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Two Point Hospital |OT| Single-player Healthcare
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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So anyone else take advantage the free weekend?Sunk a ton of time into it and decided to buy it. Really fun game. It's funny though because I'll 3 star a level, dread having to start all over in the next one, and an hour will disappear just like that. I can't imagine the game before the Copy room function was added. That's an important QoL feature.
The public hospital becomes a lot easier once you abandon the notion of having a proper hospital, and just scrape by on bare minimum, only doing things if you're specifically asked to.
The DLC has a similar scenario which is much more manageable, since they pay a percentage of your monthly expenditures equal to your cure rate. In hindsight the original scenario comes across more like a criticism of rating success based on arbitrary targets.
Was thinking it might do the trick, have failed at the mission couple of times. Need give it another go today.
Bought this 2 weeks ago when it was discounted. Wanted to wait until it was patched up. Loved Theme Hospital back in the day but the game was limited and I never stuck with it long enough to complete the later levels. I've been playing TPH at least once every day and I'm so addicted. Aside from a few quibbles it's a near perfect spiritual sequel to TH.
yay, always nice to see more people getting into this great game :D
One thing I don't get is why the skill percentages appear to go above 100%. From what I've read on other forums, the skills are capped at 100% and it's a waste of training slots to go higher.
I wish the game would do a better job of explaining the important stuff.
Edit: Found out only Treatment is the only skill capped at 100% (with a fully upgraded machine giving a base 50%) even if it displays higher. Shouldn't have had to hunt through threads on multiple forums to find that out but at least now I know.
I wish the game would do a better job of explaining the important stuff.
Edit: Found out only Treatment is the only skill capped at 100% (with a fully upgraded machine giving a base 50%) even if it displays higher. Shouldn't have had to hunt through threads on multiple forums to find that out but at least now I know.
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Great to hear that Sega acquired Two Point Studios. Hopefully we'll get an announcement of their next game at E3.
There's still two unknown DLC listed on the game's Steam.db page: https://steamdb.info/app/535930/dlc/
playing the free weekend - see the Gp queues don't seem much better. I was trying to Keep Gp and diagnosis together but not enough space. If i 'batch' Eg 2 GP and two diagnosis rooms in one building, and 2+2 in another, is the pathing smart enough that patients from a Gp will go to the nearest diagnosis room, or could they end up still walking completely across the map and back again?
One thing that might help is you can now choose to have diagnosis rooms send patients straight to treatment rather than needing to go back to a GP (Fast Track Treatment Decision). You can also adjust the diagnosis threshold required for patients to be sent for treatment.
You can find these options in the $ -> Overview -> Policy tab.
Alongside what @briandamage said I want to add that having better GP means they are faster to diagnose thus there is less need for returning to GP.
Ok so do you tend to try and avoid more than 4-5 GP rooms? Only on the second hospital (hanging around after completing the requirements to get a feel for things), and I was keeping GP/diagnosis in the main building, wards in the west wing and specialist treatments/psych in the east
Keeping GPs offices close to diagnosis is a good idea, as long as the corridors don't get too clogged. Generally I'll have as many GPs offices as needed, but that will depend on the size of the map. I'll only build a new GP office if there are consistently long queues for the ones I already have. If a GP goes on break and there's no one to fill in then that can cause queues to increase but an extra office won't fix it. IN that case it's useful to have an extra dedicated GP around in the early stages once you've got 2 or 3 offices. That's often just as helpful as building a new office, so keep an eye on when your GPs take a break and what effect that has on your queues.
If you've got really long queues and a new office isn't helping (it ceratinly won't help immediately), try sending home most of the patients waiting for the GP. It will tank your cure rate/reputation for a bit but it acts as a reset and you may find things running smoothly now that there's no backlog to clear.
Later in the game you'll get access to better diagnosis rooms, and while very expensive they are extremely helpful to build early so you can stop patients from constantly bouncing between diagnosis and GP as soon as possible.
One thing to note is that psychiatry and wards do both treatment and diagnosis, so keeping them relatively close to GPs offices is a good idea, but they don't need to be as close as dedicated diagnosis rooms. Dedicated treatment rooms can be kept further away.
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if you are only in the second hospital don't be too concerned with optimization at this stage. At this point what matters is you understanding the flow of the game.
Until you reach surgery and further hospitals you can probably reach 1 star very easily with a disjointed hospital.
to answer your comment the best layout that i found for the hospital is:
- main building -> 5-8 GPs; staff room, reception and toilet
- Closest building -> nurse diagnostic, staff room, toilet, ward and psychiatric
- 2nd closet building -> diagnostic doctor, staff room, toilet, doctor treatment facilities
- 3rd closest building -> nurse treatment, staff room, toilet
- Furthest building -> training and research, staff room, toilet.
What I like to do is to make the central building contain all the diagnostics, while the GPs flank both sides and treatment on the outside radius. You generally need more GPs then diagnostic rooms so this layout gives me more space for them, and the flow from GP -> diagnostic -> GP -> treatment is better.
Got delayed till next year on console :(
It controls very good, looks fine but the frame rate suffers a bit in the bigger hospitals.
Nothing unplayable, if you're on handheld
In the PC version the marketing generally takes a little bit before making an effect. The best way to get that is generally with emergencies
Omg yassssss. I've been buying the DLC but haven't gotten around to them, but I think this is exactly what I needed to jump back in the game. The post-release support has been absolutely phenomenal. I just wish they'd announce their next game already!
picked this up on gamepass, had been considering buying it for ages on ps so happy it's on there.
Damn it gets hectic as hell, I think the 5th hospital, where everyone is apparently rich and you learn marketing.
Ended up hugely in debt and had to fire some of my top doctors to get money back, then all my machines exploded, all my staff starting demanding payrises, queues of 24 people per megascan.
Sooo demanding! Super fun though, really enjoying it and hugely recommend anyone who's on the fence about buying it (dlc announced) or perhaps has it in their backlog
Damn it gets hectic as hell, I think the 5th hospital, where everyone is apparently rich and you learn marketing.
Ended up hugely in debt and had to fire some of my top doctors to get money back, then all my machines exploded, all my staff starting demanding payrises, queues of 24 people per megascan.
Sooo demanding! Super fun though, really enjoying it and hugely recommend anyone who's on the fence about buying it (dlc announced) or perhaps has it in their backlog
Cool! as a PC user i'm glad consoels are getting teh content.
DLC content is really good if you like the base game loop
This is fucking crack đź’‰
I can get lost in this for an hour easily
Can anyone recommend any other similar games.
I kinda wanted something like Factorio, but I really hated the combat.
Dyson Sphere is on my wantlist.
I can get lost in this for an hour easily
Can anyone recommend any other similar games.
I kinda wanted something like Factorio, but I really hated the combat.
Dyson Sphere is on my wantlist.
Similar I can only think of prison architect.
If you want management games I can post a few but they won't have the basic design of Prison architect and two point hospital with rooms and the logistic between them
Didn't really like prison.
Is there something where you don't have to kill people.
Whenever you promote them, are you increasing their pay enough to give a happiness boost? As long as they've got a well equipped staff room and are properly paid then I find they're usually pretty happy. Hospital attractiveness and room prestige only get you so far.
Just so you know you don't need to kill any people in prison architect. Death row is completely optional.
You can also disable gangs which are the major source of violence in prison.
Your prison can also be designed as a correctional facility with big yards, classrooms, etc. isntead of a hellhole bent on breaking someone's spirit.
The campaign does deal with the darkers sides of a prison system but sandbox your prison can be a relatively normal experience.
Not sure what format you're playing on but I really liked megaquarium which is quite similar