Dyson Sphere planner is awful

[Dragow]

The fact that you cant mirror/copy/paste etc actually makes me wanna quit the game. I cant think of any reason why devs want us to throw away multiple hours of our life by manually putting vertices on a sphere, without even the slight convinience of being able to center it!
I hope i will find some pre-made blueprints on the Internet, but this is just god-awful.

[Zigamus]

There is a mod for doing that, it even includes symmetry options to multiply your 'clicks' around the sphere.

[Rekal]

Here you go: https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints?type=dyson_sphere

Just be careful when copy/pasting the spheres. If you already have any sphere parts constructed already they'll get destroyed and turned back into sails when you paste a new blueprint in. So always save before you make changes.

Edit: And it is literally copy pasting. You copy it from the website and paste it into the game. There are two paste buttons, one on the left for the current layer and one on the right for the entire sphere and swarm. Not very well identified, so like I said. Save first.

[Dragow]

Thanks, guys, but are they achievement compatible?

[josmith7]

Originally posted by Dragow:

Thanks, guys, but are they achievement compatible?

Yes. Blueprints (regular, dyson sphere, or dyson layer) are all achievement compatible.

[ishe5555]

You can copy/paste from one layer to another or from a dyson sphere you have built to another star. And you can paste blueprints obtained from outside the game as mentioned above. But yes, the interface could use some work, such as allowing you to copy/paste sections of a layer and paste to other areas in that same layer, among other QOL improvements.

[Rekal]

I think some default spheres for each latitude tech unlock available right there in the game that you could upgrade properly when you unlock the higher latitude techs would go a long way. The whole manual sphere design as it is is definitely a daunting task. I think I spent close to 90 minutes on the first one I designed back before blueprints...and the experience cemented the fact in my mind that I'm no artist.

Some type of fractal or abstract randomizer would be cool too. So you could just hit the random button until you saw something that tickled your fancy. Plus a final power output estimate for when the drawn pieces were finished...instead of just a current output number which doesn't help at all for Dyson Sphere planning.