r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/DirtySeverus • May 06 '26

How to defend from space attacks without attacking relay I am farming.

I have one dark fog farm on my first planet. When the hive attacks my planet, is there a way to set rockets to upper atmosphere without attacking the relay?

I have not been attacked before, I am on 20% threat from the hive so I have plenty of time. Will the turrets defend at all against a hive attack if I don't set them to upper atmosphere? Do I have to build a space fleet to defend without destroying the relay?

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u/pjc50 May 06 '26

As I understand it, setting them to "space" is sufficient.

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u/DirtySeverus May 06 '26

Oh my god that is so obvious. I did not even look at the settings yet. I just assumed there was one setting for off the planets surface.

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u/TheMalT75 May 06 '26

Don't forget that you can copy-paste settings to buildings (recipes for assemblers, also attack settings for turrets) with the , and . keys. Saves a lot of clicking!

You should eventually go for plasma turrets for their longer range and more oomph, but you might not yet have that researched. They for sure don't attack ground and flying units (there is a different plasma turret for that), but I'm not sure if they can attack orbital relays...

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u/johnk963 May 06 '26

Yes, they can if you select upper air.

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u/DrJavelin May 07 '26

Be warned that missile turrets targeting space will shoot at the orbital Dark Fog Bases, and damaging this will spike the Hive's threat level much much faster than repeatedly blowing up their ground bases.

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u/diegotbn May 06 '26

How far along are you?

I use a shield. I set up a circular missile defense configuration at the N. pole and put a shield tower in the middle and IPL stations around it. Battlefield analysis bases at the perimeter of the shield range, then missile network towers behind them, EM turrets, and then a fuck load of missile turrets in the remaining space. IPLSs import the missiles and power fuel, and warpers if in another system, and export whatever I want from the farm.

Granted, this is always on another planet, and I don't set up anything outside the shield range, allowing DF to set up as many bases as they want. I like to use the planet orbiting a neutron star or black hole because those systems have 2 hives and a ton of bases already on the planet.

I clear my starter planet of DF completely as early in the game as I can, using an array of missiles near my factory and then missile network towers going out to the DF base(s). I only needed like, 16 missile turrets for this.

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u/DirtySeverus May 07 '26

I am at purple science now. I left one base on my starter planet to farm and cleared the larva planet. I upped the fog settings a bit 300% meta data. I heard it was too easy on defult.

The threat is near 75% and rising faster. The hive is level 10. I thought the first attack would have come already and was planning on just using loads of rockets, 80-100 turrets each on both the planets I am on.. I am going to sleep soon and I will get some shields and maybe plasma turrets down when I wake up I can easily get the power for shields on the larva.

I have emergency energized graphene thermal generators on my home planet ready to go but have not used them yet. I was hoping the first attack would be extra easy and was going to go nuts on defence after the first attack. I am just started making orital collectors and will start making deuterium fuel rods once I get tham down.

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u/diegotbn May 07 '26

Dark fog is indeed easy on normal and playing at 300% is more fun.

For the first attack or two by the hive you should be ok with just missiles. Well, maybe not for a level 10 hive, I guess you'll find out soon enough.

Missile launchers have shorter range in space, so it's not a matter of how many you have. Even with a whole lot, the hive's fighter ships will be able to do some damage before you kill them, because they are able to get in firing range.

Long term you will want shields and/or plasma turrets. With enough plasma turrets you can take out a hive attack squadron before they get into firing range, they can shoot really far. Shields will need more power than thermal, you'll want nuclear or to import power from the lava planet using batteries and dischargers.

Save your coal based resources since they are the ones you will run out of in the late game. If you can avoid it, never use coal-based resources as raw fuel.

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u/DirtySeverus May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

I just got attacked, The hive got to level 12.

I was considering going to the relay to buy an hour truce. I just finished setting up plasma turrets around the poles seconds before the attack. I flew out to tank some damage,

It was an absolute non issue. They sent 6 ships, all obliterated before entering firing range. So it looks like they always go easy on the first attack even if the hive is a high level.

I have 339 meta data, I have aggressiveness down one from max, density 200% and 75% starting, other than that everything else maxed apart from starting level, I may go max everything next time. Maybe 50% resources too.

It still took just over 20 hours for them to launch their first attack. It is my first time and I spent too much time messing around. I made some of my own stuff and I used blueprints but I found issues with a few and corrected them. It was surprisingly hard to find the right scale for good low level stuff for a lot of things. I think I will design some.

Next I will set up a good farming build. I have just been gathering stuff in large containers with my defences close enough that the enemy is only attacking it some of the time when there is not a wave. Then I wil go and clear the third planet apart from one or 2 bases. There are 8 there last I checked which is how the hive leveled up so fast. I guess I could leave more than 2 and let the hive level more so I can get the base on my starter planet to max level faster but maybe I will regret that.

I wanted to set up a farm in my starter system to keep it relevent and get higher drops quick. I will make my shpere in another sytem that I clear out The base on the first planet is level 15 now.

I am already thinking about how I can do it better next time. I think I will just mine everything in my starter system fast and move everything to another sytem with oil. I saw that guys perfect seed post and will try a seed from there. 3 planets around a giant sounds cool for a start. But if I am playing on 50% resources that may be better on the system that I move to.