Sanatorium: Are services really necessary?

[SoftwareSamurai]

I've built 3 domes, each with a Sanatorium, covering all 7 treatments for colonists. I put in a gym, a grocery, and a diner. But I'm having trouble keeping the grocery and diner staffed. The colonists I assign to them tend to leave after a short while. I'm beginning to think that perhaps for a Sanatorium dome, a grocery and/or diner isn't really necessary. What do you think?

 

[Promethian]

I'm sure when they go insane and gain more negative traits it won't undermine what you are trying to accomplish with the Sanatorium.

 

[Damocles316]

The sanatorium itself isn't really worth it, in my opinion. While it does cure a decent number of flaws, it doesn't handle the big one. The rest are a little annoying, but I'd rather nearly any other spire instead. It just doesn't provide enough benefit to be worthwhile considering the opportunity cost.

 

[skrilla]

I'm having trouble keeping the grocery and diner staffed. The colonists I assign to them tend to leave after a short while. I'm beginning to think that perhaps for a Sanatorium dome, a grocery and/or diner isn't really necessary. What do you think?

It sounds like that's a dome filter issue, do you have e.g. a university dome with a thumbs up for non-specialized?

For me, grocery/diner/park is a must in every dome. Keeping the morale up gives them better work performance which lets them graduate from the sanatorium faster. (also holy cow three sanatoriums! I'm a martian miser, I just build one and have it treat the most common flaws, switching to the next most common when one is eradicated.)

 

[Sirveri]

I really wish the Sanatorium would treat all the flaws instead of me having to micro them for each dome. It's really irritating.

 

[Skirlasvoud]

I really wish the Sanatorium would treat all the flaws instead of me having to micro them for each dome. It's really irritating.

Huh. What I do is have two domes with two Sanatoriums.

I thumb up the flaws that can be cured by the Sanatoriums in those domes, then I thumb down those same flaws in all the others. Providing my colonists with a means of transport and a place to live in the sanatorium domes, it mean that all of them travel there to be cured automatically. I'm not using all that much micro.

 

[FeiXue]

Vacuum Dome treats all really harmful flaws. Faster than Sanatorium, too. But you get get Sanatorium+ mod in workshop that does the same (except Renegade which isn't flaw per se)

 

[jpinard]

Do you even need to fix those bad traits in your games... honestly?

 

[SoftwareSamurai]

Eh, I thought I would give it a try just for fun.

 

[LorimerLonghaul]

for me, using the sanatoriums is just about me trying to build the most perfect martian colony (or some BS like that).

I run into problems tho where my colonists graduate from the sanitoriums and stay in the damned domes, taking up housing space needed to cure other ppl.

Also, i think colonists are limited as to how many traits total they can have, so if u have gurus and project morpheus etc, you might be missing out on perks because of the presence of flaws. unless i'm wrong and they are calculated separately...

 

[Smiles_]

I'd like for there to be some more meaningful gameplay around sanitariums and/or colonists in general. I look forward to continued updates.


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[jpinard]

I'd like for there to be some more meaningful gameplay around sanitariums and/or colonists in general. I look forward to continued updates.


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I have a mod that will do this. I'll post it soon when I make sure everything works with the new patch.