Shared Waiting Rooms

[TheExiled]

I really love the game, but i have a question can we at least have an option to share a Waiting Room between departments? So that i can build one Waiting room for more depatments.

[jasonharris2]

+1

[EndlessSauron]

+1

I'd love to have a huge waiting room/check in desk for the entire hospital on the 1st floor, then maybe have small nurse station at each department for patient referrals.

[Cas]

To me this would just become inefficient - people would wait further away from the room they're waiting for.
If I have a waiting room shared between 2 departments I just zone it half and half.
I tried massive waiting rooms early on and found people would sometimes have to walk far to the room they needed slowing down things considerably.

[TheExiled]

Originally posted by Dan:

To me this would just become inefficient - people would wait further away from the room they're waiting for.
If I have a waiting room shared between 2 departments I just zone it half and half.
I tried massive waiting rooms early on and found people would sometimes have to walk far to the room they needed slowing down things considerably.

That may be but i for one put my waiting rooms sometimes in the hallway and build it relative narrow so i can't just put it half and half when i have different rooms opposite of each other, it would be nice if they could then share the same waiting room(hallway) space

[EndlessSauron]

As a compromise, I would like if you could designate which departments are sharing shared rooms. Like I have an entire floor dedicated to Rad and Lab and would love to have one shared waiting room just for them. Just a personal thing, nothing really gameplay required. I say this because all my departments have their own floor.

[Alundra (Alunny)]

Originally posted by Dan:

To me this would just become inefficient - people would wait further away from the room they're waiting for.
If I have a waiting room shared between 2 departments I just zone it half and half.
I tried massive waiting rooms early on and found people would sometimes have to walk far to the room they needed slowing down things considerably.

Not if your rooms surround the waiting area.

Originally posted by Endless:

As a compromise, I would like if you could designate which departments are sharing shared rooms. Like I have an entire floor dedicated to Rad and Lab and would love to have one shared waiting room just for them. Just a personal thing, nothing really gameplay required. I say this because all my departments have their own floor.

Yess

[Oberkampfkater]

Hmm, shared waiting rooms as a separate room catergory aren't really necessary because you can build them right now. Sure, they are not as efficient as 'true' shared rooms because patients don't use 'out of department' chairs, but this isn't really an issue as long as your waiting room isn't really small.

Example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1777628799
As you can see, the waiting room looks like a large single room/corridor, but consitst of waiting room zones from alle 5 departments+the lab department.