Prison

Prison is the final station for a criminal career. If a criminal is arrested by a guard or KOed by anybody he is send to prison. the prison in Sociolotron is the Tower of London.

The prison is a separate area that provides everything a district needs, basically, including a forest where character can hunt for raw materials. However prison is not a pleasant place and it is not very densely populated. You may try to make a living there, but realistically you will want to get out most of the time. However there are a few things in prison that might be rewarding.

In the northern area there are working rooms that contain transport belts and toxic waste recycler. What these machines do is send in confiscated and sealed sic packs of forbidden magic potions for the prisoners to open the packs and then carry the bottles over to the toxic waste recycler. This recycler safely destroys all potion bottles in your inventory 0 but not those in other inventories. Your duty as a prisoner is, to destroy those illegal potions, however it makes more sense for you to attempt to smuggle those potions out of prison.

Since you can't leave prison, you can hand over those bottles to a visitor. Visitors can enter the prison and visit the first few rooms. You can meet a visitor there and hand over the potions. As described in the stealing skill and prostitution skill section those two professions have the best chance of smuggling potions out of the prison. If they are caught, the bottles are destroyed and they have to pay a fine.

Another thing these professions do, is smuggle weapons into the prison. Normally, all weapons are confiscated when you enter a prison. So are, by the way all drugs! Thieves and prostitutes have a chance to smuggle these goods into prison though. However, if you just want to visit the prison, be sure to check in those goods at the big red wardrobe that stands at the entrance to the prison. Put all your weapons and drugs in your sales inventory, then double click the wardrobe. The objects are safely stored and when you come back, double click it again and you receive your property back. Beware however that this wardrobe does not store objects over a server reset! This si to prevent players from abusing this storage as a cheap additional storage unit. Don't visit the prison when a server reset is scheduled at the regular hours!

A character's prison term can be seen in his client windows' title bar. Every day he spends in prison, this number is reduced by one, and when it reaches 0, he is set free. However, if a character wants out of prison, he can try to break out.

Breaking out is relatively simple. All you have to do is kill all the guards in the prison entrance room and you can march out. However there is great number of guards and they are tough, also they respawn quite quickly, so you will need help. A well organized group is able to kill every guard and give the criminal a window during which he can leave the prison. Beware, that everybody who participates in the fight will get an automatic 1 day prison sentence. The criminal who breaks out, will get additional 5 days of prison sentence. Also, there is always a 15% chance that the criminal is shot by the automatic guns at the prison gates and that means permakill!even if you have "Take an heir" chosen you will end up in hell. You can not take an heir from prison using "Police assisted suicide" everytime you try to break out there is a 15% chance of escape,15% chance of death,70% chance of failure. You can only try and break out once every reset.

However, a prison break may be the only realistic way to continue playing a character who has a few hundred prison days due to his criminal career. Such a character will be constantly on the run and will have to hide in districts with a lax government and only little NPC guards. It may very well make sense for criminals to organize themselves and try to govern a lawless district.