Hospital Patient Capacity

[MayorBCL 11]

I'm working with a modded hospital like MaxiMed, or Memorial Hospital.  Whenever I get about 2 million residents, it doesn't matter how many hospitals I build, all of them have the same patient number and capacity.  I used the Ilives reader to jack the capacity up to 999,999, but when I get back into the game, the capacity isn't nearly that high, and the same problem ensues.  

Any thoughts?

[rsc204 21,866]

There are limits on the capacity you can assign to such buildings, not to mention such changes are not dynamic. I.e. you have to remove and re-plop them before you will see the changes. Not to mention, you may find if you've modified the settings, trying to delete them will cause a CTD. Otherwise you will fall victim to the Phantom Slider bug.

You must remove all hospitals from your game, save the cities, then add your modified lot and re-place them all. See the attached file, that's as high a capacity/radius as you can make the hospital go, but it should help.

Large Hospital with full coverage.zip

[MayorBCL 11]

Thanks a million, rsc204!  Is there a guide/manual or online table I can access that gives the highest mod limits on these types of mods?

[rsc204 21,866]

Not that I know of, it took me a lot of trial and error to get this one right.

You can go higher, but you have to balance a number of different properties, it's not as simple as altering the capacity and being done. As such, I felt simply having the full radius was a real plus, because now you can place multiple hospitals to bump capacity and still get full coverage without needing a ridiculous number of hospitals in a city.

I have for example another modded hospital, St Addielines by Ill Tonkso:

I gave that a capacity of 42,000 and the same radius. In a large dense city it can work well as a single hospital without capacity problems. But, it's important to note that Maxis made all such services, schools, hospitals, fire, police etc to stack effects, when multiple buildings of a given service are in a city. So one huge hospital won't give as good health to the people, as many hospitals, even if the numbers (capacity) would make it look that way at first glance.

What I find useful to balance realism v.s. this is to make a series of small lots, modded like the small hospital (PIM-X makes creating them a doddle). So a few "dentists", "doctors offices", "pharmacies" etc, using pretty much any building that can fit into a residential or commercial area. Whilst being modded as a hospital (health service) works for me. You can do the same for the other services too, in fact some such buildings do exist on the exchanges if you dig around.