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Hi,
did anyone notice that sometimes when you place power poles they dont connect like they show on while you hover over a location?

Removing and replacing fixes it.

Since i dont play much vanilla, the question is, is that factorio related, or some mod? I expierience this with vanilla power poles. Im not sure but it might only happen if you upgrade your power poles by hand...?

For generally not making new connections see: 55121 (NaB)

Thanks for the report however without an example showing the problem there's not much I can do.

Electric poles have a limit of 5 copper wires per pole so maybe you're hitting that limit?

Rseding91 wrote:Thanks for the report however without an example showing the problem there's not much I can do.

Electric poles have a limit of 5 copper wires per pole so maybe you're hitting that limit?

Try yourself placing a power pole over a power pole blueprint - it jiggles.

Yes, upgrading power poles by hand preserves connections.

Jap2.0 wrote:Yes, upgrading power poles by hand preserves connections.

I remember that there was already a bug report about this once. That the wire-preview for poles placed above ghosts/fast replace an old pole is incorrect (because it does not consider the ghost/old pole) or something.

I.e. it was (is?) a problem with the *preview*.

eradicator wrote:

Jap2.0 wrote:Yes, upgrading power poles by hand preserves connections.

I remember that there was already a bug report about this once. That the wire-preview for poles placed above ghosts/fast replace an old pole is incorrect (because it does not consider the ghost/old pole) or something.

I.e. it was (is?) a problem with the *preview*.

Yes, exactly

So im not the only one :>

not the only one, not the only one :> :>


eh.. yeah. I know the limitations, but when replacing fix it... I will look more if i find a good example, i never cared and just replaced them. But there is something wrong.

OKay, i think i foun dit out.

Take a power pole which has e.g. radius 10, replace it with a better power pole which has e.g. radius 15 (if you hover over it, it shows it connects to a new power pole which is 12 away) - but if you place it, it wont connect. Solution: Remove and place again.... annyoing...

nuhll wrote:OKay, i think i foun dit out.

Take a power pole which has e.g. radius 10, replace it with a better power pole which has e.g. radius 15 (if you hover over it, it shows it connects to a new power pole which is 12 away) - but if you place it, it wont connect. Solution: Remove and place again.... annyoing...

Working as intended. Fast-replacing power poles preserves the wires it had connected assuming they can be connected (aka you aren't downgrading the pole).

If that's not what you want: don't fast-replace poles. Just leave them be or remove them and install the new poles which are going to have different spacing anyway because they have different reach.

Rseding91 wrote: If that's not what you want: don't fast-replace poles. Just leave them be or remove them and install the new poles which are going to have different spacing anyway because they have different reach.

The whole point is that OP (and other ppl) would like that the preview considers the special fast-replace behavior and doesn't show wires as if the pole was freshly placed. Not that the fast-replace behavior is changed.

eradicator wrote:

Rseding91 wrote: If that's not what you want: don't fast-replace poles. Just leave them be or remove them and install the new poles which are going to have different spacing anyway because they have different reach.

The whole point is that OP (and other ppl) would like that the preview considers the special fast-replace behavior and doesn't show wires as if the pole was freshly placed. Not that the fast-replace behavior is changed.

Ahh ok I see

This topic is older than the other one, but since the other one is more active now, I'm moving this to duplicates. The other topic: 67967