Which rooms should be spread out?

[Devilfish]

Trying to keep on top of needs and I get the feeling it's better to have a few small needs rooms (bathrooms and such) in every building than one big one nobody ever uses because they can't get there in time. Is that correct? And if so, which rooms should be distributed like that? Bathrooms and shower rooms, but what about dorms, lounges, etc? I don't want to overcompensate and run out of room for actual academic rooms.

So;
Better to have many small rooms?
If yes, which ones?

[KY-Prime]

I feel like the way how this game "needs" work is that you are supposed to have bath/shower/dorm/lounge every 5 steps. Essentially making do not have space to build an actually academic room.. So yeah, it's weird how there is a dorm room and a shower everywhere.

[Devilfish]

I really can't figure out how peeps prioritize their needs. Got a bunch now who dropped out to go piss rather than go into the bathroom they were standing in front of. Oh well.

[KY-Prime]

Originally posted by Devilfish:

I really can't figure out how peeps prioritize their needs. Got a bunch now who dropped out to go piss rather than go into the bathroom they were standing in front of. Oh well.

You need more bathroom. You can see that each bathroom have certain capacity. If you have three bathrooms with 5 capacity each (15 capacity total) and you have 20 students. 5 students won't be able to go pee, even if there is empty bathroom in front of them. It's weird. Same thing applies to student lounge and shower. The further you go in the campaign. You realize that you will need ♥♥♥♥ ton of bathroom/shower/lounge/union because the size of the room is not enough.

Dormitory is an exception, since the capacity will change depending on the number of students. So a two bed dormitory could have the capacity of 20 students. But the accomodation rating will be red. If you add another copy of dormitory, the capacity of each dormitory becomes 10 each. And so forth.

[Lily]

Originally posted by Devilfish:

I really can't figure out how peeps prioritize their needs. Got a bunch now who dropped out to go piss rather than go into the bathroom they were standing in front of. Oh well.

Would need to see your layout bc that doesn't sound like it should happen. I place a 2x4 bathroom with 2 toilets in each building, 2 if the building is very large. 1 shower with 2 stalls for the entire campus until I see a line forming for the shower. 1 large dormitory for the entire campus. 1 large lounge for the entire campus. 1 of every club but only 1 of each item for every club.

Students will RUN to what they need/want to do. I think it's a capacity issue more than "is it close to me right now" problem.

[Djayc85]

Originally posted by KY-Prime:

You need more bathroom. You can see that each bathroom have certain capacity. If you have three bathrooms with 5 capacity each (15 capacity total) and you have 20 students. 5 students won't be able to go pee, even if there is empty bathroom in front of them. It's weird.

Ah that explains some things, and is really stupid.

[Lily]

Originally posted by Djayc85:

Originally posted by KY-Prime:

You need more bathroom. You can see that each bathroom have certain capacity. If you have three bathrooms with 5 capacity each (15 capacity total) and you have 20 students. 5 students won't be able to go pee, even if there is empty bathroom in front of them. It's weird.

Ah that explains some things, and is really stupid.

I don't have that problem. 2 toilets can manage about 30 people roughly... All students do not have to pee at once.

[Kunovega]

There's actually no reason to be spreading your dorms around. Dorms are assigned (beds inside the dorm are not) and if you have random dorms everywhere, you can have students assigned to a dorm on one side of the campus that still have class on the other side of the campus. They do not pick a dorm randomly (only the bed inside the dorm they were assigned to)

If you centralize all of your dorms and then think of it as a hub, your class rooms and lecture rooms go on the outside so that they are equal distance from the dorms in any direction.

If you're putting dorms everywhere you're making long walks for some students since they don't just randomly pick a dorm when they are tired, unlike a bathroom they will pick the nearest "open" toilet and put it in their que list (while they can still be assigned to a bathroom far away that only happens if all nearby are in use)

Design with the hub concept:
Dorms are central
Around it are student union, food service areas, showers.
Next layer around that are libraries and tuition rooms.
Outer layer is classrooms, labs, lecture halls.

Bathroom needs to be spread around, those get randomly assigned as needed, and the rest you just fit where they can fit.

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by Djayc85:

Originally posted by KY-Prime:

You need more bathroom. You can see that each bathroom have certain capacity. If you have three bathrooms with 5 capacity each (15 capacity total) and you have 20 students. 5 students won't be able to go pee, even if there is empty bathroom in front of them. It's weird.

Ah that explains some things, and is really stupid.

Yeah, that sounds really stupid. Good thing that it doesn't work like that.

I use one bathroom/toilet with 4 stalls per 50 students and never have queues for them. The capacity for bathrooms/toilets don't mean much because students don't have to poop/piss every second of their lifes.

I bundle "needs" rooms together so students can satisfy their needs without running around too much.

[pkmis007]

All my problem solve by summer vacation. Just take your time at the end of year. Bump Happiness & Hygiene or whatever u want to 80% or whatever u want then start next year.

[Moira]

Originally posted by KY-Prime:

You can see that each bathroom have certain capacity. If you have three bathrooms with 5 capacity each (15 capacity total) and you have 20 students. 5 students won't be able to go pee, even if there is empty bathroom in front of them.

Oh, I hadn't noticed this at all! I'll have to check it out, thanks very much

[wicked lester]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Design with the hub concept:
Dorms are central
Around it are student union, food service areas, showers.
Next layer around that are libraries and tuition rooms.
Outer layer is classrooms, labs, lecture halls.

Bathroom needs to be spread around, those get randomly assigned as needed, and the rest you just fit where they can fit.

What do you mean by tuition rooms?

[Gamey]

Originally posted by wicked lester:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Design with the hub concept:
Dorms are central
Around it are student union, food service areas, showers.
Next layer around that are libraries and tuition rooms.
Outer layer is classrooms, labs, lecture halls.

Bathroom needs to be spread around, those get randomly assigned as needed, and the rest you just fit where they can fit.

What do you mean by tuition rooms?

Private tuition rooms or 1-1 with the teacher

[wicked lester]

Originally posted by Gamey:

Originally posted by wicked lester:

What do you mean by tuition rooms?

Private tuition rooms or 1-1 with the teacher

facepalm

[Devilfish]

Originally posted by wicked lester:

facepalm

Yeah, imagine someone not knowing something. Wow. The worst.

[JennyTheGhoul]

Originally posted by Devilfish:

Originally posted by wicked lester:

facepalm

Yeah, imagine someone not knowing something. Wow. The worst.

I mean, they were facepalming themselves. LOL