Multiple storage areas

[Proteus]

Hasy anyone already tried multiple storage areas (and what prisoners and workers do with them)?

I was thinking of the following setup:
2 Storage areas ...
the first one near the delivery area ... staff only and the location where my workers move the thinks being delivered (who would have thought :D )
the sesond one near my workshop ... this is the one where my prisoners are supposed to put their crates with diasssembled workshop machinery.

One would guess that prisoners and workers would transport things to the nearest storage to their location, so if the "prisoner storage" is nearer than the "worker storage", the prisoners would transport things there ... same for workers, if the worker storage is the nearest storage to the delivery area, workers should transport delivered goods there.

So, the big question is, if anyone already treid multiple storage areas and observeed how prisoners/workers handle them

[PissyPants]

Two storage areas work great, in terms of increasing the total amount of storage area where space is limited. But AFAIK only workmen use storage areas, and they don't follow any rules as to what is put in them. Everything is spread randomly between them, with no thought to types of stock, proximity, etc.

[mikeydsc]

Originally posted by The Dark Prince of Samoa:

Havent done it yet but it always crossed my mind you only want to put storage areas like in middle of prison or where they can reach everything to build or repair and etc. Not in middle but an area where they have easy access to. Lately I been going for design for that kinda. I havent made a full design that works because the game isnt fully completed yet. Dont put it on the side or use the delivery area. Why? Prisoners will try and follow the engineers or worker guys out the front door. I tried a setup like that to weed out that crap but it didnt work out right.

You have to have salley area ( double gate and the timing needs to be so the first gate that opens will close before the 2nd gate opens