How to make money in prison architect trial#

Not a problem man! I used to have financial issues as well, and with the starting loan and grants being limited it can negatively impact design choice, which is why the ability to sell prisons is great! It's also tricky in that you can't just lay some foundations, sell, and repeat for infinite cash. Just be careful about prisoners dying/escaping, as it WILL prevent you from selling your prison for 24 hours, and I think lessens the value of it. It's really a good idea to, as I said, sell your first prison, but while you're building it, build around the grants. If you spend long enough on a prison, you can instantly collect both long-term and short-term investment on clicking them. NOTE - THIS DOES INCLUDE THE INVESTMENT GRANTS. I don't know if it accounts for previously met but no longer met conditions, but existing conditions are perfectly acceptable, so if you already meet the conditions, accept the grant and instantly collect the money, giving you payment and freeing up a grant space. If I know having armed guards is expensive and a long ways off, I'd put that off in favor of maybe prisoner manufacturing if I know I have or will be building a workshop, etc.ДЄlso note, grant conditions can be met instantly in many cases if the conditions exist already. For example, I know that I'll have 50 capacity soon, or already do, so I'd accept that grant next.

How to make money in prison architect trial#

*sigh* trial and error I guess!ДЄlso, a tip for grants in case you weren't aware, you should only accept grants you have or know you'll be completing soon.

Trying to use the grants as a means of slowly building up my prison but think on my second prison I've built it up but not with enough prisoners. Originally posted by CaptainK28:Thanks for the tips guys! Been finding it difficult to get a good pace of progression going. Giving them armor and tasers probably helps, but you'll need a lot of time and money for that, so unless you have a nice starting point of several hundred thousand (from selling prisons) it's not advised. In medium security you can usually get away with a 1/5 or even 1/10 guard/prisoner ration, but I've found with max security you're better off going no less than 1/3, because they'll fight in massive groups, overwhelm your guard, kill or knock them unconscious, and then break for the exit. In fact, it's typically lower as it usually requires many more guards to contain them properly, or a great design.

I find my money is never significantly higher with max security. Max security is really for people who want a higher challenge, or watch prisoners fight/riot, and they will.

I wouldn't really advise maximum security prisoners for money though. Concerning that, it would appear max security prisoners are significantly less interested, as I've a prison now of ~115 prisoners, and only one will actually work in my (gigantic) workshop. It's different now, in that you can't just make a workshop and make people work, and I'm not understanding how/if it's possible to interest prisoners in joining, but it's an idea. You can also start up some major manufacturing with a workshop and potentially get rich quite quick. Grants reset even if you sell your prison on your new prison, so don't worry too much thinking they'll remember and bar you from taking them again. Well, a good idea is to build up cheap prisons somewhat successfully until you get enough money to sell them off and begin anew.