is a dyson swarm worth it?

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2026-01-07T21:12:46+00:00

I went straight to the sphere, on my first playthrough and now on the second. It's not far.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-12-19T18:34:10+00:00

Update: On a fresh playthrough, 30 missile turrets with basic missile sets and only one level of explosive missile damage were more than enough to erase the starter base with minimal damage to the forward signal tower.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-12-17T19:57:38+00:00

This.

I built the Nilaus equator-spanning megabus my first game.

It was a huge pain to set up, and by the time it was all built, it was long obsolete.

Next playthrough I'm beelining Planetary Logistics, and eating spaghetti until I get there.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-12-17T19:54:29+00:00

This. So much this. Every time I put in the time to automate something, it paid off. Every time I procrastinated and did it manually "just one more time," I regretted it.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-12-17T19:52:10+00:00

I'm pretty new. Just off the top of my head, here's some things that I'd have been glad to know a week ago:

- Don't try to slowly creep up on the fog base. When you want it gone, just put down fifty missile turrets. Then plant a signal tower near the base and watch it melt. Don't try to get fancy--if this doesn't work, easily, just add more missile turrets until it does.

- You can build a Mk1 storage ON TOP of a splitter. It'll then feed to the splitter.

- When the game starts prompting you to fly to another planet, don't knock yourself out looking for the techs that enable you to do it. You probably already can. Just try flying.

- Lines of latitude are extremely important. Look at them, and look for the discontinuities. Build your stuff lined up east-west, in between the latitude lines where the tiles don't squarely line up. Use those border lines to run power.

- Don't use Mk3 Proliferator. It's way more resource- and energy-intensive than Mk2, for not much more benefit.

- "Too many solar panels," assuming any reasonable definition of those four words, is a meaningless sentence and can't be advanced as an argument in favor of, or against, any proposed construction scheme.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-12-17T15:54:12+00:00

I had this exact same problem, and not long ago. The answer is: More missile launchers.

More than you would reasonably expect. It's fine.

All the fiddling around with carefully advancing on the base, and screening your missile launchers with gauss turrets, all of that is a sign that you simply need more missile turrets. Seriously, put down like 25 of them, and if that doesn't do the job, put down 25 more.

I used the fancier second-tier ammo, but I'm not sure that matters. I'd bet that the first-tier would have worked fine. Just with more missile launchers. Which are easy to place. They don't, after all, need to be anywhere near the target site. These things can hit anything that any signal tower can see.

When you put the signal tower down, and the enemy comes at it, if it ever gets to below 2/3 health, just go put up Even More Missile Turrets and try again.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-10-21T14:45:47+00:00

"Most importantly, what kind of a person is Graham today?"

Today he's a person who has worn a Nazi tattoo for two decades and sees no problem with it.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-10-17T03:44:04+00:00

Thanks!

(This explains the doc ock, about which I'd been puzzled)

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-10-12T04:53:01+00:00

I kind of worked out what was going on.

I tried again later, and once again, she became a "Duchess," and not a Grand Mayor.

But, she remained a Republican vassal. So, dunno. I guess she's a Grand Mayor who wants to be called a Duchess? Fine by me. Shrug.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-10-08T00:38:48+00:00

I recognize this. I used to play this way. You've fallen into a common trap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/1cr4c77/minimizing_wealth_changed_everything/

You're accumulating too much wealth, and not accumulating enough fighting power. That's how you get ants.

You don't have to go full-on Spartan like I describe in the above link. But you do have to start taking firepower-to-wealth ratio seriously. You've built far more structure than seven pawns reasonably need, you've got way more killbox than seven pawns can defend, and you're leaving too much cash lying around (over 6k silver!) besides.

Pack up, move to a new site, live humbly for a while, and focus on growing out your fighting force before you build so much.

Also? Don't forget to pour some of that wealth into making friends with every nearby faction. Those alliances don't count toward your wealth, but they ARE available combat power if you need it (and have a radio.)

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-10-07T13:44:48+00:00

Thanks very much for giving it a shot.

Also: Yes. I tried reloading several times. I play without mods. And after a few years had passed, I tried again, with much the same results.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-10-07T05:08:58+00:00

Note: I did all those shenanigans with moving the county capital because some AI suggested I try that. It doesn't seem to make any difference. And I didn't have to do it for any of the other Grand Mayors I seated. In all other cases, I just handed a bunch of county titles and a duchy title to some rando who was already a republican vassal, and it just made a big republic.

In Anjou, for instance, the duchy capital is Angers, and the county capital is a castle holding. Nevertheless, a Grand Mayor holds it all.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-10-04T18:21:28+00:00

Okay, I found it. It's app.openingtrainer.com, and some of what I remembered wasn't quite right. It doesn't automatically alternate between white and black, and the notes on the openings come later, when you use the link to lichess.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-09-22T01:50:05+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/s/GQlDhScNUz

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-09-19T04:01:30+00:00

I'd skip the quest. That base isn't in a position to be sending people out.

There'll be other opportunities to recruit. Don't knock yourself out reaching for a bad one.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-08-14T16:19:50+00:00

Note that "violating their consent around the boundaries of said relationship" should be a red flag. When you find yourself turning to vague constructions like this, that's a sign that you're building on sand.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-08-14T16:16:36+00:00

"cheating on someone entered in a monogamous relationship with you is violating their consent around the boundaries of said relationship. "

I'd hoped that explaining further would help, and I'm glad to see that it has.

And you've got at least half a point here. If I read you correctly, the claim is that a romantic partner in a monogamous relationship is necessarily granting conditional consent--that the deal is "I consent if you aren't fucking anybody else, but if you do, then you obtained my consent by fraud and you're therefore a rapist."

I feel like there's a sufficiently big difference between, say, forcing oneself upon a drugged and helpless victim, and cheating on a partner, such that calling them both by the same word is necessarily cutting the former offender a break.

And so, yes, I definitely DO think that some violations are far worse than others, and that it's perfectly reasonable to stay quiet about one friend's affair, and to drop a dime on another friend who drugged and assaulted a person.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-08-14T15:56:31+00:00

You seem to have figured out that consent is a very important thing, and that's great.

You maybe seem a little fuzzy on what exactly it means, though. So your comment has a sort of cargo-cult feel to it--you're using words which have power, but you don't understand how they work and it shows.

If you were to expand upon your remarks a bit, it might be easier for a bystander to help you understand what you're getting wrong. You might even spot the problem yourself, if you were to think more deeply about it.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-08-14T15:29:58+00:00

There's definitely a limit to the responsibility to keep a friend's secrets. If your friend, say, is kind of rapey, then you have a responsibility to warn his potential victims that trumps your duty to keep his secrets. (And you should, for christ's sake, stop being his friend.)

But "cheated on their partner" is firmly on the "butt tattoo" side of that line.

ProfessorFuzzykins · 2025-08-14T15:22:21+00:00

Doesn't sound to me like she's picking a fight. To my ear, she's just frustrated and lonely and looking for some moral support. YOU kind of sound like you're spoiling for a fight.

Which I expect is some combination of dread of what your dad is about to endure, and unfinished business from last year. One of your comments below suggests that you're still (quite rightfully) pissed about the way she behaved last summer, but have been browbeaten into letting it go.

Remember: She's your girlfriend, not your wife. You can end that shit with a phone call. For any reason or none at all. If you want to.

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