Duplicant Checkpoint mode

[Whitecold]

Duplicant checkpoints currently do not block duplicants from pathing through. Doors do prevent pathing, but you cannot change the directionality of a door by automation.

So if you want to either allow duplicants go both way, or only one way, without pathing, you currently need a separate entrance and exit.

I suggest adding an option to the checkpoint 'wait for checkpoint to open' that controls if Duplicants should try pathing through a closed checkpoint or not.

[Sasza22]

It`s easy to make a setup with 2 doors one on top of another. The bottom one being controlled by automation and the top being one way only. This way you can have an entrance that`s automated for one way only (like you want the checkpoint to be) and it doesn`t use power.

[Nightinggale]

While the door approach works, it requires dupes to change level as in they need to climb over the closed door. On top of that you add a delay in dupes waiting for a door, which you only need to control dupe access.

It would actually be nice to have a button on checkpoints, which turns pathing on/off. It's a question of being able to add dupe access control without adding a door delay and it has several useful use cases.

[Whitecold]

18 hours ago, Sasza22 said:

It`s easy to make a setup with 2 doors one on top of another. The bottom one being controlled by automation and the top being one way only. This way you can have an entrance that`s automated for one way only (like you want the checkpoint to be) and it doesn`t use power.

I did it with doors before, but it is rather ugly. It is by no means a great change, but it would add some utility to a sparsely used building