NL, get a door control system and put door controllers [under Utilities] on all your "main traffic" doors. Make sure a guard is available to operate the DCS [*DO NOT USE "STATION" FOR THIS, IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY PULL AN AVAILABLE GUARD TO HANDLE IT*] so they can control the doors. They will open the doors for people who are supposed to go through them (prisoners going to the yard during Yard time, stuff like that). Your prison will function a lot more efficiently and rapidly, and it will allow you to put much more secure doors in your traffic areas (i.e. Remote Doors and Solitary Doors) that can only be operated remotely, which is very effective anti-riot control while also speeding up traffic for everyone. EDIT: Oh, and as always, connect FROM door control system TO the door controllers (not vice versa). Ideal placement for the DCS is with your CCTV monitoring bay in a Security Room, optimally right next to a Staff Room so your CCTV operator and door operator can get a quick nap in before they resume their shifts.
Rex1987 door control system. Although seeing NL hasn't even managed to connect the cameras I doubt he would be able to connect the doors correctly. (Just kidding, of course he would, but the game itself is rather bad at teaching the basics)
Jonathan Haas To be fair, the game is still in alpha and the door/CCTV mechanics are at the new end, and from what I read the heavy programer of the team basically went crazy with throwing in new stuff, so it's still not correctly in place in terms of the UI.
Sure. i think the game is great. But without watching the developers alpha release videos you will have a really hard time figuring out how to do certain things.
Ahh, the episode we have all been waiting for. Where everything goes horribly wrong and everything falls apart. Next ep, Ryan builds a series of electric chairs and just starts nuking prisoners non stop just to get the numbers back down.
Diary of Norbert Norbertson Day 0: Just been transferred to some new prison up north, some of the guards at my old prison shed some tears and waved as I left on the back of an open truck.. I wonder why. Day 8: I can't remember the last time we moved, I can feel my mother's ghost coming to caress my half dead body as I lay here on the open truck they put me on, two of my fellow inmates have already died of thirst and the rest are just laying about... Where have they sent us?
Dude, you're feeding like, less than half of the prisoners. The next trucks are going to bring Eric Clapton and Dire Straits to do a Live Aid concert in the delivery area.
24:47 these poor people stood there until 3 am (they came to visit their friends/family members at around 8 am) and were just banging against the gate "please let us out" :-(
Grodon94 I actually think NL build not enough jail doors. For example at the workshop he had no door for a long time. Some locked open doors in the hallways wouldn't also hurt because you can lock them down quickly in case of riots or mass escapes. But the main problem is obviously that he locked open the front doors so everyone can easily escape if he wants to...
Please for the love of god assign some guards to your entrance..... XD Edit: Finally he did it :D Also, the reason your trucks are stopping there is because they stop at the start of the "deliveries" area which you expanded back that far. The trucks aren't actually stopping at your door anymore.
To preface this, I don't play this game, I'm learning with your videos. That being said, I think your door problem could be remedied by placing guards on patrols instead of just having them wonder, so you know that someone can open specific doors when it's needed. I'm loving this series though! It's super fun and really relaxing to watch. Thank you for the cool new content :)
Hi there, I'm with the church of prison management, and I'm here to inform about our lord the door servo. If you purchase a door control unit, and stick it in security, a guard will man it. Then, go into the utilities tab and purchase some door servos, and stick them above your doors and road gates (the rotating gear part of the image should be above the door, I believe). Then use the connect tool from utilities to connect the door control unit to the door servo (NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND, it's an input first, output second logic thingamabob. This is also why your CCTV doesn't work), the guard will then magically open all doors that anyone tries to use if they aren't trying to break prison rules (eg escaping or being a right nob). Each door control unit can open up to two doors per second, never will you have to right click a shit door again. Praise the lord of door opening procedures, and have a good night.
3 quick suggestion: 1- you should assign a guard to open the outside gate to make everything run smoothly 2- you should switch the export door to normal so prisoners can drop the license plate and stuf 3- you should destroy the 2 wall that block easy access to all the prison one in the top part and the second one in the middle by the yard !! Keep up the good work !! Love all your videos !
Good work managing your growth. Two things I would focus on: 1- Traffic flow: you have bottlenecks at the main door and the yard. You need to make sure everything doesnt get stuck. 2- Daily schedule... no need for yard and lockdown time. Prisoners are happier if you put free time and they will go in the yard and stay in their cells as they wish and need.
NL - You should get rid of all the road fences, you shouldn't have prisoners out there anyway. Put a double door to get in and out of your prison, and put a guard between them, Your roadway should be pretty secure.
Dan Rose It's never good to have the entire deployment screen flashing yellow like he has, that means there is a huge security breach and possible AI pathing that is broken, I am pretty sure thats why he is having trouble. I have a similar road gate setup in my prison but mine is secure and runs like clockwork. 145 prisoners 80 say they are well treated and no serious complaints most of the time. And the staff never have issues like he does.
One tip at a time. When you get rid of an item, like your Jail Door, dismantle it, do not dump. When you dump your Jail Doors that is $200 down the drain. Dumping tells your workmen to throw it in the garbage. If you dismantle your Jail Door then your workmen will put it into storage to be used later. Dismantling objects gives you free objects to use later on in the prison while dumping throws them away.
I think the prisoners started trying to escape when the new foundation began materialising, AI thinking there was a way out when there actually wasn't!
Someone already mentioned this probably, but the reason the revolt broke out is simple. When you built the new foundation at the top you opened the walls too early and for a second there was a way into freedom, so the prisoners took the chance, then the foundation finished and it was closed again, but the game already registers this as an escape attempt and so the guards attack the prisoners and vice versa.
Also, the reason why everyone startet to riot is because you built the new part of the prison and it broke down the wall. Which enabled the prisoners to see a path way out of the prison and they tried to go for it.
Nah, the main problem is that both the road gate and the front door are locked open so the guard are constantly trying to put the prisoners back into their (unsafe) cells.
***** Stationing guards near to doors lets them quickly and easily open them for your workers and prisoners. Same thing for the road barriers and trucks.
Yanno I miss Xcom but fuck I love this series. Its relaxing and when things get hectic its just plain silly. This is the kind of thing that puts me in a good mood before I sleep.
I think he f***** of with XCOM Long War After the Last Mission. I can understand he a Little Bit but I although hope he is going on with the serie. The EXALT
I think he f***** up with XCOM Long War After last mission. I can understand him a Little bit but I Hope Although that he continues the serie. The EXALT bullshit will be over soon, so just Play on.
Lion, that sound you keep hearing that sounds like the power turning off is your income. Also, you should build more cctv cameras because they remove the fog.
I'm not too sure on the mechanics of the game, but I think having a second cantine-kitchen combo and yard on the other side of the prison would help the whole traffic jam problem.
NL U NEED MORE GUARDS!!! There is a thing on the top telling you about the available guards for things they need to do and for the entire episode it goes up and down meaning you don't have enough guards.
I think your problems are caused by the front door and road gate being permanently set to open, when you stationed guards at the end you can see everything flashing yellow which means the entire prison is unsafe and people will try to escape. Just close the front door and it might all get back to normal.
Suggestion.. you could change that jail door at the entrance to a staff door, workmen will be able to pass through without being held up. Same as cooks.
Unless you teach your prisoners carpentry Apprenticeships. Also, if you build a forestry you will get logs which will make $1000 pre 20 instead of license plates which makes ($200?) per stack.
I'm pretty sure that the combination of LW difficulty and toxic TH-cam comments has soured that for NL. Nerds on the internet getting their diapers in a twist because a grown man isn't playing videogames on TH-cam the way they want him to. Jesus Christ.
To be fair he still doesn't know which missiles to use on the types of UFO or what noe means. This despite pleasant comments explaining it all the time.
Dude you have got to get some door servos in this bitch, this entire door opening situation can be easily fixed if you get some door servos and connect them to a door control system.
NL look into using the servo door controllers and just make a control room. use that connect tool to connect door controller to servo, may save u many headaches
I started playing this game today and decided once I had a decent place built I would bring in some minimum security prisoners. Almost immediately they started rioting and beating each other up because they missed their families. Called in riot control, they got beat up too. Called in paramedics, more or less the same thing happened. Now my prison is basically just dead bodies.
On your next prison you should plan it more and you have to leave more space to walk in. And let the prisoners do work. You only have to regime it like only sleep shower work eat freetime
Hey NL not trying to be an ass here but... you should totally add more "doors/pathways" in to crowed areas to minimize the clutter up. If you extend your "truck" area up the side of the street with a little more room i think it would help you out more.. just saying man
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NL, get a door control system and put door controllers [under Utilities] on all your "main traffic" doors. Make sure a guard is available to operate the DCS [*DO NOT USE "STATION" FOR THIS, IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY PULL AN AVAILABLE GUARD TO HANDLE IT*] so they can control the doors. They will open the doors for people who are supposed to go through them (prisoners going to the yard during Yard time, stuff like that).
Your prison will function a lot more efficiently and rapidly, and it will allow you to put much more secure doors in your traffic areas (i.e. Remote Doors and Solitary Doors) that can only be operated remotely, which is very effective anti-riot control while also speeding up traffic for everyone.
EDIT: Oh, and as always, connect FROM door control system TO the door controllers (not vice versa). Ideal placement for the DCS is with your CCTV monitoring bay in a Security Room, optimally right next to a Staff Room so your CCTV operator and door operator can get a quick nap in before they resume their shifts.
operate the DCS? what the DCS?
Rex1987 door control system. Although seeing NL hasn't even managed to connect the cameras I doubt he would be able to connect the doors correctly. (Just kidding, of course he would, but the game itself is rather bad at teaching the basics)
Jonathan Haas
To be fair, the game is still in alpha and the door/CCTV mechanics are at the new end, and from what I read the heavy programer of the team basically went crazy with throwing in new stuff, so it's still not correctly in place in terms of the UI.
Sure. i think the game is great. But without watching the developers alpha release videos you will have a really hard time figuring out how to do certain things.
Ahh, the episode we have all been waiting for. Where everything goes horribly wrong and everything falls apart.
Next ep, Ryan builds a series of electric chairs and just starts nuking prisoners non stop just to get the numbers back down.
Or just starts nuking the prison with Pump & Electric station exploding, removing all doors, and starting a lockdown/bangup
Diary of Norbert Norbertson
Day 0: Just been transferred to some new prison up north, some of the guards at my old prison shed some tears and waved as I left on the back of an open truck.. I wonder why.
Day 8: I can't remember the last time we moved, I can feel my mother's ghost coming to caress my half dead body as I lay here on the open truck they put me on, two of my fellow inmates have already died of thirst and the rest are just laying about... Where have they sent us?
I hope you do a second season and completely rethink this mess of a prison. I'm surprised it remained for so many episodes.
Dude, you're feeding like, less than half of the prisoners. The next trucks are going to bring Eric Clapton and Dire Straits to do a Live Aid concert in the delivery area.
24:47 these poor people stood there until 3 am (they came to visit their friends/family members at around 8 am) and were just banging against the gate "please let us out" :-(
The gross mismanagement of doors in this prison is hilarious. No one can go anywhere because there are way too many jail doors :_D
Grodon94 I actually think NL build not enough jail doors. For example at the workshop he had no door for a long time. Some locked open doors in the hallways wouldn't also hurt because you can lock them down quickly in case of riots or mass escapes. But the main problem is obviously that he locked open the front doors so everyone can easily escape if he wants to...
Brief Summation: He's got his front door and the first road gate locked open for the entire video.
He should be happy that the prisoners are rather stupid, or he would have had a lot more escape attempts. :)
Jonathan Haas If the prisoners where smart they would never try to escape they would rehabilitate as quickly as possible.
Andreas Bendorff There's a difference between Smart and Wise.
they may be locked open but there is still a jail door between the two
***** is there? I think there is only the cell door, ant it is automatically locked open during free time regime for example.
Please for the love of god assign some guards to your entrance..... XD
Edit: Finally he did it :D
Also, the reason your trucks are stopping there is because they stop at the start of the "deliveries" area which you expanded back that far. The trucks aren't actually stopping at your door anymore.
To preface this, I don't play this game, I'm learning with your videos. That being said, I think your door problem could be remedied by placing guards on patrols instead of just having them wonder, so you know that someone can open specific doors when it's needed. I'm loving this series though! It's super fun and really relaxing to watch. Thank you for the cool new content :)
DON'T LEARN FROM HIS VIDEOS! Your skill will be negative by the time you start playing!
Learning from northern lion is not a good idea.
For the love of not being a starvation camp. Put more cookers and freezers in you kitchens, they are a major choke point.
I think the ratio you need is 2 cookers per freezer and 2 freezers per sink?
3 cookers to 2 freeze I think.
Hi there, I'm with the church of prison management, and I'm here to inform about our lord the door servo.
If you purchase a door control unit, and stick it in security, a guard will man it.
Then, go into the utilities tab and purchase some door servos, and stick them above your doors and road gates (the rotating gear part of the image should be above the door, I believe).
Then use the connect tool from utilities to connect the door control unit to the door servo (NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND, it's an input first, output second logic thingamabob. This is also why your CCTV doesn't work), the guard will then magically open all doors that anyone tries to use if they aren't trying to break prison rules (eg escaping or being a right nob).
Each door control unit can open up to two doors per second, never will you have to right click a shit door again.
Praise the lord of door opening procedures, and have a good night.
3 quick suggestion:
1- you should assign a guard to open the outside gate to make everything run smoothly
2- you should switch the export door to normal so prisoners can drop the license plate and stuf
3- you should destroy the 2 wall that block easy access to all the prison one in the top part and the second one in the middle by the yard !!
Keep up the good work !! Love all your videos !
Classical NL zooming up all the fucking way to a LOCKED OPEN road gate and not noticing it at all.
19:40 Did that prisoner just walk out, look both ways, and then bang on the gate until he was let back in?
Good work managing your growth. Two things I would focus on:
1- Traffic flow: you have bottlenecks at the main door and the yard. You need to make sure everything doesnt get stuck.
2- Daily schedule... no need for yard and lockdown time. Prisoners are happier if you put free time and they will go in the yard and stay in their cells as they wish and need.
I dig spending a half hour of my day with Prison Architect. Good stuff!
0:12 the way he says Gregor clegane
5:20
3 years sentence for a murder 21 years sentence for burglary
Because logic
NL - You should get rid of all the road fences, you shouldn't have prisoners out there anyway. Put a double door to get in and out of your prison, and put a guard between them, Your roadway should be pretty secure.
Also, just set the yard doors to be locked open. You don't need to replace them.
road gates are fine, as well as jail doors everywhere but he needs servos on them, if he can figure out how to connect them
True, but if he has prisoners wandering around on the road then he's got bigger problems then that.
Dan Rose
It's never good to have the entire deployment screen flashing yellow like he has, that means there is a huge security breach and possible AI pathing that is broken, I am pretty sure thats why he is having trouble.
I have a similar road gate setup in my prison but mine is secure and runs like clockwork. 145 prisoners 80 say they are well treated and no serious complaints most of the time. And the staff never have issues like he does.
One tip at a time.
When you get rid of an item, like your Jail Door, dismantle it, do not dump. When you dump your Jail Doors that is $200 down the drain. Dumping tells your workmen to throw it in the garbage. If you dismantle your Jail Door then your workmen will put it into storage to be used later.
Dismantling objects gives you free objects to use later on in the prison while dumping throws them away.
I think the prisoners started trying to escape when the new foundation began materialising, AI thinking there was a way out when there actually wasn't!
I really like these types of games. There's almost no end.
This prison gets an F- for efficiency
Someone already mentioned this probably, but the reason the revolt broke out is simple. When you built the new foundation at the top you opened the walls too early and for a second there was a way into freedom, so the prisoners took the chance, then the foundation finished and it was closed again, but the game already registers this as an escape attempt and so the guards attack the prisoners and vice versa.
Also, the reason why everyone startet to riot is because you built the new part of the prison and it broke down the wall. Which enabled the prisoners to see a path way out of the prison and they tried to go for it.
13:44 There, THERE . . . please please demolish that wall between the storage room and the cell. The constrictive walk flow is killing me.
On the next episode, NL builds a new wing that is ONLY a canteen.
This is why you build a fence around the entire area of your prison.
"This prison needs more doors." -- Northernlion, Warden.
Thank Christ you fixed the Yards door issues. You also should probably hire a lot more of everyone, especially guards and set up posts and patrols.
This series is awesome NL
Build a bigger staff room. It will help keep guards on duty which is your main issue.
Nah, the main problem is that both the road gate and the front door are locked open so the guard are constantly trying to put the prisoners back into their (unsafe) cells.
Frosty song parody followed by a Room quote? That's a thumbs up.
NL for best prison architect/warden 2015, cracked up at the hoardes of prisoners spazzing out at the doors
Wow, that's one clusterfuck of a prison
i just love the sound Effects people they do Riots like xD
11:50 i love when NL bursts out in song :D
"We should really build more doors..." says the guy who build a PRISON!
NL you need more janitors to clean up the prison!!! Hygiene isnt just showering lol its the cleanliness of your prison!!!
I love these NL keep up the good work!!
You didn't see the prisoner at the garbage area walking out of the prison and then coming back in lol
Why hasn't he built a bigger infirmary yet?
Ikr?
I just noticed that the automatic english subtitles are WAY better than they used to be :D
5:35 OMFG that guy has a zombie mother! :O
station guards at the gates and one at the enterance door. thats what i do so i dont have to worry about opening the doors to let trucks in
***** Stationing guards near to doors lets them quickly and easily open them for your workers and prisoners. Same thing for the road barriers and trucks.
Of course you could just use the new gate controls. Lets one person open all your gates for you (maybe two if you have well over a hundred prisoners)
Yanno I miss Xcom but fuck I love this series. Its relaxing and when things get hectic its just plain silly. This is the kind of thing that puts me in a good mood before I sleep.
NL you only need one drain in your showers, if you have no doors just put a drain in every gap in the wall to the shower.
and NL does so much this episode yet he doesnt realize that he needs a larger storage area :D those trucks though o.o nice nice
I'm loving this series, even started to play the game.
Will x-com come back NL?
I think he f***** of with XCOM Long War After the Last Mission. I can understand he a Little Bit but I although hope he is going on with the serie. The EXALT
I think he f***** up with XCOM Long War After last mission. I can understand him a Little bit but I Hope Although that he continues the serie. The EXALT bullshit will be over soon, so just Play on.
I hope he will continue, I quite enjoy it :)
I'm a bit selfish that way ;)
That Game of Thrones reference gave me flashbacks, some gruesome shit.
Lion, that sound you keep hearing that sounds like the power turning off is your income. Also, you should build more cctv cameras because they remove the fog.
Jesus this was so good.
Patrolling guards DO NOT unlock doors. You need either a freelance guard or a stationed guard to open doors
I'm not too sure on the mechanics of the game, but I think having a second cantine-kitchen combo and yard on the other side of the prison would help the whole traffic jam problem.
NL U NEED MORE GUARDS!!! There is a thing on the top telling you about the available guards for things they need to do and for the entire episode it goes up and down meaning you don't have enough guards.
I think your problems are caused by the front door and road gate being permanently set to open, when you stationed guards at the end you can see everything flashing yellow which means the entire prison is unsafe and people will try to escape. Just close the front door and it might all get back to normal.
Suggestion.. you could change that jail door at the entrance to a staff door, workmen will be able to pass through without being held up. Same as cooks.
I feel dumb that I made this suggestion before watching the video in its entirety. lmao
LOL nice jingle!
Unless you teach your prisoners carpentry Apprenticeships. Also, if you build a forestry you will get logs which will make $1000 pre 20 instead of license plates which makes ($200?) per stack.
Oh, NL... 25:08 You sorted it out, but STILL!
Prisoners due for release
Aston Joy (6 hrs)
Aston Wagstaff (-8 hrs)
Paul Cantopher (-18 hrs)
!!!
Anyone else find it odd that Norbert "Schnitzel" Nobertson's mother was still alive even though he had killed her?
The comments section of these videos are just as entertaining as the videos themselves.
Here comes the slow tail spin to failure. Should be entertaining.
NL if you ever make your own prisoner, make him Torkel Torkelsson!
Hahahaha building a workshop next to the armoury hahaha...what can possibly go wrong?!
Did anyone else notice that his bottom left office is now designated at a canteen?
Finally, some chaos
I'd recommend sectioning off your prison with some doors so that you can assign guards to a smaller (more focused) area.
Also, BRING BACK XCOM!
Station your guards. They become responsible for opening the doors in that room.
Thanks for another video.~ Love PA.
Holy buckets, NL, do you have a drain fetish or something? :´D I do believe just one drain under or by the door will do the trick ;D
NL you should do a tunnel check on the end of each video ;)
Gregor... Klaganneyyy... lol ffs.
a shower within a shower.. new meta
Where is X-Com??? Was watching you before sleep. Better dreams about aliens and stuff. :-\
I'm pretty sure that the combination of LW difficulty and toxic TH-cam comments has soured that for NL. Nerds on the internet getting their diapers in a twist because a grown man isn't playing videogames on TH-cam the way they want him to. Jesus Christ.
To be fair he still doesn't know which missiles to use on the types of UFO or what noe means. This despite pleasant comments explaining it all the time.
You should build a staff relax room to help staff relax
12:00 dat jingle doe
Dude you have got to get some door servos in this bitch, this entire door opening situation can be easily fixed if you get some door servos and connect them to a door control system.
Noticed that your visitation room doesn't have any light.
NL shower heads do not require being next to walls. You definitely need to start making high traffic corridors and access points 2 wide
i can't wait to see how things go wrong this time :) also Frust get?!?
NL look into using the servo door controllers and just make a control room. use that connect tool to connect door controller to servo, may save u many headaches
Northernlion, you can't solve all of your problems by hiring more guards
bad day for our prison hey said
kreganee ... RIP GoT fans... :(
I started playing this game today and decided once I had a decent place built I would bring in some minimum security prisoners. Almost immediately they started rioting and beating each other up because they missed their families. Called in riot control, they got beat up too. Called in paramedics, more or less the same thing happened. Now my prison is basically just dead bodies.
Put a normal guard on patrol near the road gates, man. He will open them.
13:47 BATMAN!
frosty was just NL in glasses
Thumbs up for Frosty the snowman parody.
Mallice "Reaper" Grimm, get it, like Grim Reaper, Reaper Grimm. Nevermind.
On your next prison you should plan it more and you have to leave more space to walk in. And let the prisoners do work. You only have to regime it like only sleep shower work eat freetime
Hey NL not trying to be an ass here but... you should totally add more "doors/pathways" in to crowed areas to minimize the clutter up. If you extend your "truck" area up the side of the street with a little more room i think it would help you out more.. just saying man
man it seems his prison is falling apart
Norbert norbertson killed his mum with a schnitzel but it still said his mum was alive and 62
When the riot happened i would hire like 20 more guards on top of the prisoners.You have 8000$/day so it would hurt.
this is hilarious
What is the word in the brackets for? For example "[Plug]"
U should make the deliveries area bigger