[moritonal]

As an aside, why do you say that in Factorio solar panels are trickier than generators. To me it seems you can stick panels down infinitely and just make more power. Generators require coal trains, nuclear power, steam conversion, water lines and everything else? Or did you mean purely in construction from the start?

[m463]

But you have to match them with accumulators.

First game I played, I just made far-off copper mines that would only mine during the day.

(Then I learned it's just as easy to run power lines along RR tracks)

[bduerst]

Devs made min/maxing solar panels per accumulators is intentionally tricky, as you can't move over them and they don't line up perfectly.

And you can say, "You don't need to play the game that way," and you'd be right, but it is still part of the obsession with the game.

[danbolt]

The solar panels evoke almost a Puritan reward-for-honest-work sense, as they don’t produce pollution.