Modder brainstorming session

[Trachmyr]

oh, one other thing... you don't have to lock yourself into using the ability given with solar-sails... just turn them into an engine, if you don't want the bonuses adding up the use the "one per vehicle" restriction. however they won't perform their old function (which is a good thing if you ask me, I've never understood why a solar-sail is so good at increasing the speed of dreadnoughts after they already have quantum engines propelling them). IMHO, solar sails should be used for SLOW low-maintaince auxillary or work-craft.

P.S IRL a new "solar sail" has been invented, it uses plasma to "inflate" a magnetic field to create a huge reflective bubble. The WORKING model is the size of a pickel jar and can create a sail 1/2 a square mile! The guy who invented it won a nobel peace prize. I read about this on NASA's site about 2 or 3 months ago. Makes you think huh?