It's funny how on the one side, you are like "You need to speedrun!" and then turn around "oh yeah you grind days for subsidies". Or "you don't tell us" and then when stuff is said, like keeping Order low to get more money "that's grinding bla bla bla" What is it now? And just a side note. If a 4 Hour Run is grinding, because you don't need sidejobs at all, then I don't know what to tell you. Also anyone with half a brain, can run the Prison without cheating. Just because you don't like it, that it has a Risk/Reward System, doesn't mean it is bad. You know, it's a game. It's supposed to be a challenge and not breast feed you. But that is why, you can cheat if you don't like it. So sorry, if people aren't exactly jumping to help you, because then you dismiss those things with "grinding" or whatever. But sure, I play along. What do you want to know exactly, that you feel helped?
And another one explains nothing.
Yeah, speedruns involve "grinding days" because that's how you get subsidies. That can include mini-games after the 1st floor subjugation. You will let order drop then spend yon days rising order by fighting mobs (roughly three fights, less if you buff the guards). You play this until you hit the threshold for order dropping (or longer as you only lose one extra order for each extra day). You spend your funds powering up Karryn in your preferred build because most of the prison stuff is waste. Other than increasing order with certain edicts (so riots aren't a big deal), you don't have to bother with anything else.
And if you do try to run the prison like a sim, you realize the money generation on income is so FUBAR that making a decent profit is nigh impossible. The money you spent to fix the prison is more than you'll get back making it an exercise in futility and outright inferior to just living off the subsidies and beating up inmates. And to top this low income generation, you can't enact edicts without edict points meaning that even if you do have the funds, you're gonna be waiting (though to be fair, the office edict of turning those unused points into money took this into account). But you can't wait as you have X amount of days to get shit done (except in Secretary).
And then there's the mini-games:
Bartending which take long and will net you 300g in a normal run. I've been told there's a bar title to increase tips after ten rounds without getting drunk but its negligible given the time you already put in.
Secretary job is a money pit (you waste 200g in expenses for it just existing) and doesn't generate income unless you up the riot risk. Something something tip jar, never got it.
Toilet job doesn't pay anything but increases staff efficiency which is negligible. If you want to reduce fatigue and clear your pleasure meter via orgasm, that's possible but not necessary.
Stripper job is useful for riot prevention but I don't bother as I can just go subjugate the 4th and 5th floors (cause I'm already strong enough to do so. I've seen it generate high amounts but without putting in the hours, 300g is the norm.
Yes, a speedrun involves grinding days. Now this is where you say nothing. And I go back to sleeping cause the income generation is still shit.