Wolokai142 Posted June 24, 2020 Report Posted June 24, 2020 Hello Team! Recently the Department of Corrections has made some changes that (if you've served a prison sentence over the past week or so) you may have noticed to the Prison RP scene! I've heard the complaints, the criticism, and the disgust with having to wait 2-6 hours with nothing to do and have experienced this myself both as a DOC officer and as a CRIM-side character. So to help remedy this, I've devised the 'Prison Schedule' that breaks up a 24 hour IC period into a 6 Hour ooc time block of activities, evenly spaced out to where all events of rp take anywhere between 15 minutes to 1 hour ooc to participate in and complete. For example, shower and laundry time lasts 15 minutes, while yard time can extend up to an hour. When an appropriate number of DOC is available, you'll start to see our guards interacting with our inmates a lot more often, encouraging passive roleplay to help pass the time. Now granted we understand that some people aren't going to be very 'willing' to play along with attempts at roleplay, but we strongly advise that you make an attempt! We've already received LOOOAAADS of positive feedback from both lawful and crim side players about the recent changes, and it's been reported to not only provide entertainment and a more rp-enriched experience, but to exceedingly pass the time. With the prison schedule, we hope to cut down on the following issues: RDM - Random Death matching. (Though we also do encourage you to continue to REPORT any instances of rule breaching inside the doc: AFKing, Self-Injury NRP, and RDM) Lack of passive roleplay Major amounts of afking. Now as this is a suggestion thread, I'm going to be leaving this post here for the community to offer Well thought out, constructive, and meaningful suggestions and ideas. Please be sure to offer sensible ideas to this thread, to help us better develop our prison schedule and to help us improve on our attempts to strengthen the Prison RP scene! (Obviously as a note, any rude, aggressive, unnecessary, or otherwise unhelpful comments will be asked to be removed. This thread's purpose is to help us develop an experience for YOU, the prisoner, not to start a post war.) 15
freshprinceIE Posted June 24, 2020 Report Posted June 24, 2020 IRL in prison you would have opportunities available on how to better yourself. Obviously there are limits to jobs in the city, but maybe some education can be given on how criminals can become better people (IC), e.g maybe having first aid training courses, some people teaching law etc. Since you would need someone to educate people, this might be hard but some people might enjoy the RP.
Dan Dasilva Posted June 24, 2020 Report Posted June 24, 2020 This will bring further interaction between guards and inmates, leading both parties in the direction of roleplay.
PingasOner Posted June 24, 2020 Report Posted June 24, 2020 3 hours ago, freshprinceIE said: IRL in prison you would have opportunities available on how to better yourself. Obviously there are limits to jobs in the city, but maybe some education can be given on how criminals can become better people (IC), e.g maybe having first aid training courses, some people teaching law etc. Since you would need someone to educate people, this might be hard but some people might enjoy the RP. Great idea! First aid training!
Xoza Posted June 27, 2020 Report Posted June 27, 2020 (edited) +1 Counseling, group activities and more. As long as they're only goal is not always trying to escape or hurt people. Edited June 27, 2020 by Xoza
Wolokai142 Posted June 28, 2020 Author Report Posted June 28, 2020 Changelog 28/JUN/2020 - Reduced Morning Cellblock Inspection time to add a 'Morning Exercise block' to the schedule for more content. - Added 'Group Therapy' training concept to CMT-Psych Team to be developed and implemented.
CaesarSeizure Posted June 28, 2020 Report Posted June 28, 2020 +1 think this will cause more people withing DOC to spend time there as well as criminals to not need to be afk for their jtime.
Kjaer Posted July 27, 2020 Report Posted July 27, 2020 +1, I've actually been put down in /b for trying to RP with others in prison, i hope this will change that.
