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Originally posted by Emperor Zodd:
The idea of a solar sail giving you extra speed is idiotic!!!
If a ship running on it's own engines deployed such a device, it would act as a drag chute,slowing down the ship not speeding it up!!! This needs to be removed from the game. Besides wouldn't you only move in the direction of the wind?
The rationale for the component's ability is stupid, yes. And it should not work in systems without a sun -- but it does! All you need to do is change the description to something that makes more sense and find a better graphic. One of our "serious" modders who has some graphical skills could do that, I think.
In my own tech set I edited its size, making it 30kt, and added a 20 percent "to hit" penalty because it's so large & bulky that it must slow the ship down. This makes it useful mainly for NON-combat ships like transports. It ought to cancel cloaking, too, but there's no way to do what in the current game abilities. I'd invent a different technical description for it, but I can't make a decent graphic so I'll wait for someone else to do it.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 07 January 2001).]