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What?

Switch the position of green and red wire on substation in horizontal view.

Why?

Because on all other electric poles, viewed horizontally, green is on top and red at bottom. Unify design. In the current state, wires cross each other when a substation is connected to a other type of electric pole. When trying to understand/troubleshoot wiring, it helps big time when wires are not overlapping.

Well i would leave it in as trivia.
This shouldn't be an OCD simulator.

Call it quality of live improvement, then?!

First world problem...

It's totally wube's fault! The longer they deliver such a damn good product, the more users are drawn to their perfection...

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Now my CDO, that's like OCD but the letters are in alphabetical order, is triggered.

Optera wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:59 pm Now my CDO, that's like OCD but the letters are in alphabetical order, is triggered.

Is that similar to NPN, or is this simply polish?

I think it could be fixed for consistency, not for OCD. This is not critical, but once the game is in polishing stage...

Please fix it!
Never saw it before, but now it hurts.

Squelch wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:39 pm Is that similar to NPN, or is this simply polish?

Neither, the point is hard cases of OCD are annoyed by the letters not being in alphabetical order.

Optera wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:07 pm

Squelch wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:39 pm Is that similar to NPN, or is this simply polish?

Neither, the point is hard cases of OCD are annoyed by the letters not being in alphabetical order.

It was a play on words or acronyms in the same fashion as rearranging OCD, and the subject of this thread. OCD -> CDO Polish notation -> Reverse Polish Notation -> polish item

Needing to explain it spoils the joke unfortunately. Nevermind

Squelch wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:30 pm

Optera wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:07 pm

Squelch wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:39 pm Is that similar to NPN, or is this simply polish?

Neither, the point is hard cases of OCD are annoyed by the letters not being in alphabetical order.

It was a play on words or acronyms in the same fashion as rearranging OCD, and the subject of this thread. OCD -> CDO Polish notation -> Reverse Polish Notation -> polish item

Needing to explain it spoils the joke unfortunately. Nevermind

ah polish and Polish.... with how bad spelling has become these days that joke sailed over my head

Turns out, vertical alignment could use a look into it, too.

See [0.17.79] Please please please let electric poles be rotated for reference.

Medium pole in diagonal position (left down, right top) has also red/green position switched.

Literally unplayable

Thanks guys, now I'll never unsee this.

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Thanks to the other thread i did testing and substations actually have swapped colors for 3 of 4 directions. All others have "left=green,right=red" (from the perspective of the pole, so rotation changes it and that's fine.).


This won't fix your "crossed wires" problem for the other pole sizes though.

Edit: If no dev comments on this (i.e. reads this) i think i'll try escalating it to a bug report in a few days.

This really is an unnecessary inconsistency. Changing the wire positions for the substations to make them consistent with the other power poles will considerably reduce wire crossing – without any obvious downsides.