I respect that you don’t put your BPs behind paywalls. In this crazy days some of us cannot afford donations. Your videos always lift me especially after a rough day. I wish you an amazing and successful 2024!

Found out the hard way that they don't really appreciate me shooting crap into orbit around the sun....was not fun..

@DonnaPinciot

7 ай бұрын

Aww, that kinda sucks. I always liked the idea of phasing out planetary power production in favor of the titular Dyson Sphere (Or Swarm, in this case). My last run, I avoided the fusion reactor thing and mainly used solar sails once they became available. It was pretty cool to see them in orbit around the sun and being able to slap down a receiver on a new planet rather than a whole array of panels or other things.

@WH40ktyranids

7 ай бұрын

Yea they also steal part of your energy generation but I havnt been able to find a way to actually destroy the hive

@12463trf

7 ай бұрын

I just started up this patch, I'll keep this in mind. Hopefully I don't run into the same mistake. Curious about hive breaking, been reading some people can't do it 😮

@insertnamehere4550

7 ай бұрын

@@DonnaPinciot You can still kinda ignore fusion reactors and not rely on a dyson sphere/swarm by using energy exchangers (and they have been buffed by the last patch!). In my run on the previous patch I reached endgame tech by relying mostly on accumulators shipped from the starter lava planet (which I covered of geothermal generators). Nilaus has a couple videos on energy exchangers to make them scale easily and balance empty accumulators production to ensure empty accumulators coming back from your energy consuming planets are prioritized over building new accumulators. This balancing is very important to avoid the 'network' getting overflowed of empty accumulators, which would prevent your energy consuming planets from getting rid of their empty accumulators. Windy planets are also a good candidate for energy export via accumulators.

@insertnamehere4550

7 ай бұрын

@@WH40ktyranids Corvettes and destroyers. It's better to occupy all planets in the system first, else relay stations (the thing hovering over dark fog ground bases) will attempt to rebuild the hive.

Regarding your tower/blueprint placement -- one thing I've done is adjust my planet-wide 'skeleton' blueprints (I guess it would be your solar/power pole blueprint in this case) to partially outline the footprints of logistic tower locations with t1 belts. I usually don't pull out of the 'back' of the tower, so the outlines don't get in the way at all, and they're super helpful in doing quick placement & construction (and avoiding irritating mistakes)

If you get attacked do a planetwide supernova gun charge, that should deal with them much faster before they target something unshielded. I also noted that you have an insane amount of ships attacking you. Thats what your difficulty setting does. Lvl 3 hive attacking with 36 ships is alot. If the hive levels up you will soon be staring towards 50+ ships and probably breaking over 100 attacking ships at lvl 10.

Hmm... You know what might be a neat challenge for a DSP series? One planet challenge. It seems that higher level Dark Fog drops everything you need to complete the game. So technically beating the game without ever leaving your starting planet is possible...

i just realized you can deploy space fleets while on a planet and the ships orbits the planet is super cool!

honestly i do look forward to the master class on your builds(the new hub that you made looks awesome)

Followed you for years, I love the way you've balanced efficiency with aesthetics. You've got a small error in your new early hub blueprint, at least in the google drive. The second magnet factory is not fed by the last smelter.

Thx for the video! It's quite interesting to see how much smaller production "units" have become!

I’m getting good at this, but I guess if I’m anticipating your videos this much I should probably hit the bell, lol. Thanks for all the blueprints and great reference points!

Looking forward to seeing you try the supernova feature on a group/planet burst. Supernova + plasma turrets is a beautiful instant melting of a fleet like that.

Lol...I played this game for several years and never has try to use the blueprints until now...tks kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

For the light oil (to make the plastic etc), any reason not to use the extra refinery recipe to get rid of the hydrogen and instead get an extra light oil for a coal? You can put two refineries back to back and direct feed them together, making a pure light oil output from just crude and coal.

A death world playthrough would be awesome!

Lets go

Nilaus there is a bug in your starter red science blueprint; 2 refineries are missing 1 sorted each for refined oil input. Stay effective!

you can actually see dark fog seeds on the map, its quite worrying to see them migrate slowly but that will not stop me

They seem to attack wherever you are. I have had them fly past multiple planets to come to my home world. They attacked that world because you went there.

No way to farm space debries?

Maybe I missed that, but do you use implosion cannons for anything? I cant find a good reason to use them because of how powerful missiles are.

@rekrn12345

7 ай бұрын

I use their ammo in the mech when I have to manually go blow up a hive.

question: you play with finite resources and shoot a lot of that as sails into a swarm. that feels like a waste? Why not a sphere first and then sails, and not perma lose the recources spent on the sails?

@thomasbaldwin2801

7 ай бұрын

The sails dont use many resources, so if you need power but dont have the automation for rockets, then may as well make a swarm

@Nilaus

7 ай бұрын

Graphene is free from gas giant and the photon combiner is basically just stone. Way cheaper than burning fuel

Did you know that if you drop a BP that you are missing buildings for, and it's showing white, if you get and drop those buildings in the BAS it will start placing them.

2:22 How does he get his BP view to zoom out so far? CTRL+C for me and max zoom out shows a large portion of the planet, no where near as zoomed out as he gets it Literally just found it after commenting, Press 'J' for a forced Top-Down view, which allows you to zoom out further

can you upload the full streams somewhere?

@Kiaulen

7 ай бұрын

They're on the VoDs channel, Nilaus Tv, usually, or on twitch if you prefer

@InquisitorHades

7 ай бұрын

@@Kiaulen great

Do you build 1 Dyson Sphere per solar system ? Should I bother with one in my starter system ? I just arrived at purple science after 35h playtime XD

idk know if it´s fixed at the end of the episode but your Proliferation blueprint has an error: The belt from the Box to the Tower is the wrong way

bro i need a dark fog research tuto, been farming those mofo hours and i dont know what to do with those items

Nilaus, you are not proliferating the coal input to the proliferation manufacture. Or are you proliferating the coal elsewhere?

@Nilaus

7 ай бұрын

Never proliferate raw common resources

@Gnrnrvids

7 ай бұрын

@@Nilaus Any reason for that? i would think you want to proliferate the coal at least the early game to stretch it further.

NILAUS... i cant use twitch... twitch wont email me a password rest... do u have play list that explains more math pleaseee :(

Hot take, the DSP bus line is 100 times better than Factorio's

@bullydungeon9631

7 ай бұрын

Well yes there is a vertical component in dyson

I'm disappointed at how unthreatening the enemies seem. I hope the community are rife with ideas to help the dev add to their danger. They certainly aren't as frightening as biters.

@yusuf7079

7 ай бұрын

fr, they should add like bosses to the enemy on some waves

@TminusDoom

7 ай бұрын

He started on normal difficulty then turned on rampage after he got set up. (Basically 'Baby's first Dark Fog') You can 10x it when starting a game for a real challenge.

Third

i dont like we have no way of properly finishing the space hive

@insertnamehere4550

7 ай бұрын

We can. It's way easier if you occupy all planets in the system, then the hive will slowly starve itself out by throwing relay stations at you (you need to destroy them, not just destroy the ground bases) until it can no longer build anything, including spaceships.

@rekrn12345

7 ай бұрын

You can you will just need to be pretty much done with the tech tree to be able to do it.

Idk man… I very much enjoy your videos and builds but don’t have the time to watch a full stream. I don’t like seeing a huge tech jump. Like your last video jumping to you already having interplanetary logistic stations. I know you’ve covered them before, just using it as an example. Would very much like longer videos covering everything major.