The Anatomy of a Jail

Having been RPC multiple times, the one thing that comes up that I frequently feel bad about is jailtime and the jail experience. As it is, it is probably one of the most boring, terrible experiences that can happen on LOTJ. You’re stuffed in a single room, the only people you can RP with are your captors, and you rarely see anyone without requesting RP via RPC. I’d like to see this changed.

I’d like to come up with a new jail anatomy, so that there’s more opportunities for roleplay.

There should be a jail complex in each clan base, instead of just jail cells. This would still be difficult to escape from but there would be some more activities an imprisoned player could take part in. For a major clan jail, I’d like to see three main components. The first component would be an open space, instead of one room, have it be multiple rooms. There’d be bunk rooms, a common area, a cafeteria, etc. Different settings for prison roleplay between -prisoners-.

For a major clan, there should also be a public visitation room. A holo room that a prisoner can stand in that has a connecting holotransmitter right outside the clan base’s front door. Anyone can go in there and speak with prisoners who might be in the holo visitation room.

Third: Activities. There should be a bank, a message board and a communal datapad. I don’t know if the ability to create this exists, but there should be a room with a datapad object that any prisoner can interact with so that they can write and post things on the message board, etc. This is again mostly for fun, like if some character wants to write their memoir if they know they’re going to be permed. Just for flavor. I can think of a lot of things I personally would do with this. Of course, you wouldn’t be able to call message drones in this area.

There’s some other stuff I’ve probably overlooked, but I do think that the jail experience on LOTJ needs to be vastly improved.

I feel like LOTJ’s greatest weaknesses compared to other MUDs right now are hyperspace and prison. Both because they involve the sitting and waiting alone, most times, staring at the blackness of your MUSH screen.

This is a great idea that I think was sort of in the works this timeline but didn’t quite make it there. This uniform approach is even better though, all clans should have slightly personalized versions. Decently sized areas, divided into thingies.

Things will get kind of complicated when it starts with the prisoners roaming free with each other, though. We run into a whole bunch of issues that a regular clan military can’t really handle, like monitoring prisoners 24/7 to stop message drones from being sent in. Suddenly you’ve got three fully geared cooperating prisoners hiding in wait to rape your face. That sort of thing, as well as just the immaturity of a lot of prisoners.

But definitely, more prison… quality.

I’d like to hear more thoughts on this.

I more or less agree with Zeromus’ post across the board. We’ve attempted something like this before (one open area for prisoners, visitation rooms, etc) with planets like Polis Massa and Nebulon 4, but having it be a separate planet slowed the process down.

Prison cells are already flagged so message drones can’t enter, by the way.

I like this idea. We don’t need entire prison planets for a clan to have an open area, would be nice to add like 6 rooms and 15 minutes of building to get a nice jail area.

Give them orange jumpsuits too. Have an equipment vendor dish out jumpsuits and shoes.

Orange prison jumpsuits that automatically are labeled with the player’s ID number.

I think this is a good idea that should be tested out as soon as possible.

I used to spend a lot of time in jail, and I was usually fine until I adepted ponder or whatever. Then you just sit there bugging rpc to rp with your captors(now there’s a fancy button:D). I hated it and I stopped rping as anything that would get me jailtime because it’s so boring. I would definitely go back if this was implemented. I think it would be fun to have prison riots, shady spice dealing, and visitations. Kudos, zeromus.

I mean we could really in depth and have a smuggler skill called make shiv.  You could shank someone in jail.  In all seriousness though, I think this is a good idea.  Jail time is horrible and  monotonous (as it should be) but in real life they get these things, so why can’t the star wars universe have em

I like zero’s ideas, it shoulds be that hard to put in too I think.

so anything happening with this because that would be super

As we’re getting closer to the new timeline I’m just gonna ask all you mighty forum goers: Do you want to see this prison idea implemented?

Yes

I have no idea what it’s like to be a prisoner. I tend to get straight murdered before I even get there.

P.S. Yes, implement this. I want to have fun when I inevitably get abducted and thrown into the gulags.

This is a great idea, implement it.

Suggestion, there should be a gym in jail. Every prison movie you ever see involves some fool getting chopped on the benchpress or w/e, if I goto prison there better be some weights! Be kinda nifty too if that was one of the better gyms but I don’t know how practical the second part of the suggestion is.

A little vendor in the jail common area that sells pickaxes and a mine.  They arresting clan can have you dig up ore or crystals or whatever either as a means to ‘work off your debt’ or make a little pocket change while you are in the jail.