Destroying the Hive - For Good | Dyson Sphere Program | Combat update

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[@TheDutchActuary]

Happy holidays, new year, or happy Tuesday if you're not celebrating anything in particular!

[@Firebuck]

I really like the idea of starving the hive of resources before attacking. Big brain move!

[@monza8844]

No, a big brain move is to ignore starvation, and to boost your science as quickly as possible. Once you've done that you can take any hive down, even the high level ones in less than 1 or 2 min (depending on their level) without ever starving them. Starving hives is way too time consuming, and costs way too much resources and energy.

[@InservioLetum]

@@monza8844 COSTS? Then you're doing it wrong. The Fog is basically resource rain, if you do it right.

[@bitbucketcynic]

Just finished a max size sphere around a 2.51x luminosity O class star that produces over a terawatt of energy. It took 25 million solar sails and 10 days to fill out. Was it worth it? Probably not.

[@hellboy19991]

you would never be able to harvest a maxed out sphere. but it's not about whether you should, it's about whether you could.

[@TheDutchActuary]

Probably not. But I still bet you're smiling every time you look at that monstrosity of a sphere :D

[@monza8844]

*_"Just finished a max size sphere around a 2.51x luminosity O class star that produces over a terawatt of energy. It took 25 million solar sails and 10 days to fill out."_* Bad move, sorry, but it is. Not only will all those sails affect your frame rates in a negative way, it will also increase the size of your save file substantially, and on top of that, what are you going to with 1TW? By the time you do need it, you're looking at frames rates under 10/fps. Don't make the mistake to think that this game is all about the highest amount of energy, it's not, only people with an inferiority complex, and who want to have bragging rights focus on that, and the irony is that it's not even difficult to achieve, it's just a matter of pasting planet and sphere blueprints over and over again, boring and not challenging at all.

[@TheDutchActuary]

Let the man have his big shiny star on the milky way universe map! It's in there for exactly this reason after all@@monza8844

[@monza8844]

@@TheDutchActuary The fact that one of your goals in life happens to be that bright pixel on a galaxy map with millions of other bright pixels, tells me that you need stop gaming ,and start to live a real life son.... just saying.

[@brianvanamelrooij8463]

Hey TDA good to see you a re back again! Question, what mod are using for the "always daylight" effect? I use UXAssist and i does not seem to have graphic glitch issues like yours. Try it out and keep the amazing content coming!

[@TheDutchActuary]

Thanks for the suggestion! I will definitely try that out. I was using 'SuperNightLight' up till now (mostly because it doesn't do anything aside from the light, and I like to play my games as ' vanilla ' as possible)

[@ockraven2107]

Very excited for a max difficulty run!!!

[@dukecunning7046]

Love this information! Wish I had seen it put this way, before. Appreciate it! Thanks! 🙂

[@dukecunning7046]

Actually, this comment was for the Beginner Master Class video. But, it probably works for this one, too! Thanks!

[@Nibbles021]

Honestly I’d love to see some blueprints for corvette and destroyers from RAW

[@PenguinApple]

How do you control which planet the hive ships will attack? Is it always the planet with the most energy usage? Or is it the closest one once they hit max threat?

[@TheDutchActuary]

Definitely not based on proximity - I've seen fleets simply try to pass by my other planets, in some cases even while being shot at. I've never seem them attack anything other than the planet that had my main factory on it.

[@galacticblizzard9878]

I hope one day they let us have a massve fleet in reserve that only deploys all its forces when engaging the hive. Its just another option, maybe more expensive but could be really fun to do

[@ThePiachu]

Nice video. I am currently playing some max combat difficulty game and boy is it harder to clear a system. If you want a fun challenge - with the Dark Fog it's now possible to get Mission Complete in DSP without leaving your home planet or building a single solar sail / dyson sphere cell. Might be worth a shot!

[@mazus_io]

Is it a seed with titanium on your home planet?

[@monza8844]

*_"If you want a fun challenge - with the Dark Fog it's now possible to get Mission Complete in DSP without leaving your home planet or building a single solar sail"_* That's not a challenge at all.

[@jimidando]

oh I actually kinda went in that direction. I let the dark fog grow on my planet and kept it in a constant battle that drew more and rarer resources from the battle field. eventually I defeated it because the constant battle and work on the whole planet, made the game crash.

[@monza8844]

@@jimidando *_"eventually I defeated it because the constant battle and work on the whole planet, made the game crash."_* Nonsense. I put over 3,000 hrs into that game, and it never crashed for me, it's rock solid. Your crash is the result of either a crappy computer, driver issues, the use of mods or your incompetence.

[@emodramabomb2208]

Have you done anything to try to get the secret tech buildings up and running? I'm curious about getting to a point where I'd be using all of the new secret tech buildings through all of the planets I set up on.

[@user-wh4tm2dw7x]

Pegue na mão um cubo de matrix da dark fog, assim você desbloqueara tudo

[@TheDutchActuary]

You need high level Dark Fog for that, as they drop the new items.

[@jagheterjensjuh]

First hive I drained from ship was a happy coincident. The planet I was standing on orbited so close to hive that my ships pulled aggro and their fleet flew closer to the planet. My missile batteries teared them all out of the sky, aka Death star tactics.

[@TheDutchActuary]

That's by far the most efficient way to do it! I had that happen once of twice as well - Although it was less fun when I left my planet and ended up with 200 ships firing at me almost instantly :P

[@vitorosano6254]

Hi, what key do you use to place troops?

[@monza8844]

8:50 I will never understand why people are still using solar panels at that point in time, not to mention that they're bad for performance, because for each one of them the game has to calculate their rotation angle, and electricity is in general is already a demanding part of the game, as the performance stats page will confirm.

[@pr0x1madigital]

why do u have that weird atmosphere glitch all the time?

[@AdamSaxton]

I was wondering the same thing

[@TheDutchActuary]

It's a lighting mod that keeps it daylight all the time, because for the viewer it is really annoying to see me playing in the dark. It was working fine until the update, but somehow its glitching out. Will try switching to a new mod someone else suggested, as it's been 2 weeks and it still hasn't updated yet.

[@AdamSaxton]

@@TheDutchActuaryWhat's the name of the mod? I could go in an take a look to see if I could fix it in the mod. and/or what's the other one you are trying?

[@TheDutchActuary]

Was using 'SuperNightLight' and just switched to ' UXAssist', the latter of which seems to be working fine (as it was updated a few days ago)@@AdamSaxton

[@jakep1829]

Hello 👋I really enjoyed this series but I was left wondering if you were going to create some new mall blueprints for all of the different turrets and ammo types?

[@TheDutchActuary]

I'm considering making a new playthrough on a lower difficulty setting to really focus on making updated blueprints for general use.

[@1979ce]

Great video I see some other streamers trying to live off of farming the dark fog maybe you can make a video about that and see if you can come up with some cool plans for filtering all the stuff they drop

[@katemc516]

It's definitely viable to build a mall from farmed resources (but not so reliable for researches) they drop some really end game stuff at higher levels, however it takes forever to level up a planetary base to past lvl24 on the default settings, but I noticed a setting called "combat XP" which can be cranked up to 1000%, wondering if it would do any harm...😉

[@Chaun1998]

I have one save game, can send it if you would like, I have finished 7/640 spheres on that save, but it is from before the box logistics boxes were even added in. It is difficult to tell because the laptop I play on cannot play DSP full speed, but I think that my setup is capable of producing a fully complete sphere in about 30 minutes, every hour and a half or so.

[@TheDutchActuary]

That's one hell of a setup! And don't worry, I believe you ;)

[@ezioauditore5616]

what's your computer setup? runs smooth and without ups issues with all those graphics

[@TheDutchActuary]

I've got a i5-10400F intel core along with an RTX 3060. Nothing too high end, but it's a pretty decent system that gets the job done until pretty far into the game (but you'll get some FPS issues with any system at *some* point!)

[@d204b207]

Destroyed home system hive but it just says core destroyed and i didnt get the tutorial message congratulating me for the destroying a hive. Threat bar is gone. Anyone know whats going on?

[@TheDutchActuary]

Did you turn off the tutorial messages perhaps?

[@d204b207]

@@TheDutchActuary no i did not. Idk maybe there is a relay somehwhere i missed but the hive is gone

[@mattb4251]

Can a close planet launch rockets at the hive? That would seem to be a decent way if the rockets are strong enough.

[@IncTheCredible]

Yes, but it only happens in the right conditions and at a certain distance, quite difficult to pull off

[@katemc516]

It can, but the empire strikes back immediately, better have the shield ready before that happens lol

[@christobaldvalley6599]

Video start from 11:30. "Destroying the Hive". You welcome. The rest is just showing off the recourses.

[@Nick-jf7ku]

You cant Destroying the Hive For Good it clearly says so in the Dev's blog's.. says it wont be in the game until next patch.. so... yeah sorry

[@monza8844]

Wrong, you can destroy it for good, you just have to make to leave one enemy vessel alive. As a result you will still see the hive tag in the top left of your screen, but it will show 0.0%, and will do so forever, unless you destroy that last vessel. You will however not see the hive, just the name tag, and no new hives will created in that solar system.

[@doctort2853]

@@monza8844for a while. Until someone from dark fog migrates in. It happened to me, but like once every 50 or 100 hours of game time or so