Evil Genius FAQ

BASE SECURITY

 Your security system needs at least 3 things to be any good.  You need a 
 security center in the armory, it needs to be staffed by a minion (a time 
 clock in your armory will accomplish this).  Then you need a camera to detect
 tagged intruders.  Then you need a speaker.  The camera will spot the 
 intruder and alert all the loudspeakers.  Minions in range of the loudspeakers
 will run to the area where the intruder was.

  Minions do not trigger the security system when they spot an intruder, only
  the cameras will.  It helps to recess the camera slightly from the corridor 
  (build a 1x2 or 2x2 corridor off to the side of your main corridor and place
  a camera at the  end of it.  Otherwise, the agents can walk past it along 
  the wall.

  Outdoor cameras are helpful for when you tag tourists for weakening.  Valets
  will respond to a deranged tourist and calm them down.

  You can have multiple security camera systems.  Right-click a camera to put 
  it on a system, if it's on 'X', it's not on any system at all and is being 
  useless.  Multiple systems is great on the second island since it's so huge;
  you don't want your entire base emptying out to catch one guy caught on the
  far side of the island.