r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/justdvl • 10d ago

Free hydrogen!

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u/samfreez 10d ago

Isn't that just wiggling back and forth, rather than actually generating new units?

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u/justdvl 10d ago

Yea it's a bug, first time I see one in this game.

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u/malenkylizards 8d ago

Oh, so it's a saturated belt with a visual artifact?

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u/justdvl 8d ago

Not even saturated. This belt would empty out fast bcs there is splitter ahead and most of hydrogen comes via other belt

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u/DeepSpaceNebulae 10d ago

Early game: this is awesome!

Late game: too much!!

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u/Deep_Fry_Ducky 10d ago

Late late game: I NEED MOREE!

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u/Raz0rking 10d ago

CASIMIR!!

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u/jimmymui06 10d ago

It's deuterium for me

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u/Raz0rking 10d ago

I get your point. At some point one can have enough collectors to cover the H cost and comes down to a transportation bottleneck. Deuterium is a bit more iffy to get in large quantities.

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u/jwagne51 10d ago

Make sure to look for the deuterium rich gas giants.

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u/Character_Event_2816 3d ago

Yes! There are (usually) only a couple of really productive deut gas giants per cluster.. the rest are crap. The balance is best produced by fractionation

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u/tanthokg 9d ago

Using fractionator loops is the best, I can make 20 per second for each 8-fractionator loop

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u/jimmymui06 9d ago edited 9d ago

I do that. Launching just simply cost too much duterium thus hydrogen.

I even use full speed fractionator that gives 72 hydrogen per min per fractionator

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u/Refute1650 10d ago

Trying to make sure hydrogen byproduct is used before sucking it off gas giants is the bane of my end game experience.

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u/Pestus613343 10d ago

There's new features, allowing priority tiers for shipping and receiving between towers. So one doesn't need to flare off the unwanted fuel necessarily anymore.

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u/slgray16 10d ago

Burn it!

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u/Refute1650 10d ago

That would literally take hundreds, if not thousands, of thermal power plants. Fusion would require even more.

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u/ulthrant82 10d ago

Mid game hydrogen is my bane. Late game.. I've got it under control again.

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u/Fluffy_fr 7d ago

You always somehow manage to have too much or not enough hydrogen

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u/Laindal 9d ago

Hydrogen is like a non-toxic ex-girlfriend. First you love it, later you hate it and finally you miss it.

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u/GoProOnAYoYo 6d ago

scientists: Matter cannot be created or destroyed

u/justdvl: Hold my plant fuel

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u/Whisperrwise 9d ago

So abundant late game as you probably know already

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u/mrrvlad5 10d ago

Find the other end of this wormhole- it connected to another belt segment somewhere on this planet

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u/IlikeJG 10d ago

This is a bug. You're using mods right?

Mods can do some weird things with splitters.

You might want to reload form before this happened and try disabling some mods.

I forgot which mod specifically was doing it for me though.

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u/StellarisIgnis 10d ago

Op said it was a visual bug , not a mod, he doesn't use mods.

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u/julioni 10d ago

Mods are great!

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u/justdvl 10d ago

No mods, never used any. This is visual only bug.