyzing anomalies that are revealed by scanning sectors; they have the magnifying glass icon. Upon finishing a sector scan and revealing a breakthrough anomaly, send an RC Explorer out to analyse it; Europe, by default, sends one in the initial rocket.

Sensor Towers help with sector scan speed; while the closer a tower is to a sector the more benefit it conveys, distant towers still give a +10% scan increase. It can be useful to have five or six towers around wherever you start. Alternatively, you could send a large number of probes in rocket shipments to scan for you. Note that some anomalies only show up once you’ve unlocked Deep Scanning, so Astrogeologist might be a preferable Commander Profile.

Once a breakthrough has been analyzed, it will need to be researched in the Research screen. Breakthroughs have their own tree at the bottom of the menu. Building Research Labs within your Domes can help speed this process, but a couple of other options are available.

Two early techs to Research are Explorer AI and Earth Mars Initiative, which give a +100 Research per Sol benefit to your RC Explorers and Sponser, respectively. Tech order is randomized when the map is selected, but these usually pop up within the first three techs of their respective trees. Explorer AI is found under Robotics, and the Iniative is found under Social.

Europe also grants funding whenever a new tech is researched, so it can be useful to outsource research during the first few Sols to help bootstrap the colony, or to help research a breakthrough once it has been analyzed. Exporting rare metal will also generate funding, so building a dome near to a rare metal deposit can eventually be profitable enough to help fund research.

Using some of the above ideas should result in earning the achievement well within the 100 Sol period.
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23 Mar 2018 01:50

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Great and thank you
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By Chaos Mythology on 06 Apr 2018 16:57
Nice guide. Extra bit of info, 'Story Bits' breakthroughs do not count towards this goal. (Breakthrough jobs that have a yellow exclamation mark rather than an icon)
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By Count Stex on 10 Feb 2021 09:39
This was actually easier than I had expected. Got it by Sol 35.
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By thebritt2001 on 12 Feb 2023 23:06
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Using the strategy I show in the video below, this can be accomplished rather quickly and way before sol 100 (only took 8 sols in the video).

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15 Jul 2019 03:23

Breakthroughs are found via anomalies and the omega telescope. You won't be getting to the omega telescope in time for this to be helpful so you will need to find the breakthroughs via anomalies. In my experience you can generally get ~3 breakthroughs through normal scanning and the rest are from deep scanning so you must put your research efforts into physics to get Deep Scanning. This must be your first priority. Once you have deep scanning finding the breakthrough is just a matter of scanning anomalies until you get the five.

You can get a leg up by choosing one of the commanders that start with a breakthrough, like the Inventor which starts with autonomous drone hubs. I can personally confirm this starting breakthrough counts toward the five.
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06 Aug 2018 00:02

This one is actually not all that hard to get.

Build several research buildings & staff them. (and do anything else to boost your research per Sol - exploration rovers, some events boost sponsor research, outsourcing as much as you can afford, some mods help out, etc)

Then, have multiple sectors being scanned (remember you can queue up to 9 at once) while having a rover or two research new anomalies that show up (the Rover Command AI research helps a lot since it unlocks their auto-explore mode).

Make Breakthrough research a top priority, and then wait.

Event-specific breakthroughs (such as the one for the cancer cure event) count for this achievement as well, and since they tend to be cheaper than normal ones it's good to research those first.
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26 Nov 2020 00:00

Pick Europe as your mission sponsor when starting a new game. Somewhat similar to playing as the USA, call for a RC Explorer through resupplies after you’ve set up your initial dome and start analysing Anomalies that are revealed on the map through scanning. Anomalies with the “Key” symbol are the ones that will have a chance of granting Breakthrough Technologies, so you need to be diligent in managing your RC Explorer and then setting up a couple of Research Labs to research 5 Breakthrough Technologies. Europe grants funding for each completed technology research, so make sure of that to call for resupplies or outsource research.

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