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How to get settlers to stay assigned to non-Sim Settlements jobs?

Excessive Paranoia

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I have an issue where I can't get settlers to stay assigned to jobs not related to Sim Settlements (Salvage Beacon station for example). I can assign them, but after a couple of minutes I notice they are not at their post and then when I find them, it looks like Sim Settlements has reassigned them to Sim Settlements jobs. This happens even though I've confirmed like 4 times that the assignment setting is only supposed to handle idle settlers. Any help would be appreciated because I've already left behind a large quantity of loot because my settlers won't work the salvage beacon station...

EDIT: So I've tried completely turning off auto-assignment in the city manager software and it still reassigned settlers back to the job plots even though that should have meant this couldn't happen...

EDIT 2: I've answered my own question. It turns out that the local settings were set to allow settlers to be assigned away from plots even if the global setting said no. This is odd to me because I was under the impression that local settings should be the same as global by default, but at least I've resolved the issue. I'm going to leave this up in case anyone finds the same issue.
 
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