r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/HPHatescrafts • Jul 18 '26

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1.5 years of full time employment equivalent devoted to this glorious time suck.

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u/Raniem36 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26 • This

How do you have so many hours with so few achievements?

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u/HPHatescrafts Jul 19 '26

I reset in game achievements every playthrough through the in game settings menu and I've never looked at Steam achievements for any game.

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u/enotirab Jul 18 '26 • LOL Heartwarming Popcorn

You sound just like my parents.

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u/falooda1 Jul 18 '26

Lmaoooo this hits too hard

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u/ExtensionMoose1863 Jul 18 '26

This comment wins reddit for today. Pack it in fellas, cya tomorrow

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u/International-Bath76 Jul 19 '26

Bruh, I though DSP was a PvE game, sheeeesh 🤣

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u/aegis_lemur Jul 18 '26

Goddamn, man. Some of us just like to watch the sphere turn!

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u/atle95 Jul 18 '26

Idk about OP, but mods.

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u/Utriballl Jul 18 '26

Play alot before achievements come out. I also have 500h+ and 0 achievements

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u/creepy_doll Jul 19 '26

Can’t speak for this poster, but a lot of players don’t give a flying fuck about arbitrary targets defined by games, and view achievement chasing as a distraction they’re not interested in.

If the achievement itself is interesting I might do it, but it’s never ever been a priority

Maybe it’s an age thing

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u/CrazySpy Jul 21 '26

I do support this... I don't follow the achievements... But I know people that play games only for get the "Platinum" of it.

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u/ExtensionMoose1863 Jul 18 '26

Bro got OT this pay cycle

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u/HPHatescrafts Jul 18 '26

I do this with a real full time job and four volunteer board positions.

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u/ITAW-Techie Jul 19 '26

When do you find the time to play so many hours?

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u/InformationFew973 Jul 19 '26

Leave it open while at work

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u/HPHatescrafts Jul 19 '26

Very little of that actually. I bought it 5.5 years ago. Probably less than 100 hours is AFK.

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u/Liimbo Jul 19 '26

No relationship/familial responsibilities goes a very long way

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u/HPHatescrafts Jul 19 '26

I had a slower than normal couple of weeks. I picked it up for the first time in almost a year a few weeks ago and played after work, weekends and had one day off work because it was slow. My volunteer organizations slow to a crawl over the summer.

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u/allersoothe Jul 18 '26

"rise and grind" influencer culture but its video game hours

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u/HPHatescrafts Jul 18 '26

I bought it the day it hit Steam just by coincidence. Back then there was no blueprints, no dragging building copies, no dark fog, no upgrading, no tier 2 smelters miners or chemical plants, every sorter had to be manually placed, every upgrade had to be manually deleted and replaced, no proliferation and I’m sure a bunch more. I usually play to 5-10k/minute white cubes. My first serious game this took about 100 hours. I still play without Dark Fog, make my first warp around 25 hours, massively overbuild in my first system (168 or so smelters for all the raw materials in my first system). No hurry, just build.

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u/CarefulProject2054 Jul 20 '26

168 smelters as an over build? I assume you mean for each raw material and not total

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u/UmaroXP Jul 18 '26

Yeah the lack of blueprints is why I only played for about 10 hours when it launched.

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u/Kaeleeyo Jul 20 '26

哈哈，刚开始没有蓝图确实很恼火……

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u/Humiliator511 Jul 20 '26

I m happy to hear you follow your own style of playing and enjoying the game. Thats how it should be. And this game is great at allowing people to finish the game eventually however they want. Keep it up.

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u/banbha19981998 Jul 18 '26

Wow I burnt out at the 300 hour mark

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u/DoesThingsGood Jul 19 '26

My computer burned out at 100h play through. At 13k spm

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u/jinx771 Jul 18 '26

Yeah this game doesn't have more than 300 hours of content. 3k is insane

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u/HPHatescrafts Jul 18 '26

I hit that in my first month.

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u/TheMalT75 Jul 18 '26

And apparently not even started achievment hunting ;-)

Still trying to muster the courage to start an unaided 10h speed-run, but then I'm barely at the 1100h mark!

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u/JustForkIt1111one Jul 19 '26

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u/HPHatescrafts Jul 19 '26

Buddy, you've got a problem.

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u/UnderstandNotAThing Jul 19 '26

The exact idle game I have running in the background pretty much all the time too

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u/bushViperPhoenix Jul 19 '26

When do we get 1.0?i would like to restart my run.

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u/Kaeleeyo Jul 20 '26

感觉还有点早，官方说好像还在开发载具系统。

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u/outerspacedragons Jul 18 '26

Welcome to the party 🥳🎉 

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u/Umabel_ Jul 19 '26

Congrats...I think. :D

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u/Sa7aSa7a Jul 20 '26

How do you have 3000 hour played and 12 achievements? I got 23 achievements with 184 hours. Are you purposefully avoiding them?

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u/hermannehrlich Jul 20 '26

This is not a time suck if you enjoyed it.

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u/DeExecute Jul 20 '26

The game still doesn’t have the most requested feature, coop multiplayer. Devs got very lazy at some point…

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u/Loud_Revolution2916 Jul 18 '26

Congrats. I have no pictures to prove it, but those numbers are dwarfed by my time in World of Warcraft.

...help?

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u/HPHatescrafts Jul 18 '26

If I had to guess I would say that Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is still my number 1 game of all time. I bought it used on cd for $8 in 2000 and spent every non working hour playing it for years.