Need to use the "Superior Beds" produced by the workshop to increase cell quality. I was really surprised to see the cell quality feature but no usage of the Superior Beds. Seems like an obvious tie-in to me.
Would be nice if an actual mail-delivery truck would deliver the mail. Also would be nice if getting mail would get you random results, afterall not all family news are good news.
Dylanhero1 Im not suggesting it should be like 50/50 chance of it being either good or bad. :) Mostly just nice or reassuring letters. Just not always.
Honestly you guys are the best developers out there, you guys are hilarious and your videos are so entertaining i look forward to each one. Most Devs just tell their updates in such a robotic corporate way. you guys make it so casual and like normal its fucken awesome. keep doing what your doing.
madman3470 What I want, talking about "Prison Break", is a prisoner group system, where prisoners will group up to either: dig a tunnel together, stock up on contraband, or start a riot to take over a part of the prison.
Would like to say i have been playing this game since Alpha 12. This has to be one of the most exciting Alphas for me with the changes to the cell and prisoner behavior.Now your prison truly effect the way your prisoner acts. On another note i want to say you guys have done an amazing job with this game and now the end is near i am proud to have been here for a good bit of the building process.
You guys are fantastic. You keep the fans informed of updates, you ask the fans what they want. And your videos make us laugh so much because the only thing planned is what's new. If this is all acted, you two deserve an Oscar, an Emmy, A Tony, and all the other stuff. I cry from the pain of asphyxiation at times. Keep up the good work!
Rogier is hier Orrrrr someone could just make a mod that switches all 'language' to "Her Majesty's Royal Vocabulary" for British players, and "Yankee Doodle Yakking" for American players.
***** that's the thing though, the truth is whatever is most appealing to Americans is what is considered universally acceptable. in short, get fucked britbong it's gonna be mail room
Thomas Jefferson You can always assign cells to prisoners. just click on the prisoner and then click (like you would move employers) on another cell. This was already in the game :)
Thomas Jefferson you can force prisoners to go in other prisoner's cells, which will in effect- kick them out and go to whatever open cell(s) unless specified by a min/med/max zone. :P
***** They also mentioned how they're somewhat okay with making it initially automated but allow for manual control. Exactly like the laundry and cooking systems.
I look forward to each of these updates, and each of the accompanying videos. Thank you for being a great developer who cares about the game being fully realized.
BrillOBuffalo yep.. many things there deserve a bit of reconsidering but too bad that no one of them actually reads these comments in a way of listening to the franchise if we may call it that way.. guess we actually dont know a shit
BrillOBuffalo i have my entire delivery area checked around the clock by 15 dogs, i have like a metal detector at every door from the outside and just rectently i put a death zone in front of all outer walls which prevent prisoners from going there and collecting stuff thrown over the fence; all this did like reduce my contraband about 60% but i STILL keep finding major contraband... (seriously i caught one in the very act as someone threw a drill over the perimeter wall, what's up with people)
Awesome update once again! I've just encountered one issue though: it's awesome you can let prisoners have their own showerhead in their cells, the thing is, if they don't use it and still go to the 'shower' when they should shower, it doesn't have much use.. Anyway, keep up the good work!
What happens to the mail once a prisoner reads it? Do they keep letters? Are they collected by janitors for trash? Haven't tried it out yet, was curious!
Jaym Esch I don't know why they have prisoners sorting mail. In nearly all prisons in the world, guards sort the mail, and they look through packaging for contraband and read letters to try and detect hidden messages.
OverbearingUrge all of my deliveries pass through a metal detector before going to their assigned locations and i have two guards inside each mail room so i can search the mail every morning.
Ive been following PA for quite sometime now, I would just like to say that I really like these monthly Alpha videos and to keep up the good work. The team at Introversion have done really well and have gotten just about everything I would like to see from the game. A couple of things that I have been hoping to see would be gangs (for quite some time) and also a more immersive way of interacting when you are playing as a prisoner, I would like to be able to do more than walk around and request someone to open a door. TL:DR Good game, needs a few small but key features
Damn i looooove this update! This is what i was looking for all the time! Prisoners with better reputation get better cells and will be able to actually be nice and not be bad all time :3 THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE!
Yea! New systems! IMO: Mail should be placed on the bed, not the floor. I would still really like to have bunk beds with 2 prisoners per cell. Also, you guys are too funny; I love these updates for the new features and the entertaining dialogue!
I know they dismissed prison radio as a bit of a joke but I could see that being a brilliant way of keeping you informed. I'm sure it would bulk up the game size a bit with a lot of audio and you would need a lot of audio to make it work but imagine as issues arise in the prison, the dj points them out as well as adding humour and humanity with things like messages from prisoners, requests. It would be terrible if it started to repeat itself and in a game like this that you play a long time, that would be tough to avoid but I can still see it working. I know, months of work, can't be done :)
JohnyG29 it could add another dynamic to the inmates, like when the gang are together they could be more agressive, or one gang is more likely to attack another gang member.
ShopSongs We should see it eventually. The sprites and some of the code have already been datamined from the game files. I don't have the link, but there's a set of 8 or so images showing off what we could expect. On the other hand it could have been a scrapped idea, but as often as this is requested I'm sure we'll get it at some time.
Best alpha state game I ever bought and probably will, the amount of work you guys put into it is amazing, still enjoying it and constant player since alpha 13. If you don't have this game and like management games and strategy games, go do yourself a favor and buy it now.
1:56 This article is about the first TH-cam video. For the Chris Crocker documentary, see Me at the Zoo. Me at the zoo is the first video to have been uploaded to TH-cam. Described by The Observer as "poor-quality", the nineteen-second video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo, featuring Karim in front of the elephants, professing his interest in their "really, really, really long trunks". just thought any body wondering would like to know ;)
I love watching my prisoners riot, I wish there was a cheat mode or something where you could click a button and all your prisoners just started to riot
Siggy'sTundra well you could just keep the 2 by 3 cells or 1 by 1s or whatever you have in your prison and not care about grading. they even say that you can ignore it if you want to. its just a general prison quality thing, so like if everyone in the prison has a quality 1 cell, it doesnt matter just like if everyone had a quality 10 cell, its more of the same so they will all act the same.
Siggy'sTundra If you make all your cells the exact same, the prison grading system won't affect you at all. The grading system works on the average, so prisoners will only desire a better cell if there are better cells available in your prison.
Would it be possible for you guys to implement a system where you can make your own roads that the trucks can actually drive on? That way the prisons aren't limited and constricted to the starting road.
Hey just an idea for you guys, could it be possible to make it so we can have multiple prisoner class groups use a single room? so like rather than only being able to have one class of prisoners use a room we could specify multiple groups that are allowed to use that room? so for Example: A canteen is specified to be only for High Security right? well with what im suggesting, the player could set it so High Security AND oh i dont know Protective custody could use that room... just an idea keep up the great work guys!
Darthpaper20 High security and protective custody together would be an absolutely terrible idea, but otherwise I second this motion. I'd like to be able to have certain rooms be, say, minimum/medium or medium/high. That'd be especially good for reform rooms so that rather than having to either have one communal one and just do my best to keep protective custody away from everyone else, or build separate ones for every single security level, I could have two of each: one for PC and one for everyone else. At least, without having to waste prison space with things like "airlocks" (staff-only rooms between different security designations to prevent prisoners from being able to take that route, such as to keep PC prisoners out of a shared hallway that happens to run right next to their block)
mastresscolleen Well It was just an example that i came up with off the top of my head I mean the way the idea works is that you can set any combination of prisoner groups for rooms... but yeah I agree!
The first meme that I'm aware of was "all your base are belong to us" which was a 2000/2001 flash video on Newgrounds, and for years you'd hear people randomly quoting snippits of that music video
When you guys get the chance can you please focus a little bit on performance? No rush, but I noticed when I get to 300 - 400 prisoners my pc lags to the point where its unplayable. Thank you and good job on Alpha 33!
Just a few specs, GTX 960 FTW with 4 GB V Ram, 8 GB Ram, an Intel Core i7 4790k. Mostly I can handle any game at 1080P 60 FPS, but I believe this game is very CPU intensive so it may not be 100 % my fault but I still believe something can be done in terms of optimization.
You guys are hilarious! Love it!! I actually LOL!. Just one thing... Could you fix the Docs always gravitating to one med room or another, so they average out by post (where they work) among the available med rooms? I'm always having to micro manage that.
i have always wanted a reason to have nice/big cells (i always make them at least 3X3) also sometimes a corner cell would be bigger (because of the design of the prison) and i would think to myself that that was the luxury cell, but now it actually will be a better cell in the game.
404_Error they typically release them on the last Friday of the month. Meaning this one is definitely going to be delayed to the last day of the month: 6/30 (Tue)
I would love to have gangs in now, im dojng a school project with a bit of coding (webpage html) and it's about prision architect, really wish there was gangs so i could add a pic of that, no matter hough alpha 33 :D Thans for making this game, i love it! Keeps getting better and better every month! :)
There needs to be a British mod. Here's what I was thinking. Jolly ol' Britain mod: - Prison names are preceded by "H.M Prison" - Royal Mail van comes to prison - Mail Satchels renamed to "Delivery Satchels" - Mail Room renamed to "Post Room" - Dollars changed to Pound Sterling (£) - Staff Room renamed to "Tea Room" - Adds tea - Warden wears top hat - Recession mechanic added - Edits to the gang system- Now has the Labour, Tory, Libdem and Green gangs
Seems to be a bug where prisoners working in the mail room sometimes head of to use the sorting tables in the library to sort the post while the prison labour screen still shows them working in the mail room.
getting better and better each time, i wish there was "Gangs" implemented, that'd make the game for me, certain people forming alliances like real life, scheduled unknown riots between each other, maybe head bands or different colours to define each gang..
This is pretty amazing though. In my low-sec prison all 2x3 cells have bookshelves and proper large windows to the open. Finally it's not just cosmetic anymore.
I actually hate it when new rooms are added, not because they're bad but because it means I have to fit yet another bloody room into my already EXTREMELY cramped and large administration section, which i keep seperate from cells
"Can we get Johnny Cash?" *sucks air in through teeth* "No.. man that's going to take at least 6 months.. going to need to get a team of necromancers together..."
Idea: Add so prisoners can turn furnitures into weopons. So if there is a 1 grades prisoner in a 4-10 graded prisoner cell, he will start making weopons and having that for self defence or attacking. Thats also a reason u dont want to have all prison cells highly graded... and even if u have 4-10 graded prisoners in good cells, they can get temped to make weopons if theyre not happy with the prison or other prisoners... or maybe if they want to escape. So even tho good prison cells have alot of benifits, it also can be devistating if you have the wrong prisoner in that cell, or if he is having a bad "day".
5:10 you havent cut it out but maybe your debug log provides some useful information for the hardcore community who cant get enough of background information
Are there any plans on allowing more than one prisoner to stay in a cell? For example, if you were to add an extra bed, then it would count as an extra space? With the new system I feel it would be beneficial, not only to save space but it'd make sense for well behaved prisoners to be put with other well behaved prisoners (with it being considerably safe~), not to mention minimising the cost of having to buy extra items for each room. My system atm has just been setting up holding cells with multiple beds, utilities, etc for my min'risk prisoners...but it'd be cool if it worked with the new system to just put them in a cell area (plus not having to but a bench in and waste space 0.
EvilDrCatFace Don't quote me on this but I think they mentioned the issue in a previous alpha video, no idea which one though, but maybe google or the subreddit can yield a result for that.
I'd like to see a way to force a prisoner to move to a more appropriate cell. Like, I can click on them and "Relocate" and it will quickly recalculate what kind of cell they belong in and find a new one or swap with somebody else.
I'm going to be sad when the game is finished, I really enjoy the updates. I don't have a lot of time to game, so when I come back to it there are all these great additions and its like a new game!
I like the new concept to the re offend rate and the addition of the mail room, but having mix feelings about this new grading system for rooms. Hearing that the prison guards will escort prisoners to appropriate cells worries me. If i got a massive prison of 1200 people and a fight breaks out in the yard... are my guards gonna be tied up all day trying to escort prisoners to new cells?
Left the door open to the mail room and no one tried to escape. It's a bit easy to just assign a area stuff only and prisoners won't try make a run for it even if there is a clear way out through the stuff only
For the next update would you consider letting the player decide who does and does not get mail? For example, you probably don't want your supermax inmates getting potential contraband delivered straight to their cell, so it would be nice to specify mail privileges based on security level or on a cell block basis
You should make something that makes you pick a prisoner to live in a specific cell instead of a random lucky one you dont give a sh*t about so you can lock the physco prisoners in 1x1 cells when you feel pissed off
1. Mail room is absolutely upside down. Guards should sort and check mail and prisoners should deliver it. 2. Room quality with guards auto-sorting prisoners is good thing, but I see same thing as happen to kitchen - canteen, cell block - canteen/laundry. Player overhaul of prisoners placement.
***** Well, I only suggested that to make it more realistic. Game can assign at least one prisoner from each cell block to mail room. Max sec and pc can be handled by guards. All logic is already in game, like cell block logistics and zones. And assigning prisoners it is about the same thing. You do specify cell for each incoming prisoner and when you do search of prisoner or cell block, then you reassign few if any prisoners.
I don't know if you read this but could you possibly implement something into prison architect with gangs and such, because in real prisons gangs rule the prison, another though is having bad guards and there "bad".
I don't know.. the term 'mail room' is easily accessible and quickly understood, but yet _'post_ room' has a certain refinement and class to it. I think I'd go with 'post room', simply because it's the road less traveled.
There was a cartoon cat called Charley who used to appear in public information films. He was also sampled by The Prodigy for their single Charly. Different to the finger biter, but might be why you associate the name with a cat.
+33 Generic Alpha Points
OfficialStuffPlus Did you see FEATHERSTONE????? 8:04
Trevor Jones I seen that too :D
lol :)
OfficialStuffPlus when add... properly repair electric chair?
***** BROTHER
Need to use the "Superior Beds" produced by the workshop to increase cell quality. I was really surprised to see the cell quality feature but no usage of the Superior Beds. Seems like an obvious tie-in to me.
Would be nice if an actual mail-delivery truck would deliver the mail. Also would be nice if getting mail would get you random results, afterall not all family news are good news.
Nazgul100 like the death of a family member or a breakup could instantly suppress them or send them on a blind rage?
Nazgul100 In real life, yes. But if this were implemented in the game, noone would build the mail room as it wouldn't be worth it.
Dylanhero1 Im not suggesting it should be like 50/50 chance of it being either good or bad. :) Mostly just nice or reassuring letters. Just not always.
Nazgul100
I like this idea. It should be something like 20%.
Ollienova250 20% to get a little angry, with a slightly higher chance to kick off.
5% chance for FUCK YOU, AND YOU, AND THIS CHAIR OVER HERE!
Honestly you guys are the best developers out there, you guys are hilarious and your videos are so entertaining i look forward to each one. Most Devs just tell their updates in such a robotic corporate way. you guys make it so casual and like normal its fucken awesome. keep doing what your doing.
I'd like to see an Easter Egg, where if you become a prisoner, you can use the radio and your radio channel comes on from this video...
Is there going to be a gang system within the game, where you have to separate the rival gangs?
madman3470 I misread that for "gang bang system"
Neason Howard I think a gang bang minigame is in order
Come on introversion, get on our level
Neason Howard Needs to be done too.
madman3470 What I want, talking about "Prison Break", is a prisoner group system, where prisoners will group up to either: dig a tunnel together, stock up on contraband, or start a riot to take over a part of the prison.
Would like to say i have been playing this game since Alpha 12. This has to be one of the most exciting Alphas for me with the changes to the cell and prisoner behavior.Now your prison truly effect the way your prisoner acts. On another note i want to say you guys have done an amazing job with this game and now the end is near i am proud to have been here for a good bit of the building process.
You guys are fantastic. You keep the fans informed of updates, you ask the fans what they want. And your videos make us laugh so much because the only thing planned is what's new.
If this is all acted, you two deserve an Oscar, an Emmy, A Tony, and all the other stuff. I cry from the pain of asphyxiation at times.
Keep up the good work!
call it the post room already, bloody hell
Rogier is hier I like paper in envelope delivery room better.
***** I've never called mail "post" before, but for some strange reason we have "post offices".
Rogier is hier Orrrrr someone could just make a mod that switches all 'language' to "Her Majesty's Royal Vocabulary" for British players, and "Yankee Doodle Yakking" for American players.
***** that's the thing though, the truth is whatever is most appealing to Americans is what is considered universally acceptable. in short, get fucked britbong it's gonna be mail room
sickley2 ... How about no to the yenkee doodle.
It's so awesome seeing the game getting so complex and extensive!
I just want to quickly appreciate you for your work :D
Can you let us manually assign cells to prisoners regardless of what the game thinks they 'deserve'?
Thomas Jefferson You can always assign cells to prisoners. just click on the prisoner and then click (like you would move employers) on another cell. This was already in the game :)
mika kraft good to know.
Thomas Jefferson you can force prisoners to go in other prisoner's cells, which will in effect- kick them out and go to whatever open cell(s) unless specified by a min/med/max zone.
:P
***** They also mentioned how they're somewhat okay with making it initially automated but allow for manual control. Exactly like the laundry and cooking systems.
You can. Click on em and then click on the cell you want them in
I look forward to each of these updates, and each of the accompanying videos. Thank you for being a great developer who cares about the game being fully realized.
"oops, ill have to cut that out..." and then doesnt cut it out.
Don't you ever reflect thinking that there's too much contraband coming into the prison?
BrillOBuffalo yep.. many things there deserve a bit of reconsidering but too bad that no one of them actually reads these comments in a way of listening to the franchise if we may call it that way.. guess we actually dont know a shit
BrillOBuffalo you'd be surprised with all the things that happen in real prisons.
BrillOBuffalo i have my entire delivery area checked around the clock by 15 dogs, i have like a metal detector at every door from the outside and just rectently i put a death zone in front of all outer walls which prevent prisoners from going there and collecting stuff thrown over the fence; all this did like reduce my contraband about 60% but i STILL keep finding major contraband... (seriously i caught one in the very act as someone threw a drill over the perimeter wall, what's up with people)
mine is pretty much free from metal contraband and smelly stuff, thanks to my metal detection airlock that only scans prisoners leaving the work area.
Can you never stop updating Prison Architect ever? Gonna miss these vids haha!
This must be the funniest release update video I've seen. And certainly one of the funniest videos on YT in general :D
Awesome update once again! I've just encountered one issue though: it's awesome you can let prisoners have their own showerhead in their cells, the thing is, if they don't use it and still go to the 'shower' when they should shower, it doesn't have much use.. Anyway, keep up the good work!
Call it the mail bag. Who named it a mail satchel?
***** The Brits.
The Progenitus I am British...
The Progenitus It's British developed game, what do you expect? lmao
***** I'm Great British
Jonathan Hill I'm great and British!
What happens to the mail once a prisoner reads it? Do they keep letters? Are they collected by janitors for trash? Haven't tried it out yet, was curious!
Jaym Esch I don't know why they have prisoners sorting mail. In nearly all prisons in the world, guards sort the mail, and they look through packaging for contraband and read letters to try and detect hidden messages.
OverbearingUrge True but at the other point, This provides more work for prisoners
OverbearingUrge all of my deliveries pass through a metal detector before going to their assigned locations and i have two guards inside each mail room so i can search the mail every morning.
Nxtl68 Put dogs in there as well, they will sniff out narcotics
I really really love these release videos. Also, this new cell system is a very nice addition!
Ive been following PA for quite sometime now, I would just like to say that I really like these monthly Alpha videos and to keep up the good work. The team at Introversion have done really well and have gotten just about everything I would like to see from the game. A couple of things that I have been hoping to see would be gangs (for quite some time) and also a more immersive way of interacting when you are playing as a prisoner, I would like to be able to do more than walk around and request someone to open a door.
TL:DR
Good game, needs a few small but key features
Sounds like an awesome update. These sort of updates, where there are more ways that my prison needs to be monitored, are great.
Damn i looooove this update!
This is what i was looking for all the time!
Prisoners with better reputation get better cells and will be able to actually be nice and not be bad all time :3
THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE!
Its great to see you guys keeping up the good work with this game :)
Yea! New systems! IMO: Mail should be placed on the bed, not the floor. I would still really like to have bunk beds with 2 prisoners per cell. Also, you guys are too funny; I love these updates for the new features and the entertaining dialogue!
Finally, FINALLY, prisoners in this game can check their privilege!
"If you haven't bought Prison Architect what's wrong with you ? " 😆😆😆 great video guys ! Looking forward for the next alpha
I know they dismissed prison radio as a bit of a joke but I could see that being a brilliant way of keeping you informed. I'm sure it would bulk up the game size a bit with a lot of audio and you would need a lot of audio to make it work but imagine as issues arise in the prison, the dj points them out as well as adding humour and humanity with things like messages from prisoners, requests. It would be terrible if it started to repeat itself and in a game like this that you play a long time, that would be tough to avoid but I can still see it working. I know, months of work, can't be done :)
a gang system would be great
Why?
JohnyG29 it could add another dynamic to the inmates, like when the gang are together they could be more agressive, or one gang is more likely to attack another gang member.
JohnyG29 Why not?
ShopSongs We should see it eventually. The sprites and some of the code have already been datamined from the game files. I don't have the link, but there's a set of 8 or so images showing off what we could expect. On the other hand it could have been a scrapped idea, but as often as this is requested I'm sure we'll get it at some time.
ShopSongs We've been wanting gangs for about 20 alphas now
Yer damn whippersnappers, in my day there were only one videa on the Youtoobs, and we were damn happy to watch it!
Best alpha state game I ever bought and probably will, the amount of work you guys put into it is amazing, still enjoying it and constant player since alpha 13. If you don't have this game and like management games and strategy games, go do yourself a favor and buy it now.
1:56 This article is about the first TH-cam video. For the Chris Crocker documentary, see Me at the Zoo. Me at the zoo is the first video to have been uploaded to TH-cam. Described by The Observer as "poor-quality", the nineteen-second video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo, featuring Karim in front of the elephants, professing his interest in their "really, really, really long trunks". just thought any body wondering would like to know ;)
l Really, Really approve of how your adding more ways to play a "Positive Re-enforcement Prison"
Omg your conversations are so hilarious... oh wait... new update...?
I love watching my prisoners riot, I wish there was a cheat mode or something where you could click a button and all your prisoners just started to riot
>33 alphas
>still no gang system
By far the best feature I've seen in a while is that "chance to cause shit."
Add a thing to the path finding so prisoners don't all cram into one doorway/hallway. Instead they should take a less populated route
This update made everything SO MUCH difficult! I love it... No more spamming, cloning 500 cells.. Dayum!
In which Prison Architect "checks their privilege."
yodo223 I'm not sure that's what the SJWs had in mind...
Love the new changes! Keep it up!
Will there be ways to disable features like grading
Were is the fun in that
Wildcard Some people don't know the concept of fun.
Siggy'sTundra well you could just keep the 2 by 3 cells or 1 by 1s or whatever you have in your prison and not care about grading. they even say that you can ignore it if you want to. its just a general prison quality thing, so like if everyone in the prison has a quality 1 cell, it doesnt matter just like if everyone had a quality 10 cell, its more of the same so they will all act the same.
Siggy'sTundra If you make all your cells the exact same, the prison grading system won't affect you at all. The grading system works on the average, so prisoners will only desire a better cell if there are better cells available in your prison.
Siggy'sTundra Concept of "fun", considering that prison architect is partially inspired by DF: dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.34:Fun
Would it be possible for you guys to implement a system where you can make your own roads that the trucks can actually drive on? That way the prisons aren't limited and constricted to the starting road.
Please make multiple prisoner cells
Hey just an idea for you guys, could it be possible to make it so we can have multiple prisoner class groups use a single room? so like rather than only being able to have one class of prisoners use a room we could specify multiple groups that are allowed to use that room? so for Example: A canteen is specified to be only for High Security right? well with what im suggesting, the player could set it so High Security AND oh i dont know Protective custody could use that room... just an idea keep up the great work guys!
Darthpaper20 High security and protective custody together would be an absolutely terrible idea, but otherwise I second this motion. I'd like to be able to have certain rooms be, say, minimum/medium or medium/high. That'd be especially good for reform rooms so that rather than having to either have one communal one and just do my best to keep protective custody away from everyone else, or build separate ones for every single security level, I could have two of each: one for PC and one for everyone else. At least, without having to waste prison space with things like "airlocks" (staff-only rooms between different security designations to prevent prisoners from being able to take that route, such as to keep PC prisoners out of a shared hallway that happens to run right next to their block)
mastresscolleen Well It was just an example that i came up with off the top of my head I mean the way the idea works is that you can set any combination of prisoner groups for rooms... but yeah I agree!
i see what you mean. Its so annoying when i want a canteen for everyone but super max and protective
The first meme that I'm aware of was "all your base are belong to us" which was a 2000/2001 flash video on Newgrounds, and for years you'd hear people randomly quoting snippits of that music video
hi just a wee thing can guards put the mail on the prisoners bed instead of just on the floor
You can build the biggest prison in the world, except Australia obviously.
- Daniel Hardcastle, 2014
I always put a couch in my cells. Are you saying I need to switch it with a chair to make it a quality cell?
When you guys get the chance can you please focus a little bit on performance? No rush, but I noticed when I get to 300 - 400 prisoners my pc lags to the point where its unplayable. Thank you and good job on Alpha 33!
Same
Patty G some people don't have 1500 to spend on an amazing computer, just to play a low requirement game like this
Just a few specs, GTX 960 FTW with 4 GB V Ram, 8 GB Ram, an Intel Core i7 4790k. Mostly I can handle any game at 1080P 60 FPS, but I believe this game is very CPU intensive so it may not be 100 % my fault but I still believe something can be done in terms of optimization.
***** I have a computer That I built for $1300 and I still lag At about 400 prisoners
Zach Selin And who's going to put it together for you if you are not technologically inclined.?
You guys are hilarious! Love it!! I actually LOL!.
Just one thing... Could you fix the Docs always gravitating to one med room or another, so they average out by post (where they work) among the available med rooms? I'm always having to micro manage that.
i have always wanted a reason to have nice/big cells (i always make them at least 3X3) also sometimes a corner cell would be bigger (because of the design of the prison) and i would think to myself that that was the luxury cell, but now it actually will be a better cell in the game.
ITS BEEN A MONTH EXCACTLY
WHERES 34!?!!?!
404_Error they typically release them on the last Friday of the month. Meaning this one is definitely going to be delayed to the last day of the month: 6/30 (Tue)
Will Ferrous 33 was released on a thursday and not the 30th
404_Error That;s just them being nice releasing it one day earlier. don't count on it
so... if they did do prison radio will they make 2 recordings of the temperature? for those of us who don't use Celsius.
Sales Kital It would make more sense to just say "It's hot outside" instead of giving specific degrees.
Phillip Vector
true, since then we can figure it based on our own ways of measuring temperature.
Sales Kital I am sure they will provide Kelvin and Fahrenheit. Personally not a fan of Fahrenheit, but I accept the US stand religiously by it.
Hal Motley
I grew up knowing Fahrenheit. Not exactly easy to go by a temperature measure that I don't know that well.
Sales Kital Fair enough.
I get the feeling that eventually they'll add a radio station room where the prisoners can broadcast they're own radio show during free time
Nice additions looking forward to having a play with the new systems implemented.
I would love to have gangs in now, im dojng a school project with a bit of coding (webpage html) and it's about prision architect, really wish there was gangs so i could add a pic of that, no matter hough alpha 33 :D Thans for making this game, i love it! Keeps getting better and better every month! :)
The much awaited ALPHA VIDEO!
"If you haven't bought prison architect yet, what's wrong with you?"
That made me laugh more than I should XD
There needs to be a British mod. Here's what I was thinking.
Jolly ol' Britain mod:
- Prison names are preceded by "H.M Prison"
- Royal Mail van comes to prison
- Mail Satchels renamed to "Delivery Satchels"
- Mail Room renamed to "Post Room"
- Dollars changed to Pound Sterling (£)
- Staff Room renamed to "Tea Room"
- Adds tea
- Warden wears top hat
- Recession mechanic added
- Edits to the gang system- Now has the Labour, Tory, Libdem and Green gangs
We still need gangs but great alpha as usual guys!
Seems to be a bug where prisoners working in the mail room sometimes head of to use the sorting tables in the library to sort the post while the prison labour screen still shows them working in the mail room.
getting better and better each time, i wish there was "Gangs" implemented, that'd make the game for me, certain people forming alliances like real life, scheduled unknown riots between each other, maybe head bands or different colours to define each gang..
"It's been a busy month!"
Dont you mean it's been a busy week for Chris?
This is pretty amazing though. In my low-sec prison all 2x3 cells have bookshelves and proper large windows to the open. Finally it's not just cosmetic anymore.
I love that boiling points are overall lower for efficient prisons. It'll make the game harder.
Its funny because I was thinking about when you guys would bring out the next update literally 5 minutes ago.
I actually hate it when new rooms are added, not because they're bad but because it means I have to fit yet another bloody room into my already EXTREMELY cramped and large administration section, which i keep seperate from cells
"Can we get Johnny Cash?" *sucks air in through teeth* "No.. man that's going to take at least 6 months.. going to need to get a team of necromancers together..."
if you could add floor levels to the game i would be so happy
Idea: Add so prisoners can turn furnitures into weopons. So if there is a 1 grades prisoner in a 4-10 graded prisoner cell, he will start making weopons and having that for self defence or attacking. Thats also a reason u dont want to have all prison cells highly graded... and even if u have 4-10 graded prisoners in good cells, they can get temped to make weopons if theyre not happy with the prison or other prisoners... or maybe if they want to escape. So even tho good prison cells have alot of benifits, it also can be devistating if you have the wrong prisoner in that cell, or if he is having a bad "day".
5:10 you havent cut it out
but maybe your debug log provides some useful information for the hardcore community who cant get enough of background information
Are there any plans on allowing more than one prisoner to stay in a cell? For example, if you were to add an extra bed, then it would count as an extra space?
With the new system I feel it would be beneficial, not only to save space but it'd make sense for well behaved prisoners to be put with other well behaved prisoners (with it being considerably safe~), not to mention minimising the cost of having to buy extra items for each room.
My system atm has just been setting up holding cells with multiple beds, utilities, etc for my min'risk prisoners...but it'd be cool if it worked with the new system to just put them in a cell area (plus not having to but a bench in and waste space 0.
Did they ever mention female prisoners yet? I would like to see something like this one day.
EvilDrCatFace Don't quote me on this but I think they mentioned the issue in a previous alpha video, no idea which one though, but maybe google or the subreddit can yield a result for that.
EvilDrCatFace That would be fine as long as theres no rape...
you would have to have different shower blocks
Bug Man There's no male on male rape in the game, which is a serious issue in real prisons. Why would there be male on female?
what have I started.
after finishing this you should do a airport arquitect game like this one making terminal rooms and things like that
They starting at 2:50
Another great video, thanks guys!
Star Wars kid was around back in the late 90s, long before TH-cam existed. It was around before Charlie and his brother were even born.
I'd like to see a way to force a prisoner to move to a more appropriate cell. Like, I can click on them and "Relocate" and it will quickly recalculate what kind of cell they belong in and find a new one or swap with somebody else.
Awesome new features! All we need now are floors (levels) and gangs. Get on that please, it would make the game so much better
I'm going to be sad when the game is finished, I really enjoy the updates. I don't have a lot of time to game, so when I come back to it there are all these great additions and its like a new game!
You guys should consider doing a podcast...when you're not busy making an awesome game that is!
room quality is a great addition by the sound of it!
I like the new concept to the re offend rate and the addition of the mail room, but having mix feelings about this new grading system for rooms. Hearing that the prison guards will escort prisoners to appropriate cells worries me. If i got a massive prison of 1200 people and a fight breaks out in the yard... are my guards gonna be tied up all day trying to escort prisoners to new cells?
I wish there was a way to prevent guards from unlocking road gates, while the gate is still able to open using a servo.
Could you in the logistics tab add a thingy so 2 prisoners can be in 1 cell, it just need 2 beds and 2 toilets now.
Daniel elliot ferkinghoff-borg it*the cell
now my protected custody prisoners might stop stabbing each other in their luxury cells, also great update!
Left the door open to the mail room and no one tried to escape. It's a bit easy to just assign a area stuff only and prisoners won't try make a run for it even if there is a clear way out through the stuff only
For the next update would you consider letting the player decide who does and does not get mail? For example, you probably don't want your supermax inmates getting potential contraband delivered straight to their cell, so it would be nice to specify mail privileges based on security level or on a cell block basis
You should make something that makes you pick a prisoner to live in a specific cell instead of a random lucky one you dont give a sh*t about so you can lock the physco prisoners in 1x1 cells when you feel pissed off
Christopholies "The Great" Delay? Not the best nickname for a designer....
I have an idea for this game! How about being able to build prisons with multiple levels!
Prison radio is a really good idea. What this game needs is atmosphere.
1. Mail room is absolutely upside down. Guards should sort and check mail and prisoners should deliver it.
2. Room quality with guards auto-sorting prisoners is good thing, but I see same thing as happen to kitchen - canteen, cell block - canteen/laundry. Player overhaul of prisoners placement.
***** Well, I only suggested that to make it more realistic. Game can assign at least one prisoner from each cell block to mail room. Max sec and pc can be handled by guards. All logic is already in game, like cell block logistics and zones.
And assigning prisoners it is about the same thing. You do specify cell for each incoming prisoner and when you do search of prisoner or cell block, then you reassign few if any prisoners.
When you have got a decent prison, you should be able to play as a prisoner
I can't wait until the iPad version launches please keep me in mind thank you very much Philadelphia USA
I don't know if you read this but could you possibly implement something into prison architect with gangs and such, because in real prisons gangs rule the prison, another though is having bad guards and there "bad".
All Your Base Are Belong To Us is widely regarded as one of the (if not THE) first large-scale internet meme...
I don't know.. the term 'mail room' is easily accessible and quickly understood, but yet _'post_ room' has a certain refinement and class to it.
I think I'd go with 'post room', simply because it's the road less traveled.
There was a cartoon cat called Charley who used to appear in public information films.
He was also sampled by The Prodigy for their single Charly.
Different to the finger biter, but might be why you associate the name with a cat.