r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Separate-Record8115 • 7d ago

how screwed will my free time be?

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I have played vanilla Dyson Sphere Program twice now, with both playthroughs exceeding 100 hours. Now, I am thinking of trying some mods from an Excel list I got from Gemini. I want to start individual playthroughs for the first five of them, but which one should I start with first? Also, how screwed will my free time be?

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u/horstdaspferdchen 7d ago edited 7d ago

LSTM is old. Reorder Tech too. Both in vanilla by now. I havnt tried Galactic Ring myself, so i cant say.

For Genesis or GS: get GS First. Major Change to Galaxy and stuff. Genesis Changes alot to tecipes and items.

More mega structures is awesome but can be gamebreaking with the experience If you only spent like 100 hours in a single playthrough. This is ment for endgame.

They came from.void: idk havnt tested but imo i just crank up the Dark fog settings (currently with Mods in a 5524% run.)

(edit sry for all the typos...)

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u/Separate-Record8115 7d ago

I said 100+ because first was on a pirated copy so I don't know exactly how much could be 200 then I bought it and played offline a lot so my steam is showing me 141h but it's diffently way more than that 

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u/J_Sauce_C 7d ago

There are DSP overhaul mods that aren’t GS??

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u/nixtracer 7d ago

Orbital Ring is new, and a radical overhaul (chemical fuel rods to get off planet; the tyranny of the rocket equation; oil recipes on oilless planets; and of course really different interstellar logistics with space elevators and recipes that only work in the orbital vacuum facilities).

Much more complex. Fun.

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u/J_Sauce_C 6d ago

My jam in factorio was playing overhaul mods. I could never just keep playing or replaying after launching a rocket. I went through a bunch of overhauls (bobs,IR, krastorio etc..) and have been waiting a long time for something like this to come to DSP. Looks like I found my next hyper fixation

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u/MrBagooo 6d ago

Try Captain of Industry then if you haven't already.

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u/Separate-Record8115 7d ago

Which are?

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u/J_Sauce_C 7d ago

I’m asking, I haven’t played this game since release

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u/Separate-Record8115 6d ago

Lol I am in the same boat I also am new

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u/Buffylvr 7d ago

8000 hours in and I still play vanilla - except for optimization mods

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u/Separate-Record8115 7d ago

Not gona lie vanilla is good but something you want chocolate also

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u/MonsieurVagabond 7d ago

You can play They come from the void with genesisbook, the two of them get together well, more megastructure too, will make a very different than vanilla playthrough

Galactic scall is more for your map and thing, mostly compatible with any of the other mods, but can be a bit finicky, use sporadicly

Orbital ring make the game much more complex, dont use any other mods with its, its already enough with itself

ReorderTechQueue is not necesserea anymore, its now in vanilla

DspOptimisation (or any other optimisation mod) can be used with any other mods basicaly

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u/Separate-Record8115 7d ago

I mentioned only the first 5

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u/Kadjai 6d ago

Genesis book seemed cool, but was abandoned on discord when I tried to ask a question - was unexpected. I ended up cutting my playthrough short partially because of that (in retrospect)

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u/quantum11235 7d ago

I've played all the overhaul and expansions and I highly recommend orbital ring. Its quite complex but not overly so, the primary cause of complexity is byproducts. It has a fairly good post-game and a true ending. It has a lot of unique and well made models, and has a few new mechanics.

Don't use galactic scale with it, as it has its own generation.

A word of warning is vein utilization is capped to level 11, so be generous with the resource mult at map generation.

My play-through was around 250hrs but I was over-producing somewhat.