Suspending Long Rope

[Skotty]

One last noob question.  What is the right way to do a long suspended rope (like a power line as an example)?  I played with various stretching parameters, mass scale, and one or two other things, but the rope would always drag all the way to the ground (even with stretching scale at 0.001 and stretch compliance at 0).  The one thing that worked was to reduce gravity in the solver.  I can make that work, but is it the right solution?

I only need a couple of such ropes.  And I could (and may yet) switch those to just static meshes since these particular ones don't really need to move.  But I'd still like to know is there are other parameters I should be adjusting for a long suspended rope.

Thanks,

Skotty