old new point - how to get to three stars

[Helen A]

any tips? ive managed to get to two stars, once, but keep going bust. ive tried all the money saving ideas i know from previous hospitals etc - whats the key?

[JVC]

Haven't completed that level myself, but you might want to check out Blarla's videos on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDDGcedfzQk&list=PLmSsM7C3keqxyn1T56B0ioIg23V85RMyG&index=282&t=0s

The first thing I did on that level was to up the treatment prices by 40%. Patients will get angry, but they're paying way too little without a price hike.

I also bought a DNA lab pretty quickly because the scans are costly. If you can get a research lab up and running to grind out research for cash, that might help as well.

And I didn't buy expensive clinics, so booted a lot of patients I couldn't cure. But still on the early part of that level myself.

[Helen A]

thank you will try a price hike to 40! have only risen to 10 as assumed poeple wouldnt pay the 40! thanks

[JVC]

Originally posted by Helen A:

thank you will try a price hike to 40! have only risen to 10 as assumed poeple wouldnt pay the 40! thanks

I only upped the price on treatments, not diagnosis. That way they'd only be annoyed once during their stay. It seems to me like the main factor in whether or not they pay is if they're angry (low health or low happiness) when they finally get treated. If the victory conditions don't mention a specific cure rate, don't be afraid to go through the list of patients and kick out all those with low heath or low happiness, where you aren't close to curing them. No-hope patients can really clog up the system. Which is a real problem when you hardly make any money before they reach treatment.

If you want to begin experimenting with pricing and such, disable the autosave feature. That makes it easier to reload if price experiments go wrong.

[Helen A]

thankyou

[dozclarke]

I never bother changing prices. Too high and you seem to get bad rep. Too low and you don't get money. Once you get started get a training room. keep courses going constantly. Better trained gets better treatment and diagnostics. I've just been doing over smogley. Two training rooms. keep the type of rooms together. Saves walking time. I put toilets and staff rooms in every building. I got smogley to 3 stars and over 10mil in the bank just by doing what I said. Keep rooms pretty basic to start. You can pretty stuff up once the money starts coming in. Another good tip is to build research in your best money-making location. I run 4 research in one place because once you get told you can research a treatment room I go back to the location with research and hit it with the 4 rooms at once. Saves taking time on a new hospital waiting for research to complete and spending money from the new location budget you don't have to.