Alpha 18

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You can download this build here. Read the forum post or watch the update video.

Reform and Training Programs

• You can now run daily programs to train, educate and reform your prisoners.
• These are administered from the new "Programs" tab in the reports interface.
• Each program runs during a scheduled time during the day, and costs money per session.
• The times the scheduled sessions run during is based on "Work" in the prison's regime.
• Different programs provide different benefits to you and the prisoner.
• Prisoners may only take part in one program at a time, and may only attend one session in that program per day.
• Most programs are voluntary. Prisoners will be less likely to volunteer for programs if they are badly treated.

• Available reform programs:
  • Foundation education program
  • General Education qualification
  • Workshop Safety Induction (required to work in the Workshop)
  • Carpentry Apprenticeship (required to work on the Carpenter's Table)
  • Kitchen Safety and Hygiene (required to work in the Kitchen)
  • Behavioural Therapy

• Prisoners must now complete the workshop safety / kitchen safety courses before they can work in those rooms.

Classroom / School Desk / Teacher

• You require a functioning classroom before you can begin educating your prisoners.
• The teacher is an external freelancer who will enter your prison to teach his class, then will leave when done.
• Some prisoners have more affinity for academic topics than others.
• In addition, the level of concentration of your prisoners is a major factor on their chances of success.

(Prisoners concentrate best when all of their needs have been taken care of)

Carpenter's Table

• Prisoners who have a natural affinity for practical work can attempt the Carpentry Apprenticeship.
• If successful they will be able to use the new carpenters table in the workshop.
• They will use stacks of Wood to produce high quality furniture. (currently a high quality wooden bed)
• Full production chain: [Gardener] -> Tree -> [Cutdown] -> Logs -> [Saw] -> Wood -> [Carpenter's Table] -> Furniture

Behavioural Therapy

• Behavioural Therapy is run by the prison psychologist.
• Prisoners are automatically referred to this program if they behave violently within your jail.
• Prisoners who successfully complete the Behavioural Therapy program are less likely to cause trouble in future.

Prisoner Experience

• Experience is now being recorded for all prisoners during their stay in your prison.
• You can view this data by clicking on them to bring up their rap sheet, then click the new "Experience" tab.

• Activity: Shows the breakdown of their time within your prison, and what they were doing during that time.
• Mood: Shows the amount of time spent in a good / bad / neutral mood. This is a simplification but a useful one.
• Condition: Shows how long the prisoner has been suppressed, injured etc.

• You can also see the progress of their current reform program - their attendance and chance of "passing" the program.
• All programs completed are listed at the bottom of this page, showing if they passed of failed the program.

Armoury upgrades

• You can now purchase additional weapons and equipment once you have an Armoury on site.
• Your guards must return to the armoury to pick up their new equipment as you unlock it, and there is a cost to pay per item equipped.

• Body Armor: Available to all guards, armed guards and dog handlers.

Absorbs 50% of all damage taken, but slows down your guards by 30%.

You must pay an additional $100 per guard for body armour.

• Tazers: Available for all Armed Guards.

This is a non-lethal weapon which instantly incapacitates the target, without causing any damage.

Can only be fired once, then the battery must recharge before it can be used again. (1 hour recharge time)

There is a cost of $400 per tazer to be paid as the armed guards collect their new equipment.

Note: Armed guards will use their shotguns instead as soon as you give the "weapons free" order.

• Tazer Roll-out: Equips all guards and dog handlers with Tazers as well as your armed guards.

There is a cost of $400 per tazer to be paid as the guards collect their new equipment.

User Interface Scaling

• Work continues to make the game scale correctly to any resolution and any size of display.
• There is now a 'UI Scale' override setting to adjust the size of all on-screen elements to your taste.
• Use the PLUS and MINUS keys to adjust this value in game, or edit it directly in preferences.txt.
• The rooms tool-bar now shows the number of each room type that already exist.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The fog of war effect is no longer rendered into timelapse videos
• Status effects like Suppression no longer cause such massive drops in walking speed
• Visitation will now come to an end immediately during a riot or a bangup
• You can now build utilities under the road : Electrical cable, Small pipes, Large pipes
• Tweaked the routing system - entities should get stuck on walls much less frequently
• Fixed: Sometimes very small Laundries / Cleaning Cupboards would not show up in the Deployment/Jobs screen, meaning you could not assign prisoners to them even though they were perfectly valid rooms.
• Fixed: Armed guards now (sometimes) shout warnings at inmates before firing, unless those inmates are attacking staff or about to escape.
• Fixed: Face-in-the-game entries are now sorted to the top of the community biographies list.
• Fixed: Sun shadows on trees were sometimes rendered much too large.
• Fixed: Dogs were unwilling/unable to enter staff only zones.
• Fixed: You can no longer build road gates over lakes, or at the edge of the map.
• Fixed: Actors no longer get tired. (e.g. Edward, his guards etc.)