Overview
How to add any prisoner as a gang leader (or any other rank for that matter) in any gang. Including the guard “gang” that is (no guarantees it won’t blow your prison architect up though).
Step 1: Locating and opening save file
First of all, you’ll need to access your save file in order to edit it (It isn’t optional. No worries, anyone can do it and it isn’t hard.)
To locate your save files, boot the game up and simply enter the main menu. In there, hit the button “Open Save Folder”.
Once you’re in the folder, right click the save file you want to edit and then click on “Open with”. Navigate to Notepad or any other text editor. Exactly how to do this will vary depending on your OS, but for most Windows installations you will have to click “Open with” before selecting a text editor.
Step 2: Finding and changing your prisoner to be a gang leader (member)
Once you have the save file open in a text editor, hit the keys CTRL + F on your keyboard. A search-dialouge should appear. Enter either the name of your prisoner and hit “Find Next” until you’ve found the prisoner you want to turn into a gang member. In my case, I’m looking for a certain “Josh Flenderson” – so I’ll simply search for “Josh” until I find him.
As you can see, Josh is in my case a Legendary prisoner. This does however work with anyone – regardless of them being Legendary or not.
Next up is to add the lines we’ll need in order to tag the prisoner as a gang member.
There’s three lines you’ll have to add:
- Gang.Id
- Gang.Rank
- Gang.Recruitment
Gang.Id is the id specific to each gang. Gang id’s goes as following:
- 1 = Guard “gang”
- 2 = Red gang
- 3 = Green gang
- 4 = Blue gang
These are always the same and are consistent between saves.
As you might think, Gang.Rank determines what rank a prisoner has within a gang. There’s three ranks and you can set anyone to any rank. The ranks are:
- Soldier
- Lieutenant
- Leader
Honestly not sure what this does so far. My guess is that it has to do with Soldiers being promoted to Lieutenants, just as Chris mentioned in the alpha video.
I want to make Josh a gang leader for the green gang. So I add the lines:
You can add these under the “TimeOfLastMisconduct” line, alternatively under the “AvailableMoney” if it exists.
Step 3: Final steps
Now that you’ve edited whatever prisoner(s) you’ve wanted – save the file! Once done, just start the game up and load the save – the prisoner should now be a gang member.
Beware that adding more than one leader or too many lieutenants can screw the gang system up.
Have fun,
Cheesy