First impressions

[shamus23]

I got this a couple of days ago and I am hooked.

I love the construction and planning elements, the budget challenges, and the overall look. This game is a lot of fun.

There are some bugs that annoy me a fair bit, but you can also find workarounds for all of them so it's almost like an extra challenge. I keep getting 1 section of a water pipe for example that won't get built so I have to double up with an extra one next to it, then both get built. Foundations don't always recognise a door being put down but again its easy to get around.

My main issue is that I am now at around 350 pop. on my second prison, and it's smooth, but a bit boring, sailing. I sold my first so I had what I thought would be a good start, but I over built without realising I could stop prisoners arriving, so only half of my super prison was ready when they did arrive. I had a hard time of it after that and ended up needing 3 squads of riot police (half of whom died) to save my prison and a final warning from the CEO. That was a lot of fun! Since then however my prison is running super smoothly, the worst thing that happened was a power cut, followed by the terrifically tedious and punishing generator restart. I think there is an opportunity for some kind of mini game that's fun, like lock picking in Fallout 3/Vegas or computer hacking in Dead Space.

But whilst I am still enjoying the game, I want some more challenges at this point. I don't feel like I have any real relationship with the prisoners, they just funnel around and pretty much do as they're told. I can get away with doing shakedowns every day so they have very little chance of escaping. I also managed to get a few to go to class so I may even get that grant.

I would like to see some characters in the prisoners. Psycho killers and vulnerable targets, gangs, disputes. I would also really like to see corruption within the guards. As I understand it most of the drugs that get into real prisons are supplied by people that work there. With that in mind, maybe we as the boss could get a little kickback from the corrupt guards by looking the other way or try and root them out and fire all the drug dealers. Maybe you would need to hire a lawyer or internal investigator.

A couple of other ideas I just thought of -
Escape attempts from people outside who actually attack the prison to free their comrades.
Visible effects of drug use on prisoners - depression, paranoia, elation etc.
Bribery - extra money/donations for putting wealthy/powerful criminals in nice cells - Goodfellas - and protecting them from jealous prisoners.
Prison tattoo's
Prisoner suicide and the opportunity to try and prevent it, PR negative impacts if successful.
Instant kills - Slitting another prisoners throat with a shiv whilst in line for the canteen etc. Sneak attacks/Backstab critical!
Bunk beds for regular cells - cell mates.

This is a great game and I can't wait to see where it goes next, keep up the fantastic work!

[OneEyedShark]

"...gangs..."

Planned and hopefully comeing soon

Escape attempts from people outside who actually attack the prison to free their comrades.

If it going to come, i would guess it wouldn't be any time soon

Visible effects of drug use on prisoners - depression, paranoia, elation etc.

same as gangs

Bribery - extra money/donations for putting wealthy/powerful criminals in nice cells - Goodfellas - and protecting them from jealous prisoners.

no idea

Prison tattoo's

don't think so..

Prisoner suicide and the opportunity to try and prevent it, PR negative impacts if successful.

Sounds cool and i think i have heard it before, no idea were or if it's planned

Instant kills - Slitting another prisoners throat with a shiv whilst in line for the canteen etc. Sneak attacks/Backstab critical!

wouldn't suprise me if it came

Bunk beds for regular cells - cell mates.

alot of people want this, so it may come at some point

[DarknessEyes]

Foundations don't always recognise a door being put down but again its easy to get around.

You cant place doors while the game is paused, thats why this happen