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1. I was exploring my map laying down big electric poles and radars.
2. I walked from point A to point B, laying down poles and radars.
3. Then I followed my electric line back to point A without laying down anything new. Then I started moving to point C laying down electric poles and radars.
4. When I got to point C, I opened my map. To my surprise, I realized there was a giant diagonal line of big electric poles from point B to point A. I did not lay down those poles. They also do not have any electric lines connecting them (they're just bare poles).
5. I might have had my electric poles in hand the whole way when I was walking from point B to point A, I don't recall for sure. I also don't know if the game took those out of my inventory. I suspect it did, because I seemed suddenly very low on big electric poles compared to what I remembered.

Dominik wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:29 am The case where this happens (that I was able to find) is when you try to build a remote power pole and fail by distance (or build a ghost of a pole or belt), and then click on an existing pole near you and drag-build from there.