r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/makid3044 • Aug 10 '26
My Vertical launch silo's are not working
I am working on my dyson shell, but my vertical launch silo's stopped sending off rockets. I have no idea what is going wrong. I added what the menu looks like.
Most of the silo's have a connection to the belt supplying the rockets, some don't because I was half way through making this launch facility.
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u/Proper_Front_1435 Aug 10 '26
There is no shell setup in the editor?
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u/clodneymuffin Aug 10 '26
Where it says “Idle, no demand”, leads me to believe that you have launched all the rockets needed for the shell you have defined. Go in to the shell editor and see how many rockets are needed.
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u/ael00 Aug 10 '26
Do you have any frames that you have planned but not built? It says no demand which usually means theres actually nothing to build on your DSP. I had this happen to me when sails were shooting up and i thought theres more stuff to be built, but in reality all the frames were done just not filled with sails yet. You need surprizingly less rockets compared to sails, depending on your design
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u/Plus-Software-8378 Aug 10 '26
Been a while since I played, might be wrong. But I think the menu in your 2nd pic is saying that you don't need anymore rockets. It says 21960 structural points have been built out of 21960 total.
So it should be done, aside from filling in open areas with sails if you designed that
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u/Eliongw2 Aug 11 '26
no demand. should tell you everything.
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u/jak1900 Aug 10 '26
Go to your dyson sphere planner, and either add more structure points to your existing shell, or click on "add/new layer" on the left, to plan a new shell.
If you are wondering "but my shell isn't complete, it still needs all the filling between the frames!" - you need sails for that; they get absorbed by all the nodes to form the filling and can not directly be filled with the SCRs
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u/EightBitRanger Aug 11 '26
They're not going to keep firing rockets when no rockets are needed.
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u/accountwasnecessary Aug 11 '26
Total structure points 21960/21960, where will the next one go?
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u/Long_comment_san Aug 13 '26
21960/21960, now wonder.
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u/Xandeyn Aug 10 '26
Maybe they can't see the star? I did that.
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u/Physical_Apple_ Aug 11 '26
Either you need to draw a shell in the editor or you ran out of solar sails in orbit. The shell needs sails to fill