[Modding Question] Prisoner Punishments

[JASPer.Gamer.9.0]

Is it possible to punish a prisoner using lua?

For example, would .punishment work?

Jasper

[aubergine18]

Not in the usual sense; punishments can only be applied via prison policies set by end user.

However, you could potentially alter their .StatusEffects eg. to make them more suppressed or tazed.

[JASPer.Gamer.9.0]

Not in the usual sense; punishments can only be applied via prison policies set by end user.

However, you could potentially alter their .StatusEffects eg. to make them more suppressed or tazed.

Oh. What about making them shackled?
.shackled is referenced in GitHub wiki, but setting it to 1 has no effect .

Jasper

EDIT: Also, do you know about .misbehaviour and what types can be applied?

[Brento666]

Hey Jasper & Aubergine!

Havent gotten around to test misbehavior myself, but I've seen a riot mod out there which sets it on bunches of prisoners at a time...to get a riot (I think);
it's hoosdatguy's "Total Chaos" mod.. It also has interesting scripts setting equipment (and like I said, some others setting behavior)!

I have dl'd it and looked at scripts, but not tried the mod in a prison yet... but I imagine setting a single prisoners behavior to something 'bad' will get your guards in the area to respond and punish him!

Please let us know if you get something working, as punishment from script could be a good tool in all our toolboxes!!

[aubergine18]

.Shackled and many other properties are broken; their setter methods don't work.

Misbehavior property ( edit )
This property seems specific to Prisoner objects and defines how they are currently misbehaving.

When getting the value, it's either nil (if no misbehavior) or a string defining how the prisoner is misbehaving:

"Escaping"
"Spoiling"
"Rioting"

When setting the value, a numeric id must be used:

1. "Spoiling"
2. "Escaping"
3. "Destroying"
4. Seems to be a random mix of fighting, spoiling, and destroying
5. Also seems to be a mix of fighting, spoiling, and destroying
6. "Rioting"
7. Hostage Taking (they don't actually take hostages since this isn't implemented yet)
8. (Prisoners put their hands in fighting position but no misbehavior status is shown, they do not commit any acts of violence, but guards still attack them and they fight back)

A value of 0 likely clears any misbehavior. Anything 8 and higher does the same as 8.

[aubergine18]

If you're doing experimentations with .Misbehaviour, see if you can work out what the string values for 4, 5, 7 and 8 are.

Also, I've updated the github wiki with all the information I currently have about the property.

Another thing to look out for would be jobs when a guard is escorting a prisoner to solitary, etc. You can usually get some idea by looking at saves. If the job is simple format (ie. no additional properties that we're unable to pass in via lua script) then it might be possible to simply create jobs on prisoners to get certain things to happen.

[JASPer.Gamer.9.0]

.Shackled and many other properties are broken; their setter methods don't work.

Misbehavior property ( edit )
This property seems specific to Prisoner objects and defines how they are currently misbehaving.

When getting the value, it's either nil (if no misbehavior) or a string defining how the prisoner is misbehaving:

"Escaping"
"Spoiling"
"Rioting"

When setting the value, a numeric id must be used:

1. "Spoiling"
2. "Escaping"
3. "Destroying"
4. Seems to be a random mix of fighting, spoiling, and destroying
5. Also seems to be a mix of fighting, spoiling, and destroying
6. "Rioting"
7. Hostage Taking (they don't actually take hostages since this isn't implemented yet)
8. (Prisoners put their hands in fighting position but no misbehavior status is shown, they do not commit any acts of violence, but guards still attack them and they fight back)

A value of 0 likely clears any misbehavior. Anything 8 and higher does the same as 8.

I tried using a script to set it to 2 (Escaping), but nothing happens.

Jasper