Choosing the type of food for prisoners

[mister_gutsy]

Hello, new to the forum so hopefully this hasn't already been suggested but I do like the fact that when I have prisoners eating a "fine" or "lavish" meal improves their mood... allowing recruiting them to be easier. However, if I do not want to recruit a prisoner, say if I'm saving them to harvest organs or going to sell them to a slave trader I have no choice in what food I will feed them. My colonist will automatically feed them the highest level of food but I do not care if their mood is improved if I am going to trade or kill them off and it just wastes resources I could be using for my colonists.
I would like an option that says "feed lowest quality of food" or "feed highest quality of food" right now there is just an option to "feed them" or not which would result in starving the prisoner.
Thank you for hearing my suggestion and your contentious efforts to make this game AMAZING! I love every minute playing it. Thanks!    - Mister Gutsy

[Adamiks]

+1

[Kegereneku]

+1

[Trish42]

+1 That would be great, I had about 10 prisoners at one time and they drained my fine meals pretty quickly.

[RickyMartini]

+1

Would expand that with medicine too.

[Jurgio]

+1

[harpo99999]

+1

[giannikampa]

I just build a nutrient paste dispenser in the prisoners room, then disable "give food" to the prisoners. So they eat by themselves (saving time for my colonists) and no waste of hi-level food

[Adamiks]

I just build a nutrient paste dispenser in the prisoners room, then disable "give food" to the prisoners. So they eat by themselves (saving time for my colonists) and no waste of hi-level food

But anyway we need this.

[Jimyoda]

I just build a nutrient paste dispenser in the prisoners room, then disable "give food" to the prisoners. So they eat by themselves (saving time for my colonists) and no waste of hi-level food

But anyway we need this.

Was going to say exactly that, consider it seconded.

[Trish42]

I just build a nutrient paste dispenser in the prisoners room, then disable "give food" to the prisoners. So they eat by themselves (saving time for my colonists) and no waste of hi-level food

Never used nutrient paste dispensers, but will give it a try for prisoners now, thanx for the tip!

[Goldenglade]

+1

[mister_gutsy]

I just build a nutrient paste dispenser in the prisoners room, then disable "give food" to the prisoners. So they eat by themselves (saving time for my colonists) and no waste of hi-level food

I tried this suggestion and ran across a few problems. One, my colonist will not fill a hopper that is in a "prisoner" room. You cant even prioritize them to do so, it gives you the same grayed out error that says its a prisoner room. So if I'm not paying attention and their hopper runs out... well you know the rest lol. Having to refill the hopper is annoying because I have to set the room to a colonist and hope my prisoner doesn't get moved in the meantime while the hoppers get filled.

Two, I can't keep the food cold since I can't freeze the room they are in and I can't build an adjacent freezer room since the prisoners can not pass through doors.  It would not be the worst thing since I can choose longer lasting food such as vegetables and no meat to be stored in the hoppers. But the problem is, I have no control over the which of the food from my stock my colonist put in there. Some of the food is old by the time it goes into the hopper and before I know it I have food poisoned prisoners left and right from rotting food due lack of refrigeration.
Seems like wasting resources versus the annoyance of the hoppers not wanting to be in a prisoner room. Not sure which is the better route at this point.... thoughts or work arounds? I'm about to just harvest all my prisoners organs and be done with them 
-mister gutsy

[MeowRailroad]

You could build the dispenser into the wall and have the hopper outside/in a freezer:
- = Wall
00 = Dispenser
00

() = Hopper

      ()
----00----
-    00    -
-            -
-            -
-----------
There would be a door for the room as well.

[nmid]

smart tactic with the wall dispenser.