There are many hidden tips and tricks that aren't obvious but make a HUGE difference. 1) Windows in cells. The happiness difference between a prisoner with a window and one without is massive. 2) Certain services are more valuable then others and should be available in all areas where prisoners spen...

It's mentioned in the change log that now your prisoner intake is based upon map size. This was changed in Alpha 8 [quote]- The maximum number of prisoners you can receive in a day is now based on your prison size: Small = 16, Medium = 24, Large = 32. Previously it was 24 for all prisons [/quote] ht...

It appears that the cook schedules are currently set based upon the prisoner regime. They start cooking a couple hours before each meal and clean up for a couple hours after each meal. You'lll notice it if you play around with your meal times. Being able to set job focuses would be important once st...

[quote="acegamer08"]i can only assume there is a limit to the number of possible prisoners (prisoner database file is only so big), so if they do not come back, sooner or later, you will run out of prisoners (everyone in the file). what good would a prison with no prisoners be? there would...

I would be disappointed if they attempted to make a gritty, indy prison game and got cold feet at the last minute. For prison systems execution is both real and important. This has nothing to do with getting our violence on as I think those kinds of people are too busy torturing their Sims or playin...

I agree. Deployment screen is too vital not to get IMMEDIATELY so if you have to make the same choice every game (Chief -> Deployment for $2000) the design should be altered.

I think a parking lot should be a requirement to unlock the visitation room. Even if people are coming by public transportation you should have some zone that says 'public enters through here'. I dislike how visitors just show up to the front door and guards just let them in. You need to separate vi...

There needs to be a lose condition. Already it can be easy to mismanage your finances and spiral into endless riots until you manually reset the game. While I appreciate that from a beta perspective there is no incentive to 'try'. Your prisoners can riot and kill each other and nobody cares. As you ...

I think there should be a bit of an upper limit. Overall I like the idea however what if you make your prison TOO nice. A tv in every room, 3 squares a day, constant access to friends and family...why would you want to leave? Perhaps there should be a fine line somwhere. So if 'overall happiness' wa...

Vote 'nay' because I don't think you should be able to assign schedules to individual prisoners. That isn't how prisons are run and that kind of micromanagement goes in a different direction to the more 'hands off' way of the game. I think what should happen is that you have 'cell blocks'. Those cel...

This is interesting but what would it impact? Who cares if the public thinks your prison is a dirty smelly mess? I don't have an easy answer but here is a basic idea that could be implemented: The Inspector. A random even triggers the Inspector NPC to walk through your prison and observe it for a da...

It is aesthetically unpleasing when the bench is placed facing the wrong way so that inmates are either eating on open air instead of the table next to them OR they sit facing the wall in stead of the rest of the room. Either adding some kind of UI directon arrow OR altering the graphics to make it ...

A meeting or conference room could 'unlock' new areas of gameplay: 1) Event handling - a crisis comes up and you need your admin staff to meet. Each one can propose a different solution depending on who you have on staff: Example - Prisoner morale is dropping (all prisoners become more irritable whi...

I think it would be a neat layer of simulation if different prisoners AND staff had different personality types that interacted differently. Again for the purposes of the game this could be abstracted out as "Smart ass" or "Shy" or "Timid" or "Braggart" or &qu...

I dislike the idea of having instantaneous demo, breaks from the tone of the game.

I think if they streamline the build process a bit better, letting you plan out full buildings and then committing to the design instead of this current chop shop method this problem will resolve itself.