Patrolling/Stationed guards aren't unlocking jail doors

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Patrolling/Stationed guards aren't unlocking jail doors

Postby HeroFV » Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:12 pm

I have designed my prison to take advantage of separate staff hallways and prisoner areas. I use jail doors all throughout, keeping all the doors from staff>staff & prisoner>prisoner locked open. While keeping the doors from staff>prisoner areas set to normal.

In my design I have narrowed down these staff>prisoner areas to 2 high traffic doors. One from staff>Medium sec & one from staff>max sec. My thinking was that I could simply set a guard to patrol the space directly beside the door to allow access when needed. I had previous done this at the front of my prison and it seemed to work fine.

Sadly, this is not working like I had hoped! The patrolling guard will just stand there most of the time and not open the doors :( Needless to say this is a waste of the patrol! I had even tried to make an "airlock" room to set a guard to station hoping the AI would be different, but again the same buggy behavior. They seem to do it sometimes and not most the time. I tried patrolling just one single space and several. Nothing is helping :(

Is this something just bugging in my game or has anyone else experienced this? Am I missing something? If this is a bug, then I think I'm posting in the wrong place, however I'm not entirely sure if it is or not.

I completely understand the whole guards have to open doors thing, but I think it's only fair to make a guard be able to be station beside a door to open it with as little delay as possible.
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Re: Patrolling/Stationed guards aren't unlocking jail doors

Postby Master-Guy » Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:06 am

jelco wrote:In an attempt to keep the forums organized, I would like to remind everyone participating in the Prison Architect Alpha that any Alpha-specific questions, bug reports etc. should go in the Developer subforum, not here in the General subforum. You are of course free to share screenshots etc. over here if you feel like it, but bug reports do not belong here.

Additionally, please use the Search button before creating a new topic. With the alpha progressing the chance becomes greater that anything you run into has been noticed and posted about before. Instead of creating a new topic, please post in an existing topic (in the Developer forum).

Thanks! :)

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Re: Patrolling/Stationed guards aren't unlocking jail doors

Postby HeroFV » Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:43 pm

HeroFV wrote:If this is a bug, then I think I'm posting in the wrong place, however I'm not entirely sure if it is or not.


I read that thread, but I wasn't sure if this was a "bug"
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Re: Patrolling/Stationed guards aren't unlocking jail doors

Postby sprouts1115 » Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:19 am

I've seen that too. I fixed it by having the parol square be right by the door. See if that works.

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