So... skylights? It might be sufficient "hand-wave" to allow cells to have no windows on wall, since one can assume that there's skylight build into the ceiling (since all your structure can only have 1 floor). Allowing prisoner to look out with windows on wall should be a bonus, giving pr...

Since both "Sleep" and "Nothing" send prisoners to their cells, there is no gameplay difference between the two settings. They behave in exactly the same way. xander Aren't the cell-doors locked during "Sleep"? If so, there is a gameplay difference... Hm. I have an ide...

Maybe. But 1: Comming "too late" to the game (like me) and being confronted with a whole univers of already existing proposals/topics is somehow overwhelming. If every new member with (admittedly old) ideas is discouraged to express himself, the forum (or any forum for that matter) is dea...

I remember the dev talking about the game uses some form of Maslow hierarchy of needs to "simulate" prisoner happiness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs Resocialization/reintegration could be something a prisoner seek once all his other baser needs (below Tier 4 of ...

Yes. Also there's one "trick" involving delivery for prisoner that would make your 8am prisoner deliver go more smoothly. If you delivery zone has a direct path (doesn't have to go through staff only zones) to your jail cells/holding cells and your truck in is a staff only zone (or just ou...

Current, as far as I know, there are two ways to start fire. 1. Have prisoner smuggle in lighter. During riot, they can start fire. 2. Get your generator wet. The second one is probably very easy. Simply have workman build a power station right in the middle of your Shower room. The moment your pris...

On note of mining, it is possible for prison to be situated next to a quarry. But again, it's not just wherever you designate a yard. More likely it would have to be an on-map resource that's possible.

I believe that when given free time, the prisoner will keep sleeping until its day time. It does make some sense due to circadian rhythm, people naturally want to sleep when it gets dark. I would love to have a "regime" that simply trigger all prisoners to wake up instead of having an hour...

So perhaps have a wood chopping area basically workers who work in the workshop will now also go Chop wood if there isn't any there by making there AI quite a bit smarter and more useful. You can assign an area outside as the wood chopping area so they don't go two far out allowing them to escape. ...

Here's what happens, When a large group of prisoners move through metal detectors, there is a very high chance they will flag an inmate for a search. However, once a metal detector goes red, it will stay inactive for 3 seconds and then resume as normal. During this brief period, it is very possible...

Another commentary on the US prison system?
Bureaucracy got so bad, that they decided its a good idea to transfer a prisoner who's hours away from being released and served out his remaining sentence on the ride to your prison.

No more theoretical max income due to new patch, now one could build 1 million saws, plant a few million trees and have a million workers saw that shit. Funny how they fixed the workshop being too profitable but introduced tree harvesting which is even more profitable (100 for a tree sapling, 500 f...

New idea, refined from previous post. Whenever a prisoner is under the Fog of War (if you turn off Fog of War, the Fog of War is simply hidden, its effect on prisoner should remain), they gain a hidden status effect called "Embolden". The strength of the status effect increases faster the ...

This feature I think could be very useful for testing and just as a temp fix at the moment. Just as a thought though the code for paths runs all the time? Couldn't you make it so it saves that path then later can reuse it? Just make it so when the player adds building and objects to prison that it ...

EA did a good job to add DRM-ON on SimCity, but what happened to the game is unbelievable. Full of issues and game crashes occured, just because of DRM-ON, apparently it wasnt correctly made. Thus why EA promised to not feature drm-no(Only Sims, I dont know if this applies to other games). So they ...