I get the message that "some stuff from your ship has landed".
So I get food, metal, and Drop Pods.
What are Drop Pods, how do I interact with them, and what are they used for?
Quote from: starlight on November 13, 2013, 05:16:12 AM
I get the message that "some stuff from your ship has landed".
So I get food, metal, and Drop Pods.
As far as I know, "drop pods" are what the other stuff are delivered with. Meaning, a "space pod" has food in it and they are dropped to the planet surface. Hence the name.
Quote from: starlight on November 13, 2013, 05:16:12 AM
I get the message that "some stuff from your ship has landed".
So I get food, metal, and Drop Pods.
What are Drop Pods, how do I interact with them, and what are they used for?
I've never had a drop pod stay on the map. Usually they 'pop' like bubbles and leave behind either slag, food, or metal. And raiders, of course!
The pods are delivery systems. They don't stay on the map, it is purely an animation of the goods arriving, rather than them just popping onto the map. It is actually rather clever and well done. If you pause as soon as you get an alert and it is drop pods, you can click "Go To" and then un-pause and watch them fly in, just like your initial 3 colonists.
They can contain Food, Metal, or, probably more rarely, a new colonist you can capture and throw in jail.
Raiders also arrive by drop pods and you can view the same animation for them.
The more you know.