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Eppy

Apr 26, 2014 @ 11:32am

Prison Cell Doors won't close

I am trying to assign my prisoners their own cell and when the guards take them to their cell the cell door doesn't close (the doors are open day and night), so the prisoners just walk out and go back into the holding cell, so now I have 16 prisoners in a holding cell. I put the jail cell doors the right way, they are on normal mode, and the cells meet all the requirements. Any idea how to fix this?

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Eppy

Apr 26, 2014 @ 11:34am

All other doors work even the same type of doors that are not being used for prison cells

☮Morti

Apr 26, 2014 @ 11:35am

Seem to be having the same issue as prisoners are not assigned to their cells, instead just keep chilling in their holding cell.
To fix, I remove the holding cell (the room grid, not the building). This way all will be escorted to their cells. Just don't forget to remake the holding cell for your new batch of prisoners.

Eppy

Apr 26, 2014 @ 11:41am

Tried that, it didn't work. Instead they just starting milling around the hallways at snail pace and one even tried to escape. The guards just stood around not having a care in the world.

Emmote

Apr 26, 2014 @ 1:12pm

Why does nobody ever link screenshots? They help immeasurably.

My first guess would be that you've assigned, for example, your cells as minimum security, yet your prisoners are normal so they can't use them. My second would be that you game thinks there aren't any cells, so it's not using them. Maybe you zoned them wrong. Other than that I have very little to go on.

Need a screenshot of some of your Cells and Holding Cell - both normal mode and Deployment mode! Press F12 in Steam to take screenshots.

Last edited by Emmote; Apr 26, 2014 @ 1:13pm

bamlink

Apr 26, 2014 @ 6:06pm

Originally posted by Emmote:
Why does nobody ever link screenshots? They help immeasurably.

My first guess would be that you've assigned, for example, your cells as minimum security, yet your prisoners are normal so they can't use them. My second would be that you game thinks there aren't any cells, so it's not using them. Maybe you zoned them wrong. Other than that I have very little to go on.

How does one zone a cell for 'minimum,' 'normal,' etc. I thought there was just one 'cell' designation.