If we want to get really technical about the cell's cost, we can also try to factor in the money you save/lose when you go with a shower block instead of a shower in each cell, additional cost for cable and pipes that you have to get into bigger cells etc. etc. Very nice analysis, liked a lot that RP'ing of yours, thought I was an odd one out ;)
That's very true! Shower blocks can be good because when you're building big cell blocks you don't need boilers all over the place and long runs of hot water pipes. That said, I always prefer in-cell showers, because when prisoners wake up their hygiene requirements are super high, and they tend to get a bit fighty in shower blocks.
when you consider the fact that as cells get wider the hallway outside also has to get longer the cost is actually even between a window and making the room bigger assuming a two square wide hallway that has cells on either side.
It doesn't really work when you decide to make a Supermax only prison, they'll just kill another guard the moment it gets out of the solitary confinement.
Imagine being a guard during a massive breakout but when you enter the cell block, you see prisoners only trading porn magazines and chilling in each other's cells watching John Wick with other guards vibing with them hahaha
I always consider how much time it takes to search a high quality cell, which is why I don't bother, everything you add to a cell is searched during a shakedown or cell search. It can be a pillow, radio, tv, or even stool and chair that needs to be searched I believe. Really nice video though.
Cell quality engineering now has new options, with new types of walls and floors I think giving buffs or debuffs. There are also new windows but I haven't checked if they give a better buff (ie by affecting temperature and weather) than the original. In addition, there are a ton of new objects that affect cell rating, starting from 4 different beds: foam mattress (debuff), bed, comfy bed (buff), and bunk bed (debuffs through room size). There's also a pillow but I don't think that's instead of a bed. It's extra, but I haven't tested that yet. You can have food quality set to security grade now (min thru super), and grade many of the room type like common room and yard from the Cleared for Transfer content drop.
There is the function to automatically lower someone's security level if specific requirements are met. But does that combine with the cell grading (maybe if you mark a cell as low security only), so the prisoners try to get a lower security level for better cells? Because you could restrict the common rooms and yards etc.
Not strictly cell-related, but I found out yesterday that PA has a 3D mode available, by pressing an almost invisible square in the bottom left of the Extras Menu .
Um, actually, the most cost-efficient way of bumping up from grade 4 to 5 is by popping in a radio (100$) as opposed to increasing size by +3 squares ($150)
In China in their small appartment blocks they actually live like that (shower head over the toilet). And it looks like a solitary cell lol. Poor people. There was a small documentary about it.
I some how manage it to put the bed in the exact same squares as the Toilet, shower head and sink in the last chapter of the campain. Didnt know if this was a Bug only there bec I couldnt recreate it in a "normal" prison
Good question, and I wish I'd thought about it before releasing the video! No, they make no difference. I tried making a huge cell with a pool table, sofa, drinks machine and prayer mat, and it was still only a 3, which it got for being larger than 16 squares. It's only the things on the list which give you grading points.
Was kinda hoping to better understand grading in the sense that my prisoners wont use any of my low quality or medium quality or even high quality cells. They want very low quality as thats the most filled up of my cells. If i have a prisoner that could go in a luxury cell, and I'm out of very low quality cells, he wont go to the luxury cell, hell use the holding cell instead because there is no prison cell of low enough quality as stated by the game :(
Wow a Jazz Jackrabbit reference. Sometimes I think I imagined up that game, good to know I didn't haha. I played the absolute shit out of that as a kid. Also, very informative vid, tyvm!
I’m really going to have to try this. I’ve always just given everyone the exact same cell of about 4/5 rating and then turn off the cell rating option. 😂 That’s really efficient but this sounds way more interesting to juggle.
I got a question: I builded a prison only with dormitorys. Now I got the issue where they need privacy. So I builded some Single cells, only for this kind of people. BUT THE BUTTON "CHANGE CELL" IS MISSING for all prisoners which live in dormitorys?!? What a bullshit.
You'll need to unlock the Lawyer, then research "Small Cells" which allow cells to not have a size limit. They're then only limited by the need to have a toilet and a bed.
For #6 all you need is the 3x2 a radio chair bookshelf bed drainage Showerhead and toilet you dont need to make it 3x3 and a window (this is if you want to be space effective)
Love the video... But when I go to logistics and select cell quality, it only shows the cell being unoccupied or not. Same with rooms like canteen or common room. Is there a reason for this? I can't find anything about it on the wiki :(
@@alentjanestetico3014 Yeah. I've put a lot more time in, and figured it's only for cells, and not canteens, common rooms or dormitories. Was pulling a bit of a brain fart In the moment.
Bear in mind that bigger cells mean that the extra space means that less cells overall can be placed in an area. So you could make less income with bigger cells as you have less of them. Hence you really want to make sure you make the cells bigger only when you need more space to fit stuff. Since they changed the formula for cells, you can get up to level 10 in a six-square cell as follows: +1 six spaces +1 bookshelf +1 TV +1 Radio +1 Shower (place the showerhead, toilet and drain on the same tile!) +1 Comfortable Bed +1 Comfy Pillow +2 outside window +1 large window (same window as outside window) It's expensive, but it saves space and is a good quality cell.
i found that my max security prisoners are the best behaved out of the 3 groups (Min, Med, Max) likely cause i gave them good cells :p haven't even killed guards yet unlike my med sec
Is someone have problems with LAUNDRY it's because the laundry cart need a EMPTY SPACE in the cell! If not it makes problems where you can have very big laundry but still no clothes changed.
That may be true now, but paradox made a lot of balance changes when they bought the game from introversion. Iirc tile cost was decreased, though I'd have to check my spreadsheet to be sure
Ah, but that would require me buying PA2 and deep diving it, and I kinda got burned with Cities: Skylines 2, and KSP2, which were both disappointments. We'll see 😉
I love these videos but everytime I watch I have to start a new prison because i've been doing it all wrong lol!
This 👆🏻🤣
😂
If we want to get really technical about the cell's cost, we can also try to factor in the money you save/lose when you go with a shower block instead of a shower in each cell, additional cost for cable and pipes that you have to get into bigger cells etc. etc.
Very nice analysis, liked a lot that RP'ing of yours, thought I was an odd one out ;)
That's very true! Shower blocks can be good because when you're building big cell blocks you don't need boilers all over the place and long runs of hot water pipes. That said, I always prefer in-cell showers, because when prisoners wake up their hygiene requirements are super high, and they tend to get a bit fighty in shower blocks.
when you consider the fact that as cells get wider the hallway outside also has to get longer the cost is actually even between a window and making the room bigger assuming a two square wide hallway that has cells on either side.
5:30 if they misbehave they get solitary 24 hours, that'll teach them lol
It doesn't really work when you decide to make a Supermax only prison, they'll just kill another guard the moment it gets out of the solitary confinement.
I wish the prisoners would tunnel their way to a better quality cell.... instead of fleeing the prison! That would be funny!
haha that'd be great :D "I just wanted to watch TV before bed!"
A mod idea 🤔💡
Haha
Imagine being a guard during a massive breakout but when you enter the cell block, you see prisoners only trading porn magazines and chilling in each other's cells watching John Wick with other guards vibing with them hahaha
@@Randomgamer-di3ow passing around a dubie
I went through few guides here and there and your high audio quality is really refreshing.
Love this tutorial series! Prison architect has changed a lot and all the tutorials are out of date, so this is super helpful.
I always consider how much time it takes to search a high quality cell, which is why I don't bother, everything you add to a cell is searched during a shakedown or cell search. It can be a pillow, radio, tv, or even stool and chair that needs to be searched I believe. Really nice video though.
+1 quality for stacking shower and toilet.
9:50 that's fair, but another point of efficiency is taking less room so that depends on what you're after.
Even today that helps me ! Thx you !
Cell quality engineering now has new options, with new types of walls and floors I think giving buffs or debuffs. There are also new windows but I haven't checked if they give a better buff (ie by affecting temperature and weather) than the original.
In addition, there are a ton of new objects that affect cell rating, starting from 4 different beds: foam mattress (debuff), bed, comfy bed (buff), and bunk bed (debuffs through room size). There's also a pillow but I don't think that's instead of a bed. It's extra, but I haven't tested that yet.
You can have food quality set to security grade now (min thru super), and grade many of the room type like common room and yard from the Cleared for Transfer content drop.
I love this video and your soothing voice.
There is the function to automatically lower someone's security level if specific requirements are met. But does that combine with the cell grading (maybe if you mark a cell as low security only), so the prisoners try to get a lower security level for better cells? Because you could restrict the common rooms and yards etc.
Not strictly cell-related, but I found out yesterday that PA has a 3D mode available, by pressing an almost invisible square in the bottom left of the Extras Menu .
It has been in the game for almost 4 years.
Why do I feel like this is an evil troll post?
I'll test this theory. .
I dont understand how can i move the prisioners to the luxurie cell, when i move them, they search a random cell and stay there
Very good job! I like it a lot!
great video man, without ppl like u there would be no youtube!
Really appreciate this video. Nice work! Easy sub. 👍
I imagine that you are LOVING the transfer update?
omg you just opened up this game for more fun for me thnx!!!!!
This game is so complex!! I have just built 2 prisons but been watching so many videos. There are so many factors🤯
You get yourself a sub! Thanks for the tutorial
Damn, this prison looks really fucking comfie!
You might have realized it now, but your literature need isn't being fulfilled because the inmates need a bench to "sit" to read
Did anyone else get a feeling that when that janitor popped in to the grade 2 cell to clean that he was interrupting our dear narrator?
Um, actually, the most cost-efficient way of bumping up from grade 4 to 5 is by popping in a radio (100$) as opposed to increasing size by +3 squares ($150)
Even if it may be efficient, I don't think I can bring myself aesthetically to put a shower on the same tile as a toilet lol
Haha understandable 😁 I always find it funny to picture it, though
In China in their small appartment blocks they actually live like that (shower head over the toilet). And it looks like a solitary cell lol. Poor people. There was a small documentary about it.
But, but, f they hand-stand for exercise it doubles as a bidet!
I some how manage it to put the bed in the exact same squares as the Toilet, shower head and sink in the last chapter of the campain. Didnt know if this was a Bug only there bec I couldnt recreate it in a "normal" prison
Do prayer mats and weight benches do anything for the cell rating?
Good question, and I wish I'd thought about it before releasing the video! No, they make no difference. I tried making a huge cell with a pool table, sofa, drinks machine and prayer mat, and it was still only a 3, which it got for being larger than 16 squares. It's only the things on the list which give you grading points.
Like he said no, but what I found out they would use them items in the cells but I use them only for maximum security who are in 23 hour lock up
Correct. While they don't count towards cell quality, they do help fulfil prisoners needs. Exercise from the weights bench, for example.
Thanks! damn i still learn after a fkng year lol
Was kinda hoping to better understand grading in the sense that my prisoners wont use any of my low quality or medium quality or even high quality cells. They want very low quality as thats the most filled up of my cells. If i have a prisoner that could go in a luxury cell, and I'm out of very low quality cells, he wont go to the luxury cell, hell use the holding cell instead because there is no prison cell of low enough quality as stated by the game :(
Wow a Jazz Jackrabbit reference. Sometimes I think I imagined up that game, good to know I didn't haha. I played the absolute shit out of that as a kid. Also, very informative vid, tyvm!
I have made a supermax proof cell that has its own private yard And 2 cameras. For maximum supervision!
Well now, it's been put up to max grade 15 now after they did a update
Do u have a video on how to handle supermax or legendary prisoners
I’m really going to have to try this. I’ve always just given everyone the exact same cell of about 4/5 rating and then turn off the cell rating option. 😂 That’s really efficient but this sounds way more interesting to juggle.
I got a question:
I builded a prison only with dormitorys. Now I got the issue where they need privacy. So I builded some Single cells, only for this kind of people. BUT THE BUTTON "CHANGE CELL" IS MISSING for all prisoners which live in dormitorys?!? What a bullshit.
Now you can just do it by security
I love your videos man
Thanks for the info!
The Info is already in the game. And you could just read the wiki. But the video is good for sure
How did you zone a 1x3 cell? Mine wouldnt allow a cell that isnt at least 2x3
You'll need to unlock the Lawyer, then research "Small Cells" which allow cells to not have a size limit. They're then only limited by the need to have a toilet and a bed.
Astro Plays oh!!!
Does this also fix the warden thing? My warden keeps saying “The quality of the cells needs to be improved”
Did you calculate the installation of lights in the cells aswell? I'm sure they get deducted after the Foundation is built.
9:15 why is it not better to add a radio it cost 100$ more and the extra foundation cost 150$?
For #6 all you need is the 3x2 a radio chair bookshelf bed drainage Showerhead and toilet you dont need to make it 3x3 and a window (this is if you want to be space effective)
I found that the 3x2 as you described cost $1300, whereas the 3x3 I built was $1250. The window is $200, so it really bumps up the price.
There are computers in this game? I haven’t played it in awhile but I didn’t remember that. 🤔
Do you know how to give a prisoner a cell Based on what they deserve on the PS4?
For your library, do you need to have some prisoners on pure free time while others are working, like with the shop?
For prisoners with no job, work is the same as freetime
Everything you could possibly want... EXCEPT a bed. oof.
A little bit'a...."jazz jack rabbit" ay?!
My favorite game growing up 🤣
Love the video... But when I go to logistics and select cell quality, it only shows the cell being unoccupied or not. Same with rooms like canteen or common room. Is there a reason for this? I can't find anything about it on the wiki :(
The button for the cell gradings is next to the one for the cell status. If you're clicking the correct one then I don't know what it could be.
@@alentjanestetico3014 Yeah. I've put a lot more time in, and figured it's only for cells, and not canteens, common rooms or dormitories. Was pulling a bit of a brain fart In the moment.
Bear in mind that bigger cells mean that the extra space means that less cells overall can be placed in an area. So you could make less income with bigger cells as you have less of them. Hence you really want to make sure you make the cells bigger only when you need more space to fit stuff.
Since they changed the formula for cells, you can get up to level 10 in a six-square cell as follows:
+1 six spaces
+1 bookshelf
+1 TV
+1 Radio
+1 Shower (place the showerhead, toilet and drain on the same tile!)
+1 Comfortable Bed
+1 Comfy Pillow
+2 outside window
+1 large window (same window as outside window)
It's expensive, but it saves space and is a good quality cell.
Does the grade go up if the window not facing outside
2x3 cell
1 bed
1 toilet
1 small tv
1 bookshelf
1 chair
is what i normally do with ALL of my cells
Soft pillow is also a +1
As of now, the min room size is 2x3 for cells? When did th hey change that?
It's always been the base minimum size. You can go smaller, but you need to research Small Cells - They're under the Lawyer :)
Your prison is nice. I'm making an Arkham City, the opposite of a 9% reoffending rate. xD
i found that my max security prisoners are the best behaved out of the 3 groups (Min, Med, Max) likely cause i gave them good cells :p
haven't even killed guards yet unlike my med sec
i loved jazz jack rabbit
How come a window be so expensive!?
Wow... Thanks bout tutorial I was confuse af
Is this a game?? I was over here watching this too the end, km not aure if this has to so w architecture.
Love your vids keep up the good work
Oh thx Astro love the tutorials and your vids
Is someone have problems with LAUNDRY it's because the laundry cart need a EMPTY SPACE in the cell! If not it makes problems where you can have very big laundry but still no clothes changed.
Please remake this for cleared for Transfer!
I'm thinking about it, but it'll take some time to research. There's a crapload of new stuff!
@@archastro yeah ik! :P liked the video tho!
you have 5 and 6 the wrong way around
the Radio cost 100
3 more tiles cost (at least) 150 (+hallways etc)
That may be true now, but paradox made a lot of balance changes when they bought the game from introversion. Iirc tile cost was decreased, though I'd have to check my spreadsheet to be sure
@@archastro thx for the info
Make the cells into Dormitories to say money ?
Do a video about gangs please.
Some reason I can't use this setting in the mobile version!
prison architect in mobile? really? seriously?
You get a 3x4
Book shelf
Bed
Toilet
Window
Chair
you committed crimes you didn’t win a free holiday
i feel like i'm listening to Scottie Pippen playing prison architect and it confuses the hell out of me
Prison architect 2 tuts 👀
Ah, but that would require me buying PA2 and deep diving it, and I kinda got burned with Cities: Skylines 2, and KSP2, which were both disappointments. We'll see 😉
Here's a idea play a max sec only prison with the volatile mutator and if you want I'll allow you to have super guards as well
the best solitary confinement cell is 1x1 :)))
1x1 made of chainlink fence outside in the snow ;)
@@archastro even better
we can all tell your on sandbox mode
To big fan ❤❤❤🌈
Outdated at this point.
Because?