Dorms and rent

[Livia]

When it comes to dorms and rent, what's the ideal?

I have dorms with 26 beds and put down a few. Should I make 1 dorm with more beds, or more dorms with less beds?

Just curious what others have found.

[Alun1]

more beds in a dorm and higher prestige = more rent.

having a prestige 10 dorm with 10 beds will keep 50 student happy.

[eliure]

i make bigger ones
i just find it easier

[Livia]

Originally posted by Alun1:

more beds in a dorm and higher prestige = more rent.

having a prestige 10 dorm with 10 beds will keep 50 student happy.

But is it better to have 2 dorms with 10 or 1 with 20?

[Livia]

Originally posted by eliure:

i make bigger ones
i just find it easier

I agree, but I want to make the best rent.

[Alun1]

Originally posted by Livia:

Originally posted by Alun1:

more beds in a dorm and higher prestige = more rent.

having a prestige 10 dorm with 10 beds will keep 50 student happy.

But is it better to have 2 dorms with 10 or 1 with 20?

2 with 10 as they occupy less space if configured correctly and allow for a more spread out campus.

1 with 20 centralises everything in 1 spot.

[Kunovega]

1 bed can service 5 students, it's usually cheaper to build one dorm that way you aren't duplicating decorations for multiple rooms. The only reason to build another dorm is if your campus is large enough that you're going to segregate specific courses to different buildings.

Even if you want it to look like smaller rooms you can build a long room with multiple doors and separate each bed or couple of beds with partition walls, example:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3015023408

That's 1 room, 10 beds, will service 50 students. You can make them bigger than that if you wanted to.

[Livia]

I've been making them very large so I can fit more beds. Space hasn't been an issue as I expand slowly. So far I have separated courses in their own wings, but from what I've seen with others, there's suggestions to have one central hub for your dorm, but that still doesn't confirm if one should have 1 or many.

My only concern here is what gets me the best rent amount, or is that only based on number of students in the room?

[JU1173]

Originally posted by Livia:

I've been making them very large so I can fit more beds. Space hasn't been an issue as I expand slowly. So far I have separated courses in their own wings, but from what I've seen with others, there's suggestions to have one central hub for your dorm, but that still doesn't confirm if one should have 1 or many.

My only concern here is what gets me the best rent amount, or is that only based on number of students in the room?

It is the prestige level and number of students in the room that determines how much rent you get per dorm. More students is more pay for each dorm. High prestige is more money from each student. Aim for a prestige of 10. As for how many students, one bed can service 5 students. I usually go for 10 beds in the dorm. Bigger is not always better, I fit 10 beds in a 3x7 room. Then windows, pictures until it hits 10. Trying to centralize the dorm through all the levels... good luck It will never be perfect. I have dorms scattered. Doesn't matter really as long as they are not far from where they need to go.

IMO it is better to have the library centered as much as you can. That is always the biggest complaint I have seen. Just remember when making a room, use each item only 2 or 3 times. It loses prestige the more you use it. This also counts for furniture. FYI each bed is considered different furniture, though they are all beds.

[JVC]

Originally posted by JU1173:

Originally posted by Livia:

I've been making them very large so I can fit more beds. Space hasn't been an issue as I expand slowly. So far I have separated courses in their own wings, but from what I've seen with others, there's suggestions to have one central hub for your dorm, but that still doesn't confirm if one should have 1 or many.

My only concern here is what gets me the best rent amount, or is that only based on number of students in the room?

It is the prestige level and number of students in the room that determines how much rent you get per dorm. More students is more pay for each dorm. High prestige is more money from each student. Aim for a prestige of 10. As for how many students, one bed can service 5 students. I usually go for 10 beds in the dorm. Bigger is not always better, I fit 10 beds in a 3x7 room. Then windows, pictures until it hits 10. Trying to centralize the dorm through all the levels... good luck :steamlaughcry: It will never be perfect. I have dorms scattered. Doesn't matter really as long as they are not far from where they need to go.

IMO it is better to have the library centered as much as you can. That is always the biggest complaint I have seen. Just remember when making a room, use each item only 2 or 3 times. It loses prestige the more you use it. This also counts for furniture. FYI each bed is considered different furniture, though they are all beds.

Each bed can service 5 students but is it more profitable to split those students over multiple rooms so each student theoretically "owns" the bed more of the day?

[JU1173]

Originally posted by JVC:

Originally posted by JU1173:

It is the prestige level and number of students in the room that determines how much rent you get per dorm. More students is more pay for each dorm. High prestige is more money from each student. Aim for a prestige of 10. As for how many students, one bed can service 5 students. I usually go for 10 beds in the dorm. Bigger is not always better, I fit 10 beds in a 3x7 room. Then windows, pictures until it hits 10. Trying to centralize the dorm through all the levels... good luck It will never be perfect. I have dorms scattered. Doesn't matter really as long as they are not far from where they need to go.

IMO it is better to have the library centered as much as you can. That is always the biggest complaint I have seen. Just remember when making a room, use each item only 2 or 3 times. It loses prestige the more you use it. This also counts for furniture. FYI each bed is considered different furniture, though they are all beds.

Each bed can service 5 students but is it more profitable to split that those students over multiple rooms so each student theoretically "owns" the bed more of the day?

Nope. Doesn't make a difference. They pay the same if they share, or get their own. So it is better to have 5 to a bed. Cheaper to build, uses less space.

[Livia]

I know all the other tips. The advantage of a bigger room is I can fit more stuff in there and get a higher prestige than 10. So, sounds like a bigger room is better in terms of rent (again, the only concern I have).

I fully know you can't have one dorm in levels where you don't have access to the center of the map - there is no central location. I have been building by courses together and then having multiple libraries, lounges, and student unions, hoping it would keep people in their areas. Worked very well on the second map. Mitton I should have done the central thing, but I didn't learn about that suggestion until I'd already built a massive campus. I'll have to try it when I get another map with a center.

[squib]

I've been making my dorms with 4 or 5 beds only leaving plenty of room to provide enough stuff to boost my dorm level to 10. I also unlock the upper crust walls and flooring. rungs, posters, hat racks, anything to boost although I avoid plants as it takes janitors time to water.

I try and place them all into a central tile and modify the building to hold as many dorms, showers and baths as I can, while placing a ton of happiness items in my halls which are 2 to 3 tiles wide minimum.

I also set my club sign ups in strategic locations with speed walking club just outside of my dorm building. I only do one SU on campus, but I make it pretty huge. I'll have one big library close to my dorms with some smaller satellite libraries around the campus. I only do a single SU as well, but it's also large.

[Livia]

I also avoid plants. Does the type of picture on the wall matter? Good to know! I haven't been unlocking those as I was unlocking items for classrooms first. I did notice changing the paints raised my ranking in one room, so I've been unlocking those as well for that reason.

I'm going to mess around with the single option next time I hit a map with the center plot open to us. You can't centralize on a map otherwise.

[Pixie82]

I build a bunch of dorms with 2 beds in each, my dorm happiness is always high

[Livia]

My dorm happiness is high. Again, the question I am asking here is does it matter what is done in terms of RENT - bigger or smaller rooms, or doesn't matter.

That's it - that's the question.