How far will colonists travel to get to work and a home?

[AlyssaFaden]

Bit of a noob here, just 22hrs in and on my second colony as I get the hang of things.

How far will colonists travel between their residence and work? Here's my problem. The dome on the bottom left there has available residences with no restrictions. The dome in the middle left has none.

There's a polymer plant right in the middle there. I assigned 5 works from left-bottom dome to the polymer plant, and this caused them to LEAVE the dome's residence. AFter they work their shift, they are HOMELESS and will not return to bottom-left dome, even though there is lots of space. And I don't seem to have the option to assign them a home?

Do workers in an outside plant have to live in the nearest dome? Is that a thing?

 

[ChoGGi_2]

If there's a passage then max of one dome over, otherwise see that blue grid when you select a dome?

 

[DARK_MASTER]

I red somewhere that colonists can move to a new dome via passages 2 domes away. But can go to work or visit services only in the next dome connected to the one they live in with a passage.

I can confirm that if if the work area of 1 dome reaches the middle hex of the next dome. Colonists use the airlocks not only the passages to go to work and visit services.
That is understandable that the domes can work like that. The passages were added with a patch months after the game's release.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

I red somewhere that colonists can move to a new domes away via passages. But can go to work or visit services only in the next dome connected to the one they live in with a passage.

Yep, suicide can happen when moving for those larger dome networks where domes are spread out across the map (they only look to see if they're connected by passages, not how far the dome is).

The passages were added with a patch months after the game's release.

The game was released March 15, the passage update came out April 25

 

[DARK_MASTER]

Yep, suicide can happen when moving for those larger dome networks where domes are spread out across the map (they only look to see if they're connected by passages, not how far the dome is).

So if you have 2 domes far from each other and no shuttles, if you pick a colonist and send him. The colonist will do it? And make a suicide run ?

The game was released March 15, the passage update came out April 25

I knew it may be wrong, but didn't bother to check. I was thinking the devs took a bit more time to yield to the demand.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

So if you have 2 domes far from each other and no shuttles, if you pick a colonist and send him. The colonist will do it? And make a suicide run ?

If both domes are in the same passage network.

That's why I made this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1811507300
(makes AreDomesConnectedWithPassage check the length between domes)
to fix this:
https://github.com/HaemimontGames/S...7f31485d9c76dfd42/Lua/Buildings/Dome.lua#L126
(which has been a bug since passages were added)

but as you can see from this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/464920/discussions/0/1640918469751039933
It happens to some people, but not others....

 

[AlyssaFaden]

Cheers guys. This makes total sense. I haven't been looking for any grid or markers, but will look for those now. But the "1 dome away" rule makes total total sense

 

[AlyssaFaden]

so guys, sorry, follow-up; if colonist have to walk outside to get to this factory, is it just "the closest dome is the dome supplying the factory" a thing? Why would colonist not return to any nearby dome, because they're ... outside

 

[ChoGGi_2]

Huh?

 

[AlyssaFaden]

Huh?

The answer above was "colonists will travel 1 dome over".

OKay.

This is an outside polymer factory. All three of those domes are "1 dome away". So when quitting a shift, the colonists are outside and could return to any dome and call it home. But instead they are returning to the closest dome, where there are no residences. SO it appears that in the case of outside buildings, the closest dome is considered to be the only dome they'd work out of.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

If a dome is directly connected to another dome by a single passage then the colonist will travel to it and work in the poly factory (and go back to his house at night).

 

[AlyssaFaden]

If a dome is directly connected to another dome by a single passage then the colonist will travel to it and work in the poly factory (and go back to his house at night).

Isn't working that way; there's housing in lower left dome. There isn't in any other dome. FIVE workers who WERE living in lower left were assigned to poly factory. They MOVED themselves to middle left dome where there's no housing. so now they are homeless. They will not return to their old dome where there is accommodation.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

They'll do it eventually, if you're manually assigning people to workplaces then you're doing it wrong.

You installed any mods?