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[mikefictiti0us]

Click reports and go to grants. Start off with administration and basic, that gives you $50k. More than enough for the starting facilities.

Do execution rooms do anything?

I'm not sure actually. I built a chamber in my last prison yet no death row inmates turned up. But then I didn't play long, as the huge migrant wave problem/bug reared its head and I started a new game.

[Girlinhat]

Do prisoners ever leave?

If no: If a prisoner has poor behavior (killing inmates) will they be eligible for execution?

If yes: Is it possible to set up gladiator pits where the loser dies, and the winner dies an hour later?

[ThtblovesDF]

Long Term plays with the current payout system are sadly impossible, (beyond murdering your prisoners or not giving them a cell) - 100$ a day could maybe work (bed + room + toilett + utlity = around 12 days for a prisoner to start turning a profit) - but the fact that there are at least 8 new ones every 24h kills it : I

Change it to 200$ a day?

I slightly doubt that the 100$ are good for anything but covering onging expenses caused by that prisoner.

[lordcooper]

Maybe a slower immigration incarceration rate?  With an extra fast forward button or two.

[mikefictiti0us]

Agreed. I don't think prisoners ever get released in this version (I've never seen it or read of it happening at least), so they pile on until you can no longer sustain enough cash to build the cells, fridges and cookers and so on to support them. Then the tantrum spirals and budget woes begin. It'd be much less punishing if the wave came every 48 hours, with the number randomized between 0-8 so you don't always get a full load.

[Neonivek]

Agreed. I don't think prisoners ever get released in this version (I've never seen it or read of it happening at least), so they pile on until you can no longer sustain enough cash to build the cells, fridges and cookers and so on to support them. Then the tantrum spirals and budget woes begin. It'd be much less punishing if the wave came every 48 hours, with the number randomized between 0-8 so you don't always get a full load.

If this was an artsy game this would make total sense.

It would be a message about the prison system.

[nenjin]

Agreed. I don't think prisoners ever get released in this version (I've never seen it or read of it happening at least), so they pile on until you can no longer sustain enough cash to build the cells, fridges and cookers and so on to support them. Then the tantrum spirals and budget woes begin. It'd be much less punishing if the wave came every 48 hours, with the number randomized between 0-8 so you don't always get a full load.

If this was an artsy game this would make total sense.

It would be a message about the prison system.

I think you have a bright future in sociological studies Neo :p

Shame the sim doesn't seem capable of supporting long-term play right now.

[Aklyon]

What if I have no middle mouse?

Get a proper mouse.
If you're using a trackpad try clicking both buttons at once.

[Knight of Fools]

Yeah, from what I've seen this game is a great commentary for a paper I wrote a few semesters back. American prisons are too full, and it's not the prisons' fault.

[Girlinhat]

What if I have no middle mouse?

Get a proper mouse.
If you're using a trackpad try clicking both buttons at once.

Trackballs are amazing.  Don't be hatin'.  Hate on the devs for not letting you remap keys.

[Aklyon]

There isn't keys on a mouse though. Theres button

Still, its an alpha. Do they even have an options menu?

[mikefictiti0us]

Poked around the files and I found that the main.dat file is a readable archive. All the scripts and settings are there in text/lua files. I'm gonna see if I can find the parameters that controls inmate wave times and numbers.

Edit : Foiled! They aren't in there. Must be hard coded.

[nenjin]

It sounds like the game needs it as badly as DF needs the pop_cap .ini line.

[LoSboccacc]

I keep adding power station but they keep to get overloaded

What gives?

I'Ve three of them for just the starting kitchen and holding cell!!

[AlStar]

I keep adding power station but they keep to get overloaded

What gives?

I'Ve three of them for just the starting kitchen and holding cell!!

Are you using just power stations, or power station + capacitor(s) (like they show you in the first mission?)