User Guide
You should take a good hard look at the area you’re planning on putting paths through. Make a
plan in your mind before you begin construction. Even though you do get a refund whenever you
remove a path that you misplaced or changed your mind about, the return is never as much as
the price of paving (so you lose money on the deal). To build ground-hugging footpaths:
Click the Footpath button (on the Toolbar).
This opens the Path Construction window,
and the mouse pointer changes to
include a footpath icon.
• Next, select the type of paving you want to use. There are four options:
Tarmac is simple paving.
Stone is a fitted layer
of cobblestone.
Dirt is a tamped dirt footpath
(the least expensive option).
Tiled is a patterned path built
of decorative bricks in odd
shapes (“crazy paving”).
• Position the mouse pointer over the land square where you want to begin paving.
• Left click to pave the square. To pave over long trails in one fell swoop, you can hold down
the mouse button and move the mouse along the path you desire. Every square you pass over
is paved. Release the mouse when you’re finished.
• If you need to remove a section of path, right click on it. You get a partial refund of the cost
of paving.
Note that you can use the various paving options to repave an existing path in a different style.
This costs less than building new sections of footpath.
Crossing Paths
When you create two sections of footpath adjacent to one another, they are connected at an
intersection, but only when at least one of them is on horizontal, completely flat land.
Footpaths placed side by side on sloped land squares run parallel and do not connect. That
means you cannot create a path along the side of a hill
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Queuing Lines
Queuing Lines are special footpaths that lead guests form the main path to a ride Entrance.
These lanes are also the area where guests who are patiently waiting their turn to get on a ride
do their waiting. Without a queuing line, a ride draws much less custom, because those guests
who cannot board when they reach the Entrance simply turn away. These paths include
distinctive blue and white paving tiles, along with convenient handrails to make their purpose
quite clear to your guests.
To build a Queuing Line, you follow exactly the same process as you do when paving footpaths.
(In effect, the Queue Line is simply a fifth type of paving.) There is only one difference:
Make sure to click
the Queuing Line
button as your
paving type selection.
There are a few concerns you might want to keep in mind when creating your queues. Some of
these might seem obvious, but others are not quite so self-evident.
• No matter how attractive you find the blue and white tiles, Queuing Line should not be placed
anywhere except as a passage to connect a ride Entrance to a footpath. The distinctive
appearance of queue paving alerts your guests to its function, and you do not profit from
confusing the visitors to your park.
• Be very careful how you place the sections of Queuing Line. The first one that you place
adjacent to an existing path becomes the entry spot for the queue, and it’s easy to
accidentally connect before you intend to. It’s often best to create the queue first, before you
run a footpath to meet it (and the ride).
• Build the queue for an attraction longer or shorter depending on the popularity, the load size,
and the wait time you expect for the ride. For example, a roller coaster will require a longer
queue area than a slide, because the more exciting ride is more popular, each train load
carries far more passengers than the slide’s maximum capacity, and the ride on the coaster
takes longer to complete. In general, the longer you expect your guests to be forced to wait
for a ride, the more queue area you should provide.
• You do not need to build a queue for any shops or stalls, only for rides.
Working the Line
If the wait for a particular ride is excessively long and there isn’t much you can do to relieve
the situation, your guests can become restless and unhappy in line. You can hire an
Entertainer and assign that person to “work the line”–patrol the queuing area regularly. This
tactic often relieves some of the tedium of standing in the queue, and can mollify your
stranded guests.
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