Energy usage ....

[R_TEAM]

Have an destroyer modell ....
Have an energy collector (energy collecting rate 50)
Have static energy usage 42
Have max speed engines energy usage 6.4
Have shild recharge energy usage 0.8
Still burn in normal non-Hyper flight fuel .... .... .... maybe i have an leak

[Arcurus]

isnt it that energy collectors wont work if not close to a sun?
If so no wonder why fuel was burned during hyper drive...

[PsyKoSnake]

Energy collector is for static energy usage only.
It was like that in DWU

If' your ship do nothing it will not burn fuel if you have the static energy requirement.

[R_TEAM]

i have maybe understand if any have write, engines need fuel ... so energy collector dont work with engines ..
but the idea that energy collector only is for static "energy usage" is strange ...
shild recharge is over "normal" energy imho .... and weapons like beam weapons should work too with "normal" energy...
dont get the seperating in "energy from reactor" and "energy from energy collector" ... ... ...

[Arcurus]

i have maybe understand if any have write, engines need fuel ... so energy collector dont work with engines ..
but the idea that energy collector only is for static "energy usage" is strange ...
shild recharge is over "normal" energy imho .... and weapons like beam weapons should work too with "normal" energy...
dont get the seperating in "energy from reactor" and "energy from energy collector" ... ... ...

as said, does not matter, since out of a system the collectors are too far from the sun...

[R_TEAM]

i am with the ship "in" an system ....
so it can be the answer "out of system with to low sunlight" ...
(this make sense and is o.k.)

[Emperor0Akim]

Yeap, Energy Collectors in DWU were used to cover static energy needs when ships were standing still in a system to save on fuel.

It is not stated in the galactopedia if the standing still is still required.