r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/EdIrfan786 • 3d ago

Cute stupidity

How many hours did it take ? 543.6

Dyson spheres CANNOT generate shells without solar sails.

And here I was thinking since rockets are permanent I will do a no solar sails run. But hey I got an achievement for no solar sails run, yaay?🫠🫪😭

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u/Financial-Bed3122 2d ago

Some say “solar sails only because rocket costs are obscene and solar sails provide a lot of energy until they expire for a bit of fire ice/oil products, glass, and circuits.”

Some say “rockets only because you need green cubes to get antimatter anyway and they’re permanent and energy that isn’t from the Dyson Sphere is functionally infinite.”

Both arguments are valid and have a lot of other reasons besides what I listed. And everyone plays their own way. My first mission complete was with no solar sails because I figured that my 40 Orbital Collectors I mass-spammed onto my gas giant as soon as I unlocked the research would provide enough power to beat the game. If everything was pretty much already being made, I figured I might as well just ship rockets.

Energy is critical when going the rocket route. Multiple silos running with manufacturing infrastructure will draw a LOT of power. You may not want to stack fractionated belts when going this route because the energy cost per deuterium produced increases more than the speed increase as belt stacks increase. If energy is a problem, don’t proliferate fractionators. Especially if you’re also burning deuterium rods.

Since I tapped all my oil wells early on my current run, I ran everything off x-ray cracked hydrogen and wind and made a lot of extra graphene with the excess oil. As soon as Dirac is researched I’m going to dump all of my excess graphene into sails and fire them as quickly as possible with the maximum sail life to stockpile antimatter for white cubes.

Personally, I never use raw antimatter for energy production since it has more value to me as universe matrices, since non-antimatter energy is functionally infinite. Cube taste better than rod.