Allow disabling of power pole auto-connect in clipboard and blueprints

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TL;DR

Provide a setting or keybinding to prevent auto-connection of power poles when pasting from clipboard, or blueprints.

What ?

Use the same behaviour that the map editor clone tool uses. This could default to the current behaviour of auto-connect, but allow players to choose whether it is disabled.
Previous queries and mentions concerning this behaviour:

1. Place power poles without wires?
2. [0.17.79] Overlapping electric networks can cause increased power draw - Reproduction steps provided by myself.
3. Option: disable auto-connect for a power pole - Similar request, but power pole specific.
4. an idea for fixing auto-connecting power-pole problems - Similar, but has several suggestions in one, and does not follow the template so probably overlooked.
5. power and blueprints workaround - doesn't seem to get the message across.
6. Toggle autoconnection and power suply of power poles - Old suggestion that pretty much mirrors this one except for the mention of clones.
7. [urll=viewtopic.php?f=11&t=27456][0.14] [kovarex] Power Switch blueprint doesn't remember power line positions[/url] - Old bug report, turned feature request made prior to current blueprint handling.
8. About Cables and Wires / Make Wires Free / Power Poles Contain Cables - The granddaddy thread that this suggestion will probably end up in.
9. Probably many others that will need searching out ...

Why ?

When pasting from clipboard, or placing blueprints, auto-connect is active and invariably causes carefully laid out power networks to make undesirable connections. Players then have to rework the network to regain the original functionality. I was under the impression that this behaviour was immutable, but a recent discovery in a bug report would indicate that this entirely possible. The map editor clone tool does not have auto-connect active, so makes a true and exact copy of the original power entities and connections. This is exactly the behaviour I would desire in the main game.

This behaviour has always been a hot topic, but with the recently improved UI for copy/paste and blueprint handling, combined with the map editor behaviour makes this fresh request salient though not unique.

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This points also to the thing, that you can choose how a bp should be printed only, if it is a bp, and not in clipboard.

For completeness

coloured power poles
network masks
Option to Lock Power Poles Against Auto-connection

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This points also to the thing, that you can choose how a bp should be printed only, if it is a bp, and not in clipboard.

For completeness

coloured power poles
network masks
Option to Lock Power Poles Against Auto-connection

Thanks for the link-backs.

I had intended to add them this morning, but you beat me to it. It would seem that you also predicted the gap between BPs and clipboard and the need for a control too from your comment.