Visitor booths not working properly when placed horizontally

[xEthann]

Just a small issue I have encountered across all of my prisons.

Whenever I try to use a visitor booth horizontally, it is treated as a visitor table - in the sense that contraband is still passed through and that prisoners are required to be able to access the visitor side of the booth (and vice versa) in order for visitors to come to the prison.

If a place a horizontal wall of visitor booths across an entire room, it doesn't work, there has to be some form of gap

This problem does not exist when the booths are placed vertically - only horizontally.

I am running the latest version with going green, second chances and cleared for transfer DLCs.

 

[AndrewT]

This has been reported before:

prisoners end up on visitors area after visit and vice-versa

I have placed my visitor booths in the order that the prisoner is on the top side and the visitor on the bottom side, once the visit is over the prisoner will spawn on the bottom side of the booth and the visitor on the top side (inside the...

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I logged a bug on it, sorry it has not been acted on yet!

@Fifnaril is this something you can take up with the devs please? Not a game-breaking issue I know, but hopefully easy to fix?

 

[Fifnaril]

Just a small issue I have encountered across all of my prisons.

Whenever I try to use a visitor booth horizontally, it is treated as a visitor table - in the sense that contraband is still passed through and that prisoners are required to be able to access the visitor side of the booth (and vice versa) in order for visitors to come to the prison.

If a place a horizontal wall of visitor booths across an entire room, it doesn't work, there has to be some form of gap

This problem does not exist when the booths are placed vertically - only horizontally.

I am running the latest version with going green, second chances and cleared for transfer DLCs.

This has been reported before:

prisoners end up on visitors area after visit and vice-versa

I have placed my visitor booths in the order that the prisoner is on the top side and the visitor on the bottom side, once the visit is over the prisoner will spawn on the bottom side of the booth and the visitor on the top side (inside the...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

I logged a bug on it, sorry it has not been acted on yet!

@Fifnaril is this something you can take up with the devs please? Not a game-breaking issue I know, but hopefully easy to fix?

Yeah, I can take up this issue with the devs! Thanks for tagging me!

 

[AndrewT]

I'm told this should not be an issue with new prisons started since the latest patch, only ones started under previous patches. @xEthann does that match your experience?

 

[xEthann]

Yes, although I haven't started any new prisons on this patch, all prisons I have experienced this issue on were from previous patches.

Just wanted to add - the issue you quoted about prisoners teleporting to the other side of the booth isn't the issue I am having, it is just that contraband is still being passed through and that visitors will not come to the prison unless prisoners and visitors can ACCESS both sides of the booth - which defeats the purpose.

 

[AndrewT]

I understand, I'm sure it is the same issue at root though.

Any chance you can test this in a new prison, just to confirm the fix has taken effect there? Thanks!

 

[AndrewT]

I should have said, this ought to be fixed in your existing saves if you demolish and rebuild visitation and the booths themselves.