Heavy conductive wire through tiles / incompatible with heavi-watt*

[The Plum Gate]

It would be nice to be able to run heavy conductive wire through tiles without the need of a bridge - this would make heavi-watt and heavy conductive joint plates obsolete unless heavy conductive and heavi-watt wire were incompatible - *the bind/catch here being that only a heavy-watt and/or heavy conductive joint bridges would allow connection between the two.

This tweak would justify the cost-to-benefit ratio on the heavy conductive as the decor penalty could be negated by covering it with wall or floor tiles. As it currently exists, there's no real reason to use heavy conductive wire over heavi-watt since the negative decor values are so close together - any length of a run of it is going to be hideous to begin with. If one were more placement flexible than the other, then some more thought might be put into its use.

I Imagine tight spaces and cramped machine shops might use it sparingly while long runs of heavi-watt would be suitable for long distances.

[Supraluminal]

As has been said a million times, we really need heavy conductive wire to take a higher wattage than regular heavi-watt. I'd be fine with something like your idea as well, but just bumping up the wattage limit seems like by far the most basic, intuitive way to make heavy conductive wire worth building. Unless/until that happens, people are going to be confused by its existence and purpose.

[Master Miner]

Currently there is one use of the heavy conductive - can use tungsten so it won't melt that soon if it gets hot.