cooker to fridge to prisoner ratio

[Trien]

anyone ever figure out how many is needed for what?

never understood how many cookers were needed for a fridge etc

[Seal]

There's this calculator:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19IGs4dUNnORnFhsJhC00zNXR2PjE3FNwEybNQKt_Ef4/htmlview

[Trien]

thank you!

[some moron]

Three meals a day???!!! I can't even squeeze in two. I only have 150 inmates but it takes some of them so long to get to canteen I have to make Eat two hours. with 3 groups of 50 inmates that means I have an Eat shift every two hours, including 1am 3am 5am etc
Not exactly the schedule I would want to live by, but it seems to work for them.

[Trien]

if it takes them a long time to get to the canteen, then you have a design issue

[some moron]

I'd say it's a game flaw. It can't have more than one kitchen cause othwise the cooks waste all their time going back and forth. But seriously, I'm on a med map, about halfway filled, and a long row of cells three blocks down takes a long time for the end prisoners to reach it. It's a real problem because it's the same prisoners in the end cells each time, if somehow they rotated cells it probably wouldn't be a problem. I've got paving stones outside for max speed. I don't think it would be possible to have a larger prison than what I have because of the time it takes to get to canteen.
What would you do if your long cell blocks take a long time to walk to transit?

[Trien]

I believe you can assign kitches to canteens and cooks to kitchens i thought

[Trien]

you can also assign prison blocks to a canteen.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by some moron:

I don't think it would be possible to have a larger prison than what I have because of the time it takes to get to canteen.
What would you do if your long cell blocks take a long time to walk to transit?

I would shorten the cell block and build new cell blocks somewhere else. There's no reason to extend existing ones, if it's obviously not possible to properly support an even longer cell block.

My cell blocks are around 6-8 cells long and i actually never had a problem with travel distances.

[some moron]

How do you get more prisoners? That would be 8 prisoners. Maybe one across the road would be 16. To house more you gotta build another block further from the canteen. 24 and they are getting too far. Okay let me ask you this, can you post a screenshot for a prison with 200 inmates, the cells and the canteen(s). When I get more than 150 they can't make it there in time

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by some moron:

How do you get more prisoners? That would be 8 prisoners. Maybe one across the road would be 16. To house more you gotta build another block further from the canteen. 24 and they are getting too far. Okay let me ask you this, can you post a screenshot for a prison with 200 inmates, the cells and the canteen(s). When I get more than 150 they can't make it there in time

I just talked about length, not width.

I didn't played for quite some time (started 2-3 days ago again) and doesn't have any big prisons so far, so i might add some more picture later, when i've build the rest of this prison.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1552426177

This for example is my max security design. In this case i just used a length of 5 cells resulting in a total number of 40 cells. The person with the longest travel time is the inmate in the top left corner, who needs like 25 minutes to get into the canteen. However, getting them into the shower first already reduces this time down to 20 and i could have get even more time when placing the canteen entrance to the left. But this wouldn't make any difference, as 35 minutes are definitely enough to get them fed up most of the time.

And for medium and low security i'm just mirroring this kind of cell block to the other side of the canteen, doubling the amount of inmates, while the time they need to get there is still the same (i just add some more doors to get them in faster).

And well, in the case of a 200+ design, i wouldn't actually send them right from the cells or free time/work to the canteen, but actually to showers or yards first, which are placed near the canteen. But i don't like getting that many prisoners in one place, so i can't send you a picture about it right now. I'm more like a divide&conquer-type of player.

[(Matt) Migitino]

Thank you

Originally posted by Seal:

There's this calculator:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19IGs4dUNnORnFhsJhC00zNXR2PjE3FNwEybNQKt_Ef4/htmlview