I'm surprised no one has suggested this before, but solar panels should automatically re-orient themselves throughout the day to point towards the sun. They certainly look like they're designed for it, but it seems a bit odd that you can only get them facing in a specific direction by placing them that way, and even odder that it has no effect whatsoever on their energy generation.
#Automatically Tilting Solar Panels
lone yoke
safe flume
Lmao
tribal crater
We discussed doing that, that feature isnt within the scope of Ad Astra. Technology in Ad Astra is a means, not an end. Solar panels will auto adjust themselves in Techarium
lone yoke
Technology in Ad Astra is a means, not an end.
what does that mean
safe flume
Basically tech isn’t our entire focus in ad Astra
We felt like it’d be a better fit in techarium since that’s entirely tech focused
safe flume
Lmao
Also I said lmao because we have been discussing this among ourselves for a bit lol
tribal crater
Technology is used as a means of exploration to other planets, its not the end goal for players to obtain
lone yoke
Basically tech isn’t our entire focus in ad Astra
ok, interesting
I still think something like having solar panels tilted west start generating earlier and solar panels tilted east start generating later would be nice
it would be pretty useful for making a space base (which counts as a means of exploration, right?) because you can have two banks of solar panels facing in opposite directions to generate energy for longer overall
safe flume
I agree that it’s a nice idea, we all do in fairness, but we don’t want to take away that specialty from techarium
lone yoke
aight
that's fair, I guess
are techarium and ad astra going to have some amount of built-in compat for each other?
or are they just both going to use FE
tribal crater
they both will use the same energy system and we do plan on having built in integration with ad astra