Don't connect to deconstructed power / No auto connect wires when deconstruccting

[blazespinnaker]

I run into this a lot, needing to move a big electric pole over a few tiles. I deconstructed the BEP, but when I try to print the replacement, it connects to the deconstructed one (which doesn't really make sense, right?) and won't connect to original's neighbors as BEPs can't connect to common poles.

It means I have to wait for the BEP to be fully deconstructed before printing a new one.

[ssilk]

But when finally BEP is deconstructed it will connect, or will not?
Don’t completely understand the problem. Why should it not connect? Power through to be deconstructed poles is better than no power, or not? Then why?

[blazespinnaker]

Give it a shot. Very aggravating when moving BEPs over a few tiles (make way for a rail or some such). Maybe power might work for the brief few minutes before a bot comes along and removes the tower, but that's obviously of very little use.

Pretty inconsistent for a printed ghost to connect to a deconstructed tower if you ask me. Most things are deactivated when queued for deconstruction.

[ssilk]

I find it mega important to have power as long as possible, because I think it can happen much too often that the pole is removed, roboport has no power and the remaining area isn’t removed, because roboport runs out of power.

In my opinion such cases can only be solved properly, when we have the ability to place parts of blueprints (deconstruction, upgrade) , or filtered parts of blueprints more or less automated one layer after the other.

[trampek]

hello

please tell me there is way to do this already or please add this feature cos its driving me crazy ...

im making 2 power grids next to each other, or rather one on each other , it is quite messy even when i do shift+click and put all wires myself ( its around some building but need 2 grids), but then i deconstruct 1 pole and all my work is wasted cos every pole that was connected to one i deconstructed happily go and connect to everything it should not, really really annoying

also little other thing , less annoying but still, i got blueprint with those 2 grids and it works but if i place it close to other poles it connect to those outside blueprint so i have to go and find those and disconnect them 1 by 1

all that stuff would be much easier if those wires would be highlight like circuit wires , now if 1 of described above thing happen i have to look thro web of wires with no indicator which is which , would be much better if there was some option to disable poles autoconnection at all but if there was some highlight that would help a little too

[Koub]

This is somewhere between gameplay help and a suggestion. I'll leave the post here, because I'm almost certain that what you want can't be done. However, I'm also almost certain it won't be added (not a dev myself, just an intuition).

Also, you might fond this discussion interesting : viewtopic.php?f=25&t=100492

[Dmytrozern]

This sounds like a mod. Or, alternatively - disconnect all poles from the one you want to pick up before you do, and it should do the trick.

I'm against having this feature forced. Imagine removing a pole with a bot at a distant outpost and not seeing that you just cut out half of that outpost, including a radar.

[ssilk]

merged with more or less quite similar suggestion

Imagine removing a pole with a bot at a distant outpost and not seeing that you just cut out half of that outpost, including a radar.

That can be avoided with this suggestion:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=89065 Control Power Connections by Colored Power Poles (revisited)
[Ok, it’s from me, but after a year or so I loose the personal connection to my suggestions and it’s more or less like any other.] I still think (now after reading nearly a dozen similar suggestions), that this one is the best (power connection suggestion), because it solves a number of other problems, that most other suggestions don’t have on screen. Its not a similar suggestion, but it also solves this problem. That why I include it into this list.

Of course there are lots of others
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=81465 Allow disabling of power pole auto-connect in clipboard and blueprints
Includes also more links to similar suggestions.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=86937 Network Mask for Electric Poles
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=91100 Option to Lock Power Poles Against Auto-connection
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=95735 Blueprint separate wires

[JimBarracus]

thats partly the reason why I have a redundand power supply to basically everything.

If you care about the build order you should use multiple blueprints.

[Stringweasel]

I run into this a lot, needing to move a big electric pole over a few tiles.

Have you tried the spectacular mod Picker Dollies? Hover your cursor over the pole (or any entity), then Shift+Arrow will move the pole one to any direction. Also super useful when you want to move big warehouses full of items or combinators

[ssilk]

Yes, picker Dollies should be in Vanilla, because it can save you hours of time.