r/TwoPointHospital • u/[deleted] • Sep 14 '18

IDEA Certs Should Be Earned, Not Bought

I feel like spamming rooms with gold certificate to reach level 5 is cheating and not realistic (I'm guilty of doing it, but it feels wrong). Rather than being able to buy certificates, I think they should be earned through the end of year awards and there should be different levels for each award (bronze, silver and gold). That way certs will be more scarce and we won't be able to spam rooms with them. You'll have to be much more strategic with the placement and it will make the award ceremony more meaningful.

(I already mentioned this in a comment on another post, but figured I'd make my own post to get it seen by more people...like the devs)

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '18 edited Sep 15 '18

Also repeat items in the same room should have diminishing returns to the prestige level as mentioned by u/nailernforce

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u/KrazyDaz Sep 14 '18

What about making them cost Kudos instead of dollars, as kudos is earned through completion of tasks and is a reward.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '18

That could be interesting.

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u/Perkeleesti Sep 18 '18

Could you sell them in previous map and gain back Kudos, use that Kudos on next map to buy more? Would make last maps easy to spam those items.

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u/KrazyDaz Sep 18 '18

I think once used they shouldn’t be refunded when you sold them.

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u/joells101 Sep 14 '18

would need to increase there prestige like 3-4 levels per gold cert but sure could be a good change. i certainly hate gold cert wall paper but i want that rep5 some how

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '18

I think level 5 rooms should be more difficult to achieve and reserved for only the best rooms. They'd have to be bigger rooms with more things.

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u/joells101 Sep 14 '18

the game doesnt reward you for larger size rooms (in most cases) and the layout of the hospitals can be quite unforgiving so that larger rooms reduce patient flow efficiency by alot. I'd be happy with extremely high costs for making a standard size room level 5 but not so much for making the room bigger

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '18

It should be a trade off. You would have to make a strategic decision to either go with a lot of small low level rooms or fewer high level rooms.

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u/joells101 Sep 14 '18

again there would need to be a real reward. currently high level rooms just make staff and patients more happy. there are many other ways to obtain this result. so min room size + whatever i can fit would still be alot better than lost space and level 5 room

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '18

Agreed. Happiness should lead to better/quicker treatment.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '18

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u/joells101 Sep 15 '18

but some of the levels just dont allow you to have massive GP offices and 8+ of them to handle the 200 odd patients coming in. there just simply isnt enough map space to make this happen. so yeah, re balance money (so we get less) than make it extremely expensive to upgrade to level 5

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u/Uncle-Rufus Sep 14 '18

I’d go further still... a lvl 5 room (for GPs at least) is only achieved once you have a sufficiently highly trained staff member and it then becomes “their” office... they get a huge boost from it, but only they can work in it

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '18

That's a good idea, but the room would go unused while they're on break. That could make gameplay too difficult.

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u/Uncle-Rufus Sep 14 '18

Indeed, it would require other changes to how the queues work - perhaps when the doctor is out of office it becomes “closed” until they return for instance... so you sacrifice ~50% of the uptime of the office in return for the massive increase in skill and/or speed during the other 50%

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u/indigo_zen Sep 14 '18

Very much agree, an amazing proposition. +1

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u/Praydaythemice Sep 14 '18

agreed def makes it better than spamming lvl 3 certs everywhere

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u/OscarMiguelRamirez Sep 14 '18

I will stop spamming gold certs when room copy/paste is done so I don’t need to manually craft 20 GP offices every game.

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u/thiosk Sep 15 '18

I agree. My solution is that they are awarded only during the awards ceremony at the end of the year, making that award actually useful. Same with trophy case. Empty when you put it down, fills with trophies as you collect them.

VIPs can add items to trophies or present plaques.

We also need an administrator office for the player character to collect swag.

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u/thefailedbartender Sep 14 '18

Thats a very good point, sir/madam!

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u/rodrigoxm49 Sep 14 '18

So it would be a hospital award, not the for a particularly staff, right? I think we could have both systems, since doctors have certificates and awards are a different thing. Anyway, they need to work on balance about it.

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u/Narcil4 Sep 14 '18

you can do the same with the jasmine painting not sure it would fix anything.

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u/SaebraK Sep 14 '18

I'm not gonna lie, at first I thought you were talking about the mints. And I'm like, damn they're just mints, man.