help with modifying hospital capacity

[smadill42]

In an attempt to reduce space taken up in my city (by clinics) I was hoping to modify the patient capacity of my hospital to a large number (around 250,000). However when I went into the sc4tool I found that the max patient capacity I could have was 32,000. I have noticed some hospital bats where the capacity is higher such as the bywater springs hospital. When I opened it in the sc4tool it had a higher number than 32000, and when I tried to change that number higher it wouldn't let me.
Does anyone know of a way for me to get my capacity higher than 32000?

thanks

[RippleJet]

Seems like an unnecessary restriction imposed by SC4Tool.
Obviously you need to use Reader in order to be able to give a higher capacity.

In Reader you need to change two properties, giving them both the same value:

• Hospital Patient Capacity
• Catalog Capacity

Both those properties are Unsigned 32-bit Integers, so they can take any value between 0 and 4,294,967,295.

[smadill42]

awesome thanks. I will give that program a try.

[smadill42]

worked like a charm. I think I'll be using the Ilive tool from now on 

[Andreas]

IIRC, simrolle used certain values in the properties.xml as boundaries, in order to keep the integrity of the files. Maybe the hospital capacity was described incorrectly, so the error carried over to SC4Tool.

[spinmaster]

My apologies if this should be a new thread, but my question is right in with this... just in the opposite direction. I'm trying to tweak a rural clinic (from shmails "Complete Rural Set"), for my own use to have very large radius - enough to cover most of a large tile - with much lower capacity. I've done this with similar lots, including other "rural clinics." But for some reason with this clinic only, if I drop the Hospital Patient Capacity below 500 (0x000001F4), it doesn't get used at all. I'm using iLive Reader, the Catalogue Capacity is originally 240 (0x000000F4) and HPC 768 (0x00000300). I've tried several combinations, trying to get the HPC to 350, including setting CC to 350 as well, setting it to 6D (same value in proportion to original values)... no luck. With HPC at 500 it's fine; at 499, it's dead, whether I change CC or not. Is there another Item in the exemplar that could be causing this? Something that, in relation to HPC, might render the lot invalid to the simulator? I know it's not a "hard limit for clinics" as I've tweaked a few others to much lower values for HPC.

[RippleJet]

The "minimum capacity" is set in the Residential Simulator
(SimCity_1.dat, TGI 0x6534284A, 0xE7E2C2DB, 0x69189C84)
with the property Hospital Capacity Chunk Size.

That property has 3 reps, giving the smallest capacity allowed for:

Medical Clinic	500
Large Medical Center	500
Disease Research Center	2000

Similar limits are set for educational buildings through School Capacity Chunk Size.