Anyone else have problems with power and food levels in A14?

[Legadian]

I came home and booted up my prison in Alpha 14 only to discover that my main power grid, which had a little to spare in Alpha 13, was over taxed and shut down now (and i hadn't changed anything on that grid in a long time). I had to remove some equipment to boot it back up. Also, my cooks/kitchen can't seem to keep up with my prisoner load anymore (not even close) and I've had about 216 for the last 4 or 5 game-days. Only thing that changed was the update.

Does anyone else have one of these problems? Was this intended?

Legadian

[kongoman]

I have the same problem regarding the power grid problem.
When I loaded up my prison in A14, the power grid was immediately shut down due to overload.

[snarst]

I have having trouble with my food as well. I increased the kitchen staff from 10 to 24 and double the number of cookers. That seems to be a solid answer to feeding the prisoners, increase the number of kitchen staff and cookers.

[111none]

Checked the power consumptions, some levels are different. Oh, check your CCTVS

[Brother D]

I noticed that when I switched to Alpha 14, televisions that were placed outside now needed power cables run to them. Perhaps TV's now require power whereas before they didn't.

This is just a guess though.

[GC13]

The TVs require direct power though: a cable running through them if I remember right. Since I doubt anyone has done that by accident, that's not likely to be what caused it.

Has anyone else been requiring more food on brand new prisons?

[111none]

At above post,i think it may be related to the prisoner. That still needs testing though.

[McLumberjack]

I've noticed the food thing. Before the staff were feeding about 3/4s of prisoners (about a 1/4 only ate once a day, so this was working out) now they're not even feeding half. What's more, adding cookers and kitchen staff doesn't seem to make much difference, they just spend a lot of time milling about the kitchen, and seem to just spread out what they were making before onto new cookers rather than making more food.

If there's a proper ratio for staff to cookers to fridges I don't know what it is. Anyone know?

[TokMor]

According to one of the wikis, and what I use is 5 cookers, 2 fridges, 2 sinks, 5 cooks.

http://prison-architect.wikia.com/wiki/Kitchen

[Lint21]

I'm having the food issue. For my 200 prisoner map, I have 40 cooks, plus a ton of cookers, fridges, and serving tables. I had to switch my regime to 3x/day meals, since people were too hungry and rioting eating only twice a day. One thing I've noticed is that the cooks wait a bit longer to move the food to the serving tables.

No real issues with power, but maybe the power stations are producing a bit less than before. I'm running three stations on a small map with one land expansion - two are at capacity and one is about half capacity.

[TokMor]

I'm also having an issue with cooks now that I play more. I tried the extreme example. I have 40 cooks, 60 cookers, and they can only make about 80 meals at meal time. It seemed to me that prior to the patch, cooks would take a stack of food and start cooking it, now it appears that they will only cook one item of food on each cooker burner (although I do see the occasional x2 on a single burner)
Also, the cooks seem to stand around a lot during meal prep. There will be empty cookers and plenty of food in the fridge, but they will just mill about. naturally my prisoners are not pleased by this.

[jm7316]

Same with food issues. I've found the *only* way to feed everyone is to play on the slow setting. It seems the job queue system isn't syncing properly with the game. If I play on fast, it only feeds about 40% of my prisoners, and I have cooks standing around and unused cookers.

[TomFadge]

I think there is a bug with the power grid.
I started a new alpha 14 prison, built a small building with holding cell etc, and powered it fine. When I built a larger area with kitchen suddenly I was overloaded and couldnt power it. I built more capacitors and still was overloaded.

I then cut all the power lines EXCEPT for the power to the original small building which I was powering beforehand just fine. It still says I am overloaded, even though I have more capacitors, and was powering this area previously with less.

Not sure how to fix, my prisoners are starving and will probably riot and destroy everything.

[AlexMBrennan]

The TVs require direct power though

They require power, which means direct power *if placed outside* (e.g. in the yard); indoor they work just like lights.

[TokMor]

Same with food issues. I've found the *only* way to feed everyone is to play on the slow setting. It seems the job queue system isn't syncing properly with the game. If I play on fast, it only feeds about 40% of my prisoners, and I have cooks standing around and unused cookers.

I tried it at both fast and normal speed, I ended up with the same number of meals, only enough for about 60% of the prison