Dyson Sphere Program

Dyson Sphere Program

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Cyrus Feb 18, 2021 @ 11:53am
Solar Sail integration speed into the Dyson Sphere
So i have started building a radius 60000 Dyson Sphere about 30 hours ago and the Structure has been complete for about 8 to 10 hours.

Now the Solar Sails prove to be an issue. I am producing enough and have about 50000 constantly in my Dyson Swarm. But they integrate themselves into the Sphere so slowly that it will likely take more than another 30 hours to complete the panels.

Is there any way to speed this up?
Or is my only option to break down parts of the structure and add more nodes to it?
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--T-a-u-r-u-s-- Feb 18, 2021 @ 12:03pm 
Hard to tell look like nods are main entering point for sails

Try more orbits for swarm but I doubt that would help

Ichbinderkuli Feb 18, 2021 @ 1:21pm 
If you have a small number of nodes for large sail areas, they will go slower. Each node seems to only be able to process and accept a specific number of sails at a time.
Bobingabout Feb 18, 2021 @ 1:45pm 
with a very large sphere, I'd stop launching sails (as they have a timer), then remove a couple of the support beams, and replace them with shorter ones with more nodes. the deleted beam turns into sails.
slowly work on editing your sphere (or quickly if you don't care about the losses) and add more nodes.

Although larger spheres let you build to the same template, which means nodes are further apart, it's a good idea NOT to do that, due to the limited speed that sails enter... unless you don't care that it's going to take a long ass time to complete.
Nasabot Feb 18, 2021 @ 1:49pm 
I think every node can add 2/s (or 30/min?)
Last edited by Nasabot; Feb 18, 2021 @ 1:49pm
Nova Feb 18, 2021 @ 6:27pm 
I'm too lazy to start up the game and check but if my memory serves each node can command up to 120 sails for integration.
However depending on the orbits of the sails it can take quite some time for them to actually get from the injection point to the node I didn't stop the time but going by memory of visuals it seems like a sail enters the node every 2 seconds or thereabouts.
And yes the only way to speed up integration is higher ratio of nodes to sail area.
MrFailSauce Feb 18, 2021 @ 9:14pm 
This guy does the math. But tl;dr more nodes = faster solar sail integration.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2376558151
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Date Posted: Feb 18, 2021 @ 11:53am
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