I loved the whole saga, but this part made me nearly spit coffee:

McLumberjack wrote:The other guard blasts away, taking three shots to put him down. 10 prisoners who were passing through the line of fire all surrender too, which is nice.

blipadouzi wrote:There are already differing heights in the game.
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Very cool, I never noticed this. How long has it been in?

Spacebase DF-9 does this in the form of the "Spaceface" tab where you can see what each of your toons is thinking. It's a good idea, but in practice gets extremely repetitive...

Probably intentional for this alpha, I'm guessing Chris wanted to really exercise the new contraband features. They'll probably turn it down a few notches in an alpha or two like they did with the tunneling insanity.

DiamondExcavater wrote:what happens after the 10 years of jail? do you go back to going on with your prison?

QFE, I haven't seen an answer to this anywhere. Haven't tried this feature myself but it seems intriguing.

here in the Portland area we just had a guy escape from prison when he had one week left before his actual release. They caught him 10 hours later. Here this artticle :) http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/04/30/Inmate-escapes-Oregon-prison/1731398903055/ well, I don't think anyone claims they are ...

I regularly have released prisoners try to smuggle spoons and whatnot out the front gate's metal detector and end up being cuffed and escorted back in... It seems dumb, but I guess it's realistic - here in the Portland area we just had a guy escape from prison when he had one week left before his ac...

You can create a new user profile that uses only standard ASCII characters and play the game under that. Although I'm not affected by this bug myself I do understand your concern that this bug seems to be such a low priority... But that's what we get for buying into an alpha. Watching sausage being ...

Reduce the input on wood. I think from observation that prisoners prefer refilling an empty saw with wood over sheet metal. Once there's no wood to put into the saw, they will use metal. Probably a bug or unfinished feature, but this effectively means you can't have a workshop for each because they...

The face-in-game guys can choose their prisoners' wardrobe now. Not my favorite feature; I personally think it really detracts from the game when they show up in stupid t-shirts or whatever.

xander wrote:I still think it is a solution in search of a problem.

xander

Kind of... I know I'm one of the guys that only builds in boring (EFFICIENT) rectangles so I actually probably wouldn't use it, but I could see it being useful for the more artistic folk.

Since it hasn't been noted, the behavior modification program should in theory decrease violence in the prison over time. Personally I also find having full classrooms gratifying even though it doesn't really benefit anything.

If all their needs are met at bedtime, hygiene should be the only problem in the morning. The way I handle that is to have a dedicated shower hour first thing and a shower room in every cell block (I also don't cram more than about 20 inmates per block). Combine that with showers in the yard and I c...

Sounds good, would allow for easy designation of rooms if they're on the large side. On the other hand, a forgotten door or interrupted wall could lead to filling in far more than expected, making cleanup a royal pain in the ass. I don't feel strongly one way or another, but my vote is against, if ...

111none wrote:If you somehow added a extra line by pressing enter. Sometimes there will be an odd job saying move something to "x.

Decent theory, but even if I did this was several days after the workshops were built.