Prison Architect
16 Achievements
1000 XP
Samuel Norton
Have a cashflow of $50,000 or more
60 XP
8.0%
How to unlock the Samuel Norton achievement in Prison Architect - Definitive Guide
Once you are in the main menu go to "Extras" then "Premade Prisons". Select "Ironfort".
Once the prison has loaded the achievement should unlock.
In the upper right corner of the top information bar, which is always on screen, is a number that's either red or green, this is your cashflow. You want it to be 50,000 in green. When you go to report (press ) and select Finance you can see your daily income and outgoing cash flow. The trick is to get +$50,000 in total, when you run a big prison and you don't get it by just playing you can safe your game then stop all programs and fine most (or all) personal, that helps. It also helps for the Spare The Rod Trophy. This isn't too difficult in a 500+ prisoners game but if you need it for clean up or you don't want to take the risk within your main game, then Blaystro has a few more tips:
- Without prisoners: On a big map, build a huge Forest with enough Workmen (200+), Gardeners (50+) and an Export room big enough next to the road. Build several Staff rooms for your staff to be more efficient. This method works perfectly in any game to reach a huge cash flow with a few prisoners.
- Create a new prison. Put the intake to 0 for few days until 110+ prisoners are waiting, then you can accept all them at once and put them in a giant Holding Cell. BINGO!
The daily cash flow is the top right number on the screen (green is profit and red is loss).
The best way to improve your profit is to fill your prison with as many prisoners as possible. Other ways include having an efficient workshop and successfully paroling prisoners.
Once you have a few hundred prisoners in your prison go into the Reports menu and look at the Finance option and wait for the daily income to be over $50,000 here (turn off autosave if you want to keep the prison). You can then fire all of your staff and cancel any reform programs to cut your expenditure which will then increase your daily profit to $50,000.