Don't you just hate it...

[Athena]

When you wanna build a nice sweet hospital. And they give you the most useless buildings with weird corners and sizes to work with?

[daniel.vandyke]

No, having problem to solve adds to the fun of the game.

[Artem88]

Yes, that changed a bit in their 2nd game, still not fully customizable, but way better.

[Giblets]

Pity we haven't just got one massive hospital to sandbox with all the dlc added.

[Space is the Place]

It really is a shame considering Theme Hospital had such good layouts. Two Point Campus improves on Two Point Hospital, although not every map, specially DLC they decided to go back to terrible small areas and maps that force you to continuisly buy more plots because you can´t possibly add even the most basic stuff on the first one. But at least we can make the buildings and for the most part I have being able to create simetric, logical and open buildings without having to sacrifice much outdoors areas. The Space DLC though is horrible on the 2nd and 3rd maps. Ghost hunting DLC can also be tedious, although I personally manage to control it I can see how it can be really annoying if you don´t plan ahead.

Originally posted by Giblets:

Pity we haven't just got one massive hospital to sandbox with all the dlc added.

This. The final map being a mash of everything learned until that point is, from my perspective, fundamental to strategy games.

[Giblets]

with all the d/l content i;m not sure any of the maps is even big enough it it all, especially as the AI is so bad so you need several of every room and they tend to use rooms or facilities on the other side of the hospital. You put a GP next to diag rooms but they end up going back to the near reception. Plus not being able to limit que numbers like Theme Hospital.

But i guess the game is done and now abandoned. While i've enjoyed TPH i decided not to bother with TPC as i suspect the problems would be the same.

[Space is the Place]

Originally posted by Giblets:

But i guess the game is done and now abandoned. While i've enjoyed TPH i decided not to bother with TPC as i suspect the problems would be the same.

it actually isn´t. Not to say there are no issues with TPC, but overall, thanks to the building construction feature, it´s less common to find this problem. Personally I think it´s mostly on TPC DLC that they went back to doing this, but as for normal TPC, most maps have tons of plots big enough to allocate max students and a lot of those plots are together, which allows you to really expand your building, rather than making several small buildings like in TPH which was atrocious if you like orderly and nice looking hospitals. There are maps in TPC that simply you won´t be able to fill it entirely even if you give tons of different classes that requiere the biggest rooms. Plus, being able to also edit not just buildings but the outdoors areas is amazing, it´s only the DLCs that they decided to again go back to small plots with tons of outer space that you cannot edit, even though editting outdoors is a big part of base TPC, feels weird, and it kind of feels like the devs got scare that TPC sold less than TPH so they tried to make it more similar (to the point where the last TPC DLC is basically TPH in TPC, so weird).

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I agree, it'd be great if you could build your own hospital from scratch in the sandbox mode.