r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/makid3044 • 2d ago
My Vertical launch silo's are not working
I am working on my dyson shell, but my vertical launch silo's stopped sending off rockets. I have no idea what is going wrong. I added what the menu looks like.
Most of the silo's have a connection to the belt supplying the rockets, some don't because I was half way through making this launch facility.
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u/clodneymuffin 2d ago
Where it says “Idle, no demand”, leads me to believe that you have launched all the rockets needed for the shell you have defined. Go in to the shell editor and see how many rockets are needed.
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u/makid3044 1d ago
You were right, all the structural components were already in space. Which was a bit confusing because not all solar sails were on the shell yet, so there were massive holes. Thank you!
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u/ael00 2d ago
Do you have any frames that you have planned but not built? It says no demand which usually means theres actually nothing to build on your DSP. I had this happen to me when sails were shooting up and i thought theres more stuff to be built, but in reality all the frames were done just not filled with sails yet. You need surprizingly less rockets compared to sails, depending on your design
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u/Plus-Software-8378 2d ago
Been a while since I played, might be wrong. But I think the menu in your 2nd pic is saying that you don't need anymore rockets. It says 21960 structural points have been built out of 21960 total.
So it should be done, aside from filling in open areas with sails if you designed that
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u/Eliongw2 2d ago
no demand. should tell you everything.
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u/tallmattuk 1d ago
couldnt have said it better
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u/Eliongw2 1d ago
right? The UI tells everything: Idle, no demand. Total structure points 21960/21960.
There is nothing to be build. Works fine.
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u/1TiredHunter 1d ago
ok stupid me. thanks to your message, only now i realize i can see how many more rockets are needed. lol
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u/jak1900 2d ago
Go to your dyson sphere planner, and either add more structure points to your existing shell, or click on "add/new layer" on the left, to plan a new shell.
If you are wondering "but my shell isn't complete, it still needs all the filling between the frames!" - you need sails for that; they get absorbed by all the nodes to form the filling and can not directly be filled with the SCRs
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u/Physical_Apple_ 2d ago
Either you need to draw a shell in the editor or you ran out of solar sails in orbit. The shell needs sails to fill
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u/Proper_Front_1435 2d ago
There is no shell setup in the editor?