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Normal behavior when hovering over rail:


Bad behavior when hovering over pole that is further away:


This happens for all 3 types of power poles.

You cannot mine these poles unless you are truly in range, but you can left click on them and see the network stats (which is nice).

I'm guessing this is a side effect of the range limit to view stats being removed? (I didn't notice anything in the change log, but I assume it was a deliberate tweak?)

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sicklag wrote:Changelog 0.16.0: Electric poles and power switches can be opened from the zoomed-to-world view.

If you can do this, that means you can click them while you are not in range?!
EDIT: Yes you can click every pole in your view to check the energy

That's not a bug, that'S a feature

Hmm, maybe it would benefit to have a different colour? The yellow makes me think I can mine it and is misleading.

chris13524 wrote:

sicklag wrote:Changelog 0.16.0: Electric poles and power switches can be opened from the zoomed-to-world view.

If you can do this, that means you can click them while you are not in range?!
EDIT: Yes you can click every pole in your view to check the energy

That's not a bug, that'S a feature

Hmm, maybe it would benefit to have a different colour? The yellow makes me think I can mine it and is misleading.

Yellow is "can't mine". Red is colliding and green is mineable.

Rseding91 wrote:

chris13524 wrote:

sicklag wrote:Changelog 0.16.0: Electric poles and power switches can be opened from the zoomed-to-world view.

If you can do this, that means you can click them while you are not in range?!
EDIT: Yes you can click every pole in your view to check the energy

That's not a bug, that'S a feature

Hmm, maybe it would benefit to have a different colour? The yellow makes me think I can mine it and is misleading.

Yellow is "can't mine". Red is colliding and green is mineable.

? I get yellow even when I can mine it. I don't see green hitboxes anywhere.

Rseding91 wrote:Yellow is "can't mine". Red is colliding and green is mineable.

If I'm close enough to a piece of belt or a splitter or a tree or an assembler or some or to mine it I get yellow. Too far away I get red. The only time I remember getting green outline boxes is pumpjacks. Power poles I get yellow even if they are across the map