There's a mod for that!

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Thanks, I'll give it a try. From what I'm reading though this allows a lot more than what I was looking for, I don't think power poles should be ...

I was thinking with the multitude of space costing poles everywhere. Wouldn't it be more realistic to have every electricity requiring device/building function as a power pole with a grid of 1 surrounding it. To allow electricity to continue from one device to the next.

My friend and I are trying to continue playing our co-op map and this happens...
I don't know what is going on but just yesterday this all worked fine.

I hit F5 in case that gives you any helpful info, I'm talking of course about the progress bar in the middle at 2.8 kB/s