Jun 11, 2020, 04:25 AM
OK ladies and gentlemen,
I answer a few questions here and open a few more.
I started the same map again but with a few changes. Link to scenario below.
Big Tip My greatest success was my biggest downfall. The train ride. It's very popular, it makes $7000 an hour profit. I made big long queue sections for it, that was a mistake. The ride itself can hold 192 passengers and there was another 800 people waiting in the queues for it, that's getting towards half the population of the park either on 1 ride or waiting for it. If they're doing that then they're not spending lots of money very quickly elsewhere. I shortened those queue lines to just 2 squares each and there was a noticeable improvement in attendance at other rides.
It still wasn't great though. By clicking on people leaving the park and checking all their stats I noticed that many of them were hungry and thirsty so I added many more food and drink stalls and a few more toilet blocks. By the way, people don't start leaving your park until April or May of the second year, and when you check their stats they have spent 48 minutes in the park. A lot of the maths in this game is seriously messed up, check what rides people have been on and how much they've spent, none of it adds up. How can someone spend $13.87?
The ride prices have been greatly reduced, $0.80 and $0.50 for most of them. $1 for coasters. I still make about $1800 a month profit but now food and drink and shop sales make up about 65% of that.
I added 4 more mechanics. There is now no need to use any cheats and you don't need to micro-manage the park, it takes care of itself. As previously mentioned it's really 4 separate parks linked by a train ride, mechanics and janitors can't catch the train so they're stuck in their respective areas. It really pays to know which area of the park you're looking at and which mechanic or janitor you are moving around, there's 2 mechanics and 2 janitors in each section. If you leave them alone and let them sort it out themselves you have a chuck factor of 0 and a ride uptime of 199.
Each separate area of the park has about 10 different rides plus 1 coaster. One of the considerations in this design was to use the minimum possible length of road, this means less travel time for both your staff and the peeps. I also put thought into where I put the entrances and exits to the rides, every time someone goes on a ride they exit deeper into the park.
Big Tip Every ride has a Control Box, that little box the mechanic fiddles with to fix a ride. Use the Z key on your keyboard to rotate the ride before placing it so that the Control Box will end up closest to where you want to put the entrance to the ride. This greatly reduces the amount of time it takes for a mechanic to fix a ride.
Bug I set my Balloon Shops up to sell 4 different colour balloons. When you exit the game and start again Balloon Shop 1 sells 4 different colours but all the other balloon shops only sell the default light blue colour. You have to pause and reset the colours on all but one of them every time you start the game.
Here's a link to my latest version of this scenario with the above changes made.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/4ok67egb5e...t.zip/file
Cheers,
Andrew.
I answer a few questions here and open a few more.
I started the same map again but with a few changes. Link to scenario below.
Big Tip My greatest success was my biggest downfall. The train ride. It's very popular, it makes $7000 an hour profit. I made big long queue sections for it, that was a mistake. The ride itself can hold 192 passengers and there was another 800 people waiting in the queues for it, that's getting towards half the population of the park either on 1 ride or waiting for it. If they're doing that then they're not spending lots of money very quickly elsewhere. I shortened those queue lines to just 2 squares each and there was a noticeable improvement in attendance at other rides.
It still wasn't great though. By clicking on people leaving the park and checking all their stats I noticed that many of them were hungry and thirsty so I added many more food and drink stalls and a few more toilet blocks. By the way, people don't start leaving your park until April or May of the second year, and when you check their stats they have spent 48 minutes in the park. A lot of the maths in this game is seriously messed up, check what rides people have been on and how much they've spent, none of it adds up. How can someone spend $13.87?
The ride prices have been greatly reduced, $0.80 and $0.50 for most of them. $1 for coasters. I still make about $1800 a month profit but now food and drink and shop sales make up about 65% of that.
I added 4 more mechanics. There is now no need to use any cheats and you don't need to micro-manage the park, it takes care of itself. As previously mentioned it's really 4 separate parks linked by a train ride, mechanics and janitors can't catch the train so they're stuck in their respective areas. It really pays to know which area of the park you're looking at and which mechanic or janitor you are moving around, there's 2 mechanics and 2 janitors in each section. If you leave them alone and let them sort it out themselves you have a chuck factor of 0 and a ride uptime of 199.
Each separate area of the park has about 10 different rides plus 1 coaster. One of the considerations in this design was to use the minimum possible length of road, this means less travel time for both your staff and the peeps. I also put thought into where I put the entrances and exits to the rides, every time someone goes on a ride they exit deeper into the park.
Big Tip Every ride has a Control Box, that little box the mechanic fiddles with to fix a ride. Use the Z key on your keyboard to rotate the ride before placing it so that the Control Box will end up closest to where you want to put the entrance to the ride. This greatly reduces the amount of time it takes for a mechanic to fix a ride.
Bug I set my Balloon Shops up to sell 4 different colour balloons. When you exit the game and start again Balloon Shop 1 sells 4 different colours but all the other balloon shops only sell the default light blue colour. You have to pause and reset the colours on all but one of them every time you start the game.
Here's a link to my latest version of this scenario with the above changes made.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/4ok67egb5e...t.zip/file
Cheers,
Andrew.