Plywood Studios

This hospital is only available via the Culture Shock DLC. To unlock this hospital the player will require a 1 Star rating in Flemington.

Welcome to Plywood Studios, where the producers of a new medical drama have asked you to run their show. They want a real administrator to add "validity, dynamism and an amusing, gimmicky quality". On the show, titled "Back Wards", Roderick Cushion will be playting a senior doctor who's inexplicably forgotten all his training. They've decided to call the character Dr Roderick Cushion, because, well, I'd actually rather not get into that again. It's just simpler for Mr Cushion, okay? Let's leave it at that.

To produce a compelling, County-gripping hit show, you'll need to work on developing your main character, Dr Roderick Cushion. People don't like characters who tread water, it reminds them of their desperate, repetitive existences. Roderick won't fraternise with the rest of the cast on his breaks - not on his salary! - so he's got his very own trailer. If you can't find him, he'll probably be in there. Oh, and to inject some urgency into proceedings, the actors will be curing, trying to at least, real patients. What could go wrong?


 * Balance - 150,000
 * Reputation - 50 REP
 * Hospital Level - 1
 * Hospital Value - 150,300



Roderick Cushion
Roderick Cushion will be the sole member of staff present in the hospital at the outset of the level. He functions similarly to any other doctor, with two distinctions:
 * The player may not select room assignments for him, he will work in any room for which he is qualified (including skills that must be trained), although he can be picked up and manually placed.
 * He will take his breaks in his trailer in the centre of the map. He cannot be picked up while he is inside.



Pilot Episode

 * Train Roderick Cushion
 * Build a Marketing

Requests and Reviews
Now that the show is fully underway, we'll start to receive requests from the show's producers about what they think should happen next. If they see their ideas make it into the show we'll receive some additional funding.

People online can be mean about television, or about anything really... When someone says something negative about the show it'll affect our reputation. Luckily we can combat their cruel, cruel words by investing in some Marketing.

1 Star Hospital
Requirements Rewards Unlocked
 * Complete 4 Marketing Campaigns
 * Have Roderick Cushion Diagnose 3 Patients
 * Cure 6 Patients with Stunt Trouble
 * $10,000
 * K100
 * Mudbury Festival
 * Stunt Trouble Poster



2 Star Hospital
Requirements Rewards Unlocked
 * Reputation of 85%
 * Staff Morale of 80%
 * Hygiene Rating of 75%
 * Earn $300,000
 * Have Roderick Cushion Cure 16 Patients
 * $20,000
 * K150
 * Fake Fan
 * False Fan



3 Star Hospital
Requirements Rewards Unlocked
 * Reputation of 95%
 * Cure 25 Patients with Stunt Trouble
 * Have Roderick Cushion Cure 20 Patients
 * $30,000
 * K200
 * Golden Statuette

Producer Ideas
An additional form of funding comes in the forms of suggestions from the producer, which may occur in the following formats:
 * Diagnose 10 Patients - $30,000
 * Cure 3 Patients - $20,000
 * Cure 3 Patients - $40,000
 * Cure 3 Patients with Stunt Trouble - $50,000
 * Have Roderick Cushion Cure a Patient with Lightheadedness - $30,000
 * Have Roderick Cushion Cure a Patient with Stunt Trouble - $30,000
 * Have Roderick Cushion Cure a Patient - $20,000
 * Have Roderick Cushion Cure 3 Patients - $40,000
 * Place 1 Action Poster, Rom-Com Poster, Zombie Poster & Shark Bin - $10,000
 * Place 2 Action Poster, Rom-Com Poster, Zombie Poster & Shark Bin - $15,000
 * Place 3 Action Poster, Rom-Com Poster, Zombie Poster & Shark Bin - $20,000
 * Complete A General Marketing Campaign - $30,000
 * Complete an Illness Marketing Campaign - $30,000
 * Spend 6 months on any marketing campaign - $50,000
 * Hire 1 Staff - $20,000
 * Train 3 Staff - $40,000
 * Kill Off a Patient - $25,000
 * Kill Off 3 Patients - $40,000
 * Allow a Machine to Explode - $60,000

Illnesses Encountered
1 Since Headcrabedness is a rarer variant of Lightheadedness, and not its own illness, any patient, normal or VIP, may have it instead.

Trivia
If the player constructs rooms facing the Scene A plot, construction equipment will overlap existing hospital rooms during hospital expansion.

Plywood Studios' savefile is named 928.