Prison intake bug

petulant 2016-10-30 00:58:36 UTC #1

I've been having this problem where the wrong amount of prisoners arrive, it's normally when i select different security level prisoners so for example i select 4 minimum and 4 medium on prison intake but 6 minimum and only 2 medium arrive , does anybody know why this is happening or how it can be fixed or is it a bug?

D11_Nat 2016-10-31 10:01:34 UTC #2

This is the first I've heard of this happening! Is it every intake or just occasionally? How many inmates do you have (ballpark)?

Nat D11

petulant 2016-10-31 14:11:43 UTC #3

It's been happening quite a lot as my prison grows and happened on previous prisons i did, currently i have just over 100 prisoners but it's happened when i've had less and more than 100,
once i selected 1 death row prisoner on intake and about 8 arrived,
like i said if i only select one type of security level for intake it doesn't happen but otherwise it's been happening on my games quite frequently.

petulant 2016-10-31 14:15:29 UTC #4

Also i've noticed that how many spare cells i have affects it, so for example if i have 3 empty medium cells and i select 1 medium prisoner on intake then up to 3 medium prisoners might arrive but 4 or more wont.

D11_Nat 2016-10-31 14:16:47 UTC #5

Hm, weird. I wondered whether you had hundreds and hundreds, which might explain some strange behaviour. If you're happy to, would you be able to upload a copy of your prison to World Of Wardens and then let me know the name? That way I can download your game, which makes reproducing the issue easier.

In the mean time, I'd recommend saving your prison to a new save slot, just on the off-chance that fixes it.

Nat D11

edit: there's no reason that the cells should affect your intake at all as far as I'm aware!

petulant 2016-10-31 14:20:44 UTC #6

My prisons do tend to be large, when i've filled a large map there's approximately 200 minimum cells, 100 medium cells, 100 maximum cells, 10 super-max, 10 protective custody and 10 death row cells.
I'm not sure how to upload a copy of my prison to world of wardens but i'll have a go.

petulant 2016-10-31 14:41:00 UTC #7

I downloaded one of the prisons that i had the intake issue on,
the prison is named Barnhurst.
As i said i had the problem as i was building the prison, this prison is complete in that i filled the map.

D11_Nat 2016-11-01 09:24:01 UTC #8

Ah right, if it's not a current issue then me downloading the map probably won't help. I'll get someone on the case!

Nat D11

petulant 2016-11-01 10:09:32 UTC #9

I'm not sure if it's still happening on that prison but it has and is still likely to happen, i have a few saved prisons of similar design and it's happened on all of them so what i'll do is intake prisoners on all my saved prisons until it happens then upload that prison

D11_Nat 2016-11-01 17:37:01 UTC #10

Well if it's doing them on all of them it can't be an issue with the save game. I'm on it.

Nat D11

petulant 2016-11-01 18:07:14 UTC #11

I found a prison with the intake problem (it sent the wrong number of new prisoners) but when i went to upload it i couldn't because the prison was only on day 4 so i fast forwarded the game to day 10 but then when i tried intaking prisoners it sent the correct prisoners everytime LOL
so i didn't bother uploading the prison.

D11_Nat 2016-11-02 09:06:36 UTC #12

Freaky :s Keep me in the loop! I haven't been able to replicate it so far

Nat D11

petulant 2016-11-02 13:06:21 UTC #13

I've uploaded a prison called 1-2-few
i selected 4 minimum and 4 medium prisoners but only 3 minimum and 4 medium arrived,

pwner521 2016-11-12 19:11:11 UTC #14

I had the same problem i would take in 100 medium security 70 minimum security 38 maximum security and it seems like as soon as you add a death row inmate the Prisoner intake on the to- do list changes but on the actual intake menu says the right intake. when you schedule a death row inmate to come in the to - do list it drops 3-4 prisoners of each security and adds them to death row

petulant 2016-11-13 01:42:08 UTC #15

That was the most common change for me too, more death row than i selected and less min/med

D11_Nat 2016-11-14 15:34:06 UTC #16

Thanks for the updates. I'm running tests on both PS4 and XB1 for this, just so you're aware. So far I haven't been able to replicate but after reading these updates I've got more of a focus for spotting the issue. I'll let you know what happens.

Thanks

Nat D11

D11_Nat 2016-11-14 16:43:02 UTC #17

Hi guys,

Just so you know, I'm still not able to replicate the issue but I'm going to have another attempt in the morning.

@pwner521 could you possible clarify for me a tiny bit- you're seeing the numbers incorrectly in the 'to-do' item list, but is that translating into the wrong number of inmates in the morning? There's two potential issues, one in the actual intake or one in the To Do list organisation.

Nat D11

pwner521 2016-11-14 22:43:09 UTC #18

Start with a prison that has open cells for min, med,max and death row inmates then on the intake screen take in all prisoners in for all security ratings except death row only add one of them. back out and go to the To do list and look at the inmates coming in it subtracts 3 from medium and 2 from min and 2 from max and puts them in to death row (on my prison) so your original intake for example could be 10 min 10 med 10 max sec and 1 death row inmate but on the intake screen you have 9 min 8 med 9 max and 5 death row inmates and that is what shows up to your prison instead of your original intake

Side note- Are your severs down/in maintenance because for the past 3-4 days i cant connect to your severs @D11_Nat

D11_Nat 2016-11-15 08:43:23 UTC #19

Not on our end- Microsoft it seems like
Thanks for the steps!

Nat D11

petulant 2017-01-01 01:34:44 UTC #20

I'm still having this intake problem, it happens randomly.