Space Engineers

Space Engineers

Solar Powered Battery Recharging Vessel
5 Comments
Bumbleton 1 Nov, 2014 @ 6:09pm 
i think he meant why not just ue the ship's abilty to move to manuever the panels into a good position. but anywho, i think the rotors are a good touch, and a good reason for the rotors is thus: if you have a ship recharging, its a bit dangerous to change the entire ships position to allign with the sun.
Lazareis  [author] 20 Jul, 2014 @ 10:24am 
NrKy thank you and during our testing we found that it was very easy to bump into the vessel and without some sort of stabilizers, it would be knocked out of its orbit or drift off slowly into the void, and felt that either of these situations were not good for the vessel or those whom use it. Feel free to use it as you wish, but it was designed to be "flown" into position and then use the thrusters to keep it in place. Also, without the thrusters, the act of adjusting the solar array will cause the ship to spin unless you adjust both rotors at the same time but have them spin in opposite directions.
Callistemon 20 Jul, 2014 @ 3:22am 
Interesting how you chose to put rotors on the solar array arms. I've seen that on a few stations with two-axis rotors, but on a ship with thrusters, gyro and a cockpit, it doesn't really seem necessary. Good work, anywho!
Lazareis  [author] 18 Jul, 2014 @ 3:35pm 
Thank you and I am glad that you like it =D
gFleka 18 Jul, 2014 @ 1:02pm 
I like it, and its lore :)