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The third tab calls up a graph of your Park Value. This is a some-
what elusive number, calculated by expert assessors to reflect
what the park is worth in terms of land value and equipment
owned, the quality and profitability of the rides and the park as a whole,
and the park’s overall public reputation (as determined by the Park Rating).
The Weekly Profit graph tracks your financial history on a weekly
basis. This is the most volatile of all the statistics presented here,
because each data point reflects such a short time period. The
important datum here is the Current Profit, listed at the top. If this is a
negative number, you’re losing money right now, and chances are good
that you need to change something.
Marketing features a number of professional campaigns you can
undertake, each with the intended result of drawing greater num-
bers of visitors to your park. The marketing campaigns you cur-
rently have in operation appear at the top of this category, and a list of the
available marketing campaigns follows. For details on the different cam-
paigns and instructions on how to get one underway, please refer to the
Marketing section.
Research
In order to develop new rides, shops, and scenery, and to improve on
existing rides, you need to devote time and money to research. Researching
new amusement technologies will expand your options, enabling you to
build different rides and improve on your existing rides, and novelty
attracts more guests.
The Research window contains only two tabs.
Current Research shows what new project your team is currently
researching, when it’s due to be completed, and (below all that)
the most recently finished development. Click the button in the
bottom left-hand corner to see details on the latest novelty and to have the
opportunity to build it into your park.
Research Funding is where you determine which types of projects
take priority and the amount of capital funneled each month to
your R&D team.
♦ Click the small arrow beside the Research Funding setting to
adjust the level of expenditure you want to go toward research.
Finances
In this respect the park business is no different from any other enterprise
— finances are vitally important. Success is a matter of meeting your
goals, and that means sensibly disbursing your funds. The Finances
window helps you do just that.
This window embodies five categories of key information and options that
allow you to both track and modify (within limits) your pecuniary position.
Using the reports under these tabs, you can find out where your money is
going and coming from and how it’s working for you. You can also adjust
the amount of your bank loan and give orders to your marketing agency.
The Expenditures and Income tab tracks your outgoing and
incoming monies on a month-by-month basis. This chart provides
the most in-depth report of exactly where your money has come
from and where it has gone. Look to the bottom of this category for the
following information:
1) The amount of your Loan. You can use the up and down arrows to
borrow more or less money, in increments of one thousand. Increase
your debt in tight situations, and pay it off when you’re swimming in
profit. Remember, though, that the bank is not a wellspring of infinite
funding — you can only borrow so much.
2) Your Cash-on-Hand or operating capital (COH). This figure increases
as guests spend money (or you demolish attractions and footpaths),
and decreases when you pay expenses. COH also increases and
decreases as you borrow from or pay off the bank.
3) Your Park Value, shows, obviously, how much money your park is
worth. This value is relative to the rides and attractions you’ve built,
in addition to amassed revenue.
4) Your Company Value is equal to the total of your Park Value added to
your COH, minus the amount of your loan.
Click the Cash tab to see a line graph of how your COH, minus the
total amount of your bank loan, has increased and decreased over
time. The current total is noted at the top, and unless your COH
exceeds the amount of your loan, this number is red to indicate that it is
negative.
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