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Trying to build a circuit wire from a medium pole to a belt.

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Shows the max distance red circule no entry as expected, when trying to go to far.
Move back a tile, and click.
Circuit doesn't connect to the belt.
Try tile before it, and it connects.

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Circuit should have connected to the belt as its in range
If you place a medium pole in the middle position, it connects to the power network just fine, and also allows for the circuit wire to be connected.

I've not tried it with other poles or the red wire.

Its not a big issue, but might cause some headaches if trying to plan out pole positions to act as carrier posts.

Thanks

While confusing, it's not a bug.
The maximum wire distance is the minimum wire distance of the pole and the entity you are connecting to. Medium pole has a max wire distance of 9 while entities have 7.5.

To reduce the confusion I increased the entity wire distance from 7.5 to 9.

You you see the same thing when trying to connect a big electric pole to an entity, because we don't know if you are about to connect to another pole or an entity.

given that the brackets are shown around the target entity it should check the range of the target as well.