Game Balance Suggestion

[ryacko]

I find when I'm starting a new prison, I usually have to use cheat engine or edit the save file to get the funds necessary to build it.

Here's a solution: Triple the income from the prisoner grant. Double the cost of guards. Triple the cost of food. This would balance the game beautifully.
Edit: and make removing tunnels free, like demolishing walls

[CommieKazie]

You are getting all of the grants from the outset, correct? You're not supposed to be able to build your ENTIRE prison off of those funds by the way. The current best method is to create a workshop and if it's properly sized/manned (and there are no riots) you should be able to pull in ≈10k/night.

Sure, it's not the best system, and the monetary system isn't written in stone. However what you're suggesting seems like a drastic change to the system. Have you done any calculations to show how "This would balance the game beautifully"? Or are you assuming?

[blipadouzi]

More grants are planned down the line, for now the game is still in Alpha test and a few grants were added just to get the system in place.

You could try installing a few mods, some of the best and most popular are:

Global Financial Crisis mod

Ultimate Grants Mod

[paktsardines]

This would balance the game beautifully.

I take it by 'beautifully' you actually mean 'horribly'. Given absolutely no balancing has taken place yet it's going to take an awful lot more than changing three things to 'balance' the game. As someone who actually has tried to balance the game (GFC mod), there is literally weeks of work in the process. (lots and lots of spreadsheets, and loads of testing).

edit: Ninja'd (albeit rather slowly).