Servers and More

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Author: murgh

Last revision: 1 Jan, 2020 at 13:00 UTC

File size: 1.36 MB

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Description:

Build a server park with network clients and more!

Inspired by the famous Computers and More mod, this will expand your prison with animated wired Servers, Switches, Gateways, Network Storage Devices, Printers and Client Computers.

OVERVIEW

Learn prisoners to rehabilitate and adapt to the boring office work they can get when they are released back into the society. Build an Office Simulation room where they learn how to deal with never ending piled up boring paperwork being produced by constantly jammed printers. Have various customizable Servers to provide the required network connections and to which the Network Clients upload useless data onto Storage Devices.

Administrators do nothing the whole day, except for some research? No more! Tear down their offices and build a Headquarters room with network clients so they can work as well.

USAGE

Create a Server room, and place some servers. Equip them with a Network Switch, Network Storage or a Gateway. Wire it all up to either have a small crappy network which constantly breaks down, or to create a big sturdy redundant server park. This mod is using Logic Circuits so you can go completely nuts with wired connections. Read the Wiring tips at the Server.

Create an Office Simulation room and place some Office Tables with Thin Clients, Network Printers, a Boring Filing Cabinet and last but not least a Radio to ease the pressure. Wire the stuff with the Gateway server to make it ready to go.

Build a Computer Education room where you teach prisoners Basic or Advanced Computer skills, and Advanced Networking skills. Prisoners will then be able to work in the Office Simulation and the Server room once qualified.

Have a Computer Hobby Club where any prisoner can go during FreeTime in order to settle Recreational, Comfort, Family and Freedom needs. Be alert for computer viruses which can spread onto the network and which will make computers useless until they are disinfected.

Tear down all the administrator Offices and create one big Headquarters room instead. Zone a little Office inside it, so you Warden can do all the research there. Your Chief, Accountant, Lawyer, Foreman and Psychologists will work at Headquarters. This will earn you money for Staff Food.

ROOMS
  • Computer Education, where prisoners learn stuff
  • Headquarters, where your Chief, Accountant, Lawyer, Foreman and Psychologists work
  • Hobby Computer Club, a FreeTime room for prisoners
  • Office Simulation, a workshop for prisoners
  • Server room, with server stuff inside
  • A standard Office no longer has any requirements. Zone a little Office inside Headquarters for the Warden, and create offices around the prison where you want Behavioural Therapy sessions. These offices can be used by the Psychologists during their sessions.
STAFF
  • System Administrator, performs server related jobs
  • Office Simulation Manager, performs office related jobs
  • Computer Nerd, gives all sorts of computer courses
OBJECTS
  • Office Table, comes with a Network Client
  • Boring Filing Cabinet
  • Filing Cabinet (HQ)
  • Various Network clients for leisure
  • Network Printers, small or large
  • Racks to store various printer and server supplies
  • Server, to be equipped with Network Switch, Storage or Gateway
MATERIALS
  • Printer Toner, DrumKit and Paper
  • Server parts
  • Piled up boring paperwork and Processed boring paperwork (for prisoners)
  • Piled up paperwork and Processed paperwork (for admins)
  • Useless Documents (worth nothing) and Important Documents (pays cash) for exports
JOBS
  • Operate Computer, Repair Computer, Remove Virus, Fix Frustrating Paper Jams, Replace Toner or Drumkit, Install Server modules, Perform various Maintenance jobs, Purge useless data and more.
REFORM PROGRAMS
  • Basic Computer Course
  • Advanced Computer Course
  • Advanced Networking Course
  • Behavioural Therapy, led by Psychologist in a Therapy room, since he won’t require an Office any more.
NEEDS
  • FreeTime clients settle prisoners Comfort, Recreation, Family and Freedom
  • When placed in a StaffRoom these clients can settle StaffComfort, StaffRecreation and StaffSafety.
RESEARCH
  • Every research item now takes 10 minutes and is done by the Warden only.
  • This mod requires Remote Access before you can set up your Servers.
  • You need to research the Prison Labour if you want to have prisoners working in the Office Simulation room.
COMPATIBILITY

Incompatible with mods which change the default administrators:

  • If your administrators still require an office after enabling this mod, then another mod is overwriting this mod and you should reorder your modslist to put this one on top of that mod. This will undo 3rd party changes to administrators, like clothing or scripts. Note that some unexperienced modders included way more stuff in their mods while just altering a small item, resulting in needing to reorder your mods while you wouldn’t expect it. For example: a mod tells you it changes only object X and room Y, but it was badly made and includes all default definitions including those of the administrators as well, so it would fk up this mod. Things like that can happen, just to let you know.
  • This mod includes research for BarberMod 3.0, Customizable Control Booths, Explosive SmartPhone, Limo Garage 2.0, Manufactury 3.0, {Mini Upgrade}, Paint Upgrade Downgrade Sign, Recycling 3.0, Simple Garden Mod, The Greater Reform Mod, Tesla-Matic 2.0, Vending Machines and Workshop Storage Racks. Put this mod on top to hand over the research to the Warden.
  • When other 3rd party mods require research done by another person than the Warden, you might need the Servers and More: default staff mod and put it above Servers and More in your mods list. If you play with cheats, simply rightclick and hold the mouse button on the research item to fast research without office required. If you don’t play with cheats enabled then you will have to build a temporary Office for that administrator, otherwise he can’t research. This will render Headquarters useless until you are done researching and have disabled the default staff mod again.
  • This mod is compatible with the Computers and More! mod so both can be used together. However, this mod is using all kinds of new modding features and cannot be used with PA versions prior to Update 15.
EXECUTIONS

If you schedule an execution, then you will notice the Chief doesn’t want to come.
You will need the Chief for Execution mod to temporarily make him a normal Chief again.

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