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Small electric pole cost of 2 wood and 2 copper CABLE.
Medium electric pole cost of 2 steel and 2 copper PLATE.
Big electric pole cost of 5 steel and 5 copper PLATE.
I think it is mistake when medium and big electric pole instead of cable require plate.

Express transport belt and express splitter needed some lubricant for it production, but express undeground belt not.
I sure, it is mistake.

The reason the express belt splitters and underground belts do not need lubricant is because they use an express belt in their recipe. If you think about it, all you have to do to make an underground belt or belt splitter is add the necessary components for that, which never needs lubricant.

Ksardas wrote:Small electric pole cost of 2 wood and 2 copper CABLE.
Medium electric pole cost of 2 steel and 2 copper PLATE.
Big electric pole cost of 5 steel and 5 copper PLATE.
I think it is mistake when medium and big electric pole instead of cable require plate.

I agree on the power poles. They should require the equivalent amount of copper cable instead of plate. It would make more logical sense. It's possible though that it is balanced for crafting speed rather than actual material logic.

Agree that the larger poles should use cables. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they used cables and plates.

I completely forget about the underground belt issue, because my mod fixes the recipe.

I'd actually go the other way and sugest that all poles require copper cables instead of plates.

Also, you forgot substation in that comparison.

I just think of the larger poles using plates hinged together for cables.

I think that it would be good if the farther away the power poles were the more copper cable it would take(for the length of the wire).

what I'd like to see is this:

1. power poles are JUST power poles, without cables (i.e. the recipes for poles don't include any copper)
2. placing poles consumes the same amount of cables as it would take to connect them manually
3. disconnecting power poles or single cables/wires gives back the appropriate amount of cables/wires
4. consumption of copper cables and red and green wires when placing a blueprint

ARC190 wrote:what I'd like to see is this:

1. power poles are JUST power poles, without cables (i.e. the recipes for poles don't include any copper)
2. placing poles consumes the same amount of cables as it would take to connect them manually
3. disconnecting power poles or single cables/wires gives back the appropriate amount of cables/wires
4. consumption of copper cables and red and green wires when placing a blueprint

I would say disconnecting not returning the wire and blueprint placement not casting a wire balances out nice enough to not need fixing (because it would also add a rather unnecessary amount of fiddling)