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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?
Well there is no wind in space nor is there anything to create any "drag" so a solar sail would most certainly not slow you down any. Whether it would speed the ship up or not depends on how fast it can go already. A solar sail over time could get you very close to the speed of light at least theoretically.