Surviving Mars - Sponsor and Commander Perks List

A list of the sponsor and commander perks for people like me who forgot what their perk was 5 minutes into the game.

• Starting Checklist (Tips for Beginners).
• Basic Startup Guide to Self-Sufficiency.

Sponsors

The sponsors and their perks, in the order that they are in the game menu:

• Starting Rockets: 5
• Difficulty: Very Easy
• Funding: $30,000 M
• Research per Sol: 300
• Rare Metals Price: $25 M
• Starting Applicants: 200
• Large Rocket Payload - 70,000 kg
• Colonists never get earthsick
• Food supply from passenger rocket increased (x10)
• Rockets synthesize fuel

• Starting Rockets: 3
• Difficulty: Easy
• Funding: $8,000 M
• Research per Sol: 300
• Rare Metals Price: $25 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• Large Rocket Payload - 70,000 kg
• Periodic Additional Funding

• Starting Rockets: 2
• Difficulty: Easy
• Funding: $10,000 M
• Research per Sol: 100
• Rare Metals Price: $30 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• Can buy applicants with funding
• Additional rockets significantly cheaper
• Probes can discover deep rare metal deposits
• Bonus tech: Deep Metal Extraction (extractors can exploit deep metal deposits)

• Starting Rockets: 3
• Difficulty: Easy
• Funding: $8,000 M
• Research per Sol: 300
• Rare Metals Price: $25 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• Large Rocket Payload - 70,000 kg
• Periodic Additional Funding

• Starting Rockets: 3
• Difficulty: Easy
• Funding: $8,000 M
• Research per Sol: 300
• Rare Metals Price: $25 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• Large Rocket Payload - 70,000 kg
• Periodic Additional Funding

• Starting Rockets: 1
• Difficulty: Normal
• Funding: $6,000 M
• Research per Sol: 400
• Rare Metals Price: $22 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• 5 extra starting technologies
• Gain funding every time a tech is researched, double if it is a breakthrough tech

• Starting Rockets: 5
• Difficulty: Very Easy
• Funding: $30,000 M
• Research per Sol: 300
• Rare Metals Price: $25 M
• Starting Applicants: 200
• Large Rocket Payload - 70,000 kg
• Colonists never get earthsick
• Food supply from passenger rocket increased (x10)
• Rockets synthesize fuel

• Starting Rockets: 1
• Difficulty: Normal
• Funding: $6,000 M
• Research per Sol: 400
• Rare Metals Price: $22 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• 5 extra starting technologies
• Gain funding every time a tech is researched, double if it is a breakthrough tech

• Starting Rockets: 2
• Difficulty: Easy
• Funding: $10,000 M
• Research per Sol: 100
• Rare Metals Price: $30 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• Can buy applicants with funding
• Additional rockets significantly cheaper
• Probes can discover deep rare metal deposits
• Bonus tech: Deep Metal Extraction (extractors can exploit deep metal deposits)

• Starting Rockets: 1
• Difficulty: Normal
• Funding: $6,000 M
• Research per Sol: 400
• Rare Metals Price: $22 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• 5 extra starting technologies
• Gain funding every time a tech is researched, double if it is a breakthrough tech

Commanders

The commander profiles, in order as they appear in the menu:

• Drones are gradually optimized to work and construct faster until Sol 100
• Bonus tech: Autonomous Hubs (Drone hubs no longer require power or maintenance)

• Fuel production increased by 25%
• Bonus tech: Arcology (unlocks a residential spire)

• Start with a water deposit revealed
• Domes consume 25% less water
• Bonus tech: Water Reclamation (unlocks a spire which reduces water consumption)

• Minimum comfort required for birth reduced by 15
• Bonus tech: Stem Reconstruction (colonist lifespan increased)

• Colonists recover 5 sanity while resting in their homes
• Bonus tech: Behavioral Shaping (unlocks a Sanatorium spire which treats colonists' flaws)

• All funding gains are increased by 20%
• Bonus tech: Martian Patents (repeatable tech that grants funding)

• Breakthrough techs are researched 30% faster
• Bonus tech: Autonomous Sensors (Sensor towers no longer require power or maintenance)

• Service comfort of decorations increased by 10
• Bonus tech: Hanging Gards (unlocks a spire which improves residences in the dome)

• Start with a rare metal desposit revealed
• Extractor production increased by 10%
• Bonus tech: Deep Scanning (allows the scanning of sectors for deep deposits)

• Start with an extra rocket
• Bonus tech: Co2 Jet Propulsion (unlocks shuttle hub and long-range transportation)

Source: https://gameplay.tips/guides/2181-surviving-mars.html					

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