You can fix tunnels in a square instead of just a line (if that makes sense. Like, click and drag a square with the Remove Tunnels option instead of dragging out multiple lines.) It just makes it a bit easier to make sure you fill in all the tunnels. I also thought you might like some insight to the food system. In the "Todo list", at the bottom, you can get a good view of your food system. Next to "Prisoners", there are a bunch of red and green lines. The red lines show hungry prisoners and the green lines are fed prisoners. If there are a bunch of red lines after meal times, something's off. Below that is "Meals". The tall green lines show how many prepared meals you have and the short green lines are meals that you have the capacity to make but aren't made. Ideally, you'd want as many meal lines as you have prisoners, and have as many prepared meals as you have hungry prisoners at the start of meal time. If there aren't enough meal lines, you need more cookers and fridges (2 fridges for every cooker seems to work well). If you have enough meal lines but not enough prepared meals for as many hungry prisoners, you need more cooks or possibly cookers (1 cook for every cooker and sink seems to work well). Hopefully that helps with the food issues you've had. I know it's probably the easiest thing to cause riots.
Just a pair of tips: The first is the hallways, they could use being wider, it actually helps it go faster. The second is the delivery/export area. Adding a series of gates along the fence next to the road would drastically speed up the loading and unloading of the trucks. You could also extend the fence up to the top of the map and add in a gate there to speed up trucks arriving. Otherwise, That prison is looking nice.
A really great setup I found that prevents any escapes it to make a mousetrap-maze. You basically build a fence on the very outside of the map and leave a single square gap near one of your road gates. You then build a few lines inward so there is a bit of walking before they can escape and make 1-3 (armed) guards patrol in there. Prisoners will not dig outside the fence but rather pop right up once they are out the wall and then run towards your guards
Suggestion for you NL, go ahead and put a fence all away around your prison. It will cost you around $1,000 and it will really help prevent escapes. Right now if a prisoner tunnels out of the cell block they can run right off the map. If you put the fences up they will have to dig all the way to the fence allowing you more time to catch them. Good series mate!
You're gonna need a bigger Shower and a bigger Canteen with this rapid expansion. At least another shower block about as big as the one you have, and you need about twice the canteen space you have at the moment. You need more appliances in your kitchen, too! Fridges and Sinks for every 2 cookers, roughly. And don't forget to get a dog out in deliveries, because it'll help you catch almost all the contraband coming in through food/item delivery. A Door control would be helpful for you, since putting servos over your fence gates on the road would speed up deliveries and mean a guard doesn't have to open them. They're also just ballin' as hell. Beyond that, your prison is lookin' good, man! Well... ok, it's visually a mess, but a functional one. Now we just have to wait and see how badly expanding too fast destroys it/alpha 26 ruins everything. I kid, I kid... well, hopefully I kid.
NL: when you're building new blocks, leave that staff door there and go into deployment and you can set the new block to be locked open while you're building it and all the jail doors will stay open and your workmen can move around easily.
I'm really loving this series, I clicked on this on a whim a few days ago and have been hooked ever since. I'm also getting this game the next time it goes on sale on Steam, it looks like so much fun!
What about a second infirmary? I find it funny that, out of all your prisoners, the maximum risk ones were [almost] the most compliant and behaved. Btw, you might want to do a cell block search on the maximum risk ones: you need to find that tunnel.
Servos for the road gates. Separate your cell blocks with staff doors and lock them open. Then you can search individuals cell blocks. And you can lockdown during a riot and contain it.
Suggestions for your hallway to nowhere; - a row of solitary cells - a row of showers - shrink your yard by 1 and fit more cells - widen the hall and make it a main pathway for your future expansion Also... It would be great to see some max security prisoners accepted. This is easy mode!
One tip at a time: You can merge some types of rooms together to give yourself more space, like Hallways and Showers, or Utility Rooms (with power and water) and Staff Rooms. It can save money and space.
Put a door servo on your road gates and put the door control system in the chief's office, that way your traffic will go through smoother without the need of the guard constantly going to the the gates.
13:00 I'm just smiling. I'm just smiling. If NL is too thick to realize overwriting existing walls will demolish them when building a new foundation, I'm just gonna sit back and watch him freak out when that foundation finishes. I'm not even mad by this point, I'm at the accepting part.
Think you should put in another shower + kitchen + mess hall + medical ward under that new area you built, prison will have to go back to cells the moment they get to the mess hall
i swear to god he was just about to clone more than 1 room at a time and i was about to shit my pant out of happiness... and then he said fuck it lets do 1 room....
I would imagine that if you had deliveries first, the trucks would become empty and ready for exports then garbage, thus cutting down on your backlog of traffic
Ehy Ryan, Prison Architect is fine! Love watching it! But... remember what you said : "Don't expand too quickly or you will fuck up!" Be aware of problems coming soon! xD
It's kind of odd how this humongous prison (if it was real) costs only about 500k and then there is a single bugatti veyron with is about 2.4 million XD
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Benjamin Lovegrove is all like: "I'll be back..."
You can fix tunnels in a square instead of just a line (if that makes sense. Like, click and drag a square with the Remove Tunnels option instead of dragging out multiple lines.) It just makes it a bit easier to make sure you fill in all the tunnels.
I also thought you might like some insight to the food system. In the "Todo list", at the bottom, you can get a good view of your food system. Next to "Prisoners", there are a bunch of red and green lines. The red lines show hungry prisoners and the green lines are fed prisoners. If there are a bunch of red lines after meal times, something's off. Below that is "Meals". The tall green lines show how many prepared meals you have and the short green lines are meals that you have the capacity to make but aren't made. Ideally, you'd want as many meal lines as you have prisoners, and have as many prepared meals as you have hungry prisoners at the start of meal time. If there aren't enough meal lines, you need more cookers and fridges (2 fridges for every cooker seems to work well). If you have enough meal lines but not enough prepared meals for as many hungry prisoners, you need more cooks or possibly cookers (1 cook for every cooker and sink seems to work well). Hopefully that helps with the food issues you've had. I know it's probably the easiest thing to cause riots.
"This is just a mere flesh wound" The best line you have said in a while.
Expand that max sec wing and open intake for max sec prisoners. You need some legendary prisoners there to spice things up.
Just a pair of tips:
The first is the hallways, they could use being wider, it actually helps it go faster.
The second is the delivery/export area. Adding a series of gates along the fence next to the road would drastically speed up the loading and unloading of the trucks. You could also extend the fence up to the top of the map and add in a gate there to speed up trucks arriving.
Otherwise, That prison is looking nice.
Except for medical room for ants and small classroom...
its better than others ive seen on the tubes.
Save your breath, he still puts large pipes in cells. Give it up.
A really great setup I found that prevents any escapes it to make a mousetrap-maze.
You basically build a fence on the very outside of the map and leave a single square gap near one of your road gates. You then build a few lines inward so there is a bit of walking before they can escape and make 1-3 (armed) guards patrol in there.
Prisoners will not dig outside the fence but rather pop right up once they are out the wall and then run towards your guards
Suggestion for you NL, go ahead and put a fence all away around your prison. It will cost you around $1,000 and it will really help prevent escapes. Right now if a prisoner tunnels out of the cell block they can run right off the map. If you put the fences up they will have to dig all the way to the fence allowing you more time to catch them. Good series mate!
" this is just a mere flesh wound "
- MANlion 2014
You're gonna need a bigger Shower and a bigger Canteen with this rapid expansion. At least another shower block about as big as the one you have, and you need about twice the canteen space you have at the moment. You need more appliances in your kitchen, too! Fridges and Sinks for every 2 cookers, roughly.
And don't forget to get a dog out in deliveries, because it'll help you catch almost all the contraband coming in through food/item delivery.
A Door control would be helpful for you, since putting servos over your fence gates on the road would speed up deliveries and mean a guard doesn't have to open them. They're also just ballin' as hell.
Beyond that, your prison is lookin' good, man! Well... ok, it's visually a mess, but a functional one. Now we just have to wait and see how badly expanding too fast destroys it/alpha 26 ruins everything. I kid, I kid... well, hopefully I kid.
NL: when you're building new blocks, leave that staff door there and go into deployment and you can set the new block to be locked open while you're building it and all the jail doors will stay open and your workmen can move around easily.
I'm really loving this series, I clicked on this on a whim a few days ago and have been hooked ever since. I'm also getting this game the next time it goes on sale on Steam, it looks like so much fun!
It really is. I got it after watching this series also!
What about a second infirmary?
I find it funny that, out of all your prisoners, the maximum risk ones were [almost] the most compliant and behaved. Btw, you might want to do a cell block search on the maximum risk ones: you need to find that tunnel.
I find people in protective custody pull all sorts of crap.
Servos for the road gates.
Separate your cell blocks with staff doors and lock them open. Then you can search individuals cell blocks. And you can lockdown during a riot and contain it.
Suggestions for your hallway to nowhere;
- a row of solitary cells
- a row of showers
- shrink your yard by 1 and fit more cells
- widen the hall and make it a main pathway for your future expansion
Also... It would be great to see some max security prisoners accepted. This is easy mode!
"This guy's name is Duncan Cocks. He never really had a chance in life did he."
Prisoner arrives, notices that he is in Northernlion's prison, chooses death. OVERDOSE
Keep the series coming, really enjoying them. Thanks.
The cells.. They shall never be even.
One tip at a time:
You can merge some types of rooms together to give yourself more space, like Hallways and Showers, or Utility Rooms (with power and water) and Staff Rooms. It can save money and space.
Dogs are tired, I can only imagine how hard it is for those dogs.
#EvilCatPeople
Lol about 5 minutes in you said "172 new prisoners arriving in about an hour"
Whatever you're doing, don't stop! You're always making my day
Put a door servo on your road gates and put the door control system in the chief's office, that way your traffic will go through smoother without the need of the guard constantly going to the the gates.
Keep the series up.
13:00 I'm just smiling. I'm just smiling. If NL is too thick to realize overwriting existing walls will demolish them when building a new foundation, I'm just gonna sit back and watch him freak out when that foundation finishes. I'm not even mad by this point, I'm at the accepting part.
"Just a jam"
I see what you did there, Mr Lion...
Feeds only 60% of his prisoners, doesn't understand why they are hungry.
The Northernlion story.
Scumlion forgot to put the thumbnail picture in
1 like= 1 prayer for NL's thumb
That spiderweb of connectionwires to CCTV
NL... Please... Stop assigning Prisoners to Max Sec pointlessly... Fearless isn't Max Sec worthy!
Just a suggestion but you could buy the rights to the song Lion from the North by Sabaton and make it your new intro.
ahahahah
Who thinks of that one episode of Spongebob every time he "says on patrol "
Spongebob:"I'm on patrol! I'm on patroooooool!"
Im braving the series, and Im freaking dying. EXICUTION ROOOOOMMM
Think you should put in another shower + kitchen + mess hall + medical ward under that new area you built, prison will have to go back to cells the moment they get to the mess hall
i swear to god he was just about to clone more than 1 room at a time and i was about to shit my pant out of happiness... and then he said fuck it lets do 1 room....
I would imagine that if you had deliveries first, the trucks would become empty and ready for exports then garbage, thus cutting down on your backlog of traffic
He northerlion I think you are awesome
you may want to space the road gates a bit more, to ease the flow of trucks. What about suspension bridges.
Ehy Ryan, Prison Architect is fine! Love watching it! But... remember what you said : "Don't expand too quickly or you will fuck up!" Be aware of problems coming soon! xD
This episode was rad #roadtoamillion
you should start getting the high security prisoners, dude. It pays whole load more than normal ones, so you'll need less space
NL you need to put lights down in the hall/cell behind the holding cell
the cellphone looks like a gameboy
DO IT TWICE EVERY DAY!
You should bulid a perimiter wall
Northernlion make your doors open remotly.
Hey NLWhen you start a brand new prison, can you try for a Maximum security prion?
NL there is just one tiny problem with your $15 escape prevention fence, prisoners CANT cut through fences
dude thats the same tunnel as last time move the pipes lol
I will not doing that (11:00) if I was you, because tunnel can just dug out immediately.
I DONY KNOW WHAT TO SAY!!
The more cameras you attach to a single monitor, the less effect they become.
Alpha 26 will be out towards the end of this months :)
really? I thought they said they were adding things
Borka223 An excellent comment
maybe i am you, and you are i...
....
***** its called philosophy
My last roommate's last name is Hajduk, it's pronounced High-duke.
It's kind of odd how this humongous prison (if it was real) costs only about 500k and then there is a single bugatti veyron with is about 2.4 million XD
You have to hire more guards
M8 doing sick job and tig keep uP the good jailing........you know wat I'm sayin lol (but I am still enjoying it good job)
why is nl making swastika cells?
thank you for making me think that nl is a nazi
Hi this is a nice prison
1 metre wide hallways are my trigger ;_;
4:57 How many prisoners are coming?!?!?
...love you baby
Who's Kate yelling at in the background?
Shes probably recording.
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Ftoooollooool north lion is gets robbed to death
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M8 doing sick job and tig keep uP the good jailing........you know wat I'm sayin lol (but I am still enjoying it good job)