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I noticed while trying to change the values of the wire distance/supply area that it has a limit of 64. The game will not load if it is above 64. Why is this?

It's for performance reason I think.
When people tried to do thousand or so and suddenly had strange performance issues

What I would like to do is make a global power pole so that I don't need power lines. I don't think there would be performance issue being that many poles can make an equivalent supply area, but i'm not a coder so I don't know for sure.

zirty wrote:What I would like to do is make a global power pole so that I don't need power lines. I don't think there would be performance issue being that many poles can make an equivalent supply area, but i'm not a coder so I don't know for sure.

So you need a substation with large supply area...

zirty wrote:What I would like to do is make a global power pole so that I don't need power lines. I don't think there would be performance issue being that many poles can make an equivalent supply area, but i'm not a coder so I don't know for sure.

You can't. And there would.
You could try spawning an invisible non-collision 32x32 supply area power pole in every chunk the player builds something in. But it won't work with multiple forces.