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While designing a space ship in the map editor, my solar panels stopped outputting power while only flying in between Nauvis and Vulcanus. Upon further experimentation, we found the following setup to create a solar panel that does not output power:

1. Create a new map in the editor with default settings
2. Add space platform above nauvis
3. Force the creation of the platform
4. Place a solar panel on the platform (including some foundations below) in the editor
5. Unfreeze daytime
6. Play for 12000 ticks
7. Freeze daytime
8. Unpause the game

Further notes:

• The screenshot shows a legendary solar panel, which we used for initial testing, but the bug persisted when using a normal solar panel.
• Tested in `Release: steam, space-age, Version: 2.0.47 (build 82606 expansion, linux64)` and `Release: steam, space-age, Version: 2.0.47 (build 82606 expansion, win64)`
• Our suspicion is that the map editor allows the player to apply a day-night cycle to the space platform which can lead to this weird scenario.

Wait a second, you literally unfroze daytime so it gets dark and report a bug because it became dark?

Not a bug.

My bad, thought that day-night cycle was a global setting as all the other things in that control panel apply to all surfaces.