The number of npc employees... especially ones actually doing anything is far too low.. to the point where its impossible to treat everyone and they get mad and leave causing a performance hit... im rushing diagnosis and just guessing because there simply isnt enough time to fully diagnose them before people get mad and leave.. there needs to be more active working employees.... or less patients... because as it stands right now its literally impossible to get to them all even with quick weak diagnosis's.
Even the detective and scientist have more employees.. and you dont even need to interact with any of the employees there at all as far as ive seen. (besides special objectives requireing you to talk to them for whatever reason.. but those arent all the time).. but for the doctor.. especially starting off you need other employees or the career is impossible (especially if the doctor leaves work)
What kinda hospital only has 3 employees anyways? 2 of which dont do anything because only the doctor is actually useful for anything and the other just makes the beds/makes repairs ect.
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It's a bit disappointing because I really like the play style of the career - although the hospital needs to be smaller or more compact in general - too much time is wasted trekking between the X-Ray machine and the hospital bed.
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I agree! I just posted this on the GTW feedback forum. This track definitely needs some tweaking. Hopefully they add something in the next patch because it's kinda messed up how unplayable the hospital track really is. How did they not see this? Do they honestly have testers they check this game out beforehand?
I like that it's a little stressful. I imagine it is irl too. Thank goodness my doctor is always in the lab for me to transfer cases to. Then she goes and diagnoses and I can give meds or shots afterward. It's too bad the analyzing samples takes so long before you can do the next thing. The other worker just kind of stand at one patients bed all day.
It would be great if the receptionist could lead the patients to the beds, but I guess they don't really know when a bed is available.
Try getting to R.N level.. it goes from kinda busy to downright crazy/impossible.. especially since after R.N level you lose progress towards promotion if you fail to treat a patient or they leave because you didnt get to them in time (with like 20 sims waiting at the front desk its impossible to get to them all so you have no choice but to accept the performance hit)
As i said the doctor career desperately needs more employees that actually help out.. or less patients.. especially after R.N level when things just get completely crazy.
On top of that.. there might even be a bug with doctor career causing nonstop performance loss all the time (as some people seem to never be able to raise it no matter how hard they try)
i think... 6? im not sure but i think it was 6.. thats when the real problems with the career arise.
i was one of the people who could never get past R.N stage.. i eventually gave up and switched to scientist... no matter how hard i tried.. even with completing all daily objectives the performance bar never rose.. and i never got promoted.. even after like 2 sim weeks so i quit.
It was probably a bug as i said before.. other people have noticed this happening after R.N stage as well or at least i think i remember someone else here mentioning it.
The slow part was waiting for surgery patients to come in and pass out.
On a side note I am at level 8 in the Doctor's career and I only have one goal that is to deliver a baby. No pregnant women have been coming in! 🐸🐸🐸🐸?
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> All you have to do is focus on your goals in the upper left hand corner. Do that and you won't take a hit. I only admit & do other chores if I have the time.
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> On a side note I am at level 8 in the Doctor's career and I only have one goal that is to deliver a baby. No pregnant women have been coming in! 🐸🐸🐸🐸?
yea, that's what I been doing is just following the performance tasks one by one and each day I been leaving work with a full performance bar of completed task. I also just admit and do other things in between if I have the time. but unfortunately I most like never do.
-I have the same problem with lack of workers. im so happy I found this forum because I swear I thought it was my game that was messed up or something, I was going to start over. I have 1 doctors 1 nurse and 1 receptionist, oh and me. that's unacceptable for a DOCTOR career. huge hospital for just 4 people? not good. we need a patch ASAP
I tried 2 mods called "Always keep a doctor" & "More staffs at hospital" (you can find them on modthesims.com) but hopeless.
They do provide more staffs, but they are all orderly and nurse, they can barely help me to diagnose and treat patients, even admit the patients to beds. All they do is chatting and I am the only doctor in the hospital.
Remember that I am a doctor, not a superman :pensive:
I don't know, I guess it doesn't bother me if they get mad and leave - that just means it's one less person to treat. I don't know why the game has to generate more Sims being sick then you need to perform your duties but oh well.
I do think the doctor career needs to implement the scientists ability to direct employees. I mean, I have the worst orderly ever at my hospital. She's always just sitting at the computer (not even using it) and making it impossible for my Sim to write up reports. She doesn't even move when I tell my Sim to use the computer.... would be nice to be able to direct her to go clean or be useful.
You don't do all the jobs .. you just do your tasks and you will advance. Ignore the front desk. I rarely even get to know other employees unless I find them interesting.. and so far that's only happened once.
I just made it to Dr and I'm excited to play it later tonight again.
Anyway, I think since EA has created (or rather those companies they bought) more than one 'hospital' game actually several under EA's umbrella they could have taken some of those ideas (which it seem they did the illnesses) and made other Sims at least contribute to our Sim's duties.
At least go ahead and cure them silly Sim and get a new one at the door.
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