Does comfort and temperature actually affect anything?

[5p1cy]

So I'm wondering, does anyone actually know what effect comfort and temperature has on patients? Because if you think about it it's really not clear what it does, if it does anything. I just made a hospital without benches or radiators and I didn't have any issues with patient happiness, health or reputation. Reputation as always remains high nomatter what. Patients don't show any negative or positive buffs for comfort, so it seems like there's no reason to place benches at all. Also when patients are cold it shows them as 'too cold' but it doesn't say if it reduces their happiness, or health, or anything. Sometimes they get 'a cold' or 'the sniffles' but it says that it's caused by low hygiene, not from the cold. So if a patient is too cold what does that actually do? We know that staff that are cold get a happiness debuff, but it doesn't indicate this on patients.

[ste]

More likey and quicker to rage quit

[5p1cy]

Thing is I was checking the happiness bar on my cold patients and ones standing instead of sitting, and the happiness reduces at the same rate. It seems to be an assumption that comfort and temperature makes them unhappy when it actually doesn't. The game tells us we need to keep places warm and place benches so we automatically do so, but for what reason exactly?

[ste]

Ive had patients leave complaining, too cold, ugly enviroment.

[5p1cy]

Are you really sure about that? I just checked my hospital again on high speed, not 1 patient left due to being too cold. The whole hospital is without heating. Also I checked the reduction in happiness between someone without any positive or negative moods vs someone with only the too cold feeling and I'm very sure that both happiness fall at the same rate.

[5p1cy]

'too cold' doesn't fall under the moods tab, it doesn't show it as having any negative effects, and comfort doesn't show anything. I'm pretty sure neither has any effect at all...

[Orion Invictus]

Benches help clear the hallways of patients, and I know staff is affected by temperature.

[5p1cy]

I mean at the most it might effect the reputation, but not like that matters.

[5p1cy]

Staff are affected by temperature but not patients. And it's debatable whether benches actually make the hallways clearer. Half the time they don't sit on the bench, and all you're doing is placing a large obstruction in the hallway. Whereas without a bench they queue outside the room in a very orderly way.

[5p1cy]

Trust me, try run a hospital without heating or benches for patients and you won't notice any difference.

[5p1cy]

I've actually tested thoroughly if comfort or temperature affects their happiness, and I'm quite sure it doesn't.

[5p1cy]

Ok I had a look more carefully with benches and it does effect happiness, I'm still pretty sure temperature doesn't effect patient happiness though.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by I3LINK:

Staff are affected by temperature but not patients. And it's debatable whether benches actually make the hallways clearer. Half the time they don't sit on the bench, and all you're doing is placing a large obstruction in the hallway. Whereas without a bench they queue outside the room in a very orderly way.

They always sit on my benches, so it might be a distance issue.

[Marquez von Hinten]

maybe temperature affects patient healthloss

[5p1cy]

Originally posted by Orion:

Originally posted by I3LINK:

Staff are affected by temperature but not patients. And it's debatable whether benches actually make the hallways clearer. Half the time they don't sit on the bench, and all you're doing is placing a large obstruction in the hallway. Whereas without a bench they queue outside the room in a very orderly way.

They always sit on my benches, so it might be a distance issue.

They sit on the bench very briefly before running off to satisfy their needs, so yeah of course they sit on the bench, but not for long.

[5p1cy]

Originally posted by Marquez von Hinten:

maybe temperature affects patient healthloss

I checked and temperature doesn't affect health.