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Dyson Sphere Program (2021)

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Unvoiced. Enjoy the graphics and music of this beautiful game.

We have taken the time to set up the mining on all ore veins on our Pandora planet. I personally find this process quite relaxing. (Not oil, not yet - that is not needed at this stage. When it becomes needed then we can set up extractors, refineries, etc and export particle broadband directly instead of oil.)

As always our biggest bottleneck is power. What will support a planetful of mining (about 230 MW) will not support much refining as well. Brownouts galore from:
2x Copper-Iron smelting setups
1x Titanium smelting setup
1x Glass smelting setup
1x Silicon smelting setup

We added some more energetic graphite smelting and left it at that for the time being, the power demands were too great to include the other planned smelting lines immediately.

Because we are now in endgame technology there is no need to make huge builds for smelting - we can stick with the 5x large squares long "standard" build that I've chosen for our Zen playthrough. Even so, each smelter is producing 2x copper/iron a second and 1x titanium/glass/silicon/graphite a second. That's 40 a second per layout, enough to fill the PLS in under 5 minutes.

This means that our power issues won't be an issue for long, though realistically we do need more power. In the future there will be occasional spikes of demand (especially when the combat version comes out). Off-camera I added more solar panels, taking the total power to over 400 MW.

I then added to the top part of the equator area with another glass, silicon, and graphite build. In the end we have:
2x copper/iron
1x titanium (there's only a single mine)
2x glass
2x silicon
2x graphite

A total of 9 builds, a total of 10k copper/iron/glass/silicon/graphite every 5 minutes. We didn't have to build below the equator at all. We might save that for an oil to plastic construction.

Endgame upgrade technologies:
200% mining rate
53% ore utilization
Lots of Speedy Gonzales construction drones

Essentially all the mining produces ores at 2x the starting rate and each vein has 2x as much ore in it. Basically our tech is good enough that we can get out and process the more marginal ore. The "reserves" of coal on the planet are shown as being 20 million - we can get out 40 million. That will get better as we research more veins utilization.

Lots of Speedy Gonzales construction drones...you saw them working fast. They are beautiful when making a wide band of solar panels.

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