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What

When setting draw_copper_wires=false on an electric pole prototype the setting is ignored when placing ghosts.


On the left is a pole-in-cursor, in the middle is an actual pole entity, and on the right is a pole ghost. Notice how there is a copper wire drawn only to the ghost.

This behaviour is exactly the same for `draw_circuit_wires`.

Expected Behaviour

When setting `draw_copper_wires=false` that the pole will never have copper wires drawn to it, even when it's a ghost.

Reproduction

1. Change the prototype of any electric pole to include `draw_copper_wires = false`
2. Place an entity, and then observe no copper wire drawn between the placed pole and your cursor.
3. Shift-click to place a ghost close to the entity, and now notice how there's a copper wire drawn between the two.

Use Case

I came accross this in Fluidic Power where I hide the copper connections, and then delete the copper on_entity_built. This works well, but I noticed that the copper connection is still shown when the pole is a ghost.

Thanks for the report. This issue was already fixed for 1.2 in a lot more generic and clean way so i had to decide if i even want to fix this in 1.1.x as well, but given a temporary fix has only 4 lines of code it is now also fixed for 1.1.71.

That was quick! And thank you