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Lavatory use triggered at 40%


The Plum Gate
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I put a duplicant on an all bathtime schedule - this one has a tiny bladder yet it triggers it to use that bathroom at ~40% capacity. I can understand the bladder filling faster, but a tiny bladder doesn't equate to urinary urgency per se. There's the issue of mass creation at work here on use - and whether it is a desired result. This trigger number is oddly low however.

I am also looking at other normal duplicants. They also appear to be triggered at 40% capacity. So finding a schedule for the tiny bladder is going to be interesting.

At this point, it's looking a bit exploity...duplican'ts can be induced to use lavatories much more often than if they were on a realistic schedule.

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It's not entirely bad..they work until they need to use the bathroom, this is the desired effect of the schedule - however, they trigger bathroom use much more often and without regard for the fullness of the bladder.

All these dupes on the 'anything goes' schedule will use the lavatory after their bladders get more than 40% full. This is a two or three fold increase in bathroom utilization per cycle depending on the timing. ( thus why I marked as an exploit - mass creation on flushing the lavatory and frequency thereof ).


Steps to Reproduce

Put tiny bladder dupe on bathroom only schedule and observe.

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Duplicant seems to consistently use the bathroom when the bladder hits 41%. So this happens twice a day.

Duplicant works through bathtime schedule as desired.




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The bug or feature argument not withstanding. This post does indicate that it has been noticed before, whether or not it is intended behaviour was never established.

The level is arbitrarily low.

If we were to use the same logic on the bottomless stomach trait, then they would eat twice a day if given the opportunity.

As previously mentioned, the bladder not being (nearly) full is the issue - this represents urinary urgency. I would rather not have my whole colony having urological problems.

At any rate, it being predictably low and not randomly low provides for a shedule workaround for tiny bladder duplicants. I just use slightly more than the last half of day time as bath time. This keeps them on a one bathroom break per cycle routine yet varies when they might be triggered to go relatively to time and not a consistent bladder state.

Edited by The Plum Gate

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