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Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
Remote doors can only be opened remotely so they can be a real pain if you place them before the servo. Like you can't remove them because they need to be unlocked.

They are brand new so expect them to be super buggy.

Also this game is so much different from last time I played and the remote doors / different schedules / CIs / prisoners being unique makes it feel entirely new.

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Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Foehammer posted:

press Tab to change the selection

welp this is the best advice ever

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

super fart shooter posted:

Well, there are a few issues that I've noticed... One is that once a prisoner enrolls in a reform program, they'll continue to attend sessions until the whole thing finishes. Even if you change their security level or schedule so that they don't have work at that time slot, they'll actually break regime and go to the program anyway.

I found this out when a bunch of my medium security prisoners rioted because they were attending their alcoholics anonymous group meeting during their meal times.

Also they weren't allowed to cross the yard to the rec room so they all just hung out in the showers.

I'm still getting used to making separate areas for everyone.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
Also if you have more than 12 prisoners they might be waiting in line to use the phones, which is a great way for fights to break out.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
Does searching the toilets not find the tunnel anymore?

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

a worthy uhh posted:

I have so many CIs the UI covers my screen. That doesn't make them, ever, give me every single ??? reliably.

More importantly if you have 100% coverage you'll see everyone with a crosshair on them. I've noticed that a lot of times the last crosshairs only appear when you have >90% coverage and it is usually for the guys you haven't put in PC yet.

I just call in my 3 best guys (50% each) right after everyone goes to bed. Also I don't search anyone's cell directly since it causes the suspicion to increase on the CIs, I only do whole cell blocks and only if there are a few weapons or a tunnel in it.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Danith posted:

Can someone tell me why it's saying the holding cell area is not enclosed?



I think that door leading into your shower needs to be a jail door, you can just set it to "always open".

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
Heres a progression from a clean start to a ~120 pop prison. 16 max security and 1 super-max, plus only one death even though theres a whole wing of 8 guys who always have someone who wants to kill them.

http://i.imgur.com/wC3Hgr2.gifv

sorry it sort of jumps around, its just the previews from the save games. also apparently a good marker for how i make each time i play

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
Also my life in this game right now is trying to get that drat legendary super-max guy to satisfy any need without him spending 12 hours in solitary. he is starving a lot since i can only let him out when everyone else is asleep and the canteen is empty

(he lives in the carveout i made to the holding cell in the last gif image)

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Why not just build him his own mini-prison, complete with canteen?

He basically has it already, the mini-yard behind his cell has every other requirement. I've had terrible luck with building separate canteens because my cooks occasionally hate distributing trays evenly so every few days all of a security group was going hungry and breaking poo poo.



spent a lot of money building that rear end in a top hat this place and he breaks something every drat day and winds up in the hole

Stereotype fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Oct 15, 2014

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Generation Internet posted:

Uuuuuuugh. Did they just let backers insert their own horrible character descriptions with no moderation? It would explain a lot of the lovely ones I've seen in game.

At one point you could pay for a "deluxe" alpha where you got to design and name a character. If you paid them like a grand they would let you make a warden (because apparently there will be different wardens at some point)

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Rapacity posted:

I'm doing jazz hands at the computer not knowing what to say. I play these games for the narrative, as I said. If you don't have any investment in each prisoner then I guess it is just sim city on a tiny scale but this isn't what I expected.

The stats on prisoners and confidential informants did a ton to add narrative to the game. Everyone used to be really homogenous, but now you can have your favorite snitches and watch as they get murdered in the shower because the guards just so happened to search every cell with bottle of booze after he left lunch early with a few guards.

Or you can try to protect the one guy in 600 who managed to pass general education (no one passes gen ed).

They are working on making it more personal.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Pornographic Memory posted:

There was a guy who posted in the last PA thread here who absolutely did. I mean obviously he did not talk about PA-inspired masturbation fantasies (:stonk:) but his posting about his wishes for the game and what he actually did in it legitimately made my skin crawl. Thankfully he was banned because he was a huge creep in general apparently.

Best part was, in addition to being sexually excited about the prospect of having his prisoners horribly miserable and constantly tortured, he was apparently also a real life prison guard.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
I've found tunnels without dismantling and reassembling toilets. I normally just search cell blocks at night, higher chance they are digging then.

I'm annoyed that CIs don't warn you about them though. It should be harder to keep a huge escape tunnel that has been under construction for months by a whole cell block secret than the shank or the fork someone stole from the canteen that morning.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Is there a way to transfer prisoners OUT of your prison these days? Say starting out I want to make a nice, cheap, happy, lowsec reform center before I sell it to make the multi-million dollar MaxSec+DeathRow Fortress Hell Jail. If one of my LowSec guys flips out and bites someone's ear off, am I stuck with him (newly promoted to Normal/MaxSec) or can I have him shipped him off to a more hardcore prison?

I believe the currently used mechanic is to ship them to hell.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Are you referring to the execution chamber, or what? :v:

you can lock them in solitary and "forget" to feed them. Or build a wall instead of a door by mistake while they are sleeping, oops!

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Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

AzureSkye posted:

Guards feed prisoners in solitary now.

Even if the door is set to locked?

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