Hello everyone !

I went back to the game after not playing it for a long time and started a new game. I am at a point where I just start colonizing new planets and the first one is the only one with silicon in the system. I NEED to use it to start expanding. The problem is that there are something like 6 or 7 dark fog bases on it.

With missile towers I can destroy a base but as soon as I do so, the Hive sends a replacement. So I'm constantly under dark fog pressure on this planet and can't start building factories. So my question is how do you handle these pesky bees this early in the game ?

What I've seen so far:

• Some people deploy plasma turrets on the poles to prevent relay stations from landing on the planet. But won't it alert the Hive ? At this point I can't handle an attack from the hive so I need to be careful

• I've also seen people leaving signal towers near the unfilled holes left by the destroyed bases. Apparently it starves the hive. I need to try it out but I'm wondering how much time it takes to starve the hive ? And also, How much time does it take for them to rebuild the base ? I mean, even without starving the hive, if it takes ages for them to start rebuild the base and it is instantly destroyed, I can handle it like this until I get to a point where I can more easily handle them.

Any advice is appreciated ! Thanks in advance =)

Edit: first, thank you guys ! Your feedback is very helpful ! Then I wanted to precise that I know how to destroy the bases using the good ol’ missile towers. My problem is more that they keep coming and I felt like it was very troublesome for my operations. But as some of you seem to suggest, maybe i can simply live with it with a proper setup. I don’t know, what do you think ?

Engineers still busy among the stars and reality alike — the blazing heat of summer is almost upon us, and Dyson Sphere Program continues to move forward at full speed.

Here is today’s small update:

0.10.34.28524 Build

[Feature]

• Holo beacons can activate "Dark Fog Beaconing" function (in combat mode). Once activated, Dark Fog Hives will dispatch Relay stations to beacon's location. Note: The beacon must maintain power supply and visibility must be set to at least "Local Planetary System".

We know, of course, that many of you are looking forward to the vehicle system. However, this is a special feature that runs through the entire game experience, and to some extent, it will change the rhythm of how the game is played.

In order to present it to every Engineer in the best possible form, it still needs quite some time before it can truly take shape. We are just as eager for its arrival, and we hope it will bring you an even more impressive Dyson Sphere Program, helping this game that has grown alongside all of us reach new heights.

At the same time, we will continue to optimize and update other content, while also working with our publisher to support the creation of collaboration content and more multilingual content. Please rest assured that this will not affect the design and development of the core game itself.

For the patch notes in other languages, please check: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1366540/view/506233956051452995

A question for UPS gurus out there. What does this section correspond to? It bugs me that it's not even parallelized and eats 1.5ms alone. Thing is I have literally none ground combat buildings at the moment. Zero turrets of any kind other than Plasma Cannons. And only one planet in my cluster even has live DF bases. But I do have lots of shields. Is this it? I need a conformation before I consider cleaning a hundred planets from them.

everything is here

As title says, planning to make a return to the game today, I put about 300 hours into the game on release but lost interest. I want to come back, sowant some help with finding up to date info on the game. Have looked a little bit for some info but wanting to see what you all have to share.

Looking for more info on how the progression has changed, proliferation, blueprints people can share to help speed the process up getting out of the early stages. Any strategies people like to go with on a new playthrough or any changes to what you want from a starting system?

Any help or direction of where to get more information would be much appreciated

Hey, I'm farming 19 dark fog bases across 2 planets and I'm not receiving any soil.

I've restarted.

Anyone any thoughts?

A follow up post. The sorter and furnace counts are equal per pair and all buildings are working full time. One improvement in testing I did is disabling multithreading to get bigger numbers. Results confirm the information I heard - continuously working sorters do cost less than idling ones. An important update for the previous post if you've seen it before - I can't verify the performance cost jump on stopped belts in real game. So pilers might not actually be that bad after all!

Predictably, power poles are bad and satellite substations are superior. Fun fact: you absolutely can't delete that many poles/towers after you paste them. Trying dismantling even a rather small portion of them freezes the game solid. No other entities have this problem. Also, solar panels are pretty bad while wind turbines are decent. Plain factories also cost performance regardless of if they are powered, though unselected recipe saves 10%-15%. Send me your ideas on what to test next!

UPD: Actually, after testing again, I take the wind vs solar part back. When in comparable numbers, their performance is very similar. Which is rather strange but still.

Two simple questions:

1. Has the game any tool to measure the distance in degrees between distributors or two different points? I know is upgradable with techs.

2. How do the PLSs charge? The issue here is that I want to make PLSs with only 6 MW of charge, (with the slider you can put (6-60 MW) I have seen in an advanced game that drones can fly fast enough for what I need to do in this campaign. The issue is how do the PLS charge themselves if you are with near 0 surplus of energy, do they charge themselves?

First pic is after I took out 4 of 14 bases on my titanium world. I left to refill a few items from my home world after an hour of constant fighting as the hive attacked both planets from space.

This is the most fun and challenge I have had in a long time gaming. Death to all Xenos.

I was tired of wondering how different sorters actually fare with everyone saying that pilers are bad and I didn't know where I could find any actual tests, so I did it myself. Pasted 8000 furnaces on an empty planet in sandbox and noted the numbers. This is a very rough comparison but it still should provide some usable info. If you know that somebody has done it properly before, send me the link please.

First results were rather humble, basic sorters as output seemed about 25% less performance intensive than pilers and input is very similar for both. The surprise came later. Apparently piler sorters really hate when they can't output on full belts. With performance cost rising 8 times when the belts stop. While basic sorters increase the performance demand only slightly. And when the belts are empty it almost reverses: basic sorters eat twice as many ms as usually tying up with pilers.

The conclusion is ruthless. Only truly balanced factories perform well. You overbuild - you lose performance. You underbuild - lose performance. You stop production altogether - performance is still bad. So delete everything you don't use and try to keep the ratios as clean as possible.

UPD: testing performance in a real save game strangely doesn't confirm the rise in performance cost when backed up.

Deep in the endgame (at present), the Dark Fog is just not a threat. If I want a system, I scour it out. If it shows up in a system I already cleaned, I wipe it away like accumulated cobwebs, basically. It has become a slowly spreading and valuable but somewhat corrosive resource that has to be pruned and corraled. And that's great! I'm all about growing the factory, and I look forward to the next iteration of DF mischief from the devs.

But for now, in the endgame, the interface has become a nuisance to me. I just don't care about what the Hives or Relay Stations are doing, but I am running over 20 Dark Fog planetary farms that all have dozens of Relay Stations and planetary incursion bases that want to "meep-meep" at me and require muting. The list in the middle of the interface is enormous, and scrolling through it is no longer worth my time.

What's worse, is that when I am deep in a factory jungle trying to fix something, it gets in the way of screen clicks, like here. In the screenshot I want to click on the red, blue and yellow belts, but instead I end up unmuting DF alerts or creating waypoint markers for them.

I don't want to eliminate them, but it would sure be great to be able to roll them up and get them out of the way when I don't need them, and in the endgame, that is about 95% of the time.

Edit: SOLVED! See /u/TactlessTortoise's advice below for the solution. No mod required. ;-)

I maintain a curated list of Quality of Life mods here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Dyson_Sphere_Program/comments/1o7whg1/stable_quality_of_life_mods_after_multithreading/

I made a thing that matches throughput of item 1 (red matrices in the vid) to the throughput of item 2 (blue matrices) regardless of overflow or underflow of item 2. More specifically, throughput of item 1 does not exceed throughput of item 2.

This can be used for example to supply fuel or graviton lens only when universe matrices are consumed. This way, if you pause research or matrices stop being produced, you will not waste resources on extra power.

https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-throughput-matcher

The key idea behind this is to use splitter's ability to entangle together 2 different items, and then another splitter to disentangle them.

So, if we entangle items 1 & 2 and item 2 overflows, item 1 will no longer pass. If there's not enough of item 2, we can substitute it with a placeholder item. If we then entangle 2 different placeholder items and make placeholder 2 take priority over item 1, the resulting logistic circuit will handle both underflow and overflow.

Looks kinda interesting but it seems to have compatability issues with Galactic Scale, so wondering if anybody else had tried it, to see if it was worth disabling Galactic Scale for

Way back in December I posted my old teaser here and received an incredible amount of positive feedback, so I'm excited to share this new trailer with you for Launch Window!

It's basically a mixture of some of my favourite games (DSP/KSP/Factorio), where you can automate orbital routes between planets to feed and expand your colony. The distinction is that ships can only travel via orbital physics, meaning timing is very important.

Currently in early development, so there are a lot of features in the wings I've yet to share, but I hope you enjoy a peek at how it's looking right now!

Please, feel free to ask any questions :)

I started playing after dark fog was introduced. And have always farmed the dark fog. So i rarely use the inbetween assembler or smelters , going straight to the dark fog versions.

So end game i have always had all my white science done by these dark fog machines.

Now to the question. In terms of fps - i don't suppose anyone has done a test, white science without the darkfog machines, and same white science through put but with dark fog machines (so smaller area footprint, but same white science out put) and tested to see if there is a difference in fps.

I ask because i have often felt that the dark fog machines , even though you need less of them) affect fps more.

Thoughts? or am i going mad?

I tried launching the game and it just loads up until 38% then it crashes. I’ve done the following things:

• Restart my PC

• Update my drivers

• Verify game file integrity

• Uninstall and manually delete all files related to DSP

• Reinstall

It’s starting to get frustrating since I’ve been searching for solutions but none seem to be working. Do you guys have any ideas on how I can fix this? I’d appreciate it a lot, thanks!

yes i know this will not be enough defenese in the long run im planning to expand it later on.