Stuck after 5 Minutes??? Wiring Question

[cfrag]

So I'm completely new, and I'm following the little robot's advice. First I mine some asteroids, then build an oxygen machine, then a coal-based generator. Next, the little one tells me to craft wire so that machinery can get electricity and 'signalize' each other. However, once I'm done creating 2 x copper wire (which turns out to be 6 spools of wire), the tutorial ends, and there is no tutorial on how to use the wires that I just created. So what is it that I'm to do now? I did some more research, and now can create a smelter, but still no-one has told me how to connect devices.
So, why did I create 6 spools of copper wire, and how do I use them to connect machines? Should I just ignore the tutorial's wire stuff and forge on? That seems like really bad teaching...

Anyone?

[Phoenix Cat]

Your gonna have to learn it to move forward. You equip the wire. On your generators and on your machines you will see a little lighting bolt symbol. Just place wires to connect the two. You can connect multiple machines and wire them all together as long as you have enough power hooked to them. Can provide screen shot if you need it.

[cfrag]

Thank you! Now I can finally progress!!!

Why doesn't the little robot tell me this? A Simple 'equip the wire' would have done that.


Aaaaaaargh!

Dang it! I'm having the worst time ever in a new game. I've now progressed slightly (thank you brnphoenix75!), and now the little robot tells me that the Destruction Tech (that I have researched) allows me to destroy any component. But whenever I try to do that (control+right MB), I get an error message MISSING CONSTRUCTION technology. If there ever was a show piece for why it is important to have a game/UX designer in your team, this game is a poster child. I feel like an idiot, and this game is definitely not fun for me.

[nevryn]

Go watch STHedgehog or Glidercat on You-Tube

[cfrag]

Thank you @nevryn for the kind tip to watch a video. I may do that, but if I need to watch a video to understand the most basic tutorial, that tutorial is not worth much. I now have found out that I can only destroy objects that I have learned to construct, so the task is not to destroy some part of the ship, but destroy something I already built.

Two hours in, and I've had nothing but a frustrating experience. Bummer.

[Dracuras]

select building/component with builder tool and press delete, anything lit up yellow gets sucked into the tool, can be as simple as throwing down a carbon generator and sucking it back up.

[Kiashien]

Originally posted by cfrag:

Thank you @nevryn for the kind tip to watch a video. I may do that, but if I need to watch a video to understand the most basic tutorial, that tutorial is not worth much. I now have found out that I can only destroy objects that I have learned to construct, so the task is not to destroy some part of the ship, but destroy something I already built.

Two hours in, and I've had nothing but a frustrating experience. Bummer.

Just a note for anyone wandering in.. it auto-populates your early bar of equipment. 1-9 to select them, if you're that new to this type of game.