Dyson Sphere Program - SILICON & SOLAR PANELS - Let's Play, DSP S3 Ep 5

[@djcohen16]

KoS is consistent, she complains about building speed in every single game she plays. DSP, Factorio, Timberborn... all of em!

[@KatherineOfSky]

I want the sim to run at the speed of my BrainCPU. ANything else is too slow. :D

[@chady51]

Lmao

[@vib80]

Finally remembered to think like a Decepticon and leech power off the grid. Later when you have real fuel rods you can get away with building without standing near wireless towers, but at this point Icarus needs the grid power more than anything else.

[@NobodysNightmare]

I was honestly wondering whether there was an achievement for not charging once or so ^^

[@ralfw7463]

I find solar to be a drain on my silicon supply. Especially since wind regardless of efficiency is way cheaper, doesn't need batteries and it will fill up otherwise unused space.

[@Flamso]

This is a fantastic point. As long as you can still use wind power it's way way way more effective since silicon is needed for a lot more stuff

[@ralfw7463]

@@Flamso and wind-"mines" can be draged to form powerlines while power poles can't and must be placed individually.

[@torreyrg42]

I did a chunk of a 0.5 resource run over the weekend, my starting system had only 350k silicon ore and enough rock to make only double that which is just enough silicon to make purple science to unlock warpers and leave the system. While making no solar panels. I ended up warping to a system 14LY from my starting system, that felt like a normal 2x resource start. But the oil is 2 LY away in a nearby system

[@brianwoodbridge88]

The oil production required for everything including yellow science is insane. Like half the oil available in the whole planet. It’s huge lol another great video 😀looking forward to what’s next

[@lazymandoplayer]

Not wishing to mansplain or anything but don't forget you can use long distance power poles to charge your suit up. I carry a few and top it up occasionally when I haven't got the really good fuel

[@lazymandoplayer]

You remembered after I made my comment :D

[@KatherineOfSky]

Yeah, I hadn't played the game in quite a few months, maybe more than a year, so I forgot about the automatic charging property of those.

[@kevinbagust]

For the no-solar sails achievement you can still build Dyson spheres using the nodes, you just cannot fill in any of the panels with solar sails. Otherwise you would not be able to finish the game to get the achievement.

[@the2ndpete]

If you need batteries for your solar power you are not building enough of them. Make a belt around the planet and enjoy 50% efficiency all day long!

[@tantamounted]

One thing I'd like to see in DSP is a global construction technology - where you can simply have drone outposts like in Factorio. You set a drone outpost or logistics tower, then supply them with materials (either with internal supplies, or from local/logistics inventories with an allow/deny flag) and power from the network. If a drone tower is in the observed area, it can fulfill construction orders for you - just set the pattern and let the bots work! Sure, flight time could be a problem if the tower is far from the work, but you could simply set up a tower closer to where you're building. With no enemies, though, once the construction is over there's little reason to keep a construction outpost going... you'd want them to be temporary structures, perhaps, that deploy themselves to where the work is and then remove themselves, carrying the extra towers back to a central planetary depot. Alternately, what you use is a *mobile* drone center which will travel to the workspace and back, using the local power grid - which means you just set up a recharging location (the wireless towers, and maybe a specific building for that) and materials supply (bring it to the drone supply building via logistics tower, perhaps). Then if it needs something it will go get that. What the drone does not do is plan things itself, it only carries out orders. So the player still has to provide plans for it to build and a place or places for it to go when done.

[@brawlasaur9981]

🤦‍♂️ how did i not think of getting silicone from another planet... I have am making silicone from stone on my home planet. silly me, i will get on that tomorrow! Thank you for showing me!

[@RichardPhillips1066]

It's quite useful to do that to get a decent power source quickly anyway

[@brawlasaur9981]

@@RichardPhillips1066 Yeah, I made it to one of my planets. the sad thing is, is that my home planet is the inner planet so i can only get the one because the other is too far away for now. Right now i am strategizing on how to get the yellow cubes. but ill probably get to starting interplanetary thingys

[@jeffreyblack666]

If you spray a fluid and put it in a tank, does it remember that it was sprayed? What if you spray an item and put it in a crate? Or do they only remember that they are sprayed if they are on the belt?

[@KatherineOfSky]

Yes, it remembers the spray status of each item

[@kevinbagust]

It does not remember the exact item that was sprayed and its spray level, rather any container can only contain items with a spray level, plus some items with that spray level + 1. If any items with different spray level are introduced into the container the spray levels are spread over the items until that condition applies. So if you have a container full of unsprayed items and add a single level 3 sprayed item you will end up with 3 level 1 sprayed items in that container. On thinking about it crates probably do it at the stack level.

[@kosfrozentime]

@@kevinbagust Hmm, interesting. That has not been my experience. if you add x amount of sprayed items to a crate, then add x unsprayed to the stack, then deconstruct them item by item, it remembers how many were sprayed at what level. I've never seen it spread out sprays between multiple items.

[@jeffreyblack666]

@@kevinbagust That makes me think it saves the item count and spray count. When an item comes in it would increment the item count, and the spray count would go up by however much the item was sprayed.

[@ryanlotgd]

advisor poped up for me last night at like 5am to tell me something bare in mind im deep into endlesss reserch so it was more like a jump scare than info think it was when i started firing solar sails for the first time forgot how loud i had speakers set up as i had music coming on headphones

[@Spuny4]

One recommendation if you are standing still and robots are building place near you the second (special) powerpole, it will recharge Icarus ;) EDIT: Sorry just got to the part where you realize :D

[@torreyrg42]

The no sails is just to finish the game you do a sphere with no filler just the rockets, probably using hydrogen fuel rods or deuterium or solar panels to power your factory, but you need to build some Dyson sphere structure points to get antimatter to make universe matrix to finish the game. After that you can launch sails if you want or use foundation etc.

[@ralfw7463]

If you destroy/remove build dyson sphere structure it will release the sails which can be used for the mantle.

[@Uzzgub]

A interaction to appease the 6th Chaos God, the Almighty Algorithm, a Comment for the Comment Throne

[@SittingDuc]

A reply for the Reply pile! Now to get milk for the Corny pun flakes...

[@stephanecremont3666]

You know there are CHARGING TOWERS to recharge icarus at like 100 times faster than your normal reactor does? That's how you keep him full by building those charging towers everywhere. And you already have them since about the first research that unlock the power tower. It's the blue power tower. Try it out and put them everywhere! Problem solved!

[@Myriako]

Thank you for this video ! 😊🌻

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

Lucked out in some ways with my home system. The gas giant that my 1st planet is orbiting has fire ice, and a 2nd planet with a lot of silicon. The other planet in system also has a lot of silicon. What I don't have is a lot of titanium. 3M. Really hoping someone nearby has more, but all the nearby starts are G or K class.

[@djdelorie]

You can make a dyson sphere using only structure rockets, they provide more energy anyway

[@KatherineOfSky]

Not if you take the whole thing into account overall.

[@ryanlotgd]

not true my sphere before i started sails ( after i got the achevment) was doing 10gw power ive hardly thrown any sails at it and its already at 14gw power

[@KatherineOfSky]

@@ryanlotgd Don't you remember the calculations we did in the discord that prove that solar sails, when used in the largest cells possible, produce more per material than the surrounding structures?

[@ryanlotgd]

@@KatherineOfSky kinda lol slept a few times since then lol I always do rockets first so the sails have homes to go to lol

[@djdelorie]

@@KatherineOfSky more power per material input... sure. What about max power per area of the sphere itself? Plus, I was mostly just saying you should be able to make a dyson sphere and still get the "without launching a Solar Sail" achievement, yes?

[@Tantawelle]

Your voice is very nice and calming :)

[@KatherineOfSky]

Thank you so much

[@the2ndpete]

And now I wonder: What happens if you don't pick up your litter? Will you get a penalty from the overmind when you complete the Dyson Sphere? Or will it just sit on the ground, rotating and after (number of item) rotations it splits in two, taking more and more GPU cycles to render?

[@chady51]

Probably gets more laggy

[@nazdrakulakanaz1043]

you can use the Wireless Power pole to Recharge your power at.

[@nazdrakulakanaz1043]

and you Remmebered in the end of the vid :)

[@Sullrosh]

You forgot to combine the output of some of the silicon mines and have one extra row of refineries

[@jackal327]

Love the paint spaghetti

[@EpicDragon32]

Is it possible to paint the paint? So you get more paint per paint..... or something?

[@KatherineOfSky]

Yes

[@_JustMonika]

I think we could do a drinking game for everytime she says something in the game is weird lol So will you need to save a slot in the ISL for proliferators late game as well or build local factories for it?

[@KatherineOfSky]

I find it strange when people decide to consume liquid because a random YTer says a word or phrase. Don't you just normally drink when you are thirsty? or do you actually limit your hydration to when you watch speciffic YTers? I will build paint on each planet if possible.

[@timanderson5717]

@@KatherineOfSky It's not about water. It's about ethanol.

[@KatherineOfSky]

@@timanderson5717 That was not specified. Drinking is something you do with water as well.

[@RGSneaker]

You cut the paint belt going far north on the previous planet.

[@RGSneaker]

and before you leave silicon planet, only one silicone line is currently being collected in a box :-)

[@vicente6342]

Nice

[@RichardPhillips1066]

I'm supprised you are not covering captain of industry

[@KatherineOfSky]

When I played it a few months ago, it was not fun at all. Didn't like some of the mechnics.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

@@KatherineOfSky fair enough

[@Talon771]

Random comment for channel interaction.

[@ZalrokChaos1]

Is wind really a mineral or mine, or a current to mill?

[@KatherineOfSky]

IDT you mill current... You normally mill grain, as in crush it to bits. We're definitely extracting power from the wind, so clearly a mine.

[@ZalrokChaos1]

@@KatherineOfSky Idk, as real life calls them windmills, I find wind 'mine' weird.

[@KatherineOfSky]

@@ZalrokChaos1 IRL calls them windmills if they mill grain. Otherwise, they are usually called Wind Turbines, which sounds more like mines. In any case, it's part of the culture of my channel. Started several years ago, so I keep the tradition going.

[@ZalrokChaos1]

@@KatherineOfSky Oh I get that, calling them turbines, imo, is a waste of energy to me, so I call them mills regardless. As I don't care to call them 'turbines'. That requires me to care. Which I don't.