Possible Solar Panel bug
Rainstorm
Montreal (Quebec) Join Date: 2015-12-15 Member: 210003Members
Montreal (Quebec) Join Date: 2015-12-15 Member: 210003Members
recently (began with H2O update for me) ive been experiencing weird behavior from the solar panels i create. Upon creation of them everything is fine, they behave normally and all is well but the problem for me starts after they've been up for awhile. Eventually, they start to act up and give my base fluctuations in Power. This happens often when i load a game for instance.
I remark this when i enter a base powered by solar panels that have been created for some time (hard to tell exactly how old they are, but its usually several ingame days). What i mean by fluctuation in the Power they provide is that when i look at the total Power my base have (lets say for example 100 Power) i see the power go down to 75 or 50, then after a few seconds it goes back to 100, then a few seconds later it drops back to 75 or 50 Power then goes back to 100 max power so on and so forth. I found that weird and went outside of the base to investigate the panels and found out by looking at them that the blue'ish energy line that links them to my base periodically dissapears for a fraction of a second, then reappers just to re-dissapear a few seconds later and so on and forth.
Finding that pretty odd as this didnt use to happen to me since i started to play the game. I found out also that deconstructing said ''defective'' panels and rebuilding them seems to fix the problem ..... temporarily, as the newly reconstructed panels invariably starts to behave like such again after some time as well. Ive decided to post this here (i have also sent an ingame bug report) in order to see if others are experiencing such odd behavior for themselves from their solar panels.
I remark this when i enter a base powered by solar panels that have been created for some time (hard to tell exactly how old they are, but its usually several ingame days). What i mean by fluctuation in the Power they provide is that when i look at the total Power my base have (lets say for example 100 Power) i see the power go down to 75 or 50, then after a few seconds it goes back to 100, then a few seconds later it drops back to 75 or 50 Power then goes back to 100 max power so on and so forth. I found that weird and went outside of the base to investigate the panels and found out by looking at them that the blue'ish energy line that links them to my base periodically dissapears for a fraction of a second, then reappers just to re-dissapear a few seconds later and so on and forth.
Finding that pretty odd as this didnt use to happen to me since i started to play the game. I found out also that deconstructing said ''defective'' panels and rebuilding them seems to fix the problem ..... temporarily, as the newly reconstructed panels invariably starts to behave like such again after some time as well. Ive decided to post this here (i have also sent an ingame bug report) in order to see if others are experiencing such odd behavior for themselves from their solar panels.
Comments
Was thinking exactly this but with other bases, do you happen to have two independent bases next eachother trying to use the same power grid, (you can check if a base is independent by checking its hull strength, if its different from the other base and not the same, its independent)