Power poles display yellow hitbox even though not in range

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Power poles display yellow hitbox even though not in range

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Normal behavior when hovering over rail:
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Bad behavior when hovering over pole that is further away:
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This happens for all 3 types of power poles.
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Re: Power poles display yellow hitbox even though not in range

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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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Re: Power poles display yellow hitbox even though not in range

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Re: Power poles display yellow hitbox even though not in range

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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.
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Re: Power poles display yellow hitbox even though not in range

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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.
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Re: Power poles display yellow hitbox even though not in range

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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.
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Re: Power poles display yellow hitbox even though not in range

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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
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