Can Beds be used by multiple dupes?

[ProfMembrane]

So I finally figured out scheduling, if you schedule dupes to sleep at different times, can you have them use the same beds or mess hall tables if they have different downtimes/sleep times? Mine aren't doing this.  If this is possible, how do I get them to do it?

[Gurgel]

Probably requires manual reassignment every time. 

[DMW_MD]

Gurgel is right.  It would take way more effort than its worth.

[PhailRaptor]

It can be done, but it must be done manually each time you want to change who is using the bed.

[ProfMembrane]

Wow, this seems like a terrible system, this really ought to change in the next build.  The whole "assaignment" for beds or tables seems completely unecessary.

[TheScaryOne]

How else will you control where your loud sleeper sleeps, or make sure your +12 moral required character is in a bedroom, and not a barrack?

[Kabrute]

Just asking for that option of Any like massage tables have, if dupe has an assigned one that gets priority, but say they are locket out of base during sleep cycle but there is any "Any" barracks nearby they could go there instead.

[ProfMembrane]

3 minutes ago, TheScaryOne said:

How else will you control where your loud sleeper sleeps, or make sure your +12 moral required character is in a bedroom, and not a barrack?

Maybe allow it to be set for multiple dupes?  So X dupe sleeps in it during shift 1 and Y does it during shift 2

[Nisbet Bubbles]

In submarines this is called HOT BED System.  (3 shifts of 8 hours for bedtime, so only 33% of beds vs people required)

 

Also in bunkers and other military workplaces

[Sasza22]

They can make them use the outhouse system. An outhouse/lavatory is usually assigned to "public" but can be assigned to a single dupe. Just need to make sure the dupe that has a bed assigned won`t sleep in a public one.

[Saturnus]

It's been requested before, in fact many times in the past but by all means suggest it again. It's just one of those annoying things. The worst one to me is the automatically assigned mess table. Why the hell is a mess table personal? If you run a 2, 3, or 4 shift crew you'd want the dupes to use the same mess hall otherwise it's just wasting space. Hot bedding is also a good option we don't have. Maybe just limiting them to bunk beds and not luxury beds as a compromise? But yeah, there should definitely be an option for bunk beds and mess tables to be set to "public".

[babba]

11 hours ago, ProfMembrane said:

Wow, this seems like a terrible system, this really ought to change in the next build.  The whole "assaignment" for beds or tables seems completely unecessary.

+1

Would prefer to have an automatic dupe usage too, it could be done in the way that the dupe which used it will seek for it as or when its available again. Currently it feels like setting IRQ jumpers in the 90s with a PC.

Right now Im setting up table, bed, med stuff etc. for 200 dupes - Such a time waster, clicking a thousand times on the assign function. Sometimes it works automatically, most times its just broken.

[XEVEN]

I neither agree nor disagree, I just wanted to point out that many of the things people are asking for, especially in the annoyance thread, will slow the game down. This idea specifically can require multiple closest bed checks, occupied checks, path checks etc...

What may seem unreasonable to you can actually have many good reasons to be they way that it is.