So is this normal?!?!?

[Jrcompton4]

Ok so i wanted to know am i the only one who starts a prison and then a day or 2 or maybe even 3 later want tom start a new one because i want a fresh start?!?!?!?

[jasonharris2]

i'm on prison 23 my prisons keep going wrong and i start over

[Proteus]

I start a new prison every couple of updates ... and thanks to selling my previous prison end up with more starting money money than for my previous prison in 80% of the time

[lissa_981]

I restart around the point I hit 300-500 prisoners depending on my design flaws. The 'goal' is always around 1000 prisoners (the most my comp can handle)

[JoeCow]

I usually end up doing about a month (game time) per prison and then think of something I would like to try or maybe do more effectively.

[[SHC]XxjawsXx]

i do that to. i just feel like when i go to load my prison. i feel the urge to start a new one for some reason.

[Shas'O O'Kais]

It's a fine tradition that began in dwarf fortress..
I made a fortress, learned a bit about how to play and just built rooms all over the place then I looked at it and wished i'd done things differently.

So begins the cycle...

Creation, evaluation, abandonment, repeat.

The more you play, the better you get and the better you get the more efficient you can make your prison. Plus sometimes you just wanna try new things.

My prisons run like clockwork these days... Everyone gets full ratings for non-existent re-offend chance, everyone gets out on parole because re-offend rates are all gone. No fights, no escape attempts. Sometimes they try to smuggle goods for whatever reason, but it's always caught long before they get out of a secured area where contraband comes from.

I've set my prisoner intake to a low number and just put it on max speed and left it running for 20+ hours before and everything continues to be profitable, safe, and secure with no problems.

Sadly it gets a little boring when nothing can ever go wrong. So I often start new ones just to start over or sometimes i'll try to do a particular project like one time my prison was basically a huge subdivision and each prisoner cell was an entire, stand-alone house complete with everything inside you could ever want or need. They all worked at the local "workshop" down the street and my warden and his accountant live in the big mansion at the other end of the street with tons of armed guards keeping the riff raff out. Those hardwood floor bedrooms, marble bathroom floors, and so on.

Building things is fun. :)

[Cuddles]

Pretty much what everyone says here. I run into the same problems with games like Gnomoria and Tropico as well. You try something, it doesn't work quite the way you expect or you try something different it's execution far surpasses what you originally imagined, so, you start over with those ideas in mind then learn something new from that.

It. Never. Ends! P_P