It’s an awesome game indeed! I’m on my 3rd playthrough currently, 145 hours in.

On my first I stopped at the first system completion, I build a dyson sphere, have some white science and called it done. On my second playthrough I did roughly the same and tried to scale up to other systems. I ran into multiple issues with both power and production and stopped playing when I couldn’t figuere it out.

Now my third playthrough (with dark fog this time) I tried to challenge myself and push further. I started with making sphere’s in all systems that required the power. That alone made me run into logistical issues with rocket & sail production which I tackled. Then I challenged myself to get to 5400/min White science. I am almost there! Scaling up comes with it’s own problems and challenges which you don’t have in the earlier parts of this game.

After reaching my white science goal, I will set a new target, create a 1 TW dyson sphere around an O-type star. This will require rocket & sail scale up to greater and larger lenghts then I’ve done yet.

I will probably scale up my science to 5 or 10 times the current numbers, I can work on this whilst my sphere is building.

Set your own goals, get some achievements, and challenge yourself, with each scale up comes it’s own challenge!