When i first was playing I was confused. I get it all now since I am almost done with everything in EA atm. One thing I originally was confused about was how much my ship could power...like balloons and etc. It would help if each generator shown how many ship parts it could power before you needed more. Just a simple thing like each generator having 4 power / etc. This would help for future ship upgrades as well when ship parts are upgradable if they are.
#Power Level Checker.
keen sigil
quaint yacht
Actually it's not quite that simple. Yes if you have 1 balloon and 3 engines that maxes out the generator which makes it seem like it can power 4 items, but that's misleading because they don't all consume the same amount of power. I did a bit of testing and as far as I can tell each generator can actually produce 6 units of power. A balloons consume 3 UOP, and an engine consume 1 UOP so a generator can power 2 balloons, or 6 engines, or 1 balloon and 3 engines.
quaint yacht
Also I agree some kind of power usage/gauge would be very useful.