Call is not cancelled from the call dispatcher when a patient died or left the hospital

[ghost]

I am not sure if there is already a similar issue available, it might be possible that i read something like that, but i can't find it now.

In the savegame is a Slack Tongue room. A patient was there and he died, now when i put the doctor on the corridor he is walking to the Slack Tongue room, where is nobody.

I think when a patient dies the 'job' should be removed from the room or the doctor (or where ever it is not removed).

savagame (v103): http://filebin.ca/29zAra871sQ3/whereheisgoing.sav

[MarkL1961]

Perhaps he has no other place to go right now and the logic in the game is for staff to return to their last room until needed. Is a Dr needed somewhere else?

[ghost]

• the doctor was in an other room
• the patient before the Slack Tongue room died
• the doctor finished his stuff with other patients in the other room
• the doctor is leaving for the Slack Tongue room
• in the savegame i put the doctor, on his way, back to the GP's office, and now when i put the doctor out of the GP's office on the corridor he is walking to the Slack Tongue room ...

[MarkL1961]

Confirmed, the call is not getting cancelled in the calls dispatcher

[ghost]

I had a short look into this, a call of a patient is not cancelled when the patient die() or goHome().

The functions self:unregisterCallbacks() and self.world.dispatcher:dropFromQueue(self) don't do anything in this case (or at least it doesn't cancel the call)

[mugmuggy]

Looked at TH by building GP and one of the diagnosis rooms. Place doctor in the diagnosis room. Waited for patient, as soon as patient leaves reception, send them home. Doctor leaves diagnosis room and heads to GP office anyway. So behaviour appears consistent with the original.

The question would then be how changing this would sit with the game balance. As having a doctor go to the room, wasting that time is a punishment for not having staffed rooms, staff close enough and dealing with patients quick enough on top of the reputation impacts.

The other side of the argument is something of the point in #1290. Not so evident in your game here with only one Doctor, but for what should be addressed overthere, is that staff that are wandering the corridors could answer calls further away than a staff member leaving the current room to make this less likely to have staff shuffle rooms.

[ghost]

@mugmuggy that also happened with several doctors, staff and an overcrowded hospital (no more space, no more money, not enough stuff, ..) where patients die or leave. But it isn't visible as if it is overcrowded other patients are waiting for the same room, mostly. It might be visible with rarely used rooms, only. But should easily reproducible, too.

[lewri]

Just to update this one still exists in 0.67