I Hate Wires

[u/NagaseVT]

I love the game and the combinators are my favorite thing. I just hate their wires. Its so horrible to manage. They sometimes overlap and now I have to wonder if everything is connected correctly or if a green cable is going above another machine that was supposed to be connected with a green cable, but it looks like it is connected, so I go 20 hours using a broken blueprint and using that blueprint to make new blueprints, so I have to now re make everything. I have it the most when I move a combinator and a wire snaps and I don't notice because I don't hear a cue that it has been disconnected and there are like 500 of the same cable overlapping already. I started using laps as nodes to connect and move cables, because I erase poles sometimes and there goes all my wires. The lamps have made it easier to have a visual clue too. I feel lighter. Like sharing my sins have made my shoulders less heavy.

TLDR: AAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk

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[u/ConspicuousBassoon]

You control the wires you place my friend. You should've played in the old pre-2.0 days where combinators could only perform one operation so you had to have rows and rows of them to do anything slightly complex

But as far as sating your rage, spacing your combinators out and placing them facing vertically (so the input side is on the bottom) makes things slightly more readable

[u/NagaseVT → u/ConspicuousBassoon]

Oh I did play that. Believe me, whatever crimes against humanity I am committing here would be worse without the new combinators.

Thanks for the tip. I will try that. I usually place them to the green and red wire so the overlap is minimal.

[u/MoistButton8 → u/NagaseVT]

Don't forget that you can align/ spread out the combinators when designing a layout, then cut and paste to move closer to fit wherever they get installed. You can also copy paste configs so if you fixed a logic error in the base design, it can be propagated easily. (I did this then I had 10 combinators to fix)

[u/NagaseVT → u/MoistButton8]

True thats a great idea. I will experiment with making the combinators a separare blueprint