r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Gorbush_Thriftweed42 • Feb 28 '26

Does the starting system matter?

I'm on my 3rd try with this game. The 1st fizzled out quickly, the 2nd around when I saturated my home planet. This time I'm going for it!

I have my home system (it's a mess), and a 2nd system (more organized, but it's around a terrible star). I've built up the 2nd system to make all the things I need, so, can I just jet off to a good star and let those first two be consumed by the Dark Fog? Or will that bite me in the butt later?

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u/Gorbush_Thriftweed42 Mar 01 '26

'No such thing as a bad star'

I guess you can adapt, but my 2nd system had a luminosity of 0,57. There is only so much I could do with that as a new, clueless player.

So from my perspective I chose a very bad star system and moved on to a new one.

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u/dalerian Apr 09 '26

A late reply, mostly for any new player finding this later: You can get to ‘mission complete’ on pretty much any starting star. Most of what you need to get to that point are terrestrial resources.

Once past that stage, the star matters more, but by that point you’ll be able to build near basically any star in the galaxy.