Balance notes on Student Appartments/Communal Bathrooms

[Sprixus]

So after running some math on student appartments and communal bathrooms, they are super inefficent. I feel that the price of Communal Bathroom maintenance is just too hight at $200 a day. At the moment, you need to have 5 student apartments on the same level as the bathroom to get a profit, $50 profit for the whole floor. (When using an elevator)

To rub salt in the wound, the maxiumum amount of student appartments you can build on a Narrow plot is 4 per level.

Student appartments need to pay more in rent or communal bathrooms need to have less upkeep costs. At the moment they are pretty useless.

The difference between basic studio appartments and student accomidation water requirements is completely covered by the rent difference. On paper they have the same amount at which they start to make money with vs support buildings, however, Student appartments have to be all on the same floor, and garbage collection can support more that 10 studio appartments.

The numbers were from hard, but medium isnt much better.

[SomaSim]

Thanks. We'll keep an eye one it!

[Neutromancer]

Not sure if this has changed, but to me shows $150 maintenance.
Also the following upsides of student housing vs. the basic studio:

• Doesn't require garbage bin or collection (that means there's only $100 difference)
  
• Houses twice as many people (good for shops? maybe?)
  
• Doesn't need water (only 1 for the bathroom)
  
• Uses half the amount of electricity (I think? Can't remember if studios use 1 or 0.5)
  
• Doesn't care about the view

[Justice]

Actually you can even build them underground, thats not balance related but opens up some rly fun basement-kid thematics :)

[Neutromancer]

I think you can only build them underground in the Tokyo scenario. Scenarios are allowed to have their own rule changes.

[The Baekin' Company]

Student housing did seem a bit of an odd choice. Are there any school mechanics or buildings in the Tokyo Towers pack I haven't gotten yet or perhaps a university DLC in the works?