How do solar flares work?
Every now and then, a solar flare happens, which seems great! However, are there any details missing?
- Is there any downside to a solar flare?
- Does the flare start as soon as you receive the notification or as soon as you start collecting energy?
- Is the incoming amount of energy fixed, or is there anything to do to improve it?
Best Answer
Short answer: click yes as soon as you can.
Solar flares, like many events in Startopia, are affected by your comsensors. The more and better staff you have working at your comsensors, the shorter the delay between the solar flare beginning and you receiving the message. Without a comsensor, you will not even see the notification.
Naturally, the earlier you notice the event, the longer you will gather energy.
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How does a solar flare happen?
Solar flares are a sudden explosion of energy caused by tangling, crossing or reorganizing of magnetic field lines near sunspots. The surface of the Sun is a very busy place. It has electrically charged gases that generate areas of powerful magnetic forces. These areas are called magnetic fields.Can a solar flare destroy Earth?
But the resultant solar storm is the real danger that looms over planet Earth. And to be honest, it is still not enough to kill on the planet, but it is capable of destroying all the satellites around the Earth, knockout power grids and all forms of communications, even the Internet.How do solar flares get to Earth?
Flares are often linked to eruptions, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which hurl massive clouds of magnetized plasma far into space, plowing right through the continuous flow of charged particles that normally stream from the Sun, called solar wind, and can reach Earth in up to three days.What happens to Earth during a solar flare?
Therefore, solar flares pose no direct danger to humans on Earth. However, this absorption of high-energy electromagnetic radiation can temporarily increase the ionization of the upper atmosphere, which can interfere with short-wave radio communication, and can temporarily heat and expand the Earth's outer atmosphere.More answers regarding how do solar flares work?
Answer 2
I believe that there are no downside to solar flares, that the energy bonus starts when you are click on the notification and runs for a set amount of time from the initial notification (so clicking quickly on it is good), and that the amount of energy bonus per time is fixed and there is no way of changing it.
So the ideal strategy is to just treat solar flares as an unexpected energy bonus and collect it as soon as you are notified.
I don't normally find that lack of energy in Startopia is a problem, but that is because I use other tactics to increase income. At the start of every level, I pause the game and then set the prices charged by the spaceport, slumberpods, din-o-mat, lavatron, and any other structures used by tourists to their maximum (doubling income from them). The only effect I notice from doing this is to make tourists leave the station faster when they run out of money. This also means I have to be faster when hiring tourists I want to keep (before they leave the station), and the higher tourist turnover eventually also requires a 2nd spaceport to handle the added traffic flow. I find that higher prices don't seem to keep the tourists from making purchases though.
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