A Suggestion for Devs to Fix Stuck Items in Rooms

[Sizewell]

Lots of people are having problems with stuck items in rooms and are unable to do anything about it because the item is highlighted in green as being in use, so unable to delete/move it.
Devs, is it possible to have an icon that if you click on it and select the stuck object, it will overide and delete the item, A bit heavy handed, but at least it will fix the problem.
Or maybe some code that will fix the issue rather than just delete it.

Just a suggestion........

[Horst Marines]

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[Data]

+1 Same problem with stuck objects here. Even after days the objects keep green all the time...

[Oceansize]

This hasn't happened to me yet but I've put some thought into it, and I thought one possible solution (also heavy handed) would be to close the entire department in question so that everybody leaves. Unless the green color is from a bug and not from the equipment truly being in-use, that should clear the green color. Just a thought.

[Krall]

Originally posted by Oceansize:

This hasn't happened to me yet but I've put some thought into it, and I thought one possible solution (also heavy handed) would be to close the entire department in question so that everybody leaves. Unless the green color is from a bug and not from the equipment truly being in-use, that should clear the green color. Just a thought.

I have an employee stuck in radiology on her chair. I deleted the room, demolished the room, deleted everything in the room that wasn't green, removed the foundation, built walls over her, fired her, moved her to the night shift, hired another employee to take her place and he sat in her lap and didn't see any patients. I'm not sure what you have to do to remove these green objects, but now I have to go back to an earlier save.

The only thing that changed is she's now sort of upright in a hunched over position. I guess she must have partied the night before with my 2 alcoholic doctors...

[@conit]

Almost every items/people can be unstuck if you rebuild the stuff you destroyed around them(including area) and wait a bit. Just stop destroying whole room with people inside and wait for people to leave a room before working on it. Hard destroying room with people inside is a guarranty to get stuff stuck.

[Ironman Andy]

Have the same issue. All the chairs in the waiting room are green without anybody using. So all people standing in a room with empty chairs ... pretty anoying.

[Krall]

Originally posted by @conit:

Almost every items/people can be unstuck if you rebuild the stuff you destroyed around them(including area) and wait a bit. Just stop destroying whole room with people inside and wait for people to leave a room before working on it. Hard destroying room with people inside is a guarranty to get stuff stuck.

How long do you wait? I went 2 day/night cycles before I even realized what the problem was. Then I destroyed everything and still stuck.

I notice when you copy rooms sometimes items that didn't have any placement issues suddenly do, but you don't notice they are yellow unless you move them around inside the room.

[Oceansize]

Originally posted by @conit:

Almost every items/people can be unstuck if you rebuild the stuff you destroyed around them(including area) and wait a bit. Just stop destroying whole room with people inside and wait for people to leave a room before working on it. Hard destroying room with people inside is a guarranty to get stuff stuck.

I disagree. I think I found a quicker, much less destructive way to get everything moving again: look at your wards in mgmt. mode, this makes it really easy to click on the occupied beds one at a time to bring up the character cards of each hospitalized patient, regardless of where they actually are in the hospital at that moment. For everyone who seems to be stuck in their treatment regime, cancel any pending exams and treatments, and then also (IMPORTANT) cancel their Final Diagnosis and then re-select it. I don't know why that last bit makes it all work, but it did every time for me last night.

This all assumes you have adequate nursing for patient transfers of course. Also make sure none of your treatment or exam rooms have their workload at 100%. All of these are reasons for logjams.

[Flibo]

An easy way to reproduce this issue is to start Campaign 2 and delete the common room in the smaller building in the first floor. The sofa can't be sold and it remains. Super frustrating bug.

[Mister Michi]

so it's been more than a month since this was reported and no news from the dev, I'm facing the same problem with a paper holder, my Doctor goes to other Doctor's office to use the printer there because his paper holder is stuck in green

[Mister Michi]

just tried to dynamite the whole room, area, hospital, the damn thing stands there on half desk (yes the other half erased by the dynamite)