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= Financial system improvements

    Cashflow is now visible from the very start, without needing an Accountant to unlock it
    Cashflow is now paid hourly, instead of at midnight as before
    The starting bank balance has been increased from $10,000 to $30,000
    The daily federal grant has been increased from $1,500 to $2,000
    You now receive more daily money for the max security prisoners
    Cash Bonus : Days without Incident
    You now receive a bonus to your cashflow based on the number of days without incident. The bonus accumulates at a rate of $1,000 per day without incident. So after 1 day you get a $1,000 bonus, but after 2 days you get a $2,000 bonus The maximum daily bonus is $10,000 for 10 days straight without incident. The amount received resets immediately to zero after a death, serious injury, or escape.
    Corporation Taxes
    You must now pay tax - 30% of all profits, directly out of your daily cashflow. Once you have a profitable prison you can use your accountant to reduce this to 15% You can also unlock an offshore tax haven for a whopping $50,000, that reduces your Corporation Taxes to 1%. (This is only recommended for prisons with massive daily profits)
    Bank Loans
    You can now borrow lump sums of money from the bank, and pay interest on the amount borrowed. Interest payments are made hourly, and each successful payment increases your credit rating. As your credit rating increases, so does the amount you can borrow, up to a max of $100,000
    Prison Share Scheme
    You can choose to sell shares in your prison to private investors and venture capitalists. They will pay you 10% of the current prison value, in exchange for 10% ownership of your prison. You can sell up to 50% of your prison this way, and you can buy back at any time (although the price may have gone up) However if you've sold 30% of your prison to investors, you will only receive 70% of the price when you come to sell the entire prison 

= Game rebalancing

    The prison 'temperature' now increases quite a bit slower, taking much longer to reach dangerous levels
    The temperature falls much quicker once the causes of frustration have been resolved
    A prisoner's "time served" now counts up much more slowly, meaning they will spend longer in your jail before release. Previously one year sentence = 36 game hours (1.5 days) Now one year sentence = 120 game hours (5 days)
    The Workshop Safety Induction can now be taught to 10 prisoners at once (up from 5 previously), and prisoners can use a workshop saw OR a workshop press whilst learning 

- New room/zone : Exports

    Finished items are taken from the workshop to the new exports zone. Workmen will do the hauling.
    If the exports zone is 'secure' then your prisoners will also do the hauling.
    Items in the Exports zone will be loaded onto passing delivery trucks and taken away.
    You will be paid as they leave the prison site.
    NOTE: Logs will be auto-sold if there are no workshop Saws on site.
    NOTE: Wood will be auto-sold if there are no carpenters tables, or no qualified carpenters on site 

- SDL 2.0

    The game is now using SDL 2.0 for windowing, mouse/keyboard input, and sound. (Previously SDL 1.2)
    This should help with hardware compatibility and reliability
    Also provides better support for high dpi displays, joypads, tablets etc 

- High DPI mode

    High DPI mode is now supported on certain displays - eg the Macbook Pro Retina display. Enable it from the Graphics menu. This will make the game look significantly sharper on high DPI displays. (Eg Retina Mac previously ran the game at 1280x800 - now runs at 2560x1600 on a 13" screen!) 

= Improvements and Fixes

    Greatly improved the display of Jobs in the deployment screen
    You must now keep your Administrators employed if you wish to continue using the facilities they have unlocked
    Prisoners with 'Qualifications' gained from reform programs will now strongly prefer to work in jobs that use those qualifications This fixes a problem where all your qualified workshop prisoners went off to do the cleaning
    Tazers are no longer flagged as 'Metal', so wont set off metal detectors
    Trees will nolonger leave a stump if they are felled indoors, eg after building new foundations over forest
    The Emergency Services toolbar now shows tooltips for each service type, including the cost of callout
    The Rooms toolbar now highlights rooms you are likely to want to build, due to grants/objectives
    The Bureaucracy screen has been laid out in a new arrangement to make room for all the new unlocks
    The Lawyer has been removed from the game, as he currently serves no purpose. He may return at a later date.
    New graphics for the Teacher
    Fixed : The reform program 'Scheduler' now ensures there will be a teacher available when picking a time slot. This fixes a bug with the foreman being expected to teach multiple workshop induction classes at once.
    NOTE: You may need to manually click "Reschedule" if your prison has this problem after loading
    Fixed : Prisoners working as janitors would stand around in the cleaning cupboard doing nothing, unless you had at least one janitor hired (or if you had very few janitors in a large jail)
    Fixed : Cutting down a tree near a wall square will no longer demolish that wall square
    Fixed : Experience will no longer tick up on dead prisoners
    Fixed : You can no longer place rooms over lakes
    Fixed : Stolen contraband would still be counted if the prisoner responsible had left the jail. This counted towards the overall 'Supply' level, but could never be found by searching.