Hotel waitresses are inefficient

[PowerPC603]

I've got over 10 rooms with 2 double beds per room on floor 2 with 1 waitress located on that floor and set to only service that floor with only Hotel enabled, all other stuff is turned off so she's the only one making up the beds.

She goes into room A, makes up bed 1, then goes to another room B (sometimes on the opposite side of the hotel with 3 rooms in between) to make up bed 1, then comes back to room A to make up bed 1 again (which was already done). After this, she may go to room C and make up bed 1 and 2, then go to room D to make up bed 2. Then go back to room B again to make up bed 2. There seems to be no logic behind it which bed she will take first or the order in which she goes.

Wouldn't it be faster and more efficient to go into a room, make up all the beds there, then move to the room closest to this room, make up all the beds in that room too and so on?
Is there a reason to the total randomness?
Or does she follow the order in which the beds were occupied?
That may explain why beds are sometimes made up twice.

[galaedria]

I agree with this. They should make beds in order of proximity (closest bed first).

[stadtpark-hartmut]

I agree; It just doesn't look good.

Although it does not really matter, as all the rooms will be serviced before nightfall anyway if her only jobs is making beds / "Hotel".

I mean: it's not like this game is challenging in any way. It is engaging, and it is fun to look at - unless your OCD gets activated by inefficient waitresses...

[Bohemian Rap City]

Try assigning 2 staff at opposite ends of the building.

[Didz]

I've noticed a similar trend. In fact, I reduced the Hotel maids to one because I noticed that if you use more they just seem to follow each other about. The first maid enters a hotel room makes a bed and leaves, the second one follows her in notes that the bed she was planning to make is already made and so follows her out to the next room and so on wasting her time completely. So, i just have one maid on duty per floor now, she does of course have all day to make the beds so there is no hurry. You can use you worse waitress for the job.

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by Kipsley:

Well...... She is a peasant after all.

Must be one of them "witches"! May we burn her?

[xDogSoldieRx]

I have not bothered to make hotels yet. Sounds like the game is populating her task queue badly and at random instead of grouping tasks together by room.

[smf5576]

Originally posted by Bohemian Rap City:

Try assigning 2 staff at opposite ends of the building.

That doesn't make a difference. I've seen them go from one side of the building and back again multiple times before they get done.

[Kobold]

Originally posted by xDogSoldieRx:

I have not bothered to make hotels yet. Sounds like the game is populating her task queue badly and at random instead of grouping tasks together by room.

That is probably the case instead of having a task pool for hotel, floor. Then having the worker request the next closest task to them. It just gives it to them based on when it got added to the pool instead.

Edit: it would probably help if the entire room was added as a task and everything in it as part of the task. Similar to how drinks are randomly served to each customer. Rather then by tables like irl.

[<YaO>Qu4dR0ck3t<WoL>]

My waitresses just don't make 1/2 the beds. nothing blocking, they just don't work. I fired the entire staff to set an example, but, ya know, it's hard to find help Post COVID these days.

[lembos-hauser]

Originally posted by PowerPC603:

I've got over 10 rooms with 2 double beds per room on floor 2 with 1 waitress located on that floor and set to only service that floor with only Hotel enabled, all other stuff is turned off so she's the only one making up the beds.

She goes into room A, makes up bed 1, then goes to another room B (sometimes on the opposite side of the hotel with 3 rooms in between) to make up bed 1, then comes back to room A to make up bed 1 again (which was already done). After this, she may go to room C and make up bed 1 and 2, then go to room D to make up bed 2. Then go back to room B again to make up bed 2. There seems to be no logic behind it which bed she will take first or the order in which she goes.

Wouldn't it be faster and more efficient to go into a room, make up all the beds there, then move to the room closest to this room, make up all the beds in that room too and so on?
Is there a reason to the total randomness?
Or does she follow the order in which the beds were occupied?
That may explain why beds are sometimes made up twice.

Its never worth it to put 2 double beds in one room, at least at my calc: 2 5 star room with one double bed (size 2*2 + 2*2) pay more than a single 5 star room with two or even four double beds at size 2*4 (same size).

[Jette34]

I have two floors of rooms, with between 1 and 5 beds each. All are 5-star. I have one waitress who is set just to hotel, just those two floors, and she spends the entire day going back and forth between the levels and different ends of the building. Sometimes she goes to the same bed twice in a row. Absolutely bonkers.

To add: I have multi-bed rooms because I can fit more beds per floor that way. I make 16.5k nightly on hotel rooms, the rest of the tavern is just for funsies. If you put multiple beds in one room, you only need one set of extra stuff- the tub, fireplace, etc.