r/Dyson_Sphere_Program

I've unlocked Fractionators and am unsure how to proceed. I'm slowly getting purple cubes, hardly sending solar sails and do need to increase my power (all wind atm). should i be using these fractionators to make deuterium to make fuel?

I have too much hydrogen so it make sense there, but do they pay from themselves with that 1% conversion rate and 20 deuterium needed to make a single power cell.
Thanks in advance.

Having multiple systems with dyson sphere’s running, is it better to locally create the antimatter and export that to the white science facility, or export the raw photons?

I've done my share of reading, it's been a while since I played (January 2023) and I'm just trying to get back into the swing of things...

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I don't see any malls using the splitter/box interaction and I was wondering why? Obviously splitter is a slightly later tech but this seems like an obvious choice for early-mid game malls?

I read somewhere that splitters are resource intensive in large numbers so this would be my best guess why, as I don't see what the downside of building a mall this way would be? Not having to unload the box and passing through to the next stage of production is a big W I would have thought, for multi stage items?

It's been a while and I used to build a huge mall to build most things and keep items stocked. I know there's been a lot added to the game since then and I was wondering if the approach is still the same in the early / mid game.

Also does anyone know if there's a mod that removes the soil requirement but keeps the tile requirement? I like to have to craft the tiles, but I don't like having to gather the soil. I know there's a mod that just makes tiles free but that takes away the need to craft them.

Interested to know your thoughts.

Thank you.

I’m stuck on a planet and can’t fly out of the gravity well no matter what I try.

I already have the necessary upgrades unlocked for leaving the planet, and I also have enough energy/fuel. I originally came here from my starter planet to collect titanium, so interplanetary travel was working before.

Now when I try to leave, I hold double Space + W like everyone suggests, but I just end up hovering at the top of the atmosphere. I can fly around normally, but I cannot push beyond the atmosphere into space. It feels like I’m hitting an invisible ceiling.

I’ve been trying this for quite a while, and nothing works.

Is there something I’m missing? Is this a bug, or is there another control/mechanic required to actually break out of the planet’s gravity well?

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Got ILVs and warpers at both ends. Have remote ship/receive set up at appropriate ends. Other items shipping just fine. I had this problem with laser turrets earlier in the game, never resolved. Any suggestions?

It'll be nice for early mid-game so that you can chain them down to LDs for resource distribution. I know you can kinda do this by creating a storage unit then belt to the PLS/ILS, but it kinda looks terrible and eats up the belt lanes for other uses.

Hey all, this is frustrating me a lot, i have enough power with more coming as the sphere builds, but randomly my power goes from 100% to about 65%, so i recorded the power outputs and they are what is failing, its so weird, for example:

ray receivers are making 1.34 GW, but cut to 313 MW

Mini fusion power plant: 1.17 GW, cut to 840MW

it goes on for some other stuff but yeah i geninley dont understant what is going on, so my temporary fix is just to put a bunch of accumulators down to try balance it out

any ideas greatly appreciated

A smaller amount of resources (fewer veins, lower extraction rates for crude, etc.), but without depletion. Choking the effective rate of extraction (not total volume) would be sufficient to force expansion, which is the reason usually given for depleting resources.

Depleting resources suck, because maintenance chores in factory games suck. Ain't nobody got time for repeatedly pulling stakes on their mining operations. If I build it, it should stay built and working the way it started out working, unless and until I come back to change it. Depleting resources don't add "challenge." They add tedium.

Moving targets in factory games also suck. The depleting resources are probably the biggest reason so many of us throw up our hands and just use black boxes. Whereas with non-depleting resources, but in smaller deposits, there would be a whole world of extra logistics opportunities.

Like ... this planet has loads of X and Y. I need a lot of X and a little of Y to build Z, so I will build as much Z as possible here to use up the X, then ship the extra Y for use somewhere else. But when doing that is not sustainable, we just throw up our hands and say "Screw it, I'm just shipping both X and Y to a black box."

OK, I'm done. You may commence firing.

Okay so basically im really new to the game

30 hours in, and I got so focused on building logistics and factories that I didn't notice that the two dark fog planetary bases are sitting near each other and they're at level 4 and 5!

I tried building a lot of missile launchers and attacked them. Took me more than 5 minutes and they're not losing lol

Hive is at 95% as of writing.

Do I restart? I think my base is pretty cluttered as well so it's hard to build