I wish this was still updated, this mod really makes Surviving Mars feel dynamic, but regardless- yours and your teams work have been amazing.

one of my favourite mods, really makes the game feel in a larger world.

@DaemonJax - that sounds odd. The MartianTribune variable holds a map of information about what news stories have been shown, which ones have been activated, etc. It shouldn't be a boolean value.

Do you get the error on a brand new game? I'm suspicious that your current save may have something wrong saved in it.

I noticed a log error from this mod. It seems to work fine, though. I tried to fix it, but can't make the log error go away:

[LUA ERROR] PackedMods/1376913896/Code/2_MartianTribune.lua:71: attempt to index a boolean value (local 'MartianTribune')

This mod is INCREDIBLE! What an amazing job you did on this. Thank you!

Thank you so much for the kind comments, all. It's great to know that our work continues to find good use and an appreciative audience. :-)

I wanted to say that your mod brought like a little bit of roleplay to my game that I was missing, thank you! I ended up naming some buildings after colonist suggestions like the kids thought the rocket was a space whale so I renamed it from Discovery to Moby just made me smile, take an award, you are a fantastic writer <3

Finally gave this one a try and it's fantastic. Absolutely an essential mod going forward.

Thanks guys. Worth the wait.

We are set. It is now fully compatible with the Picard patch. :-)

I just saw the 11:49pm (Sep 11) update for the workshop. Are we all good to go there?

A further update has been pushed to github - the notification messages were not displaying properly when triggered by the game but were displaying when triggered by testing, so I'd missed that they also needed update. If you downloaded the github link prior to Sun 12th Sept at 3am UTC, grab a new copy from that link (link will now give the updated version - it's tracking the branch that has the updates, so it automatically gives the latest version).

I've gone through the changes to make the mod compatible, and sent a pull request to CheTranqui to merge & upload to steam.

In the mean time, if you want to install those changes manually you can download the mod from Github at: https://github.com/dawnmist/Surviving-Mars-Martian-Tribune/archive/refs/heads/feature/jdb/upgrade-to-picard.zip

this mod is so good i don't want to play the game without it.

No longer works with today's Update & DLC (Sep 7, 2021). Listed as Incompatible.

sadly the only issue with it ending up at least having martian tribune things for DLC parts would mean it'd be required to own the DLC for the mod to work or be used, unless they could do something like a DLC version or addon that includes that.

很棒的mod，我期待它的更新，因为我也会往两极扔氢弹，以及挺期待中文版本，机器翻译就行，这里就是。
Great mod, I'm looking forward to its update, because I will also throw hydrogen bombs at the poles, and I'm looking forward to the Chinese version, just machine translation, here it is.

Still working perfectly, all we're missing now are reactions to more techs, I cannot imagine a world where The Martian Tribune wouldn't make an article about me nuking the polar caps.

Love it, makes the game feel more alive and real. Now if only we could get more radio dialogue and songs.

I just wanted to say how much I love this mod. The articles are all really well written and (usually) relevant to what I'm doing in the colony. They add such a sense of satisfaction, tension, enjoyment, and most of all - CONTEXT!~ - to what I'm doing in Surviving Mars! Bravo!

Can confirm it works for the new update/DLC. But a lot of the news articles are now obselete such as Earth Advertising to try meat when we now grow animals of our own

@patrick2160 - I believe Martian Tribune should be working fine with the new release. Testing locally on a new save shows no immediate issues. If you do run into a problem, let us know asap and it'll be fixed. :)

Damn, hope this gets update for Green Planet & Project Laika!! So many possiblities!

Mysterious radio station - Makes me instantly lough about it. :D

I actually really like this mod. its cool having a newpaper on mars. Now you need a tech for Reporter, so it unlocks a building, and gives a major Morale boost for good news, and a Major Morale Minus for bad news, something of a sliding scale maybe betwixt the two extremes. And of course, it would require three reporters to distribute the newsletters.

@lyndonguitar There shouldn't be any issues. If you're feeling nervous, you could also simply not click the notification, too. :-)

can i remove it on an existing game without bugs?

@silence731 - it is up to date, and has been expanded significantly and made a lot more stable since the original version. If you've played in the past, there's many new stories to enjoy too.

please tell me thjis is up to date, i love reading the slaves, erm uh, i mean the colonists paper

Это было бы прекрасно, если бы имело русскую локализацию.

Just a quick note - new games should work without issue, existing save games that used the previous version of Martian Tribune may still have some stories with odd values in them (because they were generated by the previous version but not yet shown). I'd recommend starting with a new game. :) I'll do my best to maintain backwards-compatibility going forward.

@Nacira While my summer's kinda gone off the rails with craziness, Dawnmist took up the reins for a bit and has squashed many of those little bugs by doing some serious behind-the-scenes refactoring of code. It's a whole new mod today, even if it looks similar on the outside!

Yes I don't know why it doesn't work with one save but I just made a new one and it's working fine... But I did deactivated 2 other mods in the save it doesn't work. Maybe that's a conflict of some sort yes. ;-)

@Nacira That sounds a bit odd to me, knowing how the code functions. It's likely a mod conflict of some sort. I'll take a look at things later this week. Hoping to shore up a few loose ends and push an update with some new stories soon. :-)

Doesn't work since the last game update... :(

the paper don't appear in the notifications anymore. is there a bug?

It would be great if this contributed to the education or morale of the Mars colony.

AClumsySheep - I would love some more information on what mods you are using and what events you were experiencing before the paper stopped showing up. Please visit the Suggestions and Bugs discussion (linked above) and help me get to the bottom of why it wasn't working for you!

awesome, but has not appeared in my current 200+sol playthrough... sad story!

@Z[ion] - pushed an update regarding one of the vegan stories. Hopefully that will correct the issue. If it doesn't, please let me know a few more details in the Suggestions & Bugs discussion to help me hunt down the offending variable. :-)

Currently clicking on the Social Story item is closing the popup. Not sure what the issue is.

Thanks for the update. I'm enjoying this mod, it adds a nice story telling touch to the game.

Just pushed an update fixing several bugs today, May 6th.

Found the bug that was causing it not to work with non-new games. (it was an odd bug - might have caused more issues than I thought!) It has been squashed. Mod should work whether the game you're playing is new or not, now. Thanks for getting me to take a closer look @Dog Turds!

I understand. Thanks for a fast response.

@Dog: In the Suggestions and Bugs discussion, I note that it is possible that it will require you begin a new playthrough. I´m not quite sure why, yet, but it's on my list of things to look into. ...if you started a new playthrough and after loading a saved game you find that it is no longer working... THAT would definitely be something to report in that discussion! :-)

Is this suppose to work with saved games? The tribune notification does not show up.

nice work

Awesome idea! Can't wait to see where this leads in time. Thanks CheTranqui!