Staff getting stuck on serving tables in staff room/staff won't use toilets

[llamerr]

Already reported here, but paradox tells me that thread is too old so it's not bumping it up

forum/threads/staff-getting-stuck-on-serving-tables-in-staff-room-staff-wont-use-toilets.1541343/

That bug wasn't fixed yet, 15 months later. When it will be fixed?

 

[Enigmaticrose4]

Hi there, sadly Prison Architect is no longer receiving updates: https://pdxint.at/PASunsetUpdate


Adding more seating for staff to eat at or increasing the percentage of staff that can be on break at one time tends to clean up the queue.

 

[llamerr]

And I was thinking I will buy Cities Skylines 2 on release day. Not happening - will play it on another platform if it will be available.

 

[cняis™]

And I was thinking I will buy Cities Skylines 2 on release day. Not happening - will play it on another platform if it will be available.

Even bugs I reported more than 12 months ago have never been fixed, nor did I get a response here at the forums. PA is a broken game. If you prefer the last known good and stable PA from Introversion, get it on GOG and reject the Paradox EULA. Yes, many features are missing, but the game isn't broken at least.

 

[Boru9]

I have tried every possible setup - serving tables inside staff rooms or separate staff canteens, all linked up properly with kitchens, stocked up with food as well as clean trays, yet some staff members eat while others get stuck grabbing a tray and never sit down. There are plenty of empty places to eat (dining booths / sofas / tables & benches - it doesn't seem to make a difference). This effectively makes the game unplayable because all I do is babysit the staff instead of focusing on the prisoners. This makes me incredibly unlikely to ever buy anything else from the same company, which is a shame.

 

[VoxRon]

I have the same problem too. Now I just disable the Staff Needs, sadly. And yes, this issue still exist. And even worse, they "throw" their trays all over the prison, mostly near the room where they supposed to bring those trays into sinks. Because of there are no trays available in serving table for them, the game auto purchases new set of trays. I have to manually dump all of those leftover trays to clean up the place myself. But can't fix the problem.

 

[cняis™]

I have the same problem too. Now I just disable the Staff Needs, sadly. And yes, this issue still exist. And even worse, they "throw" their trays all over the prison, mostly near the room where they supposed to bring those trays into sinks. Because of there are no trays available in serving table for them, the game auto purchases new set of trays. I have to manually dump all of those leftover trays to clean up the place myself. But can't fix the problem.

Hi mate. I have reported this in the past, but unfortunately it has never been fixed. However, I have found a workaround which is explained in the threads below. If you show me a screenshot of your staff canteen and staff area, I can tell you, why it's not working. Again, it's just a workaround, but you can still play with staff needs enabled without breaking the game.

[BUG] Dirty food trays pile up

I figured it out. I had the problem for the past 15 months and it was driving me crazy. And the workaround solution is very simple. If kitchen and canteen/staff canteen are not separate rooms, e. g. surrounded by walls and instead using a shared...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

[BUG] Off-Staff Canteen / Off-Staff Room Bug

If you place random sofas in your prison without any room assignment, your staff members will leave the staff canteen / staff room and bring their food tray to those sofas and also leave it there when done eating. Guards then have to move the...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

I have reported many game breaking bugs in the past years (including this one) and also expalined, how to reproduce it step by step. Guess what? To most of those reports I never got a response by Paradox Staff (despite the complaints I filed at their ticket system) and none of those game breaking bugs have been addressed in any bug releases or any of the new DLCs in all those years. It's really frustrating, because the game is really good and I was playing it for many years (more than 1000 hours).

The bottom-line is, I would never buy a game again, that is sold by Paradox.

PS: If you still want to enjoy the good old Prison Architect before it was sold to Paradox, get it on GOG and reject the Paradox EULA / license contract. All the new features are missing though, but at least the game is not broken.