Two Point Campus is a rather laid-back experience, but like your students, it is possible to fail. Some careful planning and clever management skills can mean the difference between a lavish graduation and a series of lawsuits that label your post-secondary institution a scam. Surprisingly, there’s a lot of nuance to running a university, so let us help demystify the inner workings of a functional university. Here are some tips and tricks for Two Point Campus.
Start slow
After you’ve built a few campuses, you know what you’re going to need: lecture theatre, class facility, bathroom, shower room, dorms, library, and so on. Don’t get carried away.
It’s tempting to plop down some new campus buildings and fill them with student facilities, but when you start out, you often don’t have the money to buy everything. If you decide to build a rocking student union, you’re going to find you don’t have the dosh for, well, anything. You need to be very selective about what you’re building to start–extremely selective.
Start with whatever your courses need. They’ll no doubt need a lecture theatre, but only build as many as you need. Yes, you’ll need more later, but you can work on that. Once your course conditions are satisfied, there are a few more essentials to put down. Start with the washrooms because no one can live without them. Build a couple of dorms, but remember, students share them, so be frugal. Plop down some vending machines and a couple of items for entertainment. Finally, you’ll need a library before the year is over. It doesn’t have to be built right away, but students will start flunking if they don’t have a place to study.
Your first-year students might be a bit miserable, but their suffering is necessary so you can start making money to make their successors slightly less miserable. The last thing you want is to be unable to even pay for the basics next semester.
Once you’ve started bringing in some extra money, you should consider upgrading your apparatus. While this should start with you filling out the facilities you didn’t build due to a lack of funds, you’ll get a lot of mileage out of upgrading the ones you have. Upgraded lecture theatres and classrooms will ensure that your students pass the year with ease. They can be pricy, but isn’t a good education priceless? No. It isn’t. There’s such a thing as tuition.
In order to upgrade, you first have to research the upgrades, which requires a research station. Once you have that room kitted out, you’ll need a professor with the research skill. Next, click on the research room and select what you want them to work on. Note that anything with a dollar or kudosh symbol on it will only dole out those currencies. Everything else can be used to upgrade your rooms.
Once the upgrade is researched, just click on what you want to be beefed up and select the upgrade option. You’ll also need a janitor with the upgrade skill.
Hire constantly
Starting out, the pick is going to be more chaff than wheat. Most staff members you get to choose from have exactly one skill point. Training them can be expensive and time-consuming, so it can be a little more prudent to keep one eye on the list of applicants for when someone a bit more deserving of oxygen shows up.
It’s best to check whenever your campus or classes level up. The higher the level of either, the better the applicants will be. Just remember to go back and fire the ones whose backs you built an empire on. If they wanted to keep their jobs, they should have been born with more skill points.
Source: GameSpot
