I'll have to play with it, but based on the screenshots, I kind of wish fog of war still allowed you to see interior walls of the prison. I like the idea of fog of war, but I still want to see all my architecture even if I can't see the prisoners! Maybe it'll grow on me when I get the chance to actu...

But this is... prison architect, not vacation resort architect

Edit: While from a game perspective, it might be "better", it feels decidedly against the spirit of PA to me!

No thanks to a general sim.

I would rather do one thing great, than multiple things mediocre, or even multiple things just okay.



If people want to mod in making it more general go for it, as that doesn't use up dev-time and adds options.

I would love if sleep was a low priority need UNLESS they were in a room with the lights off. That would also encourage us to use lights with switches to turn them off during "lights out" beyond aesthetics. It also makes sense as it's a lot harder to get to sleep when all the prison lights...

I would add that beyond just having to guess a role, sending them to a psychologist for X amount of time ought to be able to determine it. You still have to guess to some degree as there are far more prisoners than there are psychologists.

When only guards can open doors is put in, there ought to be a way to link several doors to one switch. Eg, all cell doors are linked to one switch so a guard can let all the prisoners out at once. Also you should be able to leave doors unlocked, so they can be locked only in emergencies.

I posted something about prisoner aggressive/passiveness that I think would be a great addition. Basically it has to do with prisoners bullying each other - aggressive prisoners being more likely to bully other prisoners. (Limited food? aggressive prisoners bully the passive ones into leaving rather...

Dev blogs are cool. But release dates or honestly any dates are not likely to be helpful at this point in time.

I sacked one of my workers for being dead. Lazy bum.

a__gun wrote:[quote="madcow"is there an ingame screenshot key by the way?

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I'm on a mac and tried doing this (along with command+P, and every other option of something+P I could think of) without luck. Went to the prison architect library folder (where save games are) and it was empty as well.

I hate to double post, but the more I thought about my "aggressiveness meter" the more I like it actually. If it was a scale from 1-10, it would need a gaussian distribution (aka, most people are 5 or 6. A few 4 & 7's, very rare to get anything more but still possible). The inmates wit...

I like this idea, and also the idea of making them actually visit the psychiatrist to learn those sort of details about a prisoner rather than it just automatically happening if you have one. You could have sort of flags like aggressive or passive (or maybe an aggressive scale from 1-10 to have it m...

Interesting, I'm on 10.8.2 on my MBP and had no issues with installing. I did have the annoying window in the corner issue, but found the solution to that in the forums somewhere.

Agreed about an overhaul being a bit much. What would be cool is if when the tunneling mechanic is put in, its easier for prisoners to tunnel if there's electrical or water lines in their cell. The bigger water pipes and electrical lines providing spots that make it easier to tunnel, so they get a l...

I like the idea of having some doors automatically open and close at predetermined hours. Yes, and turning off lights at particular times (lights out) and setting patrol points/spots for guards to be at certain times. So you could assign particular guards to make their way to busy areas at the appr...