switch green/red wire position on substation

tamanous · Post by **tamanous** » Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:29 pm

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.

steinio · Post by **steinio** » Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:59 pm

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

tamanous · Post by **tamanous** » Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:20 pm

Call it quality of live improvement, then?!

Post by **ssilk** » Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:39 pm

First world problem...

tamanous · Post by **tamanous** » Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:45 pm

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

Optera · Post by **Optera** » Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:59 pm

+1
Now my CDO, that's like OCD but the letters are in alphabetical order, is triggered.

Squelch · Post by **Squelch** » Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:39 pm

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?

coppercoil · Post by **coppercoil** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:24 am

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

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:10 am

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

Optera · Post by **Optera** » 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.

Squelch · Post by **Squelch** » 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

Optera · Post by **Optera** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 4:32 pm

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

tamanous · Post by **tamanous** » Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:27 am

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.

tamanous · Post by **tamanous** » Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:00 pm

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

Serenity · Post by **Serenity** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:39 pm

Literally unplayable

Jap2.0 · Post by **Jap2.0** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:32 pm

Thanks guys, now I'll never unsee this.

eradicator · Post by **eradicator** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:46 pm

+10

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.

valneq · Post by **valneq** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:41 pm

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.

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