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[Aklyon]

I have a 20X20 holding cell, if you count the walls.

Should I reuse the space when I get around to building a cell block?

No, keep the holding cell. Reserve space is always good.

[Zangi]

I have a 20X20 holding cell, if you count the walls.

Should I reuse the space when I get around to building a cell block?

No, keep the holding cell. Reserve space is always good.

If you are really in need of space... but what about when you decide to expand your prison?  Are you going to immediately turn off incoming prisoners once you fill up your cell blocks?  (You still should have a holding cell somewhere, especially if things break.)

[tryrar]

Ok, everyone who takes the kitchen course is failing, what the heck am I doing wrong?

[BigD145]

Some prisoners desire things they are not good at.

[Karlito]

If they have many unmet needs, their concentration will be poor during classes. Also, if they are unable to attend class for whatever reason, they will likely fail.

[Descan]

Ok, everyone who takes the kitchen course is failing, what the heck am I doing wrong?

Follow one of the dudes taking the course and see what he does.

[tryrar]

I found out the problem. Turns out, you have to have your cookers positioned NOT against the wall, otherwise there isn't space for the students to stand and watch. >_>. Repositioned the cookers and problem solved

[Aklyon]

Man, when Max-sec riots, it riots hard. I've been messing around with the island map in the workshop, and a tiny riot started in the cleaning cupboard, apparently by 11 people or so.

It ended with about 20 dead prisoners and 13 dead guards, and some rather injured dogs. I should've gotten body armor a bit sooner, methinks.

[Glloyd]

Man, when Max-sec riots, it riots hard. I've been messing around with the island map in the workshop, and a tiny riot started in the cleaning cupboard, apparently by 11 people or so.

It ended with about 20 dead prisoners and 13 dead guards, and some rather injured dogs. I should've gotten body armor a bit sooner, methinks.

I had a 170ish max-sec prison riot recently. I was getting bored of the prison, so I had been pushing the prisoners towards a riot, and when it happened, it HAPPENED. It started with about 30 people in a shower, and ended up with 60 or so dead guards, an entire dead riot team and paramedic team, and most of the staff dead. Took a second riot team combined with about 20 or so armed guards + 20 or so normal guards that I'd purchased to clear the whole thing out.

When the dust settled, there were something like 50 or 60 prisoners left alive.

[Graknorke]

Man, when Max-sec riots, it riots hard. I've been messing around with the island map in the workshop, and a tiny riot started in the cleaning cupboard, apparently by 11 people or so.

It ended with about 20 dead prisoners and 13 dead guards, and some rather injured dogs. I should've gotten body armor a bit sooner, methinks.

Oddly enough all of my riots seem to start in the shower. It must be the time of day when the prisoners are generally grumpy and all in the same place.

[Zangi]

Man, when Max-sec riots, it riots hard. I've been messing around with the island map in the workshop, and a tiny riot started in the cleaning cupboard, apparently by 11 people or so.

It ended with about 20 dead prisoners and 13 dead guards, and some rather injured dogs. I should've gotten body armor a bit sooner, methinks.

Oddly enough all of my riots seem to start in the shower. It must be the time of day when the prisoners are generally grumpy and all in the same place.

Might be cause most of us are inclined to make em small....  I also put toilets in my shower.

[Graknorke]

Might be cause most of us are inclined to make em small....  I also put toilets in my shower.

Hey, the showers were plenty big enough when I built them. It's just that my prison capacity has increased tenfold since then.

[Aklyon]

Man, when Max-sec riots, it riots hard. I've been messing around with the island map in the workshop, and a tiny riot started in the cleaning cupboard, apparently by 11 people or so.

It ended with about 20 dead prisoners and 13 dead guards, and some rather injured dogs. I should've gotten body armor a bit sooner, methinks.

Oddly enough all of my riots seem to start in the shower. It must be the time of day when the prisoners are generally grumpy and all in the same place.

I replaced shower time with freetime for this, its resulted in much less shower congestion but also sporadic fights. The latter might just be the maxsecs though.

[Thexor]

The default shower time is right after the sleep block. AKA the time of day when most major needs are unmet thanks to being locked in your cell for ~6 hours.

Until I learned to switch this with free time, my riots always started in the shower. 

[nenjin]

Maybe it was playing a while ago, but after messing with the Wake --> Free Time --> Shower order, I found the people wanting showers would start raging because they....couldn't shower? People can relieve themselves pretty quickly when they're already in their cells, so it set up about 30 minutes of actual activity, and I had fights. Conversely, with Shower time coming first, guys would get angry but fights would be rare.

This is only probably at 70 prisoners though. Continued to do it this way up until the last two updates, which I haven't messed with yet, and haven't had a lot of problems in the showers. But it's often close to becoming a fight sometimes.