300 prisoners need parole hearing...warden can't keep up.

[Builder Bob]

I've got around 1000 max sec prisoners. I have near 300 up for parole. With 1 warden and chief I can get 3 in per day... and I get more prisoners in each day, so there is no way that I can possibly have a hearing for even 5% of them. We need to be able to have parole boards. Staff that visit each day to do parole hearings for up to 20 prisoners at a time or something. I'd build 10 or 20 parole rooms if I could but max 1 warden and chief at a time so it does no good.

[blipadouzi]

There is a way to trick the system. Firt, fire you Warden. Then pause the game, hire 3 - 6 wardens (or however many you feel you need). Unpause the game. Do the same for the Chief.

[Builder Bob]

that doesn't really help. Thats a bug exploit. The system needs to be redone.

[sausages]

It's something to do with almost 4 hours of parole hearing... considering that represent alot of time in a prisoner's life in prison.

[ABrokenPieceoftheSun]

Mine broke too, you make want to check that. My warden and chief were stuck in the parole room doing nothing even though the meeting was over and the prisoner left. They both would not research and just stuck there. I unzoned the room and they still would not return to their offices. I ended up having to fire them both and rehire to get them to go back to normal. Now they go do the hearing, it completes and they return the their offices as normal. I have no idea why it stuck like that but I had one guy up for parole everday for about a week. It seems like if you mess with the time that parole was automatically slated for it breaks the room completely.

[Builder Bob]

its just the sure number of prisoners I have in my prison. once you start hitting the 500+ mark the game is very different. got around 1000 now all highsec and I want to sell it and start a 5000k cell prison with tons of land expansions etc

[ABrokenPieceoftheSun]

You're crazy. I can't even imagine 1000 prisoners let alone 5000. You're probablly right though. Do keep an eye out for that bug though. It could jam you up early an cause problems later. I haven't seen enyone else talking about it though so maybe its only happened to me.

[Builder Bob]

problem with that many is getting them through hallways hehe. 2x2 just isnt large enough i'm going to have to go with 6 wide halls throught he main areas with road gates to be sure they can get through the gates without bottlnecking and causing a riot while waiting to get inside the canteen etc.

[Builder Bob]

My last canteen was centered in the map and like a 70x70 building. It's bigger than a lot of small prisons I see people build. I have like 10 workshops, 4 huge librarys 4 chappels, 10 cleaning closets 8 laundrys etc. I make every room just the size need to have max jobs in each room. I wish they didn't limit the number of workers at 20 no matter how big it was, or you would only need 1 of every room no matter the size.
My massive prisons everything is built around 1 huge canteen in the middle with all cells on top and bottom areas and other services to the sides so that everything flowed perfectly to maximize travel time. Multiple canteens just don't work as well from my experince. Having 1 just for super max and 1 for protective custody though in a seperate area works as well but isn't as economically friendly.

[Squints]

Originally posted by malacar:

My last canteen was centered in the map and like a 70x70 building. It's bigger than a lot of small prisons I see people build. I have like 10 workshops, 4 huge librarys 4 chappels, 10 cleaning closets 8 laundrys etc. I make every room just the size need to have max jobs in each room. I wish they didn't limit the number of workers at 20 no matter how big it was, or you would only need 1 of every room no matter the size.
My massive prisons everything is built around 1 huge canteen in the middle with all cells on top and bottom areas and other services to the sides so that everything flowed perfectly to maximize travel time. Multiple canteens just don't work as well from my experince. Having 1 just for super max and 1 for protective custody though in a seperate area works as well but isn't as economically friendly.

Holy crap man. You must have spent a buttload on land deals. Would love to see a screenshot of your prison . . . if you would be kind enough to post one.

[Dandyman]

Ditto on the screenshot malacar! That sounds freaking epic. It must have taken you forever to lay all that out.

As far as the parole we can hope the next update has a tweak for this. Not sure how they will go from a 4 hour window to something that makes sense for the mega prisons your churning out. Maybe they could change it so some mysterous parole board shows up(like visitors or some teachers) and does quick 30 minute hearings. They could make the prison psychologist attend so a prison official is present. Wouldn't be exploity that way I don't think.

[Builder Bob]

I've got an old saved game of the basic building layouts before starting the inner workings. let me load it up

[Builder Bob]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=392336978

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=392332459

[Builder Bob]

I'm currently working on the new one. Not sure how long it will take to finish it because I'm starting to get low on funds and will have to fill in sections at a time as the funds start comming in and I start taking grants. But thats the fun of playing ;) Figure I'll need to eventually finish this one and sell it to make the 5k cell prison. It will probally cost at least 15 million to build that. This one has already cost like 3 million and not a prisoner on site yet.

[Squints]

Wow man, that's a seriously impressive prison. I'm not sure if there are "win-conditions" for this game, but for all intents and purposes you win, gg.

[pagep]

I managed to have 4 parroles per day, but yeah I got the same problem 100+ waiting :)