Energy Consumption

Base Energy Consumption

This is a list of all Blocks that constantly consume energy, but can be switched off in the Energy Menu. Their consumption depends ONLY on their size and the material used. Blocks that are not listed here do not consume Energy or behave in a different manner.

Here are the consumption ratios in W / m^3 :

	Iron	Titanium	Naonite	Trinium	Xanion	Ogonite	Avorion
Hull	500	500	500	500	500	500	500
Blank Hull	500	500	500	500	500	500	500
Engine	4.000	3.820	3.600	3.380	3.180	3.000	2.850
Crew Quarters	5.000	5.000	5.000	5.000	5.000	5.000	5.000
Thruster	4.500	4.300	4.050	3.800	3.570	3.380	3.210
Directional Thruster	3.750	3.580	3.380	3.170	2.980	2.810	2.670
Gyro Array	7.320	7.610	8.070	8.820	10.060	12.000	14.970
Inertia Dampener	54.390	-	-	-	-	-	71.280
Shield Generator	-	-	23.440	27.190	31.880	-	44.060
Integrity Field Generator	-	9.380	9.380	9.380	9.380	-	9.380
Computer Core	-	-	-	18.750	18.750	-	18.750
Hyperspace Core	-	-	25.000	25.000	25.000	-	25.000

These values have been measured in game with a 1 m^3 Cube in Game version 1.3.7.

The Hyperdrive

The hyperdrive only consumes energy after a hyperspace jump, for the duration of your hyperspace recharge. How much energy is consumed depends on the volume and Mass of your ship. More volume and mass lead to a higher recharge energy.

Life Support

The energy consumption of your life support systems only depends on the volume of blocks that use life support. The blocks that need life support are blank hull, hull and crew quarters. Thier energy consumption per volume can be found in the table above.

Academies and Cloning Pods

Academies and cloning pods have a base energy consumption per volume, but the more crewmen are in production or in training, the more energy they will consume. The number of crewman being cloned or trained is proportional to the energy consumption they will add. So a crewman in cloning or training will always add the same amount of energy consumption based on the base consumption of the academy or cloning pod. Furthermore cloning generally needs more energy per crewman, but is faster and needs only very little volume. Training professionals needs less energy per crewman, but a lot more volume and is slower. Energy is only consumed by crewman that are currently in production/training, NOT for all ordered crewman.

Flight Assist

This is primarily the energy consumption of the inertia dampeners. Thrusters and directional thrusters have their energy consumption divided to 2/3 in thrusters and 1/3 in flight assist.

Battery Charge Weapons

Battery charge weapons will consume a fixed amount of energy while charging their battery.