hintss pleaseeeee making money

[Grace_bannister]

can dev please tell me how to make profit i got about 5 departments runings insurence is open i got to treat 60 patients but cant get past 50 and i am curently not even making a profit on any of the departments playing for 2 days tried different ways of doing it and still no profit i make didli scat and cant build more departments coz limit on starf is currently 200 so cant build anyway lol iv lost the plot with this one thumbs up for confused . com help would be nice from anyone who has made a profit so far im broke

[Oceansize]

Surgeries seem to be the key. If your departments aren't performing many surgeries, then you're not making the big money. That's my current challenge in my current sandbox: how to get my surgery teams cranking.

[@conit]

Hospitalisation is what make you get profit. Keep only 1 doctor and 3 nurses for the night (lowest salary). Choose the lowest level of janitor. Makes sure you have enough bed so people don't run away.

[Blarla]

Best money making departments are Emergency and General Surgery. Internal Medicine makes good money too. They are the ones to focus on. Make sure you have cheap staff working to the bone, just while you are looking to get back in the black. These departments also need to cover costs of ICU and Radiology as they don't bring in money. So again, have those departments running on minimal. Hope this helps.

[Blarla]

Originally posted by @conit:

Hospitalisation is what make you get profit. Keep only 1 doctor and 3 nurses for the night (lowest salary). Choose the lowest level of janitor. Makes sure you have enough bed so people don't run away.

Yeah, enough beds. That's a top tip that! If they can't get a bed, the hospital misses out on thousands. ><

[Oceansize]

Originally posted by @conit:

Hospitalisation is what make you get profit. Keep only 1 doctor and 3 nurses for the night (lowest salary). Choose the lowest level of janitor. Makes sure you have enough bed so people don't run away.

OR perhaps try the opposite: if you've got enough of the right doctors and nurses on your night shift, you can run surgeries at night in addition to day, keeping the money cranking in for 24 hours instead of 12. The OP already has 5 departments open, I'm sure they've unlocked hospitalization by now.

[Blarla]

Originally posted by Oceansize:

OR perhaps try the opposite: if you've got enough of the right doctors and nurses on your night shift, you can run surgeries at night in addition to day, keeping the money cranking in for 24 hours instead of 12. The OP already has 5 departments open, I'm sure they've unlocked hospitalization by now.

I run surgeries around the clock. If you can staff them, they are great. 👌

[Grace_bannister]

wow thanks will try this tmorrow im all out of brains tonight thanks everyone

[Oceansize]

Originally posted by Blarla:

Originally posted by Oceansize:

OR perhaps try the opposite: if you've got enough of the right doctors and nurses on your night shift, you can run surgeries at night in addition to day, keeping the money cranking in for 24 hours instead of 12. The OP already has 5 departments open, I'm sure they've unlocked hospitalization by now.

I run surgeries around the clock. If you can staff them, they are great. 👌

Sorry, my response was to the person just before you, but you ninja'd me, lol. I just went back and included their quote in my reply to make it more obvious who I was talking to. :)

[Oceansize]

I get the impression (or maybe it's just my own wishful thinking) that the developers are trying to simulate/emphasize the fact that no big business makes money right away, and in fact can take years in RL to turn a profit after clawing out of startup debt. Campaign 1 seems to emphasize this as well, because the best strategy in that campaign is to go deep into debt right at the outset in order to open your GS dept and get competitive right away, rather than go slow and whittle away at the loan you start out with before expanding your GS dept.

Therefore I feel like maybe worry less about turning a profit and concentrate instead on getting ALL of your departments open (at least the ones that do plenty of surgeries), even if you have to take out loans to do it. The theory is that once your hospital is a surgery machine, getting out of debt and turning a profit will become much easier. In Campaign 1 I spent 20 game days getting even deeper and deeper into debt, but it ended up working really well because GS made so much more money than my other depts.

[MostlyBoma]

If you already have 200 staff and only 50 patients then you're never going to make money. You're blowing it all on their wages, start firing people until you make a profit.

[Oceansize]

Originally posted by MostlyFans:

If you already have 200 staff and only 50 patients then you're never going to make money. You're blowing it all on their wages, start firing people until you make a profit.

Yeah I've been hiring more than I need to troubleshoot logjam issues. Once I understand the root causes I intend to downsize considerably

Edit: Oh wait you weren't talking to me, lol. I have also reached my 200 employee max while still only treating 50 per day :)

[EndlessSauron]

I modded the patient amount, just got Gen Surg with full ER and 2 XRay rooms and im making 25k a day without 24 hour surgeries going, this is with 50 or so staff.

[Blue_Bug]

Originally posted by @conit:

Hospitalisation is what make you get profit. Keep only 1 doctor and 3 nurses for the night (lowest salary). Choose the lowest level of janitor. Makes sure you have enough bed so people don't run away.

No, no, no ....... early hospitalization will cause you to go broke. just open first all your clinics. at that point you will have a steady flow of 80 patients.

[Blue_Bug]

please see : https://steamcommunity.com/app/868360/discussions/0/1736595227854552855/

[Grace_bannister]

thanks all much appriciated