I just don't understand room capacities

[erez.hochman]

I love this game and I enjoy it very much but I can't understand room capacities, how can 30 people live together in a room when it's a dorm and the same size of room can only hold 10 of them if it's a student lounge? I mean comon I look at the room and it looks visually like it can fit 20 on a normal day and 40 when you party, why the limits are so low?

I also don't understand why there is no correlation between the number of seats in the lecture hall and the number of students that can fit in, I mean maybe in class you can say it's about the teacher capacity to teach but while watching a movie why can't they fill out the seats?

And I know it's unrelated while I'm ranting I also have to add this, the graduation is so anti-climatic, why can't I hold a big ceremony for my guys?

[_helveti_ca]

My film events get full seating most of the time, if there are enough students during that year. i.e. film events can house more than 8 students, which usually fill out every seat.

I haven't tried with more than one seating stand, but I assume the more you have, the more it can fit during films.

Class time is def 1 teacher to 8 students, regardless of the amount of seats available.

[JVC]

The dorm is because up to five students can share one bed. The less students have to share, the more they'll pay in rent though.

[Grug]

Dorm students dont all have to use the beds at the same time. They use a bed when it's available and they need sleep.

[Orgull]

In my current game, 8 people are attending the films but only 5 people are attending the lectures, in the same lecture hall.

[Guizmus]

Different room types have different capacity rules :
* some room capacities are linked directly to the presence of an item, and can scale with it, like the training room that has a capacity of 1 times the number of training machine in the room
* some room capacities directly scale with the room size, with a limit/attenuation on the capacity growth after certain sizes. Like the library or the student lounge.
* Bedrooms capacities are a little special. They don't really exist. Instead, students are equally divided between all the beds in the school and take a student room accordingly. If you have only 1 bedroom, it can take the whole 150 students you have. They won't be happy (unless you made a dormitory of 50 beds) but they will have somewhere to sleep...

It's different from two point hospital in lots of rooms. Some rooms don't require really interracting with the furniture, just being in there can be enough for having the effect of the room applied (library, parties in lounge)

The room capacity for the theater room, I don't understand why they fixed it to 8... I would have loved to make a big room with multiple sittings but it doesn't work...

[Grug]

Originally posted by Teddy:

In my current game, 8 people are attending the films but only 5 people are attending the lectures, in the same lecture hall.

Any student can attend the film, but only students relevant to that class will come to the lecture. In addition, not every student in the year attends every class. It seems like whenever there's a lecture, eight students are picked for the class and the other 8 do an assignment.

[Icematt12]

Originally posted by Teddy:

In my current game, 8 people are attending the films but only 5 people are attending the lectures, in the same lecture hall.

Are you doing class intake of 10? The cap is 8 but when I do intake between 10 and 14 they are split between classes of equal sizes. So 2x5 or 2x7 usually. I haven't tried anything higher yet (18/20) so haven't seen what happens.

Smaller class sizes can be good. I have seen queues between 2 and 4 for items in classes of 8. Virtual Normality being the most often.

[Grug]

Originally posted by Icematt12:

Originally posted by Teddy:

In my current game, 8 people are attending the films but only 5 people are attending the lectures, in the same lecture hall.

Are you doing class intake of 10? The cap is 8 but when I do intake between 10 and 14 they are split between classes of equal sizes. So 2x5 or 2x7 usually. I haven't tried anything higher yet (18/20) so haven't seen what happens.

Smaller class sizes can be good. I have seen queues between 2 and 4 for items in classes of 8. Virtual Normality being the most often.

I believe the game will automatically schedule classes based on student intake. Thats why you sometimes get asked for more teachers or classrooms when increasing the student count.

[Devilfish]

Originally posted by JVC:

The dorm is because up to five students can share one bed. The less students have to share, the more they'll pay in rent though.

Not quite. When they say "5 beds per students" that's just the ratio needed to keep the energy need up, not the actual number of peeps using the actual object.

As far as I can see rent is based on the number of students that have a bed. It doesn't matter if they "share" or not, doesn't matter if the dorm is small or large. Take the number of students from the overview, divide it by five. That's how many beds you need. If you're on or over that number, you get max rent. If you're under, you get less.

When the game tell you they "prefer smaller dorms" that means it impacts their dorm happiness rating, not rent.

[mreed2]

Originally posted by Devilfish:

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When the game tell you they "prefer smaller dorms" that means it impacts their dorm happiness rating, not rent.

It doesn't even mean that -- the size of the dorm room, as far as I can tell, doesn't make the slightest bit of difference. Only room prestige matters, although it it may be the ratio of beds : prestige, which would make smaller rooms slightly better (as it is harder to get high levels of prestige).

You don't even need 5 beds / student -- if you max out room prestige, 7:1 is possible (still with max rent).