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  1. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    feeling kinda dumb: how do you set up your orbit and your EM-rail ejectors such that you're guaranteed they can fire regardless of current orbit? I've got a dyson swarm orbit that rotates above the orbital plane but the em rails are still trying and failign to fire at the orbital plane.
  2. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    interesting dev blog https://steamcommunity.com/app/1366540/eventcomments/3109143950424165383?snr=1_2108_9__2107
  3. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    I'll typically lay things out with a bunch of space in my spaghetti and only put a few facilities down, then grow as needed. It's a lot easier to learn which replicators / chemical factories suck wind and have long build times by playing than by trying to design it all up front. By the way, in...
  4. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    The game is unbelievably stable and is feature complete. It features an open sandbox building game with fun graphics and enjoyable mechanics. What the game doesn't really have is a lot of replayability. Once you play it and hit the endgame you've colonized enough worlds that there's very little...
  5. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    I think that info is mostly in your tech tree but as you're scaling the tech tree the first time you don't have the experience necessary to really process the information. I'd recommend just optimizing for the current problem you have and expect that as you tech up you'll have to either build...
  6. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    my dyson component / solar sail gun line, pre building. @Blazin beautiful spaghetti
  7. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    So if you're clever about building, deleting and then remaking bridges you can make perfectly flat bridges. I'm afraid to build this exploit into my factories, but it's too funny to resist.
  8. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    I feel like that approach is kind of a mental crutch. It's easy because you don't have to consider the spaghetti layout, but it just increases your material/energy cost for all your materials. For whatever reason that tradeoff kind of seems more important when you scale up to infinite research...
  9. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    I don't think I'd actually want to play a more competitive DSP game where you have a few adversaries like in Anno 1800 (or any number of other builder games), but one fun aspect of that would be coming up with optimized factory layouts that are low-cost, balanced, efficient and fast to lay down...
  10. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    Yeah, and this approach works great if you really enjoy the gameplay of making the same interstellar gateway + mining + smelting layouts repeatedly. This gets a lot more tolerable with the mod I linked above (I haven't tried it yet).
  11. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    That's true, but it's a little bit different of a gameplay mechanic than adding infinite veins to specialized planets. If you've got infinite veins on your home planet you can just turtle there and miss a bunch of gameplay relating to expansion.
  12. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    I can totally imagine them having an adversary in the game, but I can't imagine them not having a sand box mode. I also think they'll add a mode where high resource nodes (ex: iron/copper on lava planets) are infinite to make the game even more low-key relaxing.
  13. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    The matrix cubes are simple looking but helped because they emit light. During night they can be almost blinding.
  14. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    This is going to be tempting to get when my current mines on my lava planet run out of stuff https://dsp.thunderstore.io/package/jinxOAO/SmelterMiner/
  15. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    Welp. I'm pretty sure my circular research stations above are incompatible with https://dsp-wiki.com/Universe_Matrix which have six inputs and one output. Right now my setup has 5 inputs, zero outputs. I'll still keep with it but will have to find some way to get 6 in, 1 out. Probably using...
  16. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    soooo pretty
  17. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    I went to a system that had sulfuric oceans in it. The goldilocks planet is a prairie planet that's absolutely beautiful. It's tempting to just ditch my dumpster planet I'm running out of materials on but i think moving from using a planets resources to importing everything is just part of the...
  18. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    Which mod?
  19. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    yeah I can imagine that. It's a little fun in my starter factory tracing my broken building all the way back to some weird fuckup I made in an stone mining line. research connected to the PURPLE purple connected to the PARTICLE particle connected to the NANOTUBE nanotube connected to the WEAVE...
  20. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    you try any of the mods? https://dsp.thunderstore.io/package/thisisbrad/CopyInserters/ seems like it'd improve QOL quite a bit
  21. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    also it's really annoying how you can make much smaller profile bridges by making a partial bridge and deleting a couple bridge pieces then dropping it.
  22. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    Just kidding. I'm curious to find out if after I stack them to full height what the bottleneck will be. I moved the three rails on the outside, but otherwise layer 1 is operational (and yellow starved).
  23. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    What do you mean, stack?
  24. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

  25. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    just made my biggest structure yet. not sure if there's a fatal flaw in it or not but I wanted to post a pic of it before the party started.
  26. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    Yeah it feels like the sandbox mode of a builder game. The last one I played was Anno 1800 and it has a lot of the same elements as DSP, but with limited resources and aggressive opponents vying for the same resources. In the pre-release of DSP you can land on a world, take your time laying and...
  27. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Yeah, the gameplay has a certain weight to it because it's a highly developed system. It kind of falls apart in many ways but there is just a level of depth that's uncommon with other RPGs.
  28. Tuco

    The Mandalorian

    I'm going to miss watching gina carano waddle her steel banded corset through the next season of mando
  29. Tuco

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952 They need to delete bitcoin.
  30. Tuco

    Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

    As a non-artist I've always been ignorantly curious about the difficulty of aligning to a well-developed base level of art assets. Human models are a good case of that where we (as gamers) have used a huge variety of character customization that all seem like re-creations of the same problem...
  31. Tuco

    Dyson Sphere Program

    So once you get good at this game how much does it feel like a game vs executing a build order while playing whack-a-mole (which is how a lot of builder-type games feel to me).
  32. Tuco

    Warhammer 40,000 Novels

    Im 3 books into horus heresy now. I like to read entire series but man, 40 of them and they move so slow. I want to read an abridged version that removes all the whining and tomfoolery that makes me think the astartes are the self indulgent grabasses of fictional warfighters.
  33. Tuco

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    I'd be surprised if they didn't force a reroll. Three games is a looong time to he stuck with a single type.
  34. Tuco

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    Reminds me of when uber ran over that hobo so they took the camera feed, photoshopped it to be super dark then published it as an excuse for why they ran her over.
  35. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  36. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    The gas container flying through the air like it's in Just Cause 3 and the flame tornado really make this fireball vid worht the watch.
  37. Tuco

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    and yet, when I think about ME2 I mostly think about the recruitment and loyalty missions over whatever Martin Sheen was talking about.
  38. Tuco

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    Kind of an unfair comparison, he doesn't look like that on the left.
  39. Tuco

    CNC (Lasers, Routers, Etc)

    Damn i miss that car.
  40. Tuco

    The Mandalorian

    They need to do a Cara Dune prequel show modeled after Spartacus with Gina Carano as a lead actress. The PR campaign would consist of Gina Carano shit posting about politics on twitter.