Observations and facts about basic game mechanics

[GoldenShadowGS]

subsystems dont use reactor power, so putting a zoltan there is wasteful.

[Maya]

Does anyone know exactly how the Zoltan power boost works? From what I've seen, in some systems it will fill in for a missing power, giving you an extra bar to reallocate. In others it will still make one of the power bars golden, but it won't actually free up any power. I'm guessing it provides a stronger boost for those? And then in one case, I don't remember which system it was unfortunately, my Zoltan provided a free power bar, but then once I jumped to a new beacon that power bar disappeared and it acted like the second case.

Its just like a bonus energy bar for the room he wents in. If this system is fully charged and he wents in, then you get one energy bar to put on other systems, but if its not, then the zoltan just puts his energy in that system

for example:

case A:
Engines: 3/3
free energy: 0
after walking into the engine room:
Engines: 3/3 (one is yellow)
free Energy: 1

Case B:
Engines 2/3
free energy: 0
after walking in:
Engines: 3/3
free Energy: 0

and if he leaves a room, then the system automatically tries to compensate the lost energy with free power (but i'm not sure about it. I'll test it after my actual run^^)

[Maya]

Does anyone know exactly how the Zoltan power boost works? From what I've seen, in some systems it will fill in for a missing power, giving you an extra bar to reallocate. In others it will still make one of the power bars golden, but it won't actually free up any power. I'm guessing it provides a stronger boost for those? And then in one case, I don't remember which system it was unfortunately, my Zoltan provided a free power bar, but then once I jumped to a new beacon that power bar disappeared and it acted like the second case.

Its just like a bonus energy bar for the room he wents in. If this system is fully charged and he wents in, then you get one energy bar to put on other systems, but if its not, then the zoltan just puts his energy in that system

for example:

case A:
Engines: 3/3
free energy: 0
after walking into the engine room:
Engines: 3/3 (one is yellow)
free Energy: 1

Case B:
Engines 2/3
free energy: 0
after walking in:
Engines: 3/3
free Energy: 0

and if he leaves a room, then the system automatically tries to compensate the lost energy with free power (but i'm not sure about it. I'll test it after my actual run^^)

But you should be carefull by putting some of them into Shield or weapons while it can cause problems if you need to take them somewhere else