I'm not sure about VERY low priority, but I agree it's not at the top of the list :) But here's a proposed solution...

Placing pipes could be made similar to placing conveyor belts. You chose a direction and place it down. The pipe will bend if you place a pipe facing 90° from the adjacent pipe ...

You could try compromising between underground pipes and normal pipes, using underground in sections where you'd know they connect and normal pipes where they wouldn't.

Yup, this is what I currently do. My first foray into oil pumping has not been the tidiest - I'll do better in future. Though I ...

Hi guys - loving the game so thought I'd sign up to the forum :)

So something I have problems with is my pipe layouts. I hate how parallel pipes automatically connect to each other when they're intended to carry different liquids. While I could just keep them a space apart to avoid them connecting ...