Largest Prison you've built?

[Nath312]

Done a quick search and can't seem to find a topic on this , whats the largest prison you've built and how well did it run? How many staff did you need etc?
Mines coming up on 700 , i've seen some peoples with a 1000 in the mod shop but im easily going to go over 1000 in a couple of days wouldnt suprise me if i was 2000 in a couple of weeks.
Will post a pic when im finished building the latest section.

[Emmote]

I've made a 1,680 or so prison in alpha 20 something, back when it was stable enough for me to make prisons that big. It was a big fat failure because using multiple canteens weren't possible, and 1 canteen for 1,680 prisoners is a recipe for one massive riot.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=277633537

I've not made a prison bigger than 500 since. It's just not worth the lag.

[Divine]

Originally posted by Emmote:

I've made a 1,680 or so prison in alpha 21, back when it was stable enough for me to make prisons that big. It was a big fat failure because using multiple canteens weren't possible, and 1 canteen for 1,680 prisoners is a recipe for one massive riot.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=277633537

I've not made a prison bigger than 500 since. It's just not worth the lag.

All the damn money lol.

My largest prison ever was 600 prisoners, back when you could run max sec prisons by itself without nothing EVER happening lol.

Generally my prisons are 400 capacity, because i find it pointless to build larger ones since new alphas will probably make my prisons obsolete.

Now my latest newly rebuilt alpha 31 prison can hold 490 prisoners. :D

[Nath312]

See i made the very basic prison (just the first chunk of map) back in like alpha 28 and it still all works fine , This is it now going to be near 800 after the latest chunk of building (top left) is done, havent even touched the stupidly large side to the right or the left . Max and med behave well but my Min sec prison (one up the top) has fights every morning, some epic tunnel digging and contraband being planned in the yard.
Maybe i should wait at 1000 and let the game have a few more updates :/ .

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/538518974288529692/41B82A5FBC6DF9FA21D14A2434D146224A2843FA/

[Nath312]

Emmote i dont see how you had the patience to sit there and mirror the prison like that. Mine just thrown together as i go lol

[Emmote]

Well, all I did was basically spam the clone tool. ^^

[Nath312]

It literally gives me a headache just thinking about doing the measurments to start with lol and how many times you accidentally clone over something else and have to delete and restart.

[avantech]

Never enjoyed the layouts with huge hive-like cell blocks, even though they can fit more cells. I usually go for smaller blocks with ample paths between them, like this one with 660 capacity:

http://postimg.org/image/xo44krmwz/

They do require more space however, so more land expansions, and more lag...

[lissa_981]

I have gotten my cell count up around 800, but the game slows down too much after about the 500 mark foe it to be any fun

[Nath312]

Its confusing that so many people get such bad performance at this point. Mines running ok at 700 slow downs occur when i start building more cable but its still minor. Im gonna stop at 1000 until more optimisation occurs incase it really starts to go bad.

[lissa_981]

Remember there a wide range of comps with a equally wide rage of specs, unlike consols. RAM especially effects the game preformance.

[Nath312]

I got 16 gig but im not sure how much the game will actually use of that :/ .

[MandoCommando931]

I've got a map that I've split into 72 squares measuring 50m x 50m. Is that comparable to some of your maps? Can I be in the running when I've built it?

[Ric]

970Pop. Fully legit(no exploits to pack them in).

Runs ok at speed 2 if you have a powerful computer but use a lower one and it will run like treacle

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=445141320

[Wyn]

The biggest prison I built peaked at 1647 inmates, but it was taking 3 hours to go through 1 in-game day. It stopped being fun at that point. It is apparently to do with the task queue. The more inmates there are, the more tasks there are and once it reaches a certain size it is like hitting a brick wall in terms of performance. It was fine up to 1200 inmates and then the game went to a crawl.

[igg7]

I have gotten 2138 I only did Holding cells though :/