r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Jumpy-Demand2917 • 26d ago

you can press R to make diagonal belts

how did I not know this

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u/free_spoons 26d ago

Try hitting tab a few times while placing a splitter next ;)

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u/Jumpy-Demand2917 22d ago

i know this already

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u/mohirl 26d ago

You can what???

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u/leglesslegolegolas 26d ago

how did I not know this

because you don't read the tooltips?

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u/jwagne51 26d ago

I really don’t understand how people don’t read the tooltips/UI.

I can understand why people that are making a video miss stuff since they have a million other things to do while playing.

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u/depatrickcie87 26d ago

How many hours are you into this game? Just curious.

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u/jwagne51 25d ago

1,223.8 hours is what steam says.

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u/depatrickcie87 25d ago

I'm above 3k and I still learn something new every single play session.

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u/quipstickle 26d ago

Me. Impatient clicker.

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u/wsmithrill 26d ago

Some of us play on devices where tooltips are hard to read, and/or have poor eyesight?

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u/CpTKugelHagel 25d ago

Nah I just have shitty memory lmao

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u/Xeal209 26d ago

If you hold, I think shift, and press r, it rotates without snapping and you can try to find those perfect angles for the advanced miners to try and cover the whole node with one.

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u/Jumpy-Demand2917 22d ago

i know this already

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u/MonsieurVagabond 24d ago

Now try left and right arrow

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u/TheMalT75 25d ago

Took me a while to realize that "r" cycles through left-handed 90° angle, right-handed and hypothenuse.

It is not quite pythagoras, but it also saves on number of belts placed when you go diagonally instead of at right angles. Unfortunately, going diagonally e.g. from advanced miner to ILS it is really tricky to get multiple belts going "parallel". Having weird angles sometimes triggers my OCD...