User Guide

• Click the small arrow beside the Research Funding setting to adjust the level of expenditure
you want to go toward research. 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 greyed 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 discovered, 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 information window for that structure–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 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 looking 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.
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.
The third tab calls up a graph of your Park Value. This is a somewhat 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 numbers of visitors to your park. The marketing
campaigns you currently have in operation appear at the top of this category, and a
list of the available marketing campaigns follows.
For details on the different campaigns 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
funnelled each month to your R&D team.
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