Shell blueprints

[ZoomMan24]

Looking for some good shell blueprints, that are not too heavy load for the CPU, and dont take too long (not more than 10 hours) to build. Any help is appreciated!

[cswiger]

Build a small ring in the initial +/- 15 degree region. How long it takes to build depends on you and how fast you produce sails and carrier rockets.

You can do white science with only a Dyson swarm and no sphere, if need be.

[josmith7]

Also the time to complete is going to be influenced far more by the size of layer you paste the design onto, than to the design itself.

The number of elements necessary to build it going up essentially with the square of the radius -- double the radius and it'll take 4 times longer to build; quadruple the radius and it'll take 16 times longer to build.


Still, having more open areas (or forgoing the solar sail cells entirely) will speed completion (and reduce its performance impact) - and s sparser frame will similarly speed completion over a more tightly packed frame.