how to get more grants?

[Montyzu]

I started playing today and im in a situation where i dont have money to even shutdown the tunnels, there is no grants except the ones you get when you start, and the member of the staff that was suppose to "create" more dont do anything, I have almost all the burocracy unlocked and making 600 per day, but 1 day takes so long.

And one more question, i uncheck the box ''fog of war'' but after a few minutes of gameplay it comes back and i cant disable it.

And how often you should do a search of all cells ?

[RickyBobby]

You should build a workshop to get more money.. It helps alot with the cash issue.

[Yawzheek]

I see the cash issue with the current day cycle speed being a major issue in the future. Even if you build a nice workshop, there's only so much you can do, and it takes so long to get it.

[Montyzu]

Agree, when you use all the 100k you get from the grants there is no way you can "recover" even 10% of it. Even if you make 5000 per day there is no way.

[Yawzheek]

Originally posted by Rafael:

Agree, when you use all the 100k you get from the grants there is no way you can "recover" even 10% of it. Even if you make 5000 per day there is no way.

Mind you, and I'll be honest, I just got the game yesterday, and I've yet to make these Godlike workshops everyone speaks of, but the one I did make made something like $200 a day... that didn't come close to covering my expenses for guards at a max security prison. I've come up with some other ideas, but I'll be basically running a sweat shop before it's all over with trying to make enough profity to mean anything, and it probably won't happen then without speeding time and walking away (and that's obviously a bad idea).

All the other bugs I can deal with, but some of them become a very nasty combination at this stage when it comes to the lack of grants, such as the foundation not completing bug :/ In all fairness, I expected this. The developers have been quite blunt about the Alpha nature of this game, and I can absolutely respect that. It's just one of those things that stands out as being glaringly obvious at this stage, which I can only assume they're well aware that the lack of initial funds coupled with the lack of grant money.

And all THAT being said, despite the bugs and lack of money, I'm still having a wonderful time with the game. Everytime I play, I say to myself, "These British fellas (I assume) have quite the knack for detail, humor, and know quite a bit about the American penal system... more than one probably should know, but it's still great." Really, just watching their last two patch videos, I'm wholly impressed with the amount of work that actually gets done each patch. I bought SimCity for $60, and not once in that game did I ever think I got my money's worth, nor that any actual progress was being made patch-by-patch.

[Rynard]

Sounds like you need to cut your staffing a bit. For the longest time I did a 10-1 prisoner to guard ratio. If you make a lax schedule you really don't even need that many. You also get $100 per prisoner and guards only cost 100 a day, so having at least a 2-1 should cover expenses. I don't have a Godlike workshop by any means, but 8 cutters and 8 pressers nets me 6k ish a day plus the 9k ish from prisoners subsidies (90 ish prisoners). You run out of things to buy eventually. Just take your time and expand slowly.