Visitor's Chairs in new DLC

[wheelysteve]

I'm only just now having my first real go at building a hospital on the game because I decided to hold off until the DLC was released, so please humour me if I'm being dense.

I am pretty sure that the "Visitor's Chairs" are a new item to for the DLC, but the description has me a bit confused. "Number of seats in the lounge room determines the maximum number of visitors at the department at one time."

None of the other chairs say this, so do I need to put these chairs in my receptions and other rooms for visitors, as well as the other normal chairs for patients who are waiting if I actually want visitors to my hospital? I also don't really understand what it means by "in the lounge room", because they were a recommended item in the first reception I began building, which I am pretty sure isn't particularly great for lounging xD

Sorry again if I am being simple. I just don't want to dedicate bucket loads of time into my hospital only to have made a stupid oversight in the way this facet of the game works.

Thanks in advance.

Steve.

[Esidara]

The visitor chair has been specifically added for use in the lounge, which is the visitors room for the departments with hospitalisation. They will work for waiting rooms, reception areas, the staff room, the cafeteria and anywhere else where sitting is done.

Although I do wonder if having them in the wards would let visitors come to the wards, which is what would happen in reality

[wheelysteve]

The problem is I don't see any "lounge" as a room I can create in any of the departments (I just now went right through every department on the game). I see a number of Common Rooms for the staff, and Waiting Rooms for the patients, they're self explanitory. Is it possible I just haven't unlocked them yet seeing as this is my first proper attempt? I don't just want to stick Visitor's Chairs in places they're not going to actually be used for visitors.

Good question about Wards too. Honestly when I saw visitors listed in the DLC, visitors coming to see patients in their beds on the Wards was my first impression of what that would mean.

[Esidara]

Emergency, Radiology, Medical Labs and ICU don't have them. General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Internal Medicine and Neurology do.

In general surgery, it's at the bottom of the 2nd page of prefab rooms

[wheelysteve]

Brilliant thank you. In my game the prefabs are still greyed out with the lock symbol, so that would explain why I can;t find them lol.

I still don't quite get the point in the Visitor's Chairs being available, such as in the Emergency's Reception, for example, as recommended items (as in when they're highlighted in yellow but not orange), but I don't think I will bother putting any around there.

[Esidara]

Originally posted by wheelysteve:

Brilliant thank you. In my game the prefabs are still greyed out with the lock symbol, so that would explain why I can;t find them lol.

I still don't quite get the point in the Visitor's Chairs being available, such as in the Emergency's Reception, for example, as recommended items (as in when they're highlighted in yellow but not orange), but I don't think I will bother putting any around there.

Because any of those chairs will fill the 'give them a place to sit if you get a queue' need.

[UbiquitousIngot9734]

And to note, Receptions should NOT be used as waiting rooms, they should be used purely as a room to put your reception desks in with 1 tile in front so patients can check-in.

Use waiting rooms around the reception and in my Doctor's Office corridors is what I do.

[Esidara]

Originally posted by iiTomsx:

And to note, Receptions should NOT be used as waiting rooms, they should be used purely as a room to put your reception desks in with 1 tile in front so patients can check-in.

Use waiting rooms around the reception and in my Doctor's Office corridors is what I do.

They aren't waiting rooms, but sometimes you have multiple patients come at once, so having a few chairs ready can be useful, to prevent the 'couldn't sit' modifer

[UbiquitousIngot9734]

Originally posted by Esidara:

Originally posted by iiTomsx:

And to note, Receptions should NOT be used as waiting rooms, they should be used purely as a room to put your reception desks in with 1 tile in front so patients can check-in.

Use waiting rooms around the reception and in my Doctor's Office corridors is what I do.

They aren't waiting rooms, but sometimes you have multiple patients come at once, so having a few chairs ready can be useful, to prevent the 'couldn't sit' modifer

Which is why I tend to make my waiting rooms quite large so that I can fit plenty of seating!

[Esidara]

Originally posted by iiTomsx:

Originally posted by Esidara:

They aren't waiting rooms, but sometimes you have multiple patients come at once, so having a few chairs ready can be useful, to prevent the 'couldn't sit' modifer

Which is why I tend to make my waiting rooms quite large so that I can fit plenty of seating!

You've never noticed a queue for your receptionists?

[UbiquitousIngot9734]

Originally posted by Esidara:

Originally posted by iiTomsx:

Which is why I tend to make my waiting rooms quite large so that I can fit plenty of seating!

You've never noticed a queue for your receptionists?

Nope, I've never had an issue with people queuing to be checked-in and triaged.

[Alice&Gui]

Just bought it. Waiting for the payment to be approved by Steam.