Topic: Two Point Hospital

@Scollurio
so level of the rooms and decoration affect the happiness, good to know thank you

I love playing it, still and every time I boot it up I can't help but think: "Dr. Mario - what a missed opportunity!" - sorry I bring this up again, but it just won't leave my mind!

Currently on Mitten University, been getting 3 stars in all my hospitals. I won’t say too much to spoil this stage, but I made a mistake with regards to budgeting - something I never needed to worry about but luckily I’m slowly building back up to a sustainable profit.

@FragRed
I am a mitten too , and i did bad mistakes too i had to takes loan to survive, now i am struggling with bad cure rate and not so happy staff, i had tree stars finally but i will hot leave untili fix as much i can this hospital i want a good rate of cure

@aresius Yeah this is a hard level due to the starting conditions and how you have to manage staff from the get go.

Before considering this game, is this game easy enough for Casual or Theme Hospital Veteran ?

@Anti-Matter
I think is in the middle , beside when the sandbox mode will be release you can make the game easier or harder, the campaign has a gradually difficult Starts easy with the first 3 hospital than become harder but nothing impossible just careful management is required , i never played the original game

@Anti-Matter I'd say it's very accessible but if you want to 3-star everything it can become quite challenging. But it's only needed to 1-star each hospital to progress.

Being addicted to theme hospital back when it first came out I was stoked to see this announced. Twas a day one purchase for me. Took me 24 hours to build up the courage to play it because I knew it'd be a 3/4 hours session

@aresius Wait, there’s going to be a sandbox mode for this game?

@FragRed
Yes the sandbox was added to the pc version one year later after the release, , they will add it for all the console version as well at the end of march
You can choose any map from the game and dlc and play with these parameters
Cash: Starting cash can range from $-20,000 to $10,000,000
Kudosh: Starting kudosh can range from K0 to K20,000
Income Modifier: Adjusts the rate that people will pay at the location. Ranges from 0.00 (nothing) to 2.00
Patient Arrival Rate: Adjusts how quickly patients filter into the hospital, after factoring in Hospital Level and Reputation
Illnesses: Defines which classes of illnesses can be seen in your level. Modifiers include All over time (all diseases appear in order of progressing difficulty), Easy (illnesses with a base Difficulty between 10-30%), Medium (Illnesses with a base difficulty between 40-60%), Hard (Illnesses with a base difficulty between 70-90%), Visible Symptoms only (Great fun, only diseases you can immediately see what they are), All from the start (All illnesses present immediately), Bigfoot (Constrains illnesses to only those seen in the Snowfall DLC, requires you to have bought it), Pebberly Island (Constrains illnesses to only those seen in the Pebberly Island DLC, requires you to have bought it), Close Encounters (Constrains illnesses to only those seen in the Close Encounters DLC, requires you have bought it).
Objectives: What's the point of the scenario? None (just build and manage, dang it), Cure Patients (cure a certain number of patients), Cure & Expand (cure patients and reach hospital value/level goals), Moneymaker (well...duh), Research & Training (highlight Research & Training goals), Staff Development (Create world-class staff),
Staff Hiring: Controls how easy or difficult hiring staff is. You have default (good range), Medical Students (all doctors and nurses start out with no qualifications), All Junior (all staff, including assistants and janitors, start out with no qualifications)
Temperature: Temperate (Default, no Air Cons or radiators needed), Hot (Air Cons needed), Cold (Radiators needed)
Rooms: Whether they need to be researched or not
Items: Whether they need to be purchased with Kudosh or not.
Upgrades: Whether they need to be researched or not
Plots: Are all plots available to the player at start, or just the default starting plot?
Staff Challenges: Whether staff can issue you challenges or not
Patient Emergencies: Whether you want to have emergencies in this level or not
VIP Visits: Whether you want to have VIP visits in this level or not
Disasters: Whether you want to have disasters in this level or not
Epidemics: Whether you want to have epidemics in this level or not

They will release the third dlc as well close encounter

@aresius Wow that’s so much customisation! Okay now I’m super stoked for that to get released!!

Best. Game. In a very, VERY long time on any system!

A few questions.

Are Bullfrog in anyway involved in this? I was a big fan of the original Theme Hospital so I’m assuming that means that I’m likely to like this?

One issue I sometimes have with modern day strategy games is that you tend to lose the actual character of the game because they focus on making the graphics good, I’m guessing that isn’t the case with this one?

The other thing I notice is the modern day games don’t tend to have the almost endless amount of gameplay, does this one take a long time to finish.

As an aside does anyone have an idea as the the best modern version of a rollercoaster tycoon esque game?

@JM55
Two of the heads are ex bullfrog, so the game is very similar but with better improvement.
It's not the case the gameplay is good
There is a campaign where your aim is to reach 3 stars in each of the 15 hospitals( but you only need one star to unlock the next one), than there are 3 dlc(3 hospital each) two already included the third will be release later this Month with the sandbox mode(wich make the game highly repayable you can see a post mine above with the parameters you can alter)