User Guide

Transport Rides include miniature trains, monorails, cable cars, and the like. These are
generally used to transport guests from one section of the park to another, but some
guests also enjoy the sightseeing aspects of the ride. Multiple stations are allowed
(and sometimes required) as destination points.
Mild Rides consist of low- and no-thrill rides suitable
for all guests (especially children). The Ferris Wheel
and Merry-Go-Round are good examples of mild rides.
Roller Coasters are the big draw. Depending on the scenario and your research, you could
have access to any of several types of roller coaster technologies designed to twist the
lunch from your brave guests’ bellies–wooden and steel coasters are only the beginning.
Thrill Rides fill the intermediate range in intensity between the mild
rides and the coasters. This category can include attractions like
Swinging Ships, Dodgems (bumper cars), and Go-Karts.
Water Rides includes anything that threatens to get your
guests all wet–everything from rented rowboats to water
slides to H
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Shops and Stalls covers all types
of vendors and facilities–food,
drink, information, and even toilets.
Within each category, you can click on the picture of each type of ride to get more information.
All the pertinent details on the attraction you select appear in the lower half of the Ride Selection
window. Among other important data, this readout always includes the approximate cost of
construction.
Once you’ve chosen what you wish to build, click the Build This button (in the bottom right-hand
corner). The Ride Selection window closes, and you proceed immediately to the Construction
window, which is described in detail in The Construction Window.
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:
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A Note on Slopes
Two adjacent sections of footpath connect to one another automatically, but only when at
least one of them is on horizontal, flat land. Footpaths placed side by side on sloped land
squares run parallel and do not connect.
The Free Path button allows you to construct supported paths that defy the slope of
the land. This is what you use for making raised paths, bridges, tunnels, and piers.
This is a bit more complicated than placing paths that conform to the land. (For
step by step instructions, please read the Footpaths section.)
While you are building a free, supported path, there are a number of buttons available for your
use that are not relevant for conforming footpaths.
The directional Arrows
determine which way the
next section you build
will go. To change the
direction of a path segment,
click the appropriate arrow button.
The three Slope buttons control the inclination of the next
section of path. To change the slope, click the button you
prefer. Note that if no next section of path appears (you see
only the pointer arrow), that means that you cannot build the
section with the slope you have selected in that location.
Add This builds the next
section of the footpath.
Before you build, check
the cost of the section; it’s
listed at the bottom of the Add This
button. The more support a section
needs (the higher a bridge or the lower
a tunnel), the more expensive it is to build.
Demolish removes the section of bridge you have just built–not the ‘blinking’
section (which isn’t built yet). You can also use the right mouse button to
remove sections of any type of path, as well as any objects in your way.
New Ride
As we’ve explained elsewhere, new rides are the cornerstone of any park’s popularity. When you
decide to build a new ride, you click the New Ride button. This opens the Ride Selection window,
which holds the tools you use to construct everything from toilets to roller coasters.
The tabs at the top of this window
correspond to the various categories of
rides and other attractions. Click on a
tab to see the specific possibilities in
each category. (If they don’t all fit in the
display at once, use the slider bar at the
bottom to see the rest.) Note that as you
complete research projects, new and
different choices might be added to
those already in each category.
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