Exactly.

The wait times generwte more missery than the original disease.... are you my country's health secretary?

I can see 1 thing, in the first term without, that the student happiness as gone from an average of 77% (over 37 terms) to in less than 1 term 83% and may even rise more.

They're useful for whenever you want to restart a map and 3 stars it.

@@TriPham3 I only had two templates each. I'm still keeping them. No big deal.

If they put out a patch that fundamentally fixes the queue system, I will absolutely put out a "proper" video for these two rooms.

i think you are not getting the point, the med/pastoral are being used and that is the problem..

@@silent1mod I think that person meant fix the students' behaviour and how they ignore their needs while queueing, which would make the rooms more viable.

They could also adjust the penalty for medical and pastoral issues to make it worth having those rooms.

@@Pinstar Does the issues with the queuing system also affect tuition rooms?

That was part of my research that soured me on the running club, seeing a rash of students getting day dreaming. Even with very effective layouts, you cannot stop all issues. Book worms, for example, can be caught by anyone visiting a library. Some student types or classrooms can spawn issues naturally too (As you saw from that goth pastoral issue). Keeping the preventable ones at bay lets you tank the hit from the unavoidable ones.

Spiffinmore has a-lot of issues before the invasions that give people -happiness. If i was going back id probably blank slate it and remake as buildings and rooms u start with aint well designed, also its first level u hit with difficulty to needs and learning speed and most likely use less optimal rooms or place need objects away from hotspots or no where nesr enough

Dark Magic level 3 (100% goths, which spread happiness), General Knowledge 3 (warm bodies who pay more for being happy than they would in traditional tuition), Wizardry 3 (To help make more efficient use of the potion rooms I need to build for Dark Magic, and to help maintain the campus). Music 1 (soon to be 3) as it has an array of student types that help improve the mood or needs of other students. I'll probably go Funny Business afterwards.

@@Pinstar Did not know that wizardry students help maintain the campus. Interesting!

@@isabelmccann2411 I went with funny business and dark arts due to the goths and clowns traits. I then added scientography because funny business requires a science lab. I did consider musicality due the serenaded buff from the busker type student but decided against because it required two additional room types in the form of the recording studio and computer lab besides the standard lecture theatre.

@@davidlittler8512 interesting. Is there anything against archaeology, with its financial advantages?

@@isabelmccann2411 They'll hocus pocus away litter and empty bins when they're happy, similar behavior to the rebels but they have a neat little magical animation when they do it.

I do hope they fix the behavior and I will absolutely put out a revised video with "proper" rooms when and if they do. It feels bad to completely ignore a game mechanic, and worse to be punished when you try to properly interact with it. I've got my eyes on the news feed and will analyze and test any patches that claim to address the problem.

Not quite. Additional diagnostic rooms in TPH do snarl your patient flow, but they are sometimes legitimately needed for the more difficult illnesses that your GP cannot one-shot diagnose by themselves. I'd equate them to the surgical centers in TPH. If you are in a hospital that has the occasional surgical illness patient, but doesn't focus on them, it is often better to not get into surgery and just turn those patients away than deal with the headaches that surgery brings you in TPH. Even then it isn't a perfect allegory. The problem with surgery in TPH, besides needing 2 staff members, is the sheer length of time each operation takes as well as how quickly many surgery illnesses drain patient health while they wait. Medical/Pastoral rooms cause their issues by their flawed queue system. Luckily an untreated medical/pastoral issue just leaves a flat penalty on the student rather than draining them over time or making them drop out if left untreated for too long.

I should use them more, but they take up a lot of wall space which is a problem for rooms that are very wall-dependent for either objects or decorations.

@@Pinstar that's true.

I'm sure this behavior is not their intention. They probably, during playtesting, saw that levels that introduced medical/pastoral issues were more difficult which was the goal, not realizing that it was the rooms themselves/ not the issues, that was causing the difficulty. Possible solutions would be to handle it like training slots (first come, first serve, everyone else who missed out goes about their day normally), let the player set the queue length (so you could set it to a maximum of 1), or give untreated medical/pastoral issues steeper penalties, making players over-build their rooms.

Spam romance items and romantic movies. Never had an issue meeting romance requirements doing this.

Kiosks, despite having queues sometimes, are not nearly as harmful as pastoral/medical room queues. Students seem to have to arrive at the kiosk to begin queueing at all, so you don't have a case where the next person in line is halfway across campus and everybody has to wait for them to walk all the way there. If a student fails to buy their food/drink because of class, they don't obsessively return to the same kiosk after class, ignoring all their other needs. If medical/pastoral room queues worked like kiosk queues, they wouldn't be so harmful.

That's an interesting idea. If you're patient enough, you could even hire the staff for them during the break and fire them when done, only spending the recruiting fee and saving a lot of money. This can ensure all students start every year with a clean and happy slate. I'm not sure how necessary it is though.

There is merit in the idea, though you'd either have to get lucky with the new hire pool having medical/pastoral assistants available for the summer, OR keep them on the payroll during the year. That said, graduation is the ultimate cure of any medical and pastoral issue, which a certain portion of your students will be doing each summer.

@@Pinstar Lately I've been using an assistant that was in marketing for the rest of the year.

I have an updated video coming out today. However, this video is still relevant to console players who don't have the patch yet