Alpha 3! \o/

[Hessen]

I'm so giddy I could explode!

[BreadMurderer]

I only downloaded this yesterday and v3 is out all ready! Yus. Good to see it gets fresh updates out the masses in short spaces of time.

[Prison Officer UK]

I've not played the latest build yet, but how does the CCTV work? If it kicks off in view of CCTV are all officers alerted?

[BreadMurderer]

Are there 'proper' release notes available to see all the changes, etc?

[Gorhaax]

Release notes and video are in the Developer subforum:
http://forums.introversion.co.uk/prison ... php?t=3412

[BreadMurderer]

Release notes and video are in the Developer subforum:
http://forums.introversion.co.uk/prison ... php?t=3412

Thanks.

[Zarkow]

Argh, getting to 60-80% before connection to the server dies, it seems I am living too far away on a too far unstable [national] connection to be able to get this just yet...will keep retrying, for hours...

[RMJ1984]

Just a fair warning before you start waste 1 hour building a prison.

Ive made to prisons so far, i dont get any prisoners at all ever. :/ bit depressing, so atleast for me this alpha is unplayable :/ not much prison without any prisoners lol.

Gonna try and do a clean install see if this helps.

[ronanc]

Works absolutely fine for me, new prison too.

[Warbird]

Just a fair warning before you start waste 1 hour building a prison.

Ive made to prisons so far, i dont get any prisoners at all ever. :/ bit depressing, so atleast for me this alpha is unplayable :/ not much prison without any prisoners lol.

Gonna try and do a clean install see if this helps.

Do you have the option to prevent prisoners from arriving checked? If so, then you need to construct cells to house them and they will arrive the next day. If not then I haven't the slightest idea, you might want to check if it's a submitted bug yet.

[RMJ1984]

Oh lol, i actually thought they would start arriving as soon as i got done building everything, so i just have to wait until next day ?

lol how was i supposed to know that. just gonna go in a try that.

[ronanc]

Oh lol, i actually thought they would start arriving as soon as i got done building everything, so i just have to wait until next day ?

lol how was i supposed to know that. just gonna go in a try that.

Nice to see you stopped sulking! It's good to have a poke around here before assuming the game is broken - especially if you are new to it. It'll all be properly documented in the game eventually but not while we are in alpha.

[Zarkow]

I got hit by that too, I did everything that was required for grant and the initial description of the level, and no prisoners arrived.

I would instead want us to have an 'open prison' button. I seem to recall that Theme Hospital had such a thing - and for playability that game is a real good example as to how one can handle building rooms etc.

[RMJ1984]

Yeah an open prison sort of thing, i mean im playing the the large map, and i had it on speedup mode for 15min and still nothing, and then finally when it hits, the countdown, it still takes ages.

Something needs to be to done, so that prisoners starts arriving soon after or something.

[koshensky]

Yeah an open prison sort of thing, i mean im playing the the large map, and i had it on speedup mode for 15min and still nothing, and then finally when it hits, the countdown, it still takes ages.

Something needs to be to done, so that prisoners starts arriving soon after or something.

I suggest starting on small maps to begin with. There's nothing that a new player can't do in a small map that you could do in a large map, and time dilution slows your game down by about 50%. Smaller prison might make you think you're limited in what you can do, but in reality the game itself can't handle much more than 200 prisoners before it starts lagging out, and you can easily hold 200 prisoners in a small map.