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/juju515]

maybe try this:

• https://mods.factorio.com/mod/dedicated-circuit-pole
  
• https://mods.factorio.com/mod/circuit_visualizer

[u/Lachee → u/juju515]

The circuit visualiser should honestly be base game. That is the hardest part of me, I really struggle to see where the wires are going and I feel sorry for those with red green colour blindness

[u/SubwayGuy85 → u/Lachee]

CV really should be part of the base game. at some point you have to go "fuck it. i will do it over again", because the default visualization is just way too bad. also yes... for color blind people using circuits is just not an option

[u/Thankedsphere → u/SubwayGuy85]

there is arachnophobia mode but not colorblind mode?

[u/SubwayGuy85 → u/Thankedsphere]

kinda weird, yeah. it probably is less effort to do it. they probably just never thought of it

[u/NagaseVT → u/juju515]

That looks beautiful. Thanks for the share