Useful Brigs

Here's how the creation works...

First thing to do is send an NPC to the brig.

How to send an NPC to the brig:

1. Knock out NPC using EM equipment or successfully use the Manipulate/Diplomacy social skill.
2. Use new interaction option "Send to Brig".

If you have enough brig space, the prisoner is assigned a bed. 1 prisoner per 1 bed (a bunkbed is 2 beds as there is 2 cots/mattresses), because we aren't monsters. If you do not have any free beds, you will get a notification informing you of this. Prisoner gear is moved to the player's cargo, so you aren't missing out on loot. Keys, credits, and quest items are seized from prisoners are immediately given to the player.

Now that you have prisoners, you can exchange them for credits with the appropriate faction, whether you decide to be a law bringer or a slaver. Each faction has their own prisoner criteria and bonus payouts depending on the characteristics of your prisoners.

How to sell prisoners:

1. If you have prisoners who are classified as criminals, you can turn them into UC Security, UC SysDef, or Freestar Security.
2. The Crimson Fleet and Red Mile will take any prisoner, regardless of classification.
3. ??? Profit.

How to release prisons:

1. Visit the prisoner in the cell, a release option will be visible.
2. Give them the sweet release of death.

How to remove freed or dead prisoners:

Dead bodies and freed prisoners are removed from your ship at take off and landing. Freed prisoners who are alive will return to their original location.

Some additional notes:

It was hard to get prisoners to behave for many reasons. If they get rowdy and leave their cell, you can always edit your ship. The brigs are "refreshed" at editing of the ship, changing of the home ship, or when you load a save while not on the ship. The more prisoners you have, the less likely you can spam adding a new prisoner there is a lot of logic in this mod and functions can become burdened/expensive fast; the less prisoners you have the better this mod performs. Although I don't know of a cap on how many prisoners you need.

Top bunks facing the opposite direction will exit through the wall. I don't have a good solution for this at this time, but it looks good when in use, so I'm keeping it for the time being.

What brigs are supported?

All ship hab units that include brigs in them which are added by Bethesda. Any brigs added by mods will need a patch in order to be supported/recognized by Useful Brigs.

Why did my prisoner disappear?

There can be a number of reasons for this. Some NPCs are cleaned up by their respective quest/event.

A detailed breakdown of the new interaction options:

Useful Brigs:

• When an NPC is knocked out (for Send to Brig)
• When an NPC is considered a brig prisoner (for Release)

Non-Lethal Framework:

• When an NPC is knocked out (for Restrain)
• When an NPC is considered restrained (for Release)

Useful Brigs + Non-Lethal Framework:

• When an NPC is knocked out (for Restrain)
• When an NPC is considered restrained (for Release and Send to Brig)
• When an NPC is considered a brig prisoner (for Release)