First Impressions - GP Room Simulator

[Oc]

I've played for about ~15 hours so far, getting 3 stars on every level until I started a sandbox game (because it looks the most fun) however my biggest issue and the most unbalanced feeling thing is that fact that you need like 8 GP's or you need to make your hospital not realistic (in terms of design and layout, no food or drinks etc) or cheese the rooms.

I would love for a basic room such as a GP to be the smallest size possible and only having the need to have 4 max even with the biggest hospitals. Right now it feels ridiculously unbalanced and especially since it's such a boring room.

[Freiya]

The first thing you need to do is to activate "Fast-Track Treatment Decision" in the policy menu, it should drastically reduce queues. If it's not enough and if you play in Sandbox mode you can simply reduce the patient arrival rate slider of the created hospital.

Other than that and in the campaign you have to play slow and keep the hospital level low by building only the minimum rooms, recruiting only when necessary and keep training/upgrading machines. That way no more than 4 GP should be required.

[Oc]

Originally posted by Freiya:

The first thing you need to do is to activate "Fast-Track Treatment Decision" in the policy menu, it should drastically reduce queues. If it's not enough and if you play in Sandbox mode you can simply reduce the patient arrival rate slider of the created hospital.

Other than that and in the campaign you have to play slow and keep the hospital level low by building only the minimum rooms, recruiting only when necessary and keep training/upgrading machines. That way no more than 4 GP should be required.

Thanks for the ideas. I'll try them out, but I still hope for the general gameplay (as new players) these situations won't always have to be played out like that.

I love everything else about the game so far though, that's really my only issue.

[Axz]

There are a few things you can do:

As Freia said, go to the overview and click on the policy tab, there you can tick "Fast-Track Treatment Decision". This means once a diagnoses room has diagnosed a patients condition to a certain percent or higher (this percentage can be changed with a slider bar that is also in the policy tab), the member of staff in that room will send the patient directly to the treatment room, skipping the need to go back to a GP's office, hugely reducing the ques for GP's offices.

You can unlock new items with kudosh and a few more items through the superbug projects to put in GPs offices (and other rooms). So you can level up rooms without having to spam the same item.

It is worth noting that a higher level room does nothing other than level up your hospital and making the staff inside happier, so higher level GP's office means nothing other than more patients in the que and a happier doctor (happier is not faster, sadly). It might be worth leveling DOWN some rooms or possibly even removing them all together. If you have 3 training rooms just to power through training all your staff quickly, it's worth removing them when not in use (if you can afford it).

[Axz]

On the last level I have 16 GP's offices, 8 at 4 x 3 level 4 and the other 8 at 4 x 4 level 4, I could get them all to level 5 without cheesing them and 12 of them are level 5 GP's. I probably don't need that many, but my hospital level when from 21 to 24 from building 2 (and sometimes 3) of each treatment room and up to 4 of each diagnoses room... it wasn't really needed, but I had 10.6 million just gathering dust, and I still haven't built in 2 of the plots haha.

[Jet City Gambler]

I don't think I've ever had more than 6 GPs, even on the largest 3-star hospitals, all of them the minimum 3x3 size. Training up your docs makes a big difference, recruit student doctors and run them up to level 5. That and fast-tracking the diagnosis should be all you need.

[Jeruzalem]

ocular, have you torrented an older version of the game maybe? cause in later updates the game was balanced better, and there were options added to ease the load on GP's.

[Oc]

Originally posted by Jeruzalem:

ocular, have you torrented an older version of the game maybe? cause in later updates the game was balanced better, and there were options added to ease the load on GP's.

I own it on the Switch.

[Giblets]

sadly this is how it is, you'll need so many GPs offices, and you'll need to build 5 x ray machines and mega scanners and they'll all have a queue of about 17, even if all your staff is trained. it's crazy but the game is meant to be chaos which is why they'll never fix it.