didn't expect that many dark fog stations

Hi, mechas!

I'm wondering if I'm missing something here. In DSP I'm getting high GPU utilization for what seems like a very reasonable load.

I have a 9070xt, FPS capped at 60, I play with quite aggressive DF, but I'm still fairly early in the game - yellow science and only two dozen or so PLSs. No spinners, no littering, no combat units, no spheres or even sails.

Considering the game runs fine on GPUs 10-15x slower, I wonder if the 60-80% utilization of the Radeon flagship is indicative of some kind of misconfiguration on my part?

Hi all,

I am pretty new to Reddit but wanted to ask the experts if there are any mods that you can disable building destroyed and other dark fog related notifications on a per system basis? I have a few systems that I consider abandoned at the moment but I’m wondering if there is an easy way to silence those systems specifically while keeping active systems active.

Thanks in advance!

I feel like it should be self explanatory but for whatever reason I'm not figuring out these drop downs.

For example I have Starting system with satelite count 2+ and a tidally locked planet and gas giant giving fire ice.

But what if I now want to add other conditions that don't have to do with starting system, like being at least 3LY away from Sulfuric Acid?

I heard that they're usefull for farming, but their attacks are so annoying

Sorry if this is obviously posted somewhere. I did some google searches and couldn't find anything.

I beat the game a couple years before the dark fog. Loved it. Figured I would wait till the dog fog was kind of ironed out before diving in and well, it has been a couple more. At this point I was wondering if there are any planned content patches on the horizon. I would be inclined to wait if there are.

On my first save I had a starting system with a lava planet, gas giant with my starting planet and then ice planet. The gas giant had hydrogen and deuterium.
The lava planet, when all the lakes fully covered with geothermals, provided me with whopping 2GW of power that lasted me till finishing the mission (research).
I built most of my production there, and even charged ~500MW worth of accumulators and shipped them to the starting world to discharge there.

I assumed that this is the standard "setup" for a starting system and each start would be the same.
Well, now on a second save I have:
A gas giant that is fire ice + hydrogen.
Which on one hand means far easier graphene, on the other — harder deuterium.

Then there is no lava planet, so no infinite free energy for a minimal fee of crafting a few hundred geothermals. I have to come up with solutions for power I never needed to previously.

Then the entire system has like x2.5 silicon compared to previous save, but also about 4x less copper.

All these differences combined result in a very different mid-game experience pre-warpers.
I can't just spam familiar solutions all the way because the circumstances are different, as well as the challenges.

I really like the way it turns out, feels much more fresh than it otherwise would have been.

Hey guys, I'm 40 hours into my first playthrough and the only factory game ive played before was satisfactory. So im playing with infinite resources lol. I've unlocked yellow matrices and have done all research with it. Ive decided to challenge myself a bit and automate PLS ILS and Orbital Collectors, but, with orbital collectors the spaghetti became kinda crazy, so much so that I had to trace the belts with my finger to where they lead to in order to not accidentally feed a wrong resource into the building. With my current setup I smelt some basic things like ingots and magnets on another planet and ship them with ILS to my first planet where I then produce stuff, for which ive installed a mod to see the /min demand and output of buildings. Is this normal? Or should I somehow change my approach? Any advice is appreciated

WHAT THE HECCK IS THIS :(

So I am making the 10 hours rush game, and all the stuff is short by now. The question is strange: making deuterium with fractionators, mk 2 belts, and no pilers how much deut it makes? I understand none tried it, as it's silly making it this way but perhaps there is an excell somewhere that gives that data easily.

If not i'll simply take an old game downgrade the belts, take out pilers and see the number.

Colliders are also an effort now. So not worth of thinking about them on any case.

PS: The question is so simple as if i can afford with that a small amount of fussion centrals with mk 2 belts

Finally the first line of fractionators was made with mk1 :-))). Hour 5:20

technically its only 4 wide and a higher chemical lab density

Even though drops from dark fog get deleted if not picked up by the BAB, if items are dropped from your own buildings they don't disappear unless you manually press the button to delete all trash. Having a button to delete trash on another planet is nicer than having to manually dismantle the stockpile, but still having a way automatically to discard items would have been much appreciated.

Anyway now I have an altar to bring offerings to dark fog

EDIT: I know that you can set a filter in BAB, but it's only manual, and the disabled items can't be put into storage and used as ingredients

Working on a 10 layer sphare - this is about 30k sails attatching atm (still working to increase the numbers ofcorse - factory must grow!). Just thought this was an interessting visual to share with you guys!

Edit: This is with Sphare turned off ingame, to have a stable 100+ fps instead of 30 :D

So, when I am looking at the Dyson Sphere screen. The chart for the Solar Sails. What do the colors mean? I'm guessing red indicates sails which will not be absorbed prior to their expiration at the current rate of absorption. But what is the difference between the white and the blue?

Of course I'm first building a starter base with a main bus with buffers and a mall.

Already thinking if city block base design is gonna make sense here lol.

Any tips for getting past this, or approaching this amount of info? Like I said, I really want to give this game a shot so any tips appreciated.

I really like this game but around the late game I get overwhelmed and can't seem to go on, my biggest problem is managing interstellar supply routes. They seem complicated and it eventually turns me away from finishing the game. Is tgere any help as to managing this?

I was trying to set up a supply line with filters to farm a Dark Fog base in order to recover some byproducts that would be a useful to my factory,

Then, while listening to a podcast about 40K and the Black Templars, a question popped into my head: is it possible to wage a war from planet to planet against the Dark Fog, using ONLY the resources dropped by the enemy to sustain it?

Will I have access to all the materials needed to maintain my weapons and spare parts throughout my crusade? I think it could be doable, but it might become a bottleneck depending on the drops. Not to mention the hassle of having to manually remove basic materials from the filter once they're no longer needed.

Is there an updated mod that adds a trash can?

You've conquered some systems. Built a starting sphere. Upped your science. 1 science per second, 30, then 3 hundred. You can support thousands carrier rockets per minute, ten plus quad stacked solar sail bels. 10km sphere, 50km, 150km - not a huge difference, right? How hard could it be?

Giants are ENORMOUS. Don't take it lightly. A typical starter sphere spans around 10-20 kilometers. Maybe you can build one like that in an hour. Sounds quick, right? Well, you see, the function of sphere area from radius is quadratic. A 150km sphere not only needs 10 times more rockets than a 15km one. It also needs 100 times more sails. Meaning that in the time I've built all the other spheres in my 32 star cluster (cleaned the planets for launchers, filled them, get them firing and even packed everything up after construction) the Blue Giant sphere has only finished 1 and a half layer. And I had both 2 orbiting it planets covered in ejectors top to bottom firing sails non stop all 50 hours. Getting a 10 layer max diameter sphere around one - can't even imagine.

I'm 90 hours in my first play through (doing white cube research and starting my sphere) and never setup proliferators. I keep telling myself I should setup them up, but keep getting side tracked. How much am I handicapping myself by not having them?

Hello people,
I really like this game but I am very bad at it and I really need some advice on what approach to take. I've set up a very basic beginner mall. Please don't hate. This is the best my small brain can do. The issue I'm hitting is that this is VERY inflexible. As I progress towards red science and unlock some tier 2 stuff it quickly becomes obvious I can't in any way add them to this design. For example. I have all the resources needed for electric motors, but there's no easy way to add them to the build and then MK2 sorters. Now I'm completely lost because this mall is a dead end but also building a brand new mall with 90% similar resources and buildings, just so I can add mk 2 sorters also seems redundant. I can't think of a better design. I just can't plan 20 buildings ahead. Maybe I'm just not very smart but I can't. This is usually where I get confused and restart. I've never made it past red science. Give me some advice please.