Priorities - anyone else?

[SusanMcO]

I posted this as a bug, but I was wondering if maybe it is just my perception. 

Since the oil update went live, I have had more problems with getting them to do things in the right priorities.  I've have things prioritized at 9 and they still won't do them, or they will ignore their personal/health needs without me doing red alert or high priorities (nothing higher than 7) I'll have starving dupes not eat food, ones that have to go to the bathroom ignore close toilets, suffocating dupes not go to O2, etc. 

Anyone else or am I being paranoid that my dupes are rebelling and becoming sentient? 

[Oozinator]

When you tend to set "P" high, perhaps they are overloaded with tasks.

[SusanMcO]

But I'm not - I will set it high temporarily if I need something specific done, but only in small bites.

[Daikataro]

As per now, priorities seem to be pretty skewed

-Dupes LOVE to deconstruct. Deconstructing has a +9 priority hidden buff, they will priorize lvl 1 deconstruct to lvl 9 mostly anything

-Dupes also LOVE to build over dig, build has a +2 priority over digging

-They ABSOLUTELY ADORE to disinfect, it takes priority over literally anything that isn't vital

[Martin_couloir]

I notice that too. They ignore the coal generators and oxygen related things. Even when I put it at p9

[Lifegrow]

I could be wrong, because it doesn't say so any more (pretty sure it used to have a pop-up or text somewhere?) but the jobs screen is prioritised from left to right high to low. I.e. if you toggle combat, and attack a morb - everyone assigned to combat will attack it immediately.

With that in mind, disinfect would be quite an urgent job when you consider : Combat is normally toggled off, Aid is only used when someones sick, massage is ongoing constantly, cooking is normally assigned to a few of your best chefs, art is rarely applicable once your decor is sorted, compost is ongoing if you use composters, research is finite, hydrofan shouldn't even have it's own section, and then power - again, ongoing if you use wheels, non existent if you don't.

I'm having no problems with priorities to be honest.

[SusanMcO]

Just a weird other thing, does anyone else's Aid stat seem to go down with time on all your dupes?  I've gotten dupes with medicine 5-8, but later, they only have, at max, 3.  Is that a skill you have to keep using to keep the stat up? 

Or maybe my dupes really are becoming sentient.

[manu_x32]

@SusanMcO Are you dupes highly stressed?

I've pretty much had exactly the same behaviors you described in original post when my dupes are very stressed. You seem to lose total control over them when that happens.

Now, my dupes are almost always at zero stress.

Things I make sure to do:

• Build a couple of massage table, set them to high priority and play with their settings to get your desired stress level. I often do something like priority 8, max 20, min 10.
• Decorate as much as you can in the places where dupes are often, even corridors that lead to places they go often
• Keep the base clean by sweeping all the debris in your core living space and have them deliver it to "sweep only" compactors.

[SusanMcO]

Maybe that was it.  They were stressed from low oxygen. 

[Kermack]

Use a rooming convention for specific tasks and assign permissions to the doors.  The game AI will more properly assign tasks if you narrow the pathing for certain tasks to certain dupes.