A Factory Sim That Works - Dyson Sphere Program Review 2024 

Wow, what a great way to start the day! I'll try my best, and thank you!

Facts. I was exactly the same. Such a great quality content. I genuinely though I am listening 1m subscribers channel. Hope to see this channel grow.

It is indeed very cool, ive pkayed through it before and it's easily my favorite factory sim, and one of my favorite games in general. The darkfog update was really awesome, and the pure scale you can make your factories is insane, like, spanning the galaxy (if your computer can handle one that big, at least) Not to mention dyson sphere art

@@iamacatperson7226So I’m bad at math but I managed to spaghetti my way to launching a rocket in Factorio. I really love it. Is Dyson sphere easier in the planning sense than Factorio? Similar at all? Can I make a spaghetti base?

@@terrydactyl2077 Firstly, the combat patch changed everything! This is the cocaine version of factory sim :) Now... spaghetti is my preferred method... as I do not want to keep track of perfect ratios and shipping times... I only track Full Belts. With this, all production obviously stops when everything is full to bursting because you can not have enough outbound shipping... !BUT! that is when all that extra power you were using to make stuff is instead jammed into batteries. with these batteries.. it is entirely possible to setup an entire star system in the dark (no threat)... meaning no dyson swarm or sphere for power generation, only the juice from other systems being shipped in. This lets you build Everything you need to swiftly build a Dyson Sphere AFTER you have already turned the system into a fortress. You can get this done between the natural threat cycles, which is the goal I always set for myself..... Warp Sail to a new system. Get it set up in the "dark". Then rapidly build a Dyson Sphere with all the planets fully ready to not only receive all that power.... but to defend themselves from space attacks (which the Dark Fog needs to succeed at in order to land ground bases) Long Live The Flying Spaghetti Monster! May It's Noodley appendage touch ALL factory sim games 🤪😂🍁🦫❤🍻🍻

​@@terrydactyl2077spaghetti all the way in 3d! Complexity wise DSP is simpler than factorio but the experience of building dyson sphere is just hard to beat.

@@whensonzhou4174 Awesome! Sounds so cool the idea of all the planets and having an interconnected system to build a huge project in the middle! One thing I tend to do though is wait until a game is out of early access before playing. Sometimes like with Factorio I didn’t wait because of it being pretty much functioning and complete. Do you think I should wait longer for 1.0 with DSP or start playing now? Do they have a rough release date for 1.0?

I had no idea there was multiplayer! Will definitely try do a video on this one day to help others out too.

3000+ hrs! Wow! How many Dyson Spheres have you made? I still need to complete mine.

@@easilydistractedgames Far to many to count. My first few play throughs were to make 1TW of power in under 100 hours. That is a good challenge. Then I tried a playthru to make a sphere on all 63 suns (excluding the black hole) That took about 1000 hours. And now with the fog, 100 hours for 1TW is a lot harder.

That's a good idea, thank you, might do that next time!

That's great! Have you tried out Satisfactory too?

Thanks! That really means a lot! I loved Satisfactory too much, I really need to put more time into that game.

Wow I never knew that! Also yeah, I love the soundtrack in this, every time it boots up I know it's gonna be a good session.

Yup! I'm busy looking for a replacement. On Reddit they suggested Oxygen Not Included. Different style, but shares similar qualities. So might do a review on it later.

Actually, I'd like you to review a _website,_ of all things. Specifically, 'FactorioLab', the factory game calculator. Why that calculator in particular? Despite the name, it also supports Dyson Sphere, Satisfactory, Captain of Industry, Techtonica, _and_ Final Factory. It allows for *insanely* in-depth calculation of input and output ratios of anything in the game. Want to know how many of product A you can produce with only X machines when components B & C is limited to Y & Z per second? Easy. (You'll need to dedicate some time to figuring out all it can do, but it will be time *_well_* spent and your viewers will definitely appreciate your efforts.) Cheers!

That's awesome! Yeah I struggle to sink hours into sim games these days, but there was constantly satisfying aspects to the game that are often hard to translate here, people just need to experience it for themselves!

Me too! I think once they add multiplayer it can really take off.

They actually stated that multiplayer isnt planned in one of their steam posts however there is a mod for multiplayer.

Thank you so much! Do you have any genre preferences?

Thanks! That's weird, I guess the game trailers I featured were too old, and the footage I capture is it 1080 with some settings lowered to help with capture. Will keep that in mind though going forward.

@@easilydistractedgames It feels very much like 480p quality. You'll have to fiddle around with those settings a bit more. Compare your 1080p with other youtubers and you'll get what I mean. Good luck!

@@Orixoon thanks very much for the feedback, will try again next video!

Thanks so much for the feedback! I do see what you mean with the music. I guess it was that one song that got me hooked. When I try out the multiplayer soon I might switch it up, I'm just a sucker for space-themed music.

@@easilydistractedgames You are more than welcome, and yeah I agree that first track is amazing I love it still. As for multiplayer, I'm amazed at how well it works, for a mod and continued support by the dev it's beautiful I just hope it can get added natively, I've not had any problems with it even internationally (US-UK multiplayer commonly for me) and the thunderstore mod loader or R2ModMan makes install simple. And another plus for the game, it works fine on steamdeck (although external mouse and keyboard may be required or fiddling with controller through steam input bindings)

Great to hear! My one friend is getting a steam deck soon so that's awesome, will let him know.

Yeah it becomes very addictive very quickly.

Thank you! How many hours have you played so far?

@@easilydistractedgames i'm at like 109 hours in the last couple weeks lol

It's addictive right? I'm still planning on building the Dyson Sphere soon.

As someone who has played 2,200 hours according to Steam…yeah very addictive.

Yeah to be honest I would have preferred multiplayer over combat.

Putting Silicon and Titanium on the starting planet would be too easy not to encourage people to leave the planet. I have mates who didn't know you could leave the home planet. The game up till white cubes is really all tutorial. Once you get past that and start making infinite upgrade paths is where the game gets hard. So much balancing and power needs. The end goal should not have been 4k universal matrix but should have been 1TW or 1 PW of power for CentreBrain. I think the 4k cubes is far to short esp when you need millions of them by a few upgrades in endgame.

No ways! I must try it out soon!

How is Captains of Industry? I've been thinking about getting it but I'm not sure about it yet

Never heard of infracity. Is it any good?

ALL OF THEM IS GOOD

@@easilydistractedgames infra city is more a city builder

​@@iamacatperson7226best game ever, plays more like a city sim/rts game than a factory game. The scale is just epic, fully deformable terrain, lots of verticality if you like it. Also its possible to make some realistic looking factories. I played a lot of Satisfactory and DSP but nothing hit me like COI did. Best thing is its made by 2 devs and they update every few days and are very good at taking feedback.

Good catch! I've been trying to find those too. This footage was taken from the dev's trailer, so I'll try ask around and let you know!

@@easilydistractedgames ohh thanks, makes sense. Maybe that's something the broader public will get in a future update or with varied graphics settings. It's cool to see that despite how gorgeous the game already is, they have plans to make it look even better...

It's hard to say. The devs seem pretty set on the PC for now, especially with the combat update. Transferring to console will take up plenty of resources, so perhaps it'll come closer to its official release.

@@easilydistractedgames that would be cool because it's hard for me to get PC parts where I live and I don't know jack squat about how to find good parts my self sooo I'm kind of stuck as a console gamer.and DSP is a game I like but can't play ya know lol.

100% agree and it's something that threw me off initial playthroughs. However, after watching a tutorial on the game (think it's Dutch Actuary), he explained the importance of building malls, making it easy to find everything in one place. Not ideal, but that plus adding icons to conveyor belts really helped me find what I needed.

@@easilydistractedgames -- I can guarantee the company who can make a proper search function and a high rating game; will set the standard for every game moving forward. Devs often confuses difficulty with inconvenience.

What factors of Captains of Industry do you enjoy more compared to DSP?

I've just started, but thanks! That really means a lot.

I always mix up the pronunciation! I've seen almost all their videos but somehow managed to fumble the name here. My apologies!

@easilydistractedgames If I sound out the word in English, i'd spell it "Courts-gae-sahk-t" (scilent t, no e). It's okay, though. German is tough to pronounce sometimes, heck I'm native german and I have trouble pronnouncing things lol

Ahh no! Even on its lowest settings?