/tg/Station 13

I'm not sure if I've suddenly started doing it wrong, but it seems to me like all wiring auto-smooths right now. If you lay a wire on a knotted wire, it turns into a smoothed wire.

Can we revert this? Ever since this went through, I've been having a lot of trouble doing my wiring because I never figured out how to do wire junctions with smooth wires.

Same here... I don't know how to use a generator mid wire since this happened (months ago but still)

The new wiring system is a lot easier in my opinion and it also means that repaired cables no longer look like a mess like they did before. Just take a while to learn it in the construction area or something. I'm against reverting to the old one.

how to do wire junctions:
make your curve
make another wire to the center
curve to opposite side
done

I still dont really like this change...

Slowed down the wiring of solars for me.

I really hope this wiring-overhaul (which went totally unannounced or atleast I also missed it) was done to optimize the lag the power network makes and such, and not just because some autist coder thought the knots looked ugly.

Same here, and I dont think it was announced.
At the very least, I only learned it when my wiring went screwie due to it.

kosmos wrote:I really hope this wiring-overhaul (which went totally unannounced or atleast I also missed it) was done to optimize the lag the power network makes and such, and not just because some autist coder thought the knots looked ugly.

It was part of an optimization yeah. I actually like it, I hated having to precisely click on the wire everytime when laying the solars.

Though don't forget that the knots are actually required for certain machines like the generators to work.

You can still make a knot if you put a wire down over a full wire, or just place a wire on an empty floor tile.

i literally had no idea how to wire things before this was changed so i like it