User Guide

RUNNING A PARK
Building the park is the part of the job that allows you to flex your creative
muscles, but that’s only half the job. In order to be a successful tycoon, you
must both maintain what you’ve built and manage the business of the park.
Staff
The day-to-day operations of your park can be quite overwhelming.You are
responsible for the maintenance of complex machinery that — if something
goes terribly wrong — could injure or even kill innocent park guests.The park
is overrun daily by hundreds of visitors, and you’ve got to prevent the less civi-
lized among them from making a mess, breaking things, and ruining the expe-
rience for the rest. It seems like quite a task, and it is, but luckily you’ve got a
dedicated staff at your service who, with a little management, will mind the
details for you.
Hiring Staff
There are four types of employees to help you manage daily operations.
Clicking the Staff button opens the Staff window, where you can hire and
manage park employees.
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• Average Speed – The average speed over the length of the entire ride.
• Ride Time – How many minutes the ride lasts.
• Ride Length – The length of the ride.
• Maximum Positive Vertical G’s – The maximum gravitational force exerted
on a rider.
• Maximum Negative Vertical G’s – The maximum negative gravitational
force exerted on a rider.
• Total Air Time – The amount of time a rider experiences weightlessness.
• Inversions – How many times riders can expect to be flung upside down
during the course of the ride.
The Ride Statistics tab also contains a Save
button (diskette icon). Click on this to save the
track design to disk.
H. Data Log – This tab lets you watch a real-time
graph of physics at work on your rides, in four
categories: Velocity, Altitude, Vertical Gs and
Lateral Gs. On coasters, this is used to identify
what spots may need banking pieces to make the
ride less intense.
I. Financial Data – Click here for a snapshot of
the ride’s income, running costs and profits. If
you are playing a scenario where you charge
admission to individual rides, this is where you set the ticket price.
J. Guest Data – This tab contains statistics related to guests, including how many
customers have ridden the ride, its popularity, queue time, and more.There are
three buttons on the right side of this window that let you bring up windows
related to guests thinking about the ride, riding the ride and standing in line.
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The Save button on
some rides will allow you
to save the track design
plus any additional theme
objects or scenery around
the ride. Click on the
objects around the ride
that you want saved.You
must test a ride and gen-
erate statistics before you
can save it.
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