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it's great that red and green wire connections are saved within blueprints but what about the basic copper wires for the electric poles/substations? I have a bunch of sections in my base with deliberately placed copper wire connections to allow for power grid control (made better with power switches) but since blueprints essentially just plop the poles and automatically connect them regardless (just like hand-placing them) it gets a bit tedious to cut and reconnect wires again, especially if the blueprint was intended to be a tileable factory module.

I think it'd be handy to have copper wire connections saved in blueprints as well, especially now we have power switches to play around with.

I agree. I wanted to utilize power switch feature but because of that auto connection of power poles it's little irritating. All the time I have to disconnect them and connect manually which cost time, patience and resources.

The problem already exists in 0.12. But what the heck, I let the tag stay.

agreed wholeheartedly. Especially as it is a PITA to work out which pole is causing the networks to combine.

Still not solved in 0.15

It's not an idea, it should be fixed. Is there an existing bugreport in or should we create it?