Room not enclosed?

[Staffan]

So I laid the foundation down. Assigned the room as a library with all requirements. And it says that its not enclosed.
I bulldoze the building and rebuild it and use the kennel as a testing room. still not enclosed.
So now I put a whole frame of wall in front of the outer wall making it smaller.
Still not enclosed.
Now I divide the room into 4 kennels and an office.
the big room is 28 x 37 m and has double regular doors at the top and double staff doors at the bottom.
After dividing the rooms they are enclosed.
Excellent.
Removing the walls.
the kennels are not enclosed but the office is enclosed.
trying to merge the kennels to see if that helps.
still not enclosed.
I ripped all the hair out on top of my head.
OK.
what if I change the doors then?

HELP MEEEE!! XD XD XD

[Staffan]

my bad. Its a mail room. This needs to be enclosed. A library does not have that requirement.

[28rommel]

(If not mistaken ...) The "enclosed" requirement means that when you setup (drag-out) the "room," inside the structure, it must be setup within the entire confines of the four walls, and must have a door.

Can you give us an image. Maybe that will give us an immediate clue to help you.

[Staffan]

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198006620047/screenshots/

[Staffan]

Originally posted by 28rommel:

(If not mistaken ...) The "enclosed" requirement means that when you setup (drag-out) the "room," inside the structure, it must be setup within the entire confines of the four walls, and must have a door.

Can you give us an image. Maybe that will give us an immediate clue to help you.

mind you that I built this room after the surrounding ones. but I also tried Bulldozing the exact size for this room. No mods installed

[The Queen Salis]

You really ought to use the checkerboard setting for these screenshots. and in general, to look. it makes incomplete room-zonings much easier to spot.

But you can look for yourself, without that setting, by hovering your mouse over the Mailroom item in the rooms menu for a while, this darkens out everything but Mailrooms. (works for all room types)

Are you certain you zoned the room on the metal detector tiles? These need to be "in" so the room reaches the bar doors

[28rommel]

Originally posted by The Queen Salis:

... Are you certain you zoned the room on the metal detector tiles? These need to be "in" so the room reaches the bar doors

This is exactly what I was going to point-out also.
The two squares that occupy your two metal detectors are considered inside this structure (since your door is one row-out from the north wall).
You must zone these two squares as "Mail Room" for the "enclosed" requirement.
Try that, and come-back and tell us if that worked.

[Staffan]

Big love to you both. I zoned it including the metal detectors and now it accepted the space.
470 hours of this game and I never knew the game was that stingy :)
Thanks you two!

[The Queen Salis]

It's cheaper (calculation-per-second wise) for the code to be stingy with the requirements than to have it calculate all the possible cases and accept those that "make sense" to the user without letting through silly things.

Just something we have to accept with this game.

[28rommel]

Glad it worked.
Happy gaming.
8-)

[Staffan]

Thanks again. But that prison became kind of a lost cause since they riot basically every 5 minutes XD
Never happened that often before. But its also a challenge to fix and could be fun doing.

[The Queen Salis]

Originally posted by Staffan:

Thanks again. But that prison became kind of a lost cause since they riot basically every 5 minutes XD
Never happened that often before. But its also a challenge to fix and could be fun doing.

good luck figuring it out :) I hope you at least have a psychologist

[Staffan]

Originally posted by The Queen Salis:

Originally posted by Staffan:

Thanks again. But that prison became kind of a lost cause since they riot basically every 5 minutes XD
Never happened that often before. But its also a challenge to fix and could be fun doing.

good luck figuring it out :) I hope you at least have a psychologist

Yeah its Tyrannicorp Prison system that I wanted to recreate but I must be doing something wrong or the fact that I have gangs and other stuff enabled that makes the psychiatric ward go bananas due to lack of clean clothes and luxuries. I have the janitors doing the clothes and I made a shop connected to the psych ward so the other prisoners can work and sell to the psychos. I have like 8 psychologists and 8 psychiatrists or what they are called. The freud looking guys. Planning to take all gang members and put them in a max sec section seperated from all the other prisoners

[Staffan]

And at the moment there are 142 dead bodies in the prison so thats bad