Large Hospital

[clubberdude1981 0]

Not sure if this is the correct place for this...

I'm new to modding buildings, and am thinking of designing a model for a large medical centre.

The design will be largely based on the design of modern hospitals in the UK - though will be of a higher density than those found here.  

I'm thinking of making the medical centre about 8x8 or possibly 10x10 tiles. This is a more realistic size for a hospital than the ingame medical centres. The intended trade off is that a single hospital will serve a larger population (maybe 300,000 people, covering most of a 4 x 4 km city square).

A few things i need to know are:

1) Is there any way of changing the parameters in game to make the service size and range larger?

2) If this is possible, is there any way of calculating a scaling factor for the capacity / service range of the new hospital in terms of the number of old large medical centres?

3) Would a medical centre of this plot size appeal to the community? I've found that with large city populations, many large medical centres are needed to satisfy the population - hopefully this will remedy that somewhat.

Any advice on this would be very helpful

Cheers

Chris

[JakeMD 107]

1) yes, in the in game query menu, or there is the plugin manager, wich is required if you are going to BAT this.

2) i dont understand, sorry.

3) I dont really think it has any effect, mabye there is a setting you can adjust on landmark effect, or something like that, good luck man.

P.S., there are already a couple like this on the STEX, but i am hoping to see a teaser soon!!

[Silur 3,301]

Hi. Clubberdude1981 ...

You can change all your civic characteristics with "SC4 Plugin Manager", or "Ilive Reader", or "Dat Gen", or "Ilive LE Prop" from Simtropolis ....

Great success ...

[clubberdude1981 0]

The second point was just that I hoped to set say the capacity of this new larger hospital to around that of about 8-10 times that of the large medical centres - firstly to reflect the larger plot size, and second to make it so that only one or two of these hospitals are suffucient for a large (4km x 4km) city square. 

Cheers for the reply

I might start one of the buildings tonight actually. I've found a building that i'm hoping to base one of the sections on (Watts building at the university of Brighton).

[clubberdude1981 0]

Also, I found that the file for one of the other, smaller projects I started (A council house) seems to have become unopenable, I guess the file has somehow become corrupted.

Is this a common occurrence?