After Setup There Is Nothing To Do

[swagen2167]

I had such high hopes for this game. But after you setup your clinic, which granted takes some doing, there is nothing to do. The doctors go about their business treating patients and you just sit and watch. You don't have to issue commands or guide them in any way. It just runs by itself. In short, it's kind of dull. I'd like to be able to control everything such that if I don't issue commands the place falls apart. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

What am I missing? Is this essentially the game?

[Masterchief]

Runs itself? This joke was good :)

[gatsbi07]

You can choose to take over patients' diagnosis and treatment. You can do this individually or by department.

I usually have it set where all patients that come in by ambulance are my responsibility. And I usually grab any that collapse anywhere in the hospital.

[swagen2167]

Originally posted by Masterchief:

Runs itself? This joke was good :)

It's no joke. I can make a video of the game playing and you can see for yourself the doctors going about their business examining and treating patients without me doing anything. Is it possible I am running this in some kind of easy mode?

[Manouche]

Originally posted by swagen2167:

Originally posted by Masterchief:

Runs itself? This joke was good :)

It's no joke. I can make a video of the game playing and you can see for yourself the doctors going about their business examining and treating patients without me doing anything. Is it possible I am running this in some kind of easy mode?

Have you downloaded the free Doctor Mode DLC ?

[swagen2167]

Originally posted by Manouche:

Originally posted by swagen2167:

It's no joke. I can make a video of the game playing and you can see for yourself the doctors going about their business examining and treating patients without me doing anything. Is it possible I am running this in some kind of easy mode?

Have you downloaded the free Doctor Mode DLC ?

Honestly, I don't know. I bought the game, installed it and started playing. I guess anything is possible. If so, is that what's doing it?

[Manouche]

Originally posted by swagen2167:

Originally posted by Manouche:

Have you downloaded the free Doctor Mode DLC ?

Honestly, I don't know. I bought the game, installed it and started playing. I guess anything is possible. If so, is that what's doing it?

You haven't then. Find it on the store page, download it and install it. It's free.
You will be able to take over doctors and patients, schedule examinations and procedures for patients, determine diagnoses and actively contribute to the hospital.
I believe for most players, it's the best of what this game does. And if you play the game and have never used Doctor Mode, you are missing on something.

[vonMoo]

Great advice in the posts above.

Completing all the objectives in the doctor mode insurance company (Oopsee Crp. in the English language version) is a good idea too. It's the second best paying company in the game, gives you a lot of stuff that you have to do manually as you progress through the objectives, and rewards decent amounts of cash.

In combination, this helps you prepare for opening a clinic in another department and then setting up hospitalization.

Once you have hospitalization running in a department like general surgery, with two or three ambulances going, you'll be happy that your emergency clinic can run itself.

[SkylerJames13]

quite often you'll get popups asking for help with complicated diagnoses, and other various popups.

like others said, there is a doctors mode DLC for free.

[swagen2167]

Okay, it turns out when I bought the game I bought all the DLC. I have everything. So what am I doing wrong? Do I just have to be proactive and start clicking on things and try to override what the doctors are doing? Because right now, they're all on auto pilot.

[Waschbär42]

Upper left corner, 4th icon, opens doctor mode where you can "take over" a doctor. There is also a tutorial for this and in sandbox there are related objectives.
Other than that, it just sounds like you build the perfect clinic if everything runs smoothly - gg!

[gatsbi07]

There are 2 players control options.

One is the doctor mode DLC. With that, you control patients that co.e to the specific doctors you pick.

The other is controlling all treatment based on patient, regardless of which doctor they see. For that, the easiest way is to go to management mode in the upper left. From there, in the panel on the left is an option to control all patients for that department. Even if the patient later goes to another department, you still hold the control unless you release it individually for that patient.

Have you done the tutorials and little campaigns? If not, they are worth the time. Sandbox is most fun, but those campaigns give a nice start with getting players used to different things.

[Manouche]

And so did you download and install the Doctor Mode DLC ?
It doesn't do by itself. You need to actively yourself download and install it or you won't have it.

[GasMaskFox]

It is just like Project Highrise, you keep make bigger goals by yourself and try to run the hospital without going bankrupsy

[ModerNertum]

Originally posted by swagen2167:

I had such high hopes for this game. But after you setup your clinic, which granted takes some doing, there is nothing to do. The doctors go about their business treating patients and you just sit and watch. You don't have to issue commands or guide them in any way. It just runs by itself. In short, it's kind of dull. I'd like to be able to control everything such that if I don't issue commands the place falls apart. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

What am I missing? Is this essentially the game?

You can actually take over all patients in the department. Its under the department overview window (management mode). That is how I play this game actually because the AI for the doctors automatically is not the best, sadly

[Docsprock]

Even in Sandbox mode this is a challenging simulation.

Build your perfect little clinic, child's play.

Then you need to add a radiology department. Then a labs department, then more doctors offices, elevators, specialty departments and so on. All the while making money and dealing with staff issues.

Definitely not boring.