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.

Other Surviving Mars Guides:

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

Sponsors

All credit goes to PringleMan!

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

Internation Mars Mission

• 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

USA

• 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

Blue Sun Corporation

• 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)

China

• Starting Rockets: 3
• Difficulty: Very Easy
• Funding: $8,000 M
• Research per Sol: 100
• Rare Metals Price: $25 M
• Starting Applicants: 200
• Passenger Rockets carry 10 additional colonists
• Applicants are generated twice as fast

India

• Starting Rockets: 3
• Difficulty: Normal
• Funding: $7,000 M
• Research per Sol: 100
• Rare Metals Price: $24 M
• Starting Applicants: 150
• All building costs are reduced by 20%
• Bonus Tech: Low-G Engineering (Medium Dome Unlocked)

Europe

• 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

SpaceY

• Starting Rockets: 5
• Difficulty: Normal
• Funding: $6,000 M
• Research per Sol: 200
• Rare Metals Price: $20 M
• Starting Applicants: 75
• Drone Hubs start with additional drones
• 50% cheaper advanced resources

Church of the New Ark

• Starting Rockets: 1
• Difficulty: Hard
• Funding: $4,000 M
• Research per Sol: 0
• Rare Metals Price: $20 M
• Starting Applicants: 120
• All colonists have religious trait
• Birthrate is doubled
• Hydroponic Farms performance reduced by 50 (drawback)

Russia

• Starting Rockets: 2
• Difficulty: Hard
• Funding: $5,000 M
• Research per Sol: 200
• Rare Metals Price: $22 M
• Starting Applicants: 100
• Bonus tech: Fueled Extractors (improve extractor performance by using fuel)
• Fueled Extractors upgrade is free
• Fuel Refinery Prefab costs 50% less
• Rockets have extended travel time (drawback)

Paradox Interactive

• Starting Rockets: 1
• Difficulty: Hard
• Funding: $4,000 M
• Research per Sol: 100
• Rare Metals Price: $24 M
• Starting Applicants: 75
• Discover more breakthrough anomalies
• Researching a breakthrough tech grants applicants
• Rockets require more fuel to launch (drawback)

Commanders

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

Inventor

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

Oligarch

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

Hydro Engineer

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

Doctor

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

Psychologist

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

Politician

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

Inventor

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

Ecologist

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

Astrogeologist

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

Rocket Scientist

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