Conveyer rail bridge cost

[Richard Cranium]

[SharraShimada]

Whats your point? You say something about the cost, but you post a screenshot of your stock.

[Supraluminal]

17 minutes ago, SharraShimada said:

Whats your point? You say something about the cost, but you post a screenshot of your stock.

I think the point is that the costs of different bridges are inconsistent, with the conveyor bridge being a huge outlier. Most bridges cost the same amount of materials as a regular segment of the same type of conduit (e.g. wire bridge = 25 ore, wire segment also = 25 ore). This makes sense because they only gain you one tile of additional length to your conduit - bridges are three tiles long but you have to place a regular segment overlapping each end, so only the middle tile really counts.

So the question is, why are a few more expensive, and most egregiously why does a conveyor bridge cost four times as much as a normal section of rail?

(Also, liquid pipe requires "plumbable" materials but liquid bridge requires raw mineral, which seems odd.)