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In SN1 you could leave your bioreactor running and it wouldn't consume any more fuel if the power storage was full, so you could leave it on and not worry about wasting fuel.

In SN2 you have to constantly worry about turning it on when you need it and making sure it's off when you don't, so you don't waste fuel (which is really annoying.)

This also effects solar energy. In the first game the solar panels would collect energy during the day so you still have power at night. But now the power goes out immediately unless you have a base battery (which you have to scan) And even with the battery, the bioreactor still uses fuel when it's full.

It's not really that annoying right now since the turbines are completely broken. But in the future when they fix that, i imagine it will be really annoying.

They could bring back the old system but every base starts with 50 power storage and you need the batteries to add more

TLDR: Fuel based power shouldn't waste fuel