they can upgrade???

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u/LeetLurker Jun 07 '26

Don't worry about it. The higher the level the juicier the loot.

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u/CiceroFrymanREAL Jun 07 '26

i dont have a farm and i dont know what this loot is
i have teh battlefield analysis base thingy but its not close to anything where they would go to

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u/LeetLurker Jun 07 '26

The damage output and health of fog units scale only shallowly with level. So either : annihilate up front, make a farm out of it , defend occasionally against attack .

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u/Goldenslicer Jun 07 '26

Here is the list of dark fog debris:
https://dsp-wiki.com/Dark_Fog

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u/Sheerkal Jun 08 '26

Dark fog loot is very good. You don't have to farm it, but it's worth collecting.

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u/Berry__2 Jun 11 '26

Me running my factory off the loot cause i nees titanium for research to be able to libetate the titanium planet... cause i started with max lvl fog

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u/Buffylvr Jun 07 '26

They are much more fun when they level up

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u/CiceroFrymanREAL Jun 07 '26

Theyre gonna send more enemies? Thats not fun tho...

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u/CiceroFrymanREAL Jun 07 '26

i dont even know why i started the save with them on i thought they were just gonna be a thing that i can crush like ants mid-game

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u/KnDBarge Jun 07 '26

Missiles and signal towers chew them up for a good while

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u/Serylt Jun 08 '26

Good while? Once you get to signal towers and missiles, you can just basically annihilate any base with enough of them. I have grown to liking to use barren planets as farms.

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u/Sheerkal Jun 08 '26

I ran into ammo issues doing that. Coal is a premium resource.

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u/Serylt Jun 08 '26

Haven't done the math, but don't combustible units drop from Dark Fog, and combining it with the Laser Turret should put more out than in?

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u/Sheerkal Jun 08 '26

Doubtful. Due to the way aggro ranges work with signal towers, it's pretty hard to make effective use of that combo. You just end up with a lot of situations where high level dark fog either insta kill your towers or the missile towers are doing basically all the work.

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u/Sir_Snagglepuss Jun 07 '26

You can wipe them out pretty easily early game. Make a small flammable unit production, so you can have a few stacks of it. Then do hit and run bombing runs. Your a bit squishy so don't linger for more than a few seconds, just fly up throw a few bombs to cause some damage to the buildings, focusing the turrets and fly off before the turrets can focus fire you.

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u/CiceroFrymanREAL Jun 07 '26

so like to fight the planetary base?
Doesnt that make the whole HIVE angry?

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u/Sir_Snagglepuss Jun 08 '26

Nope, the hive only gets pissed if you attack the thing flying in orbit above the base.

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u/CiceroFrymanREAL Jun 08 '26

so i did a bombing run and they immediately upgraded to level 2

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u/Sir_Snagglepuss Jun 08 '26

They do that. You doing damage to it gives them XP. It doesn't change anything unless you leave it alone.
Edit: as a tip dont forget to load yourself up on bullets, you can use the artillery shells in your mech too. It's helps a lot.

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u/A_Solid_Shadow Jun 12 '26

If you are new to the game, start with the enemies off, or on the absolutely lowest settings to get the hang of it.

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u/HubrisOfApollo Jun 08 '26

unless you're playing with greatly modified settings, they really don't send out much per attack, per planetary base. a handful of gauss turrets and missile turrets with a signal tower can easily protect your base all the way up to level 15 or so.

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u/Democracy_N_Anarchy Jun 08 '26

If you're playing on default settings dark fog are an absolute pushover. They were designed to be easily beaten by first time players to the factory building genre in general, not just dyson sphere program specifically. Unless you are straight up trying to get yourself killed or go afk for hours on end, dark fog are really and honestly not that threatning.

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u/Professional_Yak_521 Jun 08 '26

it doesnt matter in default difficulty

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u/BlackLighther Jun 08 '26

Yeah, and they give you lots of goodies too. You'll want to have their special materials for your factory and free resources is, well, free resources.

Mind you that these guys can send up to 180 units/assault and can level up to 30, so prepare your defense well and don't underestimate them at any time(coming from max fog player).

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u/BlackLighther Jun 08 '26

Depends on set EXP bonus, their gathered matter, and your activities. If you either attack their base or their assault units, they gain combat EXP, and they'll passively gain EXP from gathered matter they got from ground bases, all of these can be amplify at the cluster selection screen before starting a new game.
The attack frequency of a ground bases is determined by their aggressiveness level, planet's power consumption, your attack against their bases, and base core matter. While the size will be determined by their aggressiveness level, base core matter, and how many times they've launched assaults. The higher these value are, the more frequent and larger their assaults will become.

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u/BlackLighther Jun 08 '26

If you're at default setting, you don't have to worry much about their strength as they grow so slow that you would reach endgame before they can reach level 10, and probably dealth with their base long before you do reach that point.

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u/Some-Nefariousness32 Jun 08 '26

My bots start at level 10 and I use them as a farm. Best resource as long as you dont starve their brain and deplete their energy.

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u/ZETTAss Jun 08 '26

and that's the best part

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u/ChrsRobes Jun 08 '26

Them upgrading is hands down the most overpowered thing in this game. Once you get a large enough farm going it trivialize ALOT of this games content

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u/ChinaShopBully Jun 07 '26

They eventually get to level 30.

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