Solar Panels on a Ship

[Ultra_Hurdler]

Hi, at first sorry for my english;
My question is that is it possible to build a "small" ship that is only powered by solarpanels?
I never tried it but maybe its a way to make some interesting ships.
I played some No man sky and there a these type of solar wings who refill when flying your start thrusters.
This could maybe be a good way for the future after the next big update to be a part of a new starter ship, so this fuel rod replacment thing would be a smaller impact when the tutorial not get updatet within the patch and simply replace the laborer with a solar powered ship and edit the tutorial arround building your first own reactor on your ship which included the crafting, placement and replacement of a fuel rod. Just a Thougt.

[coconut_willy_97]

Do a search for ?The Solar Explorer? maybe. The ship worked well enough, but depending on where it was flying and the direction of the sun, you still needed a battery, fuel rod and generator to supplement the panels. You would still need propellant as well for the engines.

It was never run entirely on solar power.

[Garth Zader]

The fuel rod issues were addressed, there was an addition to the tutorial for it, assuming the tutorial is still on, and lots of player guides for changing the fuel rod.
The real problem is the translation is bad, it just says 'fuel' when it should say 'generator rod', 'fuel rod', 'generator fuel' or anything other than just 'fuel'.
They should change the model as well so it has a glowing ring instead of a stick.

I built a small ship powered with only solar panels, but it stopped charging when the battery went flat, not sure what the issue was.

[Ultra_Hurdler]

ok i will take a look and maybe i find something what matches my idea. Youre right with batterys and propellant. For me its the Style Factor with giant Solar Wings arround your ship.

Yeah i think the fuel rod issue is not that bad at all. if you really want to learn to play this game you always need to try something new (for me like a solar ship). I played SB on Launch and just by looking arround your laborer you get an idea how it maybe could work. A clearer "Rod Model" could be the idea. Lets wait and see how it turns out in future. Thanks for your Input!