Ideal Bed:Population Ratio?

[Spleenkick McGee]

How many beds are sufficient to keep a population well-rested? 1 bed per 2 minions seems reasonable, but since they won't all be sleeping at the same time, is it possible to do 1 bed per 4 minions? Possibly more?

[Hapxier]

It's entirely possible to get away with not having any beds at all. I've only seen beds do two things- flag a room for "sleeping", thus causing minions to gather in it when night falls, and restore a minion's endurance stat. If you have some other means of effectively restoring minions' endurance stats, there really is no requirement to have even a single bed.

I do use them, but only for their ability to gather up all your wandering minions into a single room. I stuff that one room full of loot items and roughly enough beds to support a third of the base's population. All the overlapping loot effects keep my minions in tip top shape, and besides- they're minions! If they absolutely must sleep, they can use the floor. Otherwise, they can engage in fisticuffs to win one of the few beds in my base. It's wonderful entertainment, and completely free!

[Kantz]

Send your slaves to work, then they do not need to hang around the beds. If they complain.. execute them!

[Weizen1988]

So a handful of the loots raise endurance, as do mess hall i beleive, so you can have minions eat and stare at cool things instead of sleeping? This is actually really helpful, thank you, ive been building huge wasteful barracks with beds, now i can use them for more lockers and weapons, maybe stick a few beds somewhere.

[Kantz]

When I'm not executing minions.... I properly have a 1:10 bed ratio. At some point in the game you basically do not need beds since more efficient equipment is available.

A simple bedroom system:
If you want a bedroom, then put it somewhere strategic with loudspeakers. That ensures a lot of minions will come out and deal with agents you have applied a tag too, once they are spotted on the security cameras. (The lazy workers love sleeping)
If you have it fairly near the entrance with an outside security system 1 and an inside security system 2, then they can fast run out and deal with the spotted foes.
You do not want only 1 security system. That will in worst case send almost your whole base on a run to deal with a single puny tourist.

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

Hapxier is very cruel, he uses stimulants 24/7 instead of letting his minions sleep. He lost his arching license from his poor treatment of minions so don't listen to him.

[Yes, I have a Mic.]

If you arrange your rooms and loot correctly then your minions will rarely, if ever, have to sleep.
I'm in the late game and my beds have become redundant as have any stat regen equipment. The loot items take care of everything. I've only executed one minion and that was by accident.

Its all about the lay-out. You get that right then everything becomes much simpler. Best place for your genius is the control room.