On another offtopic point: most of your showerheads are redundant. Prisoners don't like being right next to someone else, so instead of that, try having shower, space, shower, space etc. And, to someone like me or asmo0, that means having shower rooms that have odd numbered length/width sizes. Even...

Next time it happens, take a screenshot and show exactly what you mean.

The only related problem I can think of, which has existed since I started playing at least, is that buildings won't finish if they're currently building while re-loading the savefile.

Its very hard to convey how easy it is to accidentally break something under development. Especially for "small" projects, one programmer, there is no way in hell that he'll document and make well defined separations between modules purely for himself as he's going along. (speculation) Tak...

Another "solution" is to zone staff-only in front of every door that leads to the outside (most people only have 1-2 of these). Every uniform you see thats been thrown outside the wall can be dumped / destroyed and its replaced on the next shipment (though, in my experience its often not p...

Security room doesnt have a purpose because nothing requires it. You can have it, but it does absolutely nothing. I think it just has a higher priority to attract roaming guards (like holding cell f ex).
CC Monitors can be placed wherever you want at the moment.

Kyle.thomson wrote:Yeah I hate that all of my head staff just stand about on their phones all day

Add a meeting room and 3-4 meetings per day of sitting around doing nothing, and it sounds about right.

Ye I found this a bit annoying. My current design has no intersecting walls partly for this reason. offtopic, your lack of symmetry would kill my semi OCD... the toilet/beds layout varies, half the cells have lights and half dont, but not in any logical ordering. and the showerheads aren't symmetric...

canteen, kitchen, cells, holding cells, laundry, cleaning closet, visitation room are all the rooms that need to be indoor (off the top of my head, might have forgotten one). For those you need to make foundation, let it finish, then assign the roomtype later.

Since Chris wants you to be able to design something that requires no intervention I'm guessing this is in the works already. It was a little bit tedious in alpha 9 to, every morning, assign every single guard to the shower(s), and then after showertime distribute them around in a normal fashion. Fo...

Kyle.thomson wrote:I hope they have implement different regimes for different levels of security as I don't want my minimum security prisoner getting shanked in the showers by a mass murderer

Well you can do that now by just having a shower area per cell block, and set sec-level of the cellblocks.

A tip fpr those having trouble with multiple workshops. Create one really large workshop, where all utilities and tables are. Assign your first 20 workers here. Then create as many large empty rooms as you want, zone them as workshops and you can assign jobs to them. They will blink, complaining abo...

I never manage to hit 100% in my prison, but I put that down to the prisoners forgotten by the amnesi-tastic guards. And those stuck in a bed. On another note, I kind of like not knowing if my kitchen is running at 100%. It adds intrigue and more depth The only way to get 100% is setting Low on foo...

Wile don't use such tactics myself here is a thought: What would happen if you put some electric apliance into shower room? Floded water from shower and electricity? I don't think results could be pleasent :twisted: I kinda have to wonder about my habit of placing all my TVs in the shower... The lo...

How do you get 20, or even 2, dead bodies without already having had a riot?

* Set it to high or even real time priority in the task manager, this REALLY helped me a lot, from "Fuck this lagging shit" to "Okay, this is actually playable!". Anyone else had the problem of, when setting a higher prio, being unable to drag anything, as in create squares/stra...