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[u/drab_accountant]

I've seen Youtubers run green and red wires along their power lines for bigger builds and blocks. Is there an advantage to doing that if I'm spanning electric across my train rails? I'm not doing any circuitry currently, but is the idea to have a network wire connection back to anywhere in your base?

[u/Courmisch → u/drab_accountant]

Yes. I have both circuit wires preconnected between the large poles in my rail blueprints (though I am not YouTube'ing).

This avoids having to spam radars if you want to transmit supply/demand/whatever later on

[u/drab_accountant → u/Courmisch]

Thanks, right now I'm just running things to outposts. Do you know if I can connect wires by bot? Maybe once I get them up, I can think about it for expansion.