Max number of floors?

[CheeseBurger]

I am trying to build a 5th floor and it doesnt seem to be working. What is the max floor limit?

[FWT]

4

[CheeseBurger]

Thats ♥♥♥♥. I want to make a hospital where each department has its own floor

[CheeseBurger]

Is there any way to buy more land? I wont have enough room to fit everthing in on the small map.

[Scy]

Originally posted by Bunt:

Is there any way to buy more land? I wont have enough room to fit everthing in on the small map.

It _is_ possible to fit everything on the 64x64 maps, but you need to be clever about the layout of your hospital. It will be just a massive block though, so I suggest going with the bigger map if you want to do all departments.

[CheeseBurger]

Looks like im starting a new hospital :P
They should increase the amount of floors though. I have been to hospitals which have 20+ floors so its not unrealistic.

[Hari Seldon]

The devs confirmed moddable maps, with the possibility to make bigger maps as far as I have read

[OutS|der]

It'll be moddable. They set the limit so people wouldn't go overboard building 1000 floors and then complaining the game runs slow. Same reason why employees are capped at 200 atm.

[Chaezaa]

Originally posted by OutS|der:

It'll be moddable. They set the limit so people wouldn't go overboard building 1000 floors and then complaining the game runs slow. Same reason why employees are capped at 200 atm.

I have set the limit to 600 employees because you can't really maintain a big hospital with a 200 people limit.

[Oceansize]

Check out the pre-built hospitals in Sandbox mode. I've played with both of the "Big" hospitals. The second one (the furthest to the right in the menu) is a very good design. I suggest checking it out to get smart ideas regarding layout. It's designed well enough you can open all departments and still stay below the 200 cap.

And it's 4 floors, FYI.

[Oceansize]

Originally posted by Chaezaa | chat disabled:

Originally posted by OutS|der:

It'll be moddable. They set the limit so people wouldn't go overboard building 1000 floors and then complaining the game runs slow. Same reason why employees are capped at 200 atm.

I have set the limit to 600 employees because you can't really maintain a big hospital with a 200 people limit.

I don't disagree that a higher cap would be very much appreciated, but you really can have all departments open, 90 patients per day, all 5 ambulances delivering patients, AND stay within the 200 employee cap. Most importantly, you can do all this while keeping Prestige consistently above 90%, day in, day out. I know because I'm doing it right now. :-)

Edit: I'm really curious if you're noticing a big performance hit at 600 employees compared to how it played when you were at 200...

[Chaezaa]

Originally posted by Oceansize:

Originally posted by Chaezaa | chat disabled:

I have set the limit to 600 employees because you can't really maintain a big hospital with a 200 people limit.

I don't disagree that a higher cap would be very much appreciated, but you really can have all departments open, 90 patients per day, all 5 ambulances delivering patients, AND stay within the 200 employee cap. Most importantly, you can do all this while keeping Prestige consistently above 90%, day in, day out. I know because I'm doing it right now. :-)

Edit: I'm really curious if you're noticing a big performance hit at 600 employees compared to how it played when you were at 200...

I played with 455 employees and my performance was fine. My Ryzen 7 is strong enough to calculate the pathfinding without much issues. The only moment where i have a short freeze happens at shift change when the "troops" arrive.

I tried to play the big sandbox pre-build hospital with 200 people but it did not work. I had not enough janitors to keep everything kind of clean and i was constantly short on staff.

[Oceansize]

There are two “big” hospitals in sandbox, I’ve opened all departments in both, and found the second one to be far superior to the first. I could not get the first one to run well within the cap, but the second one works great. Taking note of the design differences and similarities between the two has been a great learning experience.

[Macapek]

I think it will somehow (increase the number of floors) to overwrite any file in the database. But I'm not sure what. I hope somebody can help

[OutS|der]

Originally posted by Oceansize:

There are two “big” hospitals in sandbox, I’ve opened all departments in both, and found the second one to be far superior to the first. I could not get the first one to run well within the cap, but the second one works great. Taking note of the design differences and similarities between the two has been a great learning experience.

Ignoring the cap I've found the first one far superior. I'm interested in what made you choose the second one since it uses less space and has less staff slots. Besides the staff issues of course what made you like the second one more?

[Oceansize]

Originally posted by OutS|der:

Originally posted by Oceansize:

There are two “big” hospitals in sandbox, I’ve opened all departments in both, and found the second one to be far superior to the first. I could not get the first one to run well within the cap, but the second one works great. Taking note of the design differences and similarities between the two has been a great learning experience.

Ignoring the cap I've found the first one far superior. I'm interested in what made you choose the second one since it uses less space and has less staff slots. Besides the staff issues of course what made you like the second one more?

“Ignoring the cap” is the critical element here. If we’re ignoring the cap, perhaps the first hospital IS superior. But if we’re staying within the cap, there is no way you can have all departments open and keep all those extra OR rooms busy. Simply put, I can keep prestige above 90% with 200 employees in the second hospital, but not the first.

The first seemed bloated due to WAY more GS beds than necessary, way more ORs than necessary, and not enough emergency clinic offices.