Quailow

To shrink one or more dimensions of the solar panels below 0.05. The panels energy production per volume climbs dramatically with their surface area per volume, in this case to truly astounding levels. I've whipped up an example: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1274825873 If you delete the avorion generator (2X0.05X2) you'll see the ship losing around 35MW. If you delete the blue iron solar panel (2X0.05X2) you'll see it loses around 9MW. If you delete the cluster of uncolored iron solar panels (2X0.01X2, total volume of approx. 2X0.05X2) you'll see it loses about 66MW.

To reproduce: Start a new ship, or use and old one. Use "Modify Whole Ship" to double the size of the ship X3. create a solar panel of 8X.05X8 Use "Modify Whole Ship" to halve the size of the ship X3. The solar panel should now be 1X.01X1: Copy paste to make a stack of the solar panels This stack of any material solar panel will now vastly out perform the same volume of any material generators I hope it was appropriate to post this here. As over powered as this is, I feel like the fragility of solar panels would balance it out with any sort of shield penetrating weapons on the opponent's side, but only if solar panels were like hangars and would only function if exposed.