Hello,
I made this account to especially post on the forum here about the state of PA. I am a long long term player since before the game came out. I always came back to the game to build new prisons with newer and more powerful PC's. This is why I was overly thrilled that PA was bought by Paradox and will be getting updates and DLC's. I thought, that is absolute fantastic, more content for one of my most favourite games out there.
But now we come to the bad part: Ever since the latest updates and DLC's the game is utterly broken and it just keeps getting worse. This month I spent 5 hours planning and designing another prison with the latest DLC's. I put much effort and love into this once again. I am not a new player and I know the game in and out, all the systems and the mechanics, just, nothing works anymore! To my horror I discovered that everyone is just on strike in prison.
The problems:
1.: Janitors are not cleaning up. Even if you hire a huge ammount of them, they just go to the cleaning closet and just sit there and do nothing. I have another room just 10 tiles away (Intake) and the Janitors would just need to walk over there and clean it up but no, they don't do it. The whole prison is dirty, nothing gets cleaned and the Janitors are just doing nothing and literally squatting in the closet. If they go out to clean, they do it late and in small teams that get one job done and return back home ASAP. In the older version they would do a clear sweep and clean everything up to gether in one go, always instantly without pause. Manually sationaring th em in rooms does nothing to, they literally do not clean a room they are stationed in. They just move around and do nothing.
2.: Prisoners refuse to do jobs. They do not want to work in the laundry and the cleaning closet. They just sit around doing... nothing while everything gets dirty.
3.: Janitors don't deliver and clean clothes in the laundry. They sometimes do something then let everything just sit and just nothing. I tested around with this to see if I can get a temp fix for this somehow. I made a maximum and a supermax Sector with their own laundry. Didnt change anything, IN FACT, the janitors refused to touch the Super Max Laundry.
4.: Cooks don do their job: They do NOT cook. They just stand and do nothing. Sometimes you can somehow fix this with reloading and manually redoing the chain of room depencies. IF they cook then they start like when half of the mealtime is over. "Oh hey Jeff, is it mealtime yet? "I dont know, maybe in an hour" "ah, cool, we got 2 hours before we should start cooking some meals for the 500 prisoners" "sounds great" Just like this. In the old versions the cooks would take the number of prisoners into account and START COOKING BEFOREHAND to have the meals ready when meal time actu ally starts. Even with a huge kitchen, with 50 stoves, 200 cook and plenty of time, this changes nothing. Plus, they leave cooked meals on the stove if that happens. Cleaning up does not happen too. This means that prisoners are angry cause they get no food always.
5.: Guards find tunnels even when there are no prisoners around. They just keep telling me that there are loads of tunnels when there hasnt even been one prisoners in yet.
6.: Items get transported one after the other into the prison in a long colon of trucks, making it impossible to play bigger prisoners because the items cannot be brought in.
If you play a game you have Prisoners who are always angry because they have no clothes, Prisoners who are angry because they cannot get fed in a prison that would make Mexican Prisons look like a Hilton. Everyone is angry, everyone riots and thus it makes the game UNPLAYABLE IN ITS CURRENT STATE.
Please, please, please fix this ASAP or let us roll back to a state where you could actually play the game. Curently I cannot play Prison Architect because it is utterly broken and unplayable.
Thank you for much and I eagerly await the fixes.
I made this account to especially post on the forum here about the state of PA. I am a long long term player since before the game came out. I always came back to the game to build new prisons with newer and more powerful PC's. This is why I was overly thrilled that PA was bought by Paradox and will be getting updates and DLC's. I thought, that is absolute fantastic, more content for one of my most favourite games out there.
But now we come to the bad part: Ever since the latest updates and DLC's the game is utterly broken and it just keeps getting worse. This month I spent 5 hours planning and designing another prison with the latest DLC's. I put much effort and love into this once again. I am not a new player and I know the game in and out, all the systems and the mechanics, just, nothing works anymore! To my horror I discovered that everyone is just on strike in prison.
The problems:
1.: Janitors are not cleaning up. Even if you hire a huge ammount of them, they just go to the cleaning closet and just sit there and do nothing. I have another room just 10 tiles away (Intake) and the Janitors would just need to walk over there and clean it up but no, they don't do it. The whole prison is dirty, nothing gets cleaned and the Janitors are just doing nothing and literally squatting in the closet. If they go out to clean, they do it late and in small teams that get one job done and return back home ASAP. In the older version they would do a clear sweep and clean everything up to gether in one go, always instantly without pause. Manually sationaring th em in rooms does nothing to, they literally do not clean a room they are stationed in. They just move around and do nothing.
2.: Prisoners refuse to do jobs. They do not want to work in the laundry and the cleaning closet. They just sit around doing... nothing while everything gets dirty.
3.: Janitors don't deliver and clean clothes in the laundry. They sometimes do something then let everything just sit and just nothing. I tested around with this to see if I can get a temp fix for this somehow. I made a maximum and a supermax Sector with their own laundry. Didnt change anything, IN FACT, the janitors refused to touch the Super Max Laundry.
4.: Cooks don do their job: They do NOT cook. They just stand and do nothing. Sometimes you can somehow fix this with reloading and manually redoing the chain of room depencies. IF they cook then they start like when half of the mealtime is over. "Oh hey Jeff, is it mealtime yet? "I dont know, maybe in an hour" "ah, cool, we got 2 hours before we should start cooking some meals for the 500 prisoners" "sounds great" Just like this. In the old versions the cooks would take the number of prisoners into account and START COOKING BEFOREHAND to have the meals ready when meal time actu ally starts. Even with a huge kitchen, with 50 stoves, 200 cook and plenty of time, this changes nothing. Plus, they leave cooked meals on the stove if that happens. Cleaning up does not happen too. This means that prisoners are angry cause they get no food always.
5.: Guards find tunnels even when there are no prisoners around. They just keep telling me that there are loads of tunnels when there hasnt even been one prisoners in yet.
6.: Items get transported one after the other into the prison in a long colon of trucks, making it impossible to play bigger prisoners because the items cannot be brought in.
If you play a game you have Prisoners who are always angry because they have no clothes, Prisoners who are angry because they cannot get fed in a prison that would make Mexican Prisons look like a Hilton. Everyone is angry, everyone riots and thus it makes the game UNPLAYABLE IN ITS CURRENT STATE.
Please, please, please fix this ASAP or let us roll back to a state where you could actually play the game. Curently I cannot play Prison Architect because it is utterly broken and unplayable.
Thank you for much and I eagerly await the fixes.
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