OVERLOADING DYSON SPHERE TO HARVEST PHOTONS | #20 | Dyson Sphere Program | Lets Play/Walkthrough

DYSON SPHERE PROGRAM
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy
game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire
Combining Factorio and Satisfactory on a Galactic scale!
ABOUT THE GAME
Dyson Sphere Program is a sci-fi simulation game with space, adventure,
exploration and factory automation elements where you have to build your
own galactic industrial empire from scratch
In the distant future, the power of science and technology has ushered a new age to the human race. Space and time have become irrelevant thanks
to virtual reality. A new kind of supercomputer has been developed - a machine which superior artificial intelligence and computing capability will
push humanity even further. There is only one problem: there isn’t enough
energy in the whole planet to feed this machine.
You are a space engineer in charge of a project launched by the space alliance COSMO, tasked with a massive undertaking: constructing a Dyson
Sphere, a megastructure that would orbit around a star, harnessing all its
power and energy. Only a few decades ago it was considered a hypothetical, impossible invention - but now it’s in your hands… if you can manage to develop this space workshop in some galactic backwater into a galaxy-wide industrial production empire!
ABOUT EARLY ACCESS
While the core mechanics of Dyson Sphere Program are ready, the game still can grow and evolve a lot - and Early Access is just the perfect place for it to reach its true potential. We believe that by letting players experience the main content of Dyson Sphere Program and actively interacting with them to collect their feedback will allow us to improve the game and make it much better than it would be without this Early Access stage. Our plans are for this EA stage to be about 1 year long. But that is not written in stone
KEY FEATURES
◇ Build a galactic industrial empire from scratch: start with a small workshop and improve it until it spans the whole galaxy
◇ Develop your very own Dyson Sphere, a megastructure that orbits
around a star harnessing all its power and energy, from the first screw
to its completion
◇ Explore a vast universe procedurally generated with all kinds of celestial bodies: neutron stars, white dwarfs, red giants…
◇ Gather resources in planets of all types: ocean, lava, desert, frozen,
gaseous planets…
◇ Research new technologies to improve your factories… and discover
the secrets of the universe
◇ Build mechas to fly, sail or jump through outer space and alien planets
◇ Transport materials across the galaxy to your facilities: thousands of
transport ships will flow endlessly to your factories and back!
◇ Design the most efficient automated factory and production line
◇ Customize your factory and Dyson Sphere to make it unique
◇ Design a balanced power network, producing energy in all kinds of
power plants like wind turbines, artificial stars… through conveyor
belts, and you’ve got technology to help your buildings fit the grid automatically during the construction process. You’ve got the best tools
COSMO can afford to build a massive-scale automated production line
SCHEDULE:
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#DysonSphere #Factorio #LetsPlay

[@Nilaus]

if you want more Dyson Sphere Program then I am streaming todayon Twitch: www.twitch.tv/nilaus This is at 8 PM CET (2 PM ET). Drop by and say 'hi' :)

[@cellfire7907]

3AM i can't :(

[@zegrusher5825]

Are you going to upload the stream or do a little recap on yt? I don't have time for streams, but I'm loving this series and don't want to miss something that's important

[@fpensel]

Great series! I love it! have you thought about ending your Videos with a 1-3 minute timelaps where you just look at the Dyson Sphere being build for an hour?

[@terakahn]

What happened to not paving over meridians?

[@ziconghuang7139]

Who else thinks that a half-done Dyson Sphere is more awesome than a finished one?

[@ryankl1984]

How about two dyson spheres around the same sun both half unfinished but the second one inverted so you can see the gaps shifting.

[@craigtripp965]

Agreed

[@jonathanrichards593]

Especially since a completed Dyson sphere is going to remove the sunshine (and moonshine!) from every planet outside it. Is there a way to recycle thousands of solar panels...?

[@yuidesu5625]

@@jonathanrichards593 The game just ignores it and the star still lights everything normally. You can even stack 4-5 spheres and they all work. Maybe the implement it on a future patch or maybe its intended to stay like this... who knows

[@alexanderlipowsky6055]

@@yuidesu5625 i hope they remove it, makes no sense whatsoever

[@MisterFortyFive]

This amount of scaling is really showing me that I don't have enough power generation... Btw you're doing excellent with this series!

[@sintaxera]

The blinking yellow icons show me i dont have enough power :s

[@MrDeothor]

After watching your last vid I've decided to try out DSP. God damn.. Playing factorio so much has crippled my ability to play any other similar game. Controls feel so alien and unnatural and weird. This gonna take ages to convert my muscle memory. I'm definitely not giving up on DSP yet :D

[@Nilaus]

give it a chance. At first I thought the belt laying was weird, but now I love it

[@MrDeothor]

@@Nilaus In just 20 minutes of me trying DSP seeral times I raised my voice with frustration "WHY MY Q ISN'T WORKING". This gonna be a long road :D

[@Nilaus]

Shift-click is the new q. It is actually better than q when getting used to it

[@MrDeothor]

@@Nilaus Lies! Heresy! I am sharpening my pitchfork right now! :p

[@tristen9736]

Yeah same. I felt like playing a little minecraft the other day and kept accidentally throwing stuff because I kept pressing q

[@talkingcowthatwasthereallalong]

I just imagined that "Say the line Bart" meme, but it is like this: We are all looking at Nilaus "Say the line Nilaus" asks a Milhouse-looking fellow A tired Nilaus responds with: "Inbound, outbound" And we then proceed to go nuts

[@alexanderlipowsky6055]

you made me smile, thank you!

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

They should add a late-game tech that lets you make Warpers for no resources but huge amounts of power

[@rauminen4167]

That would be basically making them out of these photons he just generated in this episode.

[@markomuncan6811]

u do really crazy stuff mate ... im loving it ^^

[@jacktomlinson2777]

Shout out to your builder drones, they never seem to get a day off.

[@petrbumbalek4831]

there is new new version DSP mod CopyInserters 1.2 Fixed visual bugs and placement issues Fixed incorrect speed of copied inserters Added build previews Added ability to disable copying inserters via TAB key

[@Nilaus]

tested it tonight. No issues at all. Works perfectly

[@pulchritude0222]

I definitely prefer a fast forward montage of the "off screen" stuff over a hard cut and everything appearing. Even if the video is sped up so it only takes 10 seconds, it's still fun to watch it all get built up.

[@Nilaus]

I understood that, but not always possible. There needs to exist good recording to be used for timelapses. Sometimes i make big builds while waiting for processing to complete, so u cant record at the same time

[@alexanderlipowsky6055]

@@Nilaus new to the channel, butt have you thought of makeing a "spinoff" series mainly consisting of uncut or very low cut episodes? would love to watch you grind and scream =3

[@talkingcowthatwasthereallalong]

Gosh I was late for this one Sorry Nilaus, I'll manually put 300 sorters as punishment

[@alexanderlipowsky6055]

dedication, did you though?

[@talkingcowthatwasthereallalong]

I did, it was a 10 assembler build with 5 sorters each, but I had to re-do it 3 times

[@alexanderlipowsky6055]

@@talkingcowthatwasthereallalong i feel you, nice though

[@PilaScat]

Every day refreshing continuosly at 14 pm CET for a new episode ahaha

[@GuiSmith]

In an educational video about them, Kurzgesagt made a joke about how you practically need a Dyson Sphere to build a Dyson Sphere. The antimatter power storage (for lack of a better wording) here definitely qualifies as being part of that, considering the interstellar effort to build just one in this game. It also goes to show how difficult to make and crazy powerful antimatter is.

[@MizunaGames]

Tapped the whole dyson sphere already. Guess it's time to build another one ;)

[@K21040]

Its does not look completed yet so it can have a higher output

[@xenophobe3691]

It’s one of those things where if you’ve properly set up the infrastructure, the first is a bitch, the second is where you try out the fixes for your mistakes, and by the third the Xeelee are wondering where the stars are going

[@Joogaberry]

Another brilliant episode. I have been watching you for years with factorio and now I’m also watching your DSP series religiously. Also watching your VOD’s as a behind the scenes look at your builds.

[@tonton_1964]

You're awesome, Nilaus! I know I've said it before and you're wasting precious time reading these comments while you could be producing more content, but I really love your approach to games. I really believe these games should be used as a teaching tool.

[@herrmann1639]

I dont think that u will ever be able to use up all of those Critical photons. Anti-Matter last forever

[@iestynne]

No kidding. My whole factory planet and all mining outputs are running off a single particle collider producing antimatter, with photons from a small Dyson sphere that's not even half complete

[@RaptorTom181]

Can you build the Dyson Sphere larger than the nearest planet? That would look great.

[@kiranmeyers6558]

It's larger than the sun

[@weiiswurst]

@@kiranmeyers6558 he meant that one planet is inside of the sphere

[@diersteinjulien6773]

I'm pretty sure that you can't.

[@Payneonline]

@@diersteinjulien6773 You can

[@diersteinjulien6773]

@@Payneonline Maybe the randoms never gave me a solar system with a planet close enough to the sun to do it, then.

[@Brassbushings6911]

I really hope thwy add something with laval, like geo thermal power or mining it for stone for common and/or something rare

[@CByers-lh3zq]

man- have you seen the aquatic worlds yet? as of right now, you have to raise the sea bed in order to get the rare materials there- but i wonder if there will be sub-aquatic mining/oil processing coming somewhere down the line too.

[@aracuron9956]

@@CByers-lh3zq nice idea, we have those orbital collectors floating on Gas Giants, so why not also have seafloating platforms, or anchorings that cab be place in the sea and than a more compmex Variant of foundations can bbe laied..... So much Potential. Btw I have been to Such a World, just did not find this one Mountain World I can "shave" all this soil from, to raise whatever I want on oceanic Planet.

[@weiiswurst]

they added geothermal power plants :)

[@K21040]

Yep, those antimatter fuel rods are pretty darn op

[@pederw4900]

When you fast forward build it sounds like a jazz drum solo

[@Theminecraftian772]

Oh my god. Looking back on this now, after they've added Blueprints, it's just insane how much patience someone would have to have to set up all that manually. The game has improved a lot since this point, and it's crazy to think that it could get better when it's already so good.

[@archiesowerbutts8549]

One of the rocket producers is not working

[@GiulianoMazzina]

On the foundation tab, theres an option that lets you bury the minerals so you can build there and not build around them. Doesn't destroy minerals either, just 'hides' them.

[@davidvankasteren361]

It was very relaxing to watch you stamp them all down sped up. A fine episode! :D Keep it up

[@MutantParsleY]

Did you see the advanced build deconstruct mod? It seems really useful especially with copy inserters mod. You can build row of machines really quickly.

[@Harlequin_3141]

23:12 fyi modern Chinese is entirely read left to right, top to bottom just like western languages. Only archaic Chinese is printed right to left. But your point is still perfectly valid, that is a weird way to layout a production diagram!

[@railedivermandefreye8296]

CopyInserter mod got updated, works perfectly now!

[@Volkbrecht]

So much parking space, but the game doesn't let us have McDonalds...

[@waveclaw]

Hopefully there will be expansions / DLC. I'd love to see something to reuse a mined-out world. Perhaps like Ian Bank's orbitals: turn a dead planet into a ring by deconstructing it to make a new 'resource' node. Same for converting a planet into a Global Cassius or O'neill cylinders. You don't have to go as far as Orion's Arm and convert black holes into factories and neutron stars into supercomputers. But star lifting like Sharkov Thrusters and Matrosikia brain star clusters are well studied in the futurology literature deriving from Freemon Dyson's little paper about light.

[@TimmyBlumberg]

It's so confusing hearing the Factorio music at the end of the episode :P Great video as always~

[@assadqazi]

I missed the line: "If this is not beautiful guys, then I don't know what is?" Just love the way you play this game, and want to see more and more... I think you can [eventually] make your own STAR and name it as "NilauStar" having multiple or at least 2 Planets revolving around it... That would be lovely... Keep it up buddy.

[@jeffreyblack666]

It can make sense to have it go from right to left. The product is listed on the left, you look on the left hand side of a list of products to find what you want to make, you then look further right to see what it is made from.

[@AxeDatcm]

Yo bro, your Dyson sphere video always pop up on the top on my KZbin, and I always click it immediately I saw it

[@maxou1310]

Hello, Love the content ! I think you should check this mod : AdvancedBuildDestruct. It allow you to drag to build an array and it also allow to specify certain spacing with + and - key (not numpad). It is also working alongside CopyInserter. You can drag assemblers with inserters that way you only need to build the belts. I think you'll love it at least for laying your solar grid and more if you want to be a bit less carefull. I hope it can serve others too ;)

[@Nilaus]

I don't want to play modded generally, because I spend a disproportionate amount of time explaining why my game is different from the default experience. This is Early Access so I'd rather have the devs make changes than change the game myself. The CopyInserter is an exception because I would not be able to play the game without it due to RSI

[@maxou1310]

I understand that, I wouldn't have suggested a mod that change the game at this stage. AdvancedBuildDestruct is similar to CopyInserter and based on the same library (BepInEx). I don't want to mess with mods at this stage of the game but clicking 2000 times to place solar is not fun for me and it seems to me that it is not fun for you either. I'm sure the functions of theese 2 mods will be included into the game at some point.

[@emanuelronco8088]

Just amazed at the effectivity of this man

[@crazymammoth]

i know after watching Nilaus build all other lets plays look like trash, even my own personal game lol

[@buzz1ebee]

I'm looking forward to seeing the next video with artificial suns implementation! They only produce 30MW more than the energy exchangers so they aren't a huge step up power wise. However they will free up deuterium to be used for other needs (like rockets). I've been building mega smelting arrays too as I can then just ship in ores from any system and if a vein runs out it's no big deal. To help with throughout you can put another ISL station with remote demand and local supply nearby as it will double the collection rate and the local drones can quickly ship it over.

[@AsherMaximum]

Since the Graviton Lenses increase power consumption as well as photon output, I'd think it would make more sense to not use them until you ran out of space to place the Ray Receivers, right? One Receiver with Lenses has the same output as 2 without, and uses the same amount of power, but consumes the extra resources of Graviton Lenses.

[@silvioh9585]

I tought my Build with 1 Rocket per Sec / 3 White Sience per Sec and 20 Solar Sails per Sec is big but your Builds are just insane for Watching.

[@ArnabAnimeshDas]

well, you have to be considering that you want to control a whole galaxy

[@TobiasFischerTF]

i wish the logistic towers would be copy/pastable with the filters :D

[@weiiswurst]

algorithmic comment (READ THE NEXT ONE)

[@haku8135]

Earth-You drained the ENTIRE star, that's not even supposed to be physically possible, WHAT DID YOU BUILD?

[@zwojack7285]

played through the tech tree so far, but cant be assed to play it any further without the official implementation of a blueprint thing..

[@efeyilmaz6720]

Love the vids pls KEEP IT UP ❤️

[@Karl.Jones.2023]

This is an algorithmic comment 😂😂😂

[@Zaoresor]

You are awesome! This is factual, useful and algorithmic. I don’t believe you will just leave all this resources and don’t strip-mined all...

[@fortyforty-seven1061]

that alarm gave me ptsd and a cold sweat, other than that great video 👍

[@shadowhenge7118]

I wonder what size a tower caps out at for drone throughput at each research level.

[@ltjon1924]

Sooo... I have no idea how to progress from beginning game to mid game to where ever the hell you are.... I think I got about 48 hours into my 1st game, and I have used nothing BUT wind... then I find out that know it all guru thinks I'm dumb... ego deflated! Lol but in fairness I ignored the tutorial, and just started playing, and it was somewhere between 12-20 hours that I found the little feeder nipples on the miners... I had been manually transferring from miners to fill up big Stack Storage Containers... also, I've never played one of these Factory games, so I have a total spaghetti mess and feel like I totally need to scrub the whole thing... I think if you saw my Planet your head would implode... I have tons and tons and tons of refined oil that I have just kept building storage tanks... it literally looks like some meth head tried building a factory.

[@Guizmus1]

Thanks for the efforts you put into those videos. I take the time to watch them actively and it is a good content. You rocked on Factorio, happy to see you have fun on this game too

[@rubhan94]

I'm tempted to get the copy mod right now. Been AFK a lot but my save is at 116h now. The factory makes 400/m of all the sciences except for the universe matrix. ( I haven't made a single solar sail yet, but I've a got a disco ball planet going that is tidally locked to it's sun )

[@Stemanar]

Is my math off on the fractal silicon build? Wouldn't you need 80 assemblers to consume a full belt at 1.5? Or did I misunderstand and he was just aiming for 80 total. Cause he could double that build right?

[@ViewerTim]

Try to color code the Polar stations with belts of science cubes. e.g. find which prime meridian would be for example east (Or choose at random, it has little meaning gameplaywise which is which) and add a *red science belt in front of the interplanetary tower, and west would be blue for example. You'll never get lost what is where if you're consistent with it.

[@jeffreyblack666]

Technically not all your starting points are on the N pole. The game incorrectly labels planets as reverse rotation rather than labelling the axial tilt as greater than 90 degrees. The north pole follows the right hand rule. If you make a "thumbs up" with your right hand, your thumb points north and your fingers wrap around in the direction of rotation of the planet. This means that unless the rotation period is less than an orbit, the sun will rise somewhere to the east and set somewhere to the west. This provides an objective way to determine the N pole on any planet, regardless of its axial tilt and regardless of the presence of nearby stars or other celestial objects. It also allows a solution to the hypothetical case of a 90 degree axial tilt. So the N pole on that reverse rotation planet is actually the south pole. An example of this in real life is Venus with an axial tilt of ~177 degrees.

[@dimasadraws]

Do cool pattern on the dyson sphere, just straight line is kinda boring to be honest. But still effective, yes..

[@Demon-ft1th]

All the designs, blueprints and ideas, it makes me jealous even though I'm close to Mission Complete and it will be for the very first time.

[@eplanti]

already tested smelting arrays thoroughly. At capacity, max output belts = three, after that you can't get enough ore into the station fast enough and it just runs out in between supply runs, its better to do two different ores on one station. Also... finding a tidally locked planet produces double the output for ray receivers.

[@DestineysGuardian]

How do you get the miners put at an angle?? I cant do that myself.

[@weiiswurst]

hold shift so it doesnt snap to the grid hold R to rotate it slowly Fun fact, the instructor and the guide tells you this as well but ain't nobody got time for that

[@finnpearson6753]

Why do you hate raising belts?

[@orionmedivh5859]

Hi Nilaus, have you thought about building a dyson sphere around a black hole? That would be an interesting thing to see...

[@javierzurera986]

The circuit boards don't have any warper, maybe you could provide them to other systems from there? IDK if that would be wasteful

[@virgin8r]

You don't need it on the providing tower if the receiving tower has warpers and logistics vessels

[@stormd]

would it be more effective to encase planets within the sphere so that ray receivers anywhere on the planet's surface can have 100% visibility uptime to the sail arrays?

[@thomasvnl]

"I don't like wind turbines", uses wind turbines in newer videos saying they are super nice because of the area of effect :')

[@CWilsonV]

You can warp without shift btw :D

[@Jomanda76]

Wait wait wait.... There is a "Copy mod"? ....... Are you telling me, I have just completed my 150 hour+ game building the complete, max size Dyson Sphere placing everything manually, when there is a copy mod??? Sorry, I just got up and walked around the block....

[@Nilaus]

it has only been out for a couple of days and only the release today makes it work perfectly. So if you played "too fast" then yes, you suffered more than you needed

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

Don't use the southern hemisphere to shoot at the dyson sphere. Use the equator. The problem is the angle. It only shoots half the year if too far north or south. Really close planets struggle to not shoot through themselves or straight up. The angles are extreme

[@terakahn]

Nilaus just sitting there with a casual 10.3 Million soil pile and I'm here struggling to get enough to fill in this puddle.

[@samfriend3675]

So, I did some maths... The scale of the endgame really doesn't live up to the name of the game. Assuming you want 6000 universe matrices per minute (i.e. 10 per SECOND), and you have the resources for the other matrices, the limiting factor should be the dyson sphere. You need 10 antimatter per second, which equates to 5 critical photons per second. From what was shown, one ray receiver taking 25 MW generates 2 critical photons every minute, or one every 30 seconds (at the low end, its a better rate when they're fully charged). That means you'd need 150 ray receivers, which consumes... 3.75 GW. Which, while a huge number, is already only about a third of the current dyson sphere, yet alone a completely encased star. And that's for a rate of research that would complete end game researches in minutes (or less, for some). It seems like a shame to me. The game starts off really strong, but it looks like (at least from my perspective as a viewer) the endgame isn't nearly as good. The game makes a point of having a cluster of 64 stars with various resources, but outside of your starting system - and maybe a second one if you decide to build the dyson sphere in a different place - there's no reason to treat any of them as anything more than mining colonies, no different than a train stop at a mineral patch in factorio. The game makes a big deal about the dyson sphere, but even a half-assed attempt at building one is more than enough to get you a decent rate of research - it might even be possible with just a swarm, not even building a complete sphere (though that would likely be an entirely different challenge). Make no mistake, the game looks awesome, and the idea certainly is, but I feel the endgame needs a tune-up, if not a rework. EDIT: Corrected the maths for the size of his Dyson sphere - its bigger than I thought. He has WAY more power than he needs - there's no way he'll need as many critical photons as he's making. I can only hope that splitting them into antimatter takes enough power to justify the dyson sphere.

[@Nilaus]

The missing tech: Accelerant may be something power hungry or maybe something else is added later, but I do agree that power seems quite unlimited when you have a Dyson Sphere as it currently stands

[@AnthraxCat]

The resource cost of Graviton lenses doesn't feel worth it to me. Did some quick math, and building 50 receivers supplied by lenses will take 105 minutes to consume as much iron as making 100 Receivers, and 60 minutes for the copper cost. Even going up to 200 receivers, to account for both time they're not active and the double efficiency, you'd only need to be generating for 3h to equal out the cost.

[@Nilaus]

it is not just the increased output, but also the fact that they work much better at night

[@1Rictec]

this was funny i dont enouth silicon either and my base is very very small lol.i think those CPU are made to ruin every single base in any size lol

[@tuqann]

Yes, right to left because of the written Mandrine language. Even when they write in columns they still arrange them right to left.

[@jonathanrichards593]

That would be more convincing if you could spell Mandarin! That's a spoken language, though, not a writing system. Apparently, the People's Republic of China mandated writing of Chinese characters in horizontal lines, left to right, in 1955... (according to an Encyclopedia Anyone Can Edit).

[@davidwhiteley7189]

You gotta find 1 of the stars with 1 or more planets with a reverse orbit that makes for LONG days. You can get the maximum +200% input from them with the ray converters. Load it into Accumulators and These PHOTONS.

[@Ramschat]

I'll do you one better: I made my first sphere on a planet that is tidally locked: perpetual day on half of the planet! Then shipped the photons to my homeworld :D So effective, all of them are 100% continuously receiving rays!

[@robertgreen2518]

Love your videos. Another KZbinr I like is Francis John. He shows off screen work by a few screenshots strung together. Not sure if you have the time to do it but it brings an extra level of professionalism. Keep up the amazing work, does make me look bad as my 80hr gametime has no where near the scale that yours does :)

[@Nilaus]

I am familiar with what he does, but I prefer this way of showing the progress. Sometimes in ONI there is a skip of 100 cycles, which disconnects me from the progress. Personal taste I suppose

[@drakedbz]

One of the outputs for photons going out of a ray receiver isn't connected properly. It's right next to one of your logistics stations.

[@Ramschat]

Why are all your ray receivers working? some of them look like they are pointing away from the dyson sphere

[@Wargarbler2]

I was thinking about the setup you made to stop the wastefulness of the discharging of the accumulators; Can that be solved by just having an array of placed accumulators? They may absorb excess and discharge automatically? It may not work, but it may be simpler than what you made.

[@richardcagle5475]

anyone who hasnt set up massive smelting by now is very confused why you dont run out of everything all the time

[@btluetmqa7786]

Dyson Sphere Programm is an amazing game, thank you for bringt it into my world

[@stormzangel9235]

You're doing amazing stuff here. I wondered if you mixed the photon output with the graviton inputs, and then filtered out the photons to your logistics. Would that block your gravitons from being used as soon as the photons get backed up?

[@richardchieng9252]

As a native Chinese speaker, it's not because of the language the devs making it right to left (afaik ,Arabic letters go that way) , probably to emphasize the product lol

[@jonathanrichards593]

And it works! If you look at the programming language APL, it works exactly in this way, with the result at the left, and the "chain of production" reading leftwards. Can I paste some APL, I wonder... (~R∊R∘.×R)/R←1↓⍳R Oh, apparently I can. This expression calculates the prime numbers between 2 and R, inclusive.

[@AskZch]

Love your Dyson Sphere Program AND SC reference.. AND your style so dropping the comment and the like pn all vids for da Algorithm of d00m since I can't afford to support you. 🙏 varied comment content varied comment content

[@zeocamo]

it goes from right to left because they are programmers, and that is how code works ex. int mynumber = 40 + 2;

[@Nilaus]

What you are listing is the definition of mynumber and then following is the function for the value. That doesn't make any sense when considering 2 Antimatter + 2 Hydrogen = 2 Critical Photon

[@Rogerfoulger]

you need the critical photons for the anti matter for the fuel but also in production of the White matrix, I didn't have enough setup to begin with now it's running more optimal (for me anyway)

[@rauminen4167]

That was quite amazing. Both the build and also the visuals man.... just walking around on that planet next to the sphere, oh my.

[@derekr6124]

Been an amazing series so far. Super helpful and over the course of the last couple of weeks the amount of fun/ease of keeping up in material in running through the game due to your scaling information has been such a difference.

[@jeffreyspinner5437]

I tested putting the receivers just outside it's light blue _footprint_ area of influence (not the red/blue shading of the item itself), and I got mo' production from them (with or without lenses) better than the way you have it... same is true for the receivers generating powa. Try it, you'll like it! Splitting critical photons in the colliders are uber power hungry too, so keep that in mind.

[@Nilaus]

They are not dependent on proximity to other entities...

[@jeffreyspinner5437]

@@Nilaus [Looks like I'm wrong, given I didn't take into account the Continuous receiving percentage. Waiting to verify... maybe I have to think in more than two steps... if so, don't mind me... *confirmed you are right!* Maybe playing games after retirement (early retirement) isn't enough to stop your brain from turning into mush. Pls at least appreciate my Ps work...] -Ok, so show me how this is wrong then (I have had times where I couldn't see something right in front of me, so you never know...), cause I see an obvious drop in both photon and power production based on proximity:- imgur.com/h85PB7k imgur.com/BcR0W3V _-Hmmmm, maybe the efficiency isn't 100% yet... have to verify that too... but I'm basing my inference on Max Power (!)-_ -It seems given I think in more than one step, I noticed it on the second step as an issue... so I changed my organization to alternate photon and power receivers because if done that way, they keep their max production or power production. (It becomes a pain in the butt, cause you can't tell by looking what the receiver is doing, i.e., photons or power... so I had to click on them to make sure I'm connecting the right ones to my ILS).- -I offer you this, cause I saw it by accident and you've contributed alot to my gameplay, so I offer you this observation. Not as a gotcha, but as a contribution to iteratively better approximation to a global maximum (whether or not unique).- -Please note, I had to use my mouse and not my graphics tablet for Ps, so I hope you appreciate my suffering for this issue. I would use a stylus on everything if I could...-

[@ArnabAnimeshDas]

If you have ray receivers in a planet with an atmosphere and you feed it graviton lenses, you don't need to consider if it is facing the star or not. You can place it in the dark side and it will just use the ionosphere to generate photons.

[@iestynne]

How do you tell if a planet is considered to have an atmosphere...? even the barren rocks seem to have a thin kind of haze around them

[@ArnabAnimeshDas]

@@iestynne mostly barren and icy planets. You will know when you don't have wind power.

[@murrayboyton8779]

Thanks for another great episode. I'm struggling with my game currently, as it's not perfect so i come here to get that fix.

[@kevinmccart5582]

Still Trying to catch up with you having a blast with your playthrough can't wait to get the game so i can try some of the things i have learnd from you

[@baicaibangx]

Anyone knows if different types of suns produce different levels of energy to the Dyson sphere? I have already setup 50 sail shooters in my starting system, but if brighter sun do indeed gives more power, I will consider to build the Dyson sphere in a different system 🤔

[@raisins7777]

Yes, power scales with the "Luminosity" stat, the star brightness.

[@Nilaus]

They do. Look at the Luminosity of the star. O Type is the best

[@azy83]

Production tooltip reads right to left but the quest tree reads left to right so i dont think its a chinese thing, perhaps simply a design choice by the developer. its odd none the less

[@CByers-lh3zq]

to get more pink stuff for the orange processor chips- find a black hole and get some monopole magnets- super efficient to process!

[@Nilaus]

Next on the agenda, except going for a Neuron Star instead

[@wajdaz87]

i wonder if receivers will work if they are not facing sun, but they still are inside the dysons sphere.. makes no sense, but you can build super giant dysons sphere that makes closest planet to the sun be inside the sphere. sorry for my bad english

[@MoDlegion]

There is a technology you can research that will make the receivers work even when not facing the right way. Not sure what happens when its inside the sphere though.

[@wajdaz87]

@@MoDlegion im not sure wich technology you are talking about, is it transmission efficiency? I started building the biggest possible sphere, and all of my ray receivers around equator went to 100% continuous receiving.

[@MoDlegion]

@@wajdaz87 Should be 'Planetary Ionosphere Utilization', it does require the gravity lens though to work.

[@wajdaz87]

@@MoDlegion ooh, i dont use lens :) i guess that means u can get receivers to work 24/7 without lenses

[@williamjenks8343]

Your next step make miniature particle colliders below the ray receivers to separate the photon to get antimatter so you can start making antimatter fuel rods

[@sampathsris]

Can't wait to see that blue giant totally covered. :D

[@IExistSometimes]

This is the real power of scale and this game demonstrates it well

[@matteocdt5214]

now a little question: considered all the infrastructure required to capture photons(making graviton lens is not necessary), process them into antimatter, assembly them into fuel rods and then feeding them into artificial stars, the power produced by the stars is actually larger than the power used to produce the fuel rods? or it's just better to harness the dyson sphere directly into power?

[@kiranmeyers6558]

The fuel rods are space efficient. The ray receivers convert the dyson sphere power into photons at a much higher rate than directly into power. And the antimatter fuelrods can be shipped anywhere as the most efficient form of power transportation.

[@Nilaus]

It doesn't matter. Solar energy is infinite, but converting it to a transportable form cost something, but that energy is realistically free since it comes from a star

[@Ramschat]

It takes more infrastrusture to convert it directly into energy, because you need to build a lot more ray receivers to do that. Antimatter requires only a handfull of particle colliders and assemblers, it's actually incredible how little infrastructure you need for the gargantuan amounts of power it allows you to tap into

[@SuperDomKiki]

Yesterday you were saying you wouldn't use the Copy Mod anymore, as it could corrupt the save file. As you're using it again, I assume it's been patched so the risk is off ?

[@Nilaus]

not yesteday, the day before and yes it was patched and works quite well now

[@MrD_Racing]

It is incredible how beautiful that game is.

[@stephenc909]

can someone please tell me how to make my conveyor belts curve into a circle like I keep seeing ? I can only build them in 2 directions, but I'm seeing everyone make rings around their research facilities

[@Dhakhar]

build at the poles

[@enire8477]

Loving it. Now that you are caught up on the rocket launches for a couple episodes, couldn't you add the extra node points inbetween the current ones on the sphere to help it build faster?

[@Nilaus]

you cannot add/change an existing sphere. You will need to destroy it to change it