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Two Point Hospital Research Tips

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Published: November 30, 2024 2:14 AM

Research is a vital component in Two Point Studios' Two Point Hospital, the spiritual successor to Bullfrog Productions' Theme Hospital. It's the vehicle through which you unlock new treatment options and upgrades for those options, but it can also be an arduous, expensive process that will hamper the progress of your level. A single level exists that is perfectly suited for solving this problem: Mitton University. We'll explore how best to take advantage of this level's unique bonuses in this Two Point Hospital Research guide. 


The first thing you need to understand is how research works in Two Point Hospital. Doctors need to first be trained in the Research skill or hired with the skill already acquired. Much like Surgery or the M.E.G.A. Scan, a doctor won't be able to work in this room without this specialized training. The first level allows them to do this particular job, and levels II-V each increase their effectiveness by 50%.

There are three important elements concerning research. The first is unlocking new treatment options, the second is generating Kudosh, and the third is simply generating money. You will be able to research new machines once you've begun a level or discovered a new disease that requires specialized treatment. After that, you'll only be able to unlock Level 2 and Level 3 upgrades once you've actually built and/or upgraded the machines in one of your hospitals. Unlocked treatments are available across all of your hospitals, so you don't necessarily have to discover these new technologies and upgrades at the same level that you need them.

Mitton University

Enter Mitton University. This level is placed relatively early in the game and is thematically set at an institute of higher learning. Star goals aside, it has two particularly excellent bonuses available: a $10,000 bonus for every time you complete research and a $5,000 bonus for every employee that you successfully train. These bonuses make Mitton University ideally suited to act as your research hub for every hospital in your organization. As an added bonus, you can wholly avoid building this room in most of your hospitals, saving on costs and avoiding some of the game's most annoying micromanagement.

two point hospital mitton university training
Mitton University is, unsurprisingly, a great place for learning and research. We trained 4-6 doctors at a time to quickly advance their skills.

The first thing you ought to do is make it to Mitton University and get one star on the level through the usual means so you can progress in the game. Once this is done, you should restart the level so you begin with a blank slate. Although this might seem counterintuitive, you don't need to actually service patients at a hospital to keep it going. We'll be using our starting money to build only four rooms: a research room, a training room, a staff room, and a bathroom. You won't even build a reception desk or hire any assistants--you don't need them.

Find and Train Doctors

Once your research room is built, it's time to find doctors. Finding doctors with the right qualifications is sometimes difficult in Two Point Hospital, but another unique feature of Mitton University is that all doctors and nurses have no skills trained, whatsoever. Hire at least a couple of doctors and a single janitor to maintain the facility and get them trained in Research skills. You'll then immediately put them to work in your better-equipped research lab.

two point hospital mitton university overhead
Here is the layout used for our research hub in Two Point Hospital. The monitors on the walls each boost research by 1%, although they cost $8,000 each. Do this setup right and money won't be that big of a concern.

Your main focus for the immediate future will be hiring doctors and training them up until you have a crew with Research V. Each research room can only accommodate 5 doctors apiece; we recommend going with at least two distinct rooms. It gets to be demanding to micromanage more rooms, but it can certainly be done if you really want to put the effort in. Keep in mind that you should keep your money above negative values; your only income will be through successfully completing General Research and the bonuses you get from completing research and training. If it gets too low, you can take out a loan. Bear in mind two important facts: you will need $1,000 to begin a new project and hitting -$300,000, which would certainly be a feat in such a low-cost hospital will cause you to lose the level.

Buffer Cash

We like to keep money above $200,000 at all times so that we have a sufficient buffer of cash. As we played through the game, we would come back to Mitton University to research the new technology and then zip back over to the current hospital. When we could upgrade a treatment option, we again returned to Mitton University. If our money at Mitton dipped below $200,000, we would stick around for a bit and run some General Research until we were above the bar again.

Generate Kudosh

Aside from unlocking new technologies and upgrades, you can also generate Kudosh. Kudosh is the special currency used for unlocking new items in the game. Many of them are simply decorative items, but quite a few are incredibly useful functional items that no hospital should be without. Pay special attention to any items that boost diagnosis power (like the Medicine Cabinet) or add a lot of Prestige to a room (like the Gold Star award). You should also note that the "Items" list on the HUD won't show you everything; you'll have to check out the individual item listings for each room to see what kind of special unlocks there might be. These can mean the difference between a cured patient and a dead patient, and Two Point Hospital is the kind of game where you want to give yourself every advantage that you can.

You'll still get plenty of Kudosh through beating in-game quests and completing Career challenges, but the boost you can get from Mitton University will be plenty helpful. Once you have most of the stuff unlocked, you can transition towards running a proper hospital with all of the staff you'd need to service patients. Until that time comes, Mitton University is great for keeping the rest of your foundation running smoothly.

Patient-Free 

One might be tempted to use this patient-free strategy to build up a nest egg for other levels. We tried it on one of the game's last few levels on a lark and it can certainly work, but it's very grindy and somewhat unenthusiastic in the long term. It's also a good bit more difficult without the unique features of this particular level. Regardless of how you decide to do things with your foundation, you're now well-equipped with some great tips for Two Point Hospital.

If you don't yet own Two Point Hospital, you can pick it up for yourself on Steam and on the Humble Store or your regional equivalent for PC, Mac, and Linux. Be sure to check out our review and you can head to the game's official page to find our other articles like us taking a look at the Off the Grid DLC


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Game Page Two Point Hospital
Developer
Two Point Studios
Publisher
SEGA
Platforms
PC
Release Date
August 30, 2018 (Calendar)
Genre
Tycoon
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