CCTV Advice

[turloughf22286]

Any advice someone can give me about security cameras? I keep seeing this message: "Install more CCTV Monitors".

[Jet City Gambler]

Well, each monitor can only track 8 cameras at once, otherwise it cycles through them (you can see this on the wiring view). If you have 30 cameras and one monitor, you won't get much in the way of coverage. And if there's no one manning the monitor, you won't get any coverage at all.

I usually overlap them by 50% to make sure I've got every camera covered. For instance, monitor #1 will cover cameras 1-8, monitor #2 will cover cameras 5-12, monitor #3 will cover cameras 9-16, etc.

[turloughf22286]

Originally posted by Jet City Gambler:

Well, each monitor can only track 8 cameras at once, otherwise it cycles through them (you can see this on the wiring view). If you have 30 cameras and one monitor, you won't get much in the way of coverage. And if there's no one manning the monitor, you won't get any coverage at all.

I usually overlap them by 50% to make sure I've got every camera covered. For instance, monitor #1 will cover cameras 1-8, monitor #2 will cover cameras 5-12, monitor #3 will cover cameras 9-16, etc.

Thanks for the advice,

[Rokk]

Don't over-use CCTV. Deployment of guards in key rooms is a lot easier.

[turloughf22286]

Originally posted by Rokk:

Don't over-use CCTV. Deployment of guards in key rooms is a lot easier.

What's the best place for CCTV camera?

[Trixi]

Well also you have to connect them from monitor to the camera

[johndoe]

Originally posted by turloughf22286:

Originally posted by Rokk:

Don't over-use CCTV. Deployment of guards in key rooms is a lot easier.

What's the best place for CCTV camera?

As far as I know, guards won't react to CCTV. So, you only need it to remove fog on place where manually watching is enough and cheaper than using guard.

[turloughf22286]

Originally posted by DeathWatch:

Originally posted by turloughf22286:

What's the best place for CCTV camera?

As far as I know, guards won't react to CCTV. So, you only need it to remove fog on place where manually watching is enough and cheaper than using guard.

Thanks.

[Ric]

Best place for cameras is areas where there are lessons (classrooms/workshop) as this will achieve a higher success rate, and out of the way safer places where you don't need a heavy guard presense or want to waste your man power (eg:librarys/shops etc).

[Trixi]

Originally posted by Ric666:

Best place for cameras is areas where there are lessons (classrooms/workshop) as this will achieve a higher success rate, and out of the way safer places where you don't need a heavy guard presense or want to waste your man power (eg:librarys/shops etc).

Thats not true. Normal guards dont affect concentration for courses. Just armed guards cause suppression

[Ric]

Originally posted by Trixi:

Thats not true. Normal guards dont affect concentration for courses. Just armed guards cause suppression

Copied directly from the wiki. Doesn't state whether it's only armed guards or both but I've assumed both and will continue to do so :)

Tip: prisoners get nervous around guards and their presence increases the failure rate of class training programs. It can be beneficial to micromanage guard patrol routes to not go through class rooms during actual class time (that includes walking past any windows that you may have placed in the class room). However, prisoners sometimes get rowdy in class so resuming guard patrol immediately upon class completion may save the life of a teacher if prisoners are getting out of control (this is one of the trickiest but best uses of micromanagement for guard patrols)

[Trixi]

well, i never read the wiki, but im a very expierenced player. But this is most likely a false positive from the author of the article. I guess he knows that knows that armed guard kill concentration and concluded that regular guards do that too, what is not the case. Suppression is just spread by armed guards. Normal guards dont affect the prisoner behaviour at all.