Complete Crime and Justice Guide | Tutorial | Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Guides 

Thanks for clearing more of the mechanics up! Crime spirals are so devastating! 😱 I think I understand now how I need to revise a few strategies to avoid these issues at all costs 🤨

Always love tutorials, keep them up

Brilliant as always

Good tutorial. Looks like it took a while to set up. There goes my workforce. Prisoners make good labour with the 3 - 1 ratio. Thanks for your efforts

this game... also love your tutorials as always

Extremely helpful - thx

I would just specify that your goal might be to get all the prison percentages in the green, but it's not necessary. The important one to get your republic out of a crime spiral is your criminality. If you can get that number alone in the green, your prisoners will be "rehabilitated" and be less likely to commit a crime again. The big problem I've noticed is when your prisoners come out with a higher chance to commit a crime, eventually, criminality will be 100% for these criminals and each time they get out, they commit a crime, hence the spiral. Lower happiness is an issue and will effect productivity, but it won't get you in the spiral.

Can't really say I like how everything in this game is a death spiral and each new mechanic only adds more. Of course you can just turn the mechanics off, but then you get a barebones game. This game really needs some better balancing. BTW prisoner labor isn't exactly free labor. And I'm not talking about how you still have to feed them. I'm talking about how if they weren't in a prison they'd be taking a job elsewhere. So using prisoner labor is just getting back the labor that you were deprived of by them being in prison. P.S. although it still takes away the labor of the wardens who could have been working elsewhere... but at least you get some return if you send your prisoners to mines.

Prisons are just 270 person housing units that make them work better. Change my mind

Hi, bballjo, I missed one crucial information about your criminal death spiral: Everytime a criminal is released from the prison, he "infects" a little all the people in the building he moves into. You didn´t say how much and that is a huge problem to back up or simply track your next counting. Lets say he has had a 50% criminality rating. After spending a year in a prison with -3% criminality change every 0.1 year, he will get out with 20%. That is better. Lets say he will "infect" 10 other people in his new appartement building. How much? And how those percentages work for a start? If a person has 50% criminality, will he be 50% probable to commit a crime in a year? Or in every month? Or ... what the number states? If a a person is "infected" (offended) by a newly moved-in criminal, how much does it affect him/her? Fixed 5%? Fixed different %? Fixed increment of moved-in-criminals percentage (like 1/10 of his current "better himself" percentage)? I am missing too many information. Because Getting back with 20% and infecting 10 people would either means +3% times 10 increment to criminality (= +30%, which equals "treated" 30% of said criminal) or anything from + (2-5)*10 percent increment of "total criminality" = republic may be healing slowly or getting worse with every criminal slowly. And is there a cap fo how many people can one criminal "offend/infect"? Because even small increment to EVERY person in the building would simply mean a big NO to any high rise or bigger complex of buildings from modders -> you simply cannot allow a one released person moving there to fackup criminality of 800 people (not even mentioning those modded skyscrapers of 4000+ person each). That would be a spiral noone ever is able to retrieve from.

And keep youre educatief high

i have a problem with officers and judges despite having universities

Can I move prisoners to the border and have them be sorted out by an "external" courthouse and prison? I usually start small in my playthroughs and building up the justice system isn't my main priority... Is there a way to have a police force to just catch criminals and have them be sent out to the border?

How tf did you figure all this out?

You say that all the intended upbringings should be black or green, but can’t alcohol need and religion be in red (negative) if you are combating the demand for these in your republic? I’ve been setting radio stations to add loyalty (green) and remove alcohol and religion (red) while keeping rest black or green, but maybe I’ve been doing that wrong?

I have city with population of 15k. For that many citizens i have six orphanages and even that is not enough. I could easily fill two more. Is this just how it is or am i doing something wrong?

HELP PLS...Citizen flowed to me, I opened his tab and the status was good, he also had 90% satisfaction. But the handcuff icon had a 9% crime rate. Is this the reason for the escape?\Why did it happen?? The police station is next door behind his house. How to prevent the escape of these persons who are future criminals? Thank you

Is it possible to have several buses per jail?

My police stations are never effective, despite being almost fully staffed and loaded with cars. There is too much crime, hundreds of crimes per month and my stations can’t keep up enough to prosecute anything. Bug?

Great presentation, but my opinion of Crime and Justice remains unchanged: seriously flawed and an absolute game ruiner. The worst part is the spiral you mentioned. I have had cities with excellent loyalty, tons of cops and a police station with 89 unsolved crimes! The game will soon be over. Orphanages are also another way to destroy you city.

If you're building a republic from scratch in realistic mode, I'd turn crime and justice off until you have one functioning town. There's just too many criminals to handle.