@Hodor: Does it do that during an active solar flare?

not sure why my version says power needed is 50 watts. any tips?

@Ratysz I'm a fucking idiot. Thank you.

@Casval Zem Daikun: Turn off "auto-scram on solar flare" on the reactor.

Is there any plan to make this work with Rimatomics? It works fine for everything else but a Solar Flare still causes the reactor to go offline. Not sure if that'd be on your end or the Rimatomics end.

Also, the text says , when dormant it uses puny energy but when the flare happens it switches to tremendous power consumption. I built one and it uses 50W ,I m waiting for a solar flare to see if the problem that others mentioned exist, but I doubt it

Roger!

@Chromium: Correct.

Solar flares messages will still happen right? just not affecting your colony if you have a device like this

Frak you Void, I have an answer for your artificial solar flares

It's 50W for my modlist too. Was an easy fix for me using RIMMSqol to put it back to 25000W. I don't think I have any mods that directly affect power other than VFE-power as well.

@John doe: I have a vague memory of someone else reporting something like this. Wasn't able to reproduce the issue; we'll have to go through your mod list and the logs if you want to diagnose it.

Hi, not sure if I've done something wrong, but it is working as intended - nothing is disabled during a solar flare - except it's only drawing 50W. The only power mod that I have installed in VFE - Power.

Mostly working my first try on 1.6 so far!
Was tricky hitting that power demand though mid game.
Light ball and loud speakers didn't seem to get power during flare though.

this may need an update, its still labled as not compadable

@amm90: It's doable, but it's not something I would want to make any time soon. Sorry.

Could you make a smaller version? Like, not too technologically advanced, because then this mod wouldn't make sense. It would have the range of a lamp; any object within that range wouldn't be affected by a solar flare. It lasts the entire solar flare, and then you have to recharge it. It might cost a lot of components to compensate.

I have done this manually, but just letting you know, adding this:

<generalTitle>Title Here!</generalTitle>
<generalDescription>Description Here!</generalDescription>

To your (ResearchTab.xml), give the tab a proper title and description, lol. I just love my game to have everything perfect, of course, remove the PlaceHolders I have already put, use it if you wish, but anyway, thanks for the great mod

It is useful for just that, I like this mod and it feels balanced

Maybe a very useful device where you has lot of defences use energy grid and a big raid coming when suddenly a solar flare event coming later and you has very few way to defend your colony by forces
🖕💀🏳️

@Ratysz Somehow without doing anything it fixed itself... Workshop magic.

Thank you for the response and help tho!

@Chaoticrow: Steam Workshop is having a normal one again. Unsubscribe and resubscribe to try and force it to re-download.

It says here 1.6 compatible but in the game's mod menu it says the mod is for 1.5?

Of course, there are many batteries,no mod batteries. bro,void batteries.emmm,I build it in wild, and the wires are also connected,i will check again.When solar flare erupts, it rotates very vigorously.but just no use i will check again,not your mod wrong,

@永远的赵日天: Or you don't have enough power. Do you have any batteries? Are you relying on a RimAtomics reactor? That one auto-scrams during flares, you should toggle that off.

used,but still power down,maybe other mod wrong.

@永远的赵日天: Try again.

need update

thanks so much

We were hoping the necessary changes would be minimal and easily done. But thank you for the respons Ratysz and thank you for keeping this amazing Mod updated

Patience. You asking for 1.6 doesn't magically make the spare time I need to get it done.

1.6plz

will be happy to get 1.6

we need it for 1.6 pls

1.6 update coming?

I have to reload save bc I got raid by huge amount of insectoid and get hit with solar flare and the shield didn't do anything (also during when I don't have any batteries lol)

@Ratysz when I post the msg I don't have any batteries but I already build a couple but have to wait for another solar flare and I only use the advance power generator (aka vanilla expanded stuff)

@AikiAimi: Gonna need more details to diagnose that. How are you generating that power, do you have any batteries, what other mods that may be influencing this do you have, etc.

idk why but whenever there solar flare and I have the solar shield my magnetic field will ran out of power even tho it only consume 25k while I can produce 36k of electricity

works in 1.6 could you please update compatibility

Thanks for informing us

@Papito: Eventually.

Will this be updated?

@RiskyBuisness just because solar flare shield protect your base from shorting out, and theoretically allows you base to transmit Coms signal, everyone else would still be unpowered and effectively jammed by EM Interference... and even if they did have their own EM shields protecting their power grids the EM Interference still might be too strong to allow two way communication dues to jamming effect of flare/event

Ah ok, gotcha. Solid reasoning (also, many thanks for this mod, saves me countless headaches).

@RiskyBusiness: My take is that the way solar flares knock out electric devices is via, well, electromagnetic interference - we even have other sources of flare-like EMI now. Blocking out the bad EM radiation blocks out useful EM radiation, too - as in, radio waves.

Lightballs and speakers are kind of coincidental. Feel free to think of them as working over Bluetooth or something.

Also, my lightballs and speakers are also not protected.

Just out of curiosity, what's your reasoning for this not protecting comms consoles?

@望月: I don't know what "5w2" or "6w4" is, and I'm going to need more than "device malfunctioned" to go on.

Are you placing the shield inside the RV dimension and expecting it to affect the outside world? That won't work, sadly, and I currently have no interest in spending effort to make it work.

When I used the mod 'RV with built-in PD', the device malfunctioned. My power generation is 5w2 and the battery level is 6w4.