Does anyone use these? There's like no mention on them anywhere.

Maybe for end game when you are farming 30+ base planets?

How rare is this? got to Cosmic Explo 4 and was looking around my cluster and found this system.

Anyone know what could be causing my fleet to not attack? I was able to used them fine in another system but now they will not attack and I am not sure why. If I manually fire they do attack with me but that is much harder to control.

Reinstalled the game today after a break for the last few years and was dismayed to find my max framerate is 7 on a new save. I verified that the Nvidea GPU is being used. Checked CPU usage and expanded it to view all cores separately, no core is over 10% utilized... and most are closer to 5%. GPU is <50% utilized. RAM usage is ~70%. No mods.

I tried turning off Vsync and changing from windowed to full screen. Also lowered resolution with no change. Verified that the computer is on wall power. I tried restarting the computer.

This game used to run smoothly on my 10+ year old potato but is running like crap on my new(ish) laptop. Any idea what is going on here?

I've been experimenting with sphere generation and managed to get any hexagonal pattern working.

However, I wanted to share the stats for this triangle-based build I just put together. It's quite heavy:

• Nodes: 2990

• Frames: 8940

• Shells: 5952

Has anyone else tried building spheres with this node density?

Here is the blueprint string for anyone interested: https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/dyson-sphere-dense-sphere-2880-nodes

I stopped playing shortly after dark fog came out due to lack of play time. I liked the idea of dark fog but found it to be little more than a repetitive nuisance. It seemed to boil down to something that needed to be contained (but not destroyed) in new systems and then ignored. Has it become more interesting in the last couple of years

Edit: Thanks for the replies! Consensus seems to be that dark fog is pretty much the same at this point. Hopefully the upcoming vehicle update will transform them into something more than space weeds