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money. Heed their needs; use this information to adjust your park in
order to keep them happy.
This window tracks the thoughts and actions of all your guests, both
individually and as a group.
The All Guests tab offers a constantly updated snapshot of each
guest’s thoughts and actions. You can switch between the two
using the small arrow. The total number of guests in your park
appears below the tab. You can tell at a glance how a guest feels by look-
ing at his or her face icon. For example, happy guests smile, but sick
guests look green. Use the scroll bars to move up and down the list and to
read the ends of long messages. Click on any guest in the list to open the
Guest window for that person.
The Summarized tab collects all the guests into a constantly
updated display of trends in their thoughts and actions. (Again, the
small arrow lets you switch between the two.) This is often more
useful than the listing for individual guests, as it tells you what most of
your guests are thinking, and allows you to pinpoint the most troublesome
problems. Click on any group in this roster to return to the All Guests
display, with only the guests in that group listed.
Staff
Park staff must be monitored. No matter how specific the orders you’ve
given each one, they have a tendency to not do their jobs exactly as you
had in mind. Just as you monitor your guests, you should also oversee
your park staff. One convenient way to do this is in the Staff window.
This window has four tabs, one for each type of worker you can hire.
Each display catalogs your employees of that particular type, providing
easy access to every staff member. The four displays are different, but all
of them include a Hire New button (with the worker’s monthly salary listed
below it). Click this button to add a worker of that type to your staff.
Handymen have four possible jobs: sweeping footpaths, watering
gardens and ornamental plants, emptying litter bins, and mowing
grass. Use the small arrow to select a uniform color.
A Mechanic both inspects and repairs rides, as needed, unless you
choose to limit him to one or the other duty. Use the small arrow
to change the vest color of all mechanics.
The larger the monthly stipend you apportion to research, the
more quickly you’ll get results.
♦ Each of the Research Priorities has a check-box associated with
it. Clicking any of these boxes toggles inclusion of that particular
category in the research effort. (A check denotes an included item.)
You may include as few or as many as you wish — even all or
none. If you leave no items selected, no research goes on, but you
still pay for it.
♦ If no further developments are available in a particular
research category, it is grayed out. The research possibilities are
different for each scenario; not all items are available in every one.
It’s up to your R&D team to find out what can and can’t be discov-
ered, then to invent it for you.
Rides Info
The Rides Info window allows quick and easy access to an abundance of
data on all the rides, attractions, shops, and stalls in your park. The
busier and more crowded your park becomes, the more important and
useful this window becomes, as it provides a speedy overview of park
operations at one glance.
When you open this window, all the structures you’ve built are listed,
along with their current status. To view other information, simply click the
small arrow to find what you want to know.
♦ In most of the information listings, you can use the Sort button to
arrange the list. How they are sorted, of course, depends on the type of
information currently displayed.
♦ You can open or close all the rides and attractions in your park by
clicking on the green or red lights in the upper left corner of the window.
Clicking on any attraction in the list opens the corresponding Ride or
Shop window.
Guest Info
The Guest Info window is a tool most park managers would love to have.
With a simple click, you can find out what your guests are thinking, where
they’ve been, what they’ve done, and where they’re going, and how each
one is feeling. Your guests came to your park to have fun and spend
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