Federal Witnesses

[Atomic Carrot]

I know the events are supposd to happen at random but this one is happening a little too often. so far about 1/2 of my prison body consists of Federal WItnesses who all tr to kill eachother...

[Dodsmania]

Battle royale

[M o t h a F l i p p i n]

That's pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ funny...

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

Prisoners (in the current version, I bet they'll fix this soon-ish) can spawn with the Federal Witness reputation.
However, this does NOT affect them AT ALL unless the FW event is active.

Do not put them into protective custody or they will murder your snitches.

When the event occurs you can see who is a "real" and a "fake" Witness through the following means.
A real witness obviously will get shanked by the general population, so duh. This also applies to FFWs (Fake Federal Witnesses) in PC. They will behave like normal prisoners and try to shank the RFWs (Real Federal Witnesses) and all other PCs.

The most reliable method of checking who is or isn't an RFW is looking at their Sentence length. Activate a CI and look at those Kill-markers, go through them.
RFWs will have 0.0years served of 100 years, FFWs have a time served, like 6.8years served of 84years, just as an example.

Rarely RFWs also automatically get Snitch reputation, FFWs will never.

[lissa_981]

I lock them in S. Max (currently a basically reserved for events time slots- do the same w/ desiese out breaks) I just have a holding cell and a handfull of lvl 3's for that sec lvl. I then sentence them to 80 hours of lockdown and have 4 gaurds patroling the holding cell to ensure supression.
I still say I would like an isolation regime slot.

[Atomic Carrot]

Ahh so whats the difference between the ones that say Federal Wittness and the ones that say reputation_federalwittness_high

[lissa_981]

You are talking about in the code, right? anything that is tagged as high will be more so. Therefor e these prisoners are higher on the target list, meaning even less volitile/violent prisoners will try to kill them.

[Atomic Carrot]

okay cause thats what their reputation shows up in. I havent dove into the PA code yet. Good to know.

[lissa_981]

Oh, it accually shows up like that in game? hmm haven't had that happen, bu then haven't had too many witness events. TO use Dand D terms, your opponent scored a crit.I can't remember what they called it in the Dev vidio, but basically there is a small chance you will get a extreame version of the event (like your generator catching fire rather then just your stoves) I would guess that is the extreame version. Still it means the same thing. they will be enven more likly to get killed.

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

reputation_federalwitness_high, i believe, that refers to the likelyhood of them being chosen in case of the event, rather than the murder-lust of the surrounding people.

[Atomic Carrot]

ah thanks guys/girls

[Atomic Carrot]

another thing what does the red crosshair mean when youre in the informant tab?

[DigitalImpostor]

That prisoner is being targeted by other prisoners.

[Atomic Carrot]

thats what i figured
well half my prison is being targeted by the other half lol

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

Federal Witnesses have the red marker on them but it doesn't have any impact unless there is an event.
Snitches, Ex-Law-Enforcement, they have the red markers and it means they are dead if they come into contact with the general population.

[Erbkaiser]

Federal Witnesses are not supposed to spawn, the chance for them is set to 0/0/0. So you will not get min/med/max prisoners with this trait normally.
However, Death Row prisoners ignore this setting and DO spawn with it. It's the same bug that existed with the Gang Member trait.
And of course when a DR prisoner succesfully appeals, he becomes a Max Sec prisoner and enters the proper prison with the trait.

Introvision will probably patch this in code like they did with the Gang member issue.