User Guide
• Position the Entrance square adjacent to the ride (leaving room for the Exit) and click to build it.
• Construct the Exit in the same way as you did the Entrance.
You now have a completed, but closed, Merry-Go-Round with the required Entrance and Exit, and
the Merry-Go-Round 1 window is open. Next, you must build a Queuing Line from the Entrance to
the existing path (otherwise, no one will be able to wait in line to board the ride, and that cuts
down on business). You also need a path from the Exit to the main Forest Frontiers path.
Click the Footpaths button.
The Path Construction
window opens.
Click the Queuing Line
button (the blue one
with people).
• Move the mouse pointer to the landscape square in front of the Entrance and click once.
The first stage of the Queuing Line is built, and the cost is deducted from your treasury.
• Move the pointer one square further away, and click again to add another piece.
You now need to connect the Exit and the Queuing Line to the existing path. For this, you’ll use
a tarmac footpath.
Click the Tarmac
Footpath button
(the grey one).
• Using the mouse pointer just as you did when building the Queuing Line, build a path from
the Exit to the main path. (Notice the money leaving your account each time.)
• Now, extend the main path to reach the Queuing Line.
Remember
If you make a mistake and build something in the wrong place, you can right-click on what
you built to remove it. You will not get all of the construction cost back, but there is usually
a refund of some sort. (Removing natural objects such as trees does not count as undoing
construction; for removal, there is a separate cost, no refund.)
Now, you have a completed Merry-Go-Round with paths and a waiting area, but it is still closed
(as you can see by the sign flashing on the Entrance).
• To open the ride, click the green light on the right side of the Merry-Go-Round 1 window. (If
the window isn’t open, click on the Entrance or the ride itself to open the window.)
Now you have an open ride, but the park is still closed.
• Hold the right mouse button down and move your cursor to “drag”
the landscape until the park entrance is in view. You see that the
main park entrance sign is still flashing a Closed message.
• Click on the entrance to open the Forest Frontiers window.
Click Start New Game. The tutorial skips
the menu of scenarios (different parks
in different situations) and goes directly
into the first scenario on the menu,
Forest Frontiers.
With the park landscape in the background, the first window shows what you need to do to
succeed in this scenario. Always read this carefully. In the Forest Frontiers tutorial, you have
until October of Year 1 to attract 250 guests into the park and build the park’s rating (a measure
of reputation and customer satisfaction) to at least 600.
Click the window close button to close this window.
Click the New Ride button. The Ride Selection window opens.
Select the sleepy looking face tab (Gentle Rides)
to see the available gentle rides.
• Select the Merry-Go-Round by clicking on the picture.
• Click the Build This button at the bottom right. The Ride Selection window closes and the
Merry-Go-Round Construction window opens.
At this point, the mouse pointer (when held over the landscape) controls where the ride will be
built. The landscape area needed to construct the ride is marked, and a yellow arrow indicates
the orientation of the ride (which is irrelevant for a Merry-Go-Round, but quite important for
many rides).
• Position the cursor between the existing path and the park border fence then click to build
the Merry-Go-Round. The cost of construction is deducted from your treasury, which is tracked
in a box at the bottom left of the screen. (It’s wise to remain aware of how much money you have
to spend.)
Now, you must build the Entrance and Exit for the ride. Once you have established the location
of the ride, you use the mouse pointer to choose positions for both. This is a very important step,
because every ride must have an Entrance and an Exit, and both must be positioned so that you
can build paths to and from the ride, or else your customers will never get there. Every Entrance
and every Exit takes up one landscape square. (Note that the
Entrance and Exit are free; they come as a package with
construction of the ride itself.)
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