Okay! Well time for me to making a fucking entrance as this thread is simultaneously funny to watch but also interact with. Let's talk about the asking "Is CCMOD updated?" Fucks. It's not. Now shut up for God sakes.
Topic numero 2, Bar. Its pretty self-explanatory from the edicts you buy to obtain it and the actions needed to run the bar when you do it (Read the descriptions folks!).
Difficulty and Lack of guidance. Let's address the elephant in the room, this game has bad guidance. However, it is the game at fault and the player. The player needs to READ!!!! Yes, I know reading text boxes is fucking annoying but ffs you NEED to do it. The guard's room and just general ass text boxes from the prisoners/guards (Even if they don't have a text box over their head) is useful. Talk to everyone atleast once.
As to where it's the games' fault, well the devs probably aint realize this generation of games are kinda hand-holdy, and the game should atleast adapt to that. Similar to the cutscenes with bosses, it should have given the player a mandatory cutscene leading to the Guards room (and other important rooms when unlocked) to explain to the player what this room does and the information it gives. [To be fair tho, regarding side jobs, you can just ask the ppl who give you the job how they work, but I digress].
Difficulty is subjective. On one hand I agree that its hard and its money generation is ass. On the other hand, ppl who wanna try to get a Perfect run on their 1st fucking playthrough are rly stupid. Sorry but you are. This game is dead cells type game; you die but you keep certain aspects with you to carry over. In a sense, YOU ARE MEANT TO FAIL. Not saying you cannot fight the odds, but on a first playthrough you are fighting a concrete wall laced with an aphrodisiac. If things go bad in 1 run, it's not the end, if it didnt go the way you WANTED it to go just try again. Thats the game. At some point, its rly does come down to "Git Gud" as if by the 3rd run you havent learned the mechanics...well you may just be fucked lol.
Honestly, I've lurked just to see how these discussions have gone and they all lead back to the same problem, a lack of reading. Interact with everything and everyone that you can. If you have actual questions that the game truly doesn't answer, THEN come to the forum.
The games hard. we get it. Play and understand the system. Fail and try again. it's the Dead Cells, Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Hollow Knight (EVERY FUCKING ROUGELIKE OR FROMSOFT GAME) way. Karryn's Prison: Prisoners Die Twice.