Help! The new Staff Needs feature in update-11 has completely broken by prison – and I’ve played for days trying to overcome the problems!
Does that sound like you? Yep, you’re not alone. Sometimes there’s nothing wrong with just giving up, especially when the bugs are outside of your control. Here’s a simple trick to backtrack the butt hurt and disable staff needs in your Prison Architect prison.
Firstly, make a backup of your .prison file. On Windows, game files should be stored in:
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Introversion\Prison Architect\saves
If you’re using Mac, no idea, get a real computer.
Open your prison file in a text editor like Notepad or Notepad++. Towards the top of the file, find “StaffNeeds”.
Change the “true” to “false”. Save the file and load the prison again in Prison Architect.
If you want to enable it again later, follow the normal process of going through the Main Menu, Extras, Map Settings and click Enabled Staff Needs.
Start rant. I just want to add I’ve very disappointed in the efforts of Introvision on this new feature. Considering this feature was a Christmas present from the developers to players, Prison Architect simply has become a broken toy. Hope was in the air when a bug release appeared in Jan 2017, however, only one or two issues were fixed, leaving the magnitude of other issues (related to the staff needs feature) unresolved. Fair call, it was a beta build, but even their alpha builds have been less broken than this and the final update was still broken. End rant.