Here are my suggestions to what I think would improve the gameplay. I absolutely understand this is alpha (and v1 even) so I will keep my suggestions rather broad.
- Currently every prisoner that arrives at your facility is a 'lifer'. They have no release date. Prisoners need a release date, which could be pushed if they do bad. If they make it to their release date (which could be as little as 1-2 days) they would get on a bus and leave, with the prison getting a decent payout for a successful 'rehabilitation'. With these sentences we could still have lifers, and we could even get death row sentences with a date of execution we must get ready for.
- Some kind of event feed, even just a scrolling ticker. Would be nice to have something to watch to know the current happenings, fights, solitary sentences etc. We could even be told what's on the menu today alongside other satire. Simcity style. It would also be nice to know how someone escaped via this feed, like showing the guards report of what happened.
- Cells should get a rating (be it visible or not) to their comfort, size etc. Lighter sentence or good behaving prisoners should get the nicer cells.
- Allow multi occupant cells, it currently doesn't behave like it should
- Simply right clicking an injured inmate should dispatch a doctor, just like right clicking an escaping prisoner should automatically dispatch a guard.
That's all I've got. Loving the game so far and looking forward to the updates already
