Station solars start hotwired

[JohnnyJohn]

From recent experience, solar panels on all space stations connected to SMES are just... weird. They fluctuate constantly and get really buggy, with the SMES unit being completely inaccurate about how much charge is has, and sometimes even reporting negative available charge. Plus, it's just really difficult to juggle 3 SMES units at once. I often find myself having to do that as the AI when nobody sets up the engine or build me an engineering shell... and since the turbines on neon start off hotwired, why can't the solars be changed to the same?

[tamakona]

the fluctuation is simulating real solar power that gets affected by clouds, movement of the sun, etc etc. there should be a computer that allows automatic SMES adjustment, and you can expend more power to increase the tracking rate.

the reason it's not hotwired is cuz ion storms cause a massive power surge within the solars. this causes APCs to zap, and solars are most often used when lowpop or as a backup option when shit's fucked. don't want to add problems on top of each other.

[JohnnyJohn]

I get the ion part, but the SMES units are still a buggy mess. They are completely unreliable at reporting how much available charge they can draw from, and if they're even charging or not. This is a consistent problem I see across rounds.

[CaptainBravo]

Hello. Terrible news.

Because every idea you post a thread about seems to boil down to either "I would like to do this part of the game without having to interact with another human being" or "I would like every facet of the game to start off the round completely functional and on autopilot" for some reason, I have created a brand new forum role designed to do nothing except stop you from posting new threads to the ideas forum.

Please let me know if this is working by attempting to post another new thread and, otherwise, keeping these ideas to the big idea megathread instead (https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=8020).

Thank you.

[JORJ949]

You can completely automate solars with just a signal splitter and relay component