🏥 Project Hospital #9 - Update 1.1 (Campaign 1)

[@aliciawhittom9219]

I understand your argument and realize this video is over a year old so I'm not sure what has changed since. However as far as it not adding anything to the game I disagree. I find this makes it more realistic and immersive. Labs are often their own section of the hospital, at least here. That said the problem becomes patients having to go to the lab instead of the lab coming to them, which is common for ER's and some GPs. IDK I can see both sides.

[@deannascorner8112]

This is so interesting to see this from the future as I’m new to the game and only know it in the recent update (which is even beyond this one it seems) but I love how much you rolled with it all and did your best to make it all work ❤

[@Viper607706]

It also means that you only need three labs, instead of one per clinical department. Plus you dont need all of them for all departments, hemotology next to the emergency clinics is perfectly adequate. The histo lab is more needed in general surgery and the microbiology one for internal medicine. As for 24 hour clinics, most hospitals operate like this, waking up at night with a painful stomach(not in terrible paim) and nothing else isnt an ambulance worthy event. While i do not know how the Nhs operates, Norways counties usually have at least one clinic or hospital where you can go at all hours. Tho normally there is only one or maybe two people there. Most clinics arent emergency ones however, as most just host general practitioners as family doctors. Imho, they did a good job.

[@Blarla]

I certainly see the benefit of needing only one of each and all departments can share them, for sure. I just don't believe that breaking the STAT Lab up into three rooms is adding any value to the game. If they had made the STAT Labs sharable, that would have been valuable. Now we will have increased walking and time for patients, which is annoying to me. But I am totally making a note of which ones are most suited to which departments, thank you for this! I shall share it when I record next. In fact I might share a lot of things you have told me. XD Here we can go to hospital at any hour, would be Accident & Emergency here, clinics I consider more as you say here family doctors, GPs during the day, not open at night. They have morning walk ins but mostly by appointment. For me the word 'clinic' and its nature is a little out of place in this context, but it is just a game ultimately. :) I know I complain a lot about it, but I do really enjoy playing this game. :)

[@Viper607706]

No worries, though please do take what I've written with a small pinch of salt, I haven't finished the game completely, but in short: Hematology lab: blood and serology tests: Seratology basically helps figure out if there's bacteria in the blood, and if so what kind. so Typheus fever can be diagnosed with it among others. As for the other two, The microbiology one i've mostly had a use for with the internal medicine one and the final one has been a bit absent, but I've not yet done much with cardiology and craniology, so it might come more into play there. Also, slight tip: You will never be given a patient that has a disease for a department that cannot be unlocked at that time. I'm unsure when you have access to everything, but when in doubt, you can fast-track using that tidbit of knowledge (the game doesn't allow you to be unable to complete a treatment). This for instance means if you ever have the option between contusions and fractures, then it's always contusions as long as you can't access the orthopedics department.

[@Blarla]

That is fine. I feel the same way with what I say in my vids. ^^ I have completed the game but when it was released. Lots has changed since then and I am learning 1.1 on the fly as we go. So all and any help is appreciated. :) The patients arrive based on insurance companies available which is based around which departments you have, so yeah all patients are treatable, if I build all the things I can, which during this series won't always happen. I do tend to play different when recording to if I was alone, doing my own thang. :)

[@Viper607706]

The usage tends to be calculated based on how long the room is in use, this means patient in the room waiting for doctor or doctor in room waiting for patient. (no nurse to transfer patient) That said, reducing travel time from wards to diagnostic units is a good way to reduce overall workload. There is a way now to move entire rooms.

[@Blarla]

Ah interesting okay. I spotted that new feature actually, moving whole rooms. What a dream addition that is. If I was designing from the ground up it would be different, but I am way too lazy to redesign one already in place. Working with what I've got. XD Hope that is okay? But thank you for the information you are sharing in these comments. I've had no time to really learn about the differences in the updates so this has all been super useful. So pleased you are here and sharing. ^^

[@Viper607706]

​@@Blarla I also don't particularly enjoy building an entire hospital from scratch, yet at the same time, I've noticed that some of the prefabs are absolutely horrendous in terms of space efficiency. I believe all the lab prefabs have a nice two layer system, and add a lot of redundant items, same goes for quite a bit of the other prefabs. Here's the catch however: Anything you build you can store to use later, so if you end up designing something that works well both functionally as well as suiting your aesthetics, then you don't need to go through the tedium of doing it again. some of the other rooms are identical in usage, such as the on-call and nurse stations, so making one prefab and slapping it down in each department when you want to save space might be worth considering. That said, adding another floor doesn't add any cost as far as i know, and so as long as you're near an elevator you can partially ignore the travel distance. (sooo much time is spent walking.)

[@Blarla]

Agreed with those prefabs and I know I can create my own. I did really consider doing this and going for a total sandbox hospital for my series, but I really don't enjoy building in this game at all. All departments are essentially the same, the game is very rinse and repeat in this way, so yeah one does most is very true. Adding floors is free, which seems utterly silly to me. Yes masses of time is spent walking and now even more time is with the new labs. XD

[@Trassel242]

Excited to see the return of this game to the channel!

[@Blarla]

Excellent! Me too as well. :)

[@nicolareed]

So happy to see this back! :D

[@Blarla]

Excellent news! I've been looking forward to getting back into it also. ^^

[@lewiswells6763]

Thanks for returning to this game

[@Blarla]

I really enjoy it. Been looking forward to returning to it. :)

[@mrsmcgann8445]

So Im watching this for the first time, do you still feel the same way about the Stat lab to microbiology theme? I think its more realistic to a hospital setting

[@Blarla]

Hmm, so I know that they changed it, but I cannot remember how they used to do it. All I know is that I am very used to it now. Was it one room before?

[@mrsmcgann8445]

@@Blarla yeah each department had a test room

[@Blarla]

@@mrsmcgann8445 Oh yeah. So I think I would still prefer it to be that way, for the simple reason that you can't see where the workload is coming from on the new method. There is no queue viewing either; everything is just a massive mystery.

[@peluso4oso]

Quickly! Someone add some kind of cat mod!

[@Blarla]

YES!

[@jralf0ns0]

I Wish they add a cafeteria like real hospital as a DLC and cancer treatment centers or departments

[@Blarla]

I would love a proper café as well.