Tube TV in "apartments"

[Jim]

So I have my little colonists setup in their own little 11x8 pads. Getting bed upgrades etc etc etc late game stuff. I have TVs setup in my hospital I know colonists will watch. My question is can I put TVs in each apartment I have for them to watch on their bed? Does it work on a bed or do I need to build a chair?

[Xilo The Odd]

well any pawn will go to the nearest joy source in the best enviroment, i usually make a community room with a big flat screen, gold tile floor, thrumbo leather arm chairs, jade statues, hookers... ok maybe not the last one xP. but you get the idea, it generally makes them more prone to go to that room for their enjoyment and socializing.

[Jet]

hate that we cant tell them which joy source to use. or have them at least be more intelligent about it. No point letting them play billboards with 25 joy tolerance for dexterity. Cant even assign rooms for individual colonists only. locks mod avius save us

[JoeDaTomato]

Originally posted by Jet:

Cant even assign rooms for individual colonists only.

Zoning. It’s a bad idea, though.

[Jim]

All I'm asking is if I put a TV in their bedroom with the TV zone on the bed, will they watch it? Or do they need a chair in the TV zone instead? As far as I know, the only beds that work are beds designated for hospitals.

[Astasia]

I'm like 90% sure they will not watch TV in a non-medical bed unless they are injured and there are no medical beds. There is no relax in bed action AFAIK. They might, might, get some extra joy while lovin if there's a TV in range, because that's the only time they are awake while in their own beds.

If you put a chair in the room then you will have random colonists popping in and watching TV in their room, it's not a good idea. Keep all joy activities in your best room so they get a larger rec room buff.

[liosalpha]

you can so this simple with manaing they sceduals and a planed lay out.
Lets say you make them sleep 6 hours. then they will be probably hungy when they wake up. this is an opertunerty to move them away from the dorms in to the mess and entertainment halls. just put something like the workshops / stockpiles / parks / farms in between the sleeping quarters and the mess hall.

there is also a mod that can mark tiles as pefered or discouraged path ways. If you use the red on on the apartment doors, it wil count like as if the tile has a 200+ tiles futher away. making anything els nearby that much closer and more likely to be used. Assigning a bed will still make the pawn use the room like normal but any stranger will just avoid it.
its also great for making rooms with more then one exit with out turning them in to high trafic conidors.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1180719857

[1001001]

Falconne's excellent Better Workbench mod makes workbenches assignable, you could try to convince him to expand it to joy sources.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=935982361&searchtext=workbench