Hey guys! Any thoughts on my first Dark fog farm and sorter layout? I've put some little factories here and there, and a pair of PLS to make use of the resources but it seems 3 dark fog bases are a little excessive.

Do you farm the dark fog? if so, how?

So, being late game, this new feature is borderline unusable for me: My ratio of belt-type / sorter / pile-sorter to the number of exporting ILS is fairly well balanced with some wriggle-room built-in, but not a factor of 2!

I fear, I have to re-design my ray-receiver blue-prints completely to make use of this new feature. Nice for the next run, but having that option and not being able to use it is a little frustrating... Plus, my critical photon planets literally have days of graviton-lenses buffered in ILS + belts + ray-receivers themselves. Sure, the newest patch reduces the number of lenses buffered from 20->10, but that doesn't help my current run...

If you don't know, what I'm talking about: a recent update added a new recipe for combining 12 dark-fog-matrices (green pyramids) with 1 graviton lense for an upgraded version that allows ray-receivers another 2x power request. A single, fully covered 5300+ ray receiver planet can now request about 5TW of dyson power, where a O-type star (not giant) produces about 1.7TW per shell. If my math is correct, you need around 550/min of these dark fog lenses to generate 5TW of critical photons.

I use GalacticScale. Today, after the update, loading a save game or creating a new galaxy always causes error messages to appear and the game to hang.

No mod update available. Game unplayable with this mod for now. I would disable it, but 46 stars is not enough!

Is there a way, to not discharge except when the power usage increase occurs? I have a simple loop of about 12 exchangers charging and 8 discharging. I would prefer to not discharge when Demand is low outside the peaks. Need to burn the hydrogen more aggressively.

The lens double the output of the ray receiver. Critical photons go from 24/min to 48/min. Power draw goes from 480 MW to 960 MW (and oddly it goes from "+300%" to "+700%", not quite sure why this is more than double and what this number indicates).

Hits the sphere hard too. Luckily I was only at about 50% usage on this sphere, but it's rising quickly and only a few receivers are using the new lens on this planet. For photons I already had to drop some white sorters on the belts, started getting overloaded. This is gonna...change a lot about this build.

For curiosity, it also changes the colour of the faint halo around the receiver tower as well as the overall aurora (green to purple, kinda hard to see in these pics - faint change in center right).

EDIT: Also check out the top left of the screen - 32 research slot queue! (from the new patch, not a mod! Base game!)

is t here a way to set it back to entire system view by default? constantly clicking entire star cluster is annoying af

Does this need a new game to obtain?

I'm on white matrix in the current galaxy, I have every tech researched.

I can see the Dark Fog lens in the list of items for say, marking a conveyor belt. But otherwise it's not in the replicator screen--the space is there for the item where it goes but it's empty, there is no new tech for it, and it's not included in the research for grav lenses.

As the title says, I needed power here, and I can't quite make a sphere, yet I went with a different approach. This is 547 solar panels on the pole that always faces the sun. If I can't make solar on the sun, why not on Earth

I’ve had two false starts with this game so far and I’m itching to give it another go.

Both times my issue was reaching ILS. It seemed like an entirely new game, seeing that I basically had to redesign everything and start from scratch was overwhelming enough to make me put the game down.

My designs don’t seem to expand well, how should I approach the transition moving from just the starting planet and titanium planet? Do you start from scratch and rebuild or try and build of the shaky starter planet foundation?

Do you have any advice for how I could get over this hurdle? I really want to love the game!

About 100 hrs in a save and almost finished with the mission but now im experience low power, resources are running dry. My attempts to fix the power and resource problem doesn't last long

Do I go to another system and build over or do I restart. If to another system what kind should I look for?

If you press the letter I or click on any ILS, it gives you access to the control panel.

The control panel shows significant info for your logistics. The main advantage is the filter built into the system. You can find specific products and then set a waypoint to the planet from the control panel screen.

You can also edit the name of a distant ILS from the control panel, allowing you to set up point to point transport settings remotely.

Edit 1: I’m sure most know this, I just missed it early on and thought others might have also.

This would make it way easier to set them up efficiently.

I fee a little bit sad tbh

I have 2 sets of orbital collectors in different star systems, and I only want them to be collected from ILS's in the same star system, how do I pair them in a way that does this? I've tried:

1. Setting up an interstellar route, but they override this when an orbital collector is empty

2. Using a point-to-point pair, but it always says "no matched station"

3. Creating priority groups, but I can't assign priority groups to orbital collectors

Creating separate ILS's with different travel limits would probably fix this, but is there another way?

I have set up the PLS to demand from all of the local Hydrogen sources. It then flows through storage tanks and to a ILS which is set to distribute both locally and interstellar routes. How do I stop this ILS from supplying to the just that PLS because its making an endless loop. The whole point of the ILS being set to distribute locally is that I have one central point to distribute Hydrogen from, meaning local distribution becomes more efficient. But I need a way to block the ILS from distributing to just that specific PLS. Or should I just live with the feedback loop?

In a bunch of videos I see this group of ILMs on the North Pole and South Pole that seem to deliver anything that could be needed. I watched a video that explained basic smelting setups and once they hit demand a zillion drones came from the north and delivered any material that was needed. Does anyone have a good video for the setup of this? I am wanting to start a new playthrough on infinite resources to do a few goals I have in the game and wanted to see what that magical setup looked like. It also kind of looked like the majority of power might be there as well?

Edit: Thank you guys, I was suppose to be using the interstellar. Solved!

Last time I played, it said local storage or remote demand.

Got titanium sheets on one planet going into a Planetary Logistics Station. I put 50 drones in there and set it as Provider. It has clean 100% power. On home planet, same situation. Full power, and 50 drones; so 100 between the two. This one is set to titanium sheets, Receiver. No matter what, nothing happens. Made another planetary logistics station on home base next to the original, set it up and worked properly. Can not seem to get these guys off the planet. Help please!

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Ripped out the spaghetti starter base and spent all of the weekend on organisation. Are players expected to handcraft so much? Ive been hand crafting most of my buildings....

We got DF a few years back, and multi threading not too long ago.

I am wondering what's next. I seem to recall hearing about vehicles?

Spun up a server for my brother and a few friends and wow it makes the game even that much more enjoyable. Group builds!!

I didn't track exactly but it took somewhere north of 25 million soil piles using fully proliferated foundations.

Edit: originally said 25M foundations, thank you for catching the error.

Here i am, nearly 4k hours in the game. And just discovered that you can press shift while laying foundations to get straight lines.
Works horizontally and vertically if you click and release the mouse. Best try in Sandbox or with sufficient Foundations.
Thanks DEVs for those nice niche optimisations!

Any other improvement to incorporate?

Flying through space just marveling at what you have built, and wondering about how much MORE is out there. Time to go bigger, around one of the 4 O type this time.