Solar Panels not reaching max

[Dinnersnack]

I'm playing ONI w/ spaced out, and never had this problem in vanilla.  My solar panels are only putting out about 75% or less of max wattage even at peak sun light.  Oddly enough, one of my planetoids its even less, at 65%.  they are built 5-6 spaces above the line where "space" begins and have nothing above them.  Did they change the way the panels work or make a new variable with them?  

and ideas or thoughts would help.

Thanks,

J

[meekay]

This is by design in Spaced Out, different planetoids now have different levels of sunlight. They did it because people were complaining that solar panels were too over-powered.

Other people, not me. :P

I've still never figured out how to generate a whole bunch of power on the tundra asteroid aside from space-lifting 20 tonnes of coal at a time.

[Jann5s]

There’s a bit of an exploit, you can build a solar tower on a rocket platform to get more W per width of map.

[Sasza22]

3 hours ago, Jann5s said:

There’s a bit of an exploit, you can build a solar tower on a rocket platform to get more W per width of map

This was nerfed as well in a recent patch. Now they block some light when grounded. I didn`t do the math on overall efficiency though.

[Dinnersnack]

Thanks everyone for your answers.   Glad to know it wasn't something i was doing wrong. 

all the searching I did prior to posting didn't come up with this change.

[DolphinWing]

I think the various sunlight change was made in Solar Swamped Update back in August. There are other few minor changes to solar panels later.