How much staff you can hire is connected to how much income you produce. During one game I had to wait 4 whole days to finishing building my small prison complex before I could let in any prisoners. Turning off Prisoner Intake lets you handle a specific number of prisoners (so you do not go over capacity) and you get to build your starting prison in complete peace. The number of prisoners coming in will be displayed in the top-left corner of the screen. With Continuous Intake switched off you can also decide which of the three categories of prisoners you would want to arrive during the next “wave”. Just remember, prisoners arrive at 8 AM, every day, so if you are unsure whether your prison will have the space for new prisoners you can close the intake of prisoners at 7:59 AM and you will still be fine. That will disable any incoming “waves” of prisoners, and you can enable or disable them at any time. Why is that? The answer is rather simple, enter your prisoner tab and close the intake on all prisoner categories. You might had noticed that your prisoners are STILL arriving, even though you turned off Continuous Intake at the start of the game. Now I will be able to control whether prisoners come in. As you can see Continuous Intake is turned OFF. This is the screen that will pop-up when you want to open a new Prison. In short, it is a complete mess, but there is one simple way of solving this problem, turning off Continuous Intake. One day (24 hours) is barely enough to build your structures and your prisoners arrive at the very moment you might still be laying out the cable work, pipes or bringing in the furniture. I do not have the time to build my prison/I am overflowing with prisoners!īuilding a prison takes times. This short Tips List aims at providing answers to many different questions regarding Prison Architect, and I hope that in the process you will have a much easier time playing this game. All of that is behind me, especially since I had to do a bit of troubleshooting of my own, when I was faced with a number of unknown or strange problems.
I cannot count how many riots I had to suppress, how difficult it was for me to manage even a small prison, and during some games how to make a profit. Prison Architect was an adventure for me, and for my guards, and lastly for my prisoners.