Hello.
I have been intensively playing this game for about 4 days. I have clearly found some bugs.
I am using a pirate version because I live in Venezuela and I cannot, by any means, afford dollars since our government banned dollar currency here for common citizens, but that's a horse of a different color.
I just hope you won't start offending me and calling me names just for playing a pirate version of Prison Architect. No argument will make my purchase possible. I can't buy this game, or any game. I can only play pirate or free-to-play games, again, because dollar currency is banned here. I hope you understand.
I wanted to clarify that because I cannot register introversion-games forum to report these bugs I've found. Can anyone post the following message in introversion-games forum? I am using UPDATE 5 compiled on March 24th, so, don't think I'm using an old version.
Verified bugs:
Kennel doesn't need to be surrounded by walls. Dogs will sleep there as long as there are dog crates, even if you see a red warning that tells you the building is incomplete.
Remote doors get stuck if someone tries to enter and somebody else goes out at the same time. It never opens, unlike other doors which work perfectly even when there are people coming in and going out.
When prisoners finish lifting in the yard, they leave a copy of their arms with the bars. I have seen it with weight benches facing at 270º
Laundry baskets are randomly spread around the map. They are never in the laundry room.
Prisoners don't try to escape if light is cut off due to an overcharge. They should, you know, because everything is dark.
If you pause the game and start constructing, you can have unlimited red numbers and keep constructing with no funds avaliable. Of course, after you press "play" button, you won't be able to do anything.
Doctors always get stuck when they find a door or a wall. The provisional solution I found was leaving no doors for them, as if the infirmary was a canteen or shower. Furthermore, prisoners seem to be quite respectful towards them and never try to enter or steal drugs or anything even if there are no doors. No, even maximum security prisoners won't do anything either.
Common room is useless. I place the pool table and phones in the canteen instead, otherwise they'll never have recreation.
There should be corruption in jail and moral status bar for the guards.
There are many items that don't tell you how they work, they only show their name but I have no idea what to do with them or where to place them.
Pool table doesn't even act as one, they just go there and start talking, but they never play pool. I'm talking about sprites and animations.
When you open the game, there should be a menu first. It shouldn't automatically generate a new prison.
A rare bug occurs when new prisoners arrive, they never get down the bus. The street was free and the prison walls were 3 tiles away from the street, the delivery zone was working perfectly for items, but no for prisoners. This could be fixed by clicking on the bus and manually searching each prisoner 1 by 1, but it is too tedious, tiresome and boring.
Some suggestions:
The game is hard to understand and it's complicated to figure out what to do with every single item and function it offers. The interface should be more user-friendly rather than looking for a geek and hardcore deeply researched tutorial in internet to understand how everything works.
You shouldn't be warned that prisoners are escaping just by crossing the boundaries, unless a guard sees the hole or it's time to sleep again (supposing that they recounted every single prisoner and they found that some of them were missing). Camera should not be center on the hole unless a guard finds it.
Earthquakes are not fun. They just destroy random parts of the jail but prisoners won't even try to do anything. It doesn't even feel like an earthquake, walls are just destroyed for no reason, but there's no shake, there are no accidents, no deaths and no escape attempts.
There should be conjugal visits in prison and give them a place to have sex. Again, I don't know if you haven't done this for legal reasons, maybe your game will be banned from steam, because I know how stupid some companies are.
There should be some other games in yard, like basket ball, not only a weight bench.
Prisoners don't try to escape when they are alone in the visiting room with no guards watching the zone. That's not a bug but certainly lack of human logic. I can leave them alone in the visiting room and they do nothing. Furthermore, my visiting room's door faces straight to the street with no walls.
This is not exactly a bug, but short term investment and long term investment grant the same amount of money. It's quite dissapointing that both of them grant $16000. Long term investment is longer, but the reward should be higher.
Again, don't make any comments about me using pirate games because I CANNOT PURCHASE ANYTHING EVEN IF I WANT TO.
I am a programmer, game designer and indie developer myself, so, I know how much effort it requires to create a single game and I totally respect their products. I am sorry if I sounded aggressive, but I'm tired of being rejected from elitist communities just because my government won't allow me purchase what I want.
Thanks in advance for your time.
