Weight Benches not being used. Any idea why?

[Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's!]

So, as normal, I will put weight benches in the yards and common rooms and even a few of the cells that are of better quality. However, during Freetime or Yard Time, my prisoners will all choose to run for their exercise need and totally ignore the weight benches.

Kinda disappointed as it would be much cooler to see the weight benches getting used like you might typically associate with working out in prison. Anyone else having this problem or know if it's a bug? Just curious why weights are being ignored.

[Boltonhero]

I dunno what the problem is. Are the exercise benches too close to eachother so the prisoners run since they cant get on the benches? All I can think of right now.

[Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's!]

I do line the benches up next to one another to save space for other items that go into the yards/common rooms. But it was never an issue before and didn't seem to interfere with their path finding ability to use the benches.

[Mieze_Kat]

I did it like that and as you can "see" they are in use:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=516310754

[GC13]

Out of curiosity how large is your yard? I haven't been watching it for long, but I had huge yards in one prison where they used the benches, and a small yard in another where they run around.

[Münster Mike]

I rarely see my prisoners running, but they hit the weights constantly. Interesting, I wonder what is causing this for you.

[Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's!]

GC13, I will take some screenshots for you as soon as I can to illustrate. And Sinea, that happened to me, too! I have a permanent lockdown Legendary that was using the weight bench and his hands just stayed there when he walked away...wtf?

[Satoru]

Maybe its owned by a gang?

[Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's!]

Satoru, currently, I haven't enabled the Gangs option in my game.

[Mieze_Kat]

This is my yard area :D

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=516347051

[Münster Mike]

Maybe the groovy paver track is just too enticing... try making it all grass

[riverzend180]

same thing is for my weight benches too....It'll probaly be fixed once the game comes out in Oct. Im hella excited to watch the live stream event on sept 26th : D

[Reb Militia]

Game is out and they still won't use benches.

[lissa_981]

Try leaving a space between them.

[Suffering causes Resilience]

Same problem.

I only found out after downloading a prison from the workshop where the benches were being used, lol.

I thought there was just no animation for them and they would be used "in disguise" but nope, there is animation for it, it's just bugged in my prison it seems.

[Ansastu]

I've made huge prisons and they always used the weight bences because the fact that the yard was huge. When I made a small prison with a small yard, they ran instead of using the benches.