RollerCoaster Tycoon, 1-Ride Start...

What would it take to build an entire theme park based on profits from a single attraction? Today I'm exploring this question in Roller Coaster Tycoon. It's been almost 25 years since this game was first released in 1999. A combo game about building roller coasters. and kill your guests, my favorite stage in this game is the micro Park, but since I wanted to try different roller coasters than the ones in the original Roller Coaster Tycoon, I decided to create my own custom stage where I would

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with no money and only one attraction to Make a profit Could you build an entire park based on the profits from this attraction and what attraction would it be?

Unfortunately, most prefab roller coaster homes have treads that are simply too big to fit in the micropark, so I was forced to build my own custom roller coaster, something extraordinarily silly and short. I

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ed my experiments with the junior coaster, the mini coaster, the bell tower, chasing the wild mouse, unfortunately, none of these were a success, most of the guests refused to

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the more primitive rudimentary Coast ERS, the coaster. slow and boring junior roller coaster the mini roller coaster a wild boar to behold and the wild mouse not so wild after all the only candidate i discovered on the list that was dumb enough to work was the airp powered roller coaster but it wasn't me , it was from one of Marcel vos' videos.

I'm a big fan of Marcel, so if you're watching this I recommend you watch his videos. It may not seem exciting, but in some ways it is. This

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lasts 2 seconds and is capable of generating more than $23,000 profit per hour so in March of year 1 I opened the park and started the experiment my first attempt after my failed designs on other inferior roller coasters this air powered roller coaster was An instant hit more and more guests flocked to the small plaza eager to board the train for the chance to spend $16 on the expensive roller coaster despite some people's fear of the roller coaster it was such a hit with most I had to build an ATM so they could keep taking out more of their money to ride the roller coaster again and again the line was going out the door, so I had to extend the line to accommodate the tremendous success of our ride. soul.

Unfortunately, a cash flow of $23,000 per hour is still not enough to earn the scenario goal of achieving a park value of $100,000 by October of year three later. This is all the point of the micro Park game, so I decided to throw it all away. I would have to restart the challenge completely. Too much time had passed and it would simply be impossible for me to win. I also made the disastrous financial mistake. to build a ramp 20 stories up, then ran out of money and unfortunately had to demolish it. On the second attempt, the air-powered vertical roller coaster was great, but it was simply too intense for some of the guests, so after a brief attempt I entertained the others. with balloons and food stalls I started another of the bright and attractive frame roller coaster designs to occupy the rest of my guests on the corkscrew roller coaster, perhaps the simplest of all, consisting of a single piece half a corkscrew launched at the minimum speed which sends two cars frighteningly close to the edge of the track and then reverses just before it's about to go off the edge the ride lasts a somewhat thrilling three seconds the attraction itself takes up only four full spaces of the amusement park and is perhaps the design Most efficient roller coaster in the entire game The result was an overnight success Customers were no longer too afraid of the roller coaster The intensity level of this acceptable era was not too high to scare anyone like its brother powered by air I built a park starting with just one of them, but built up to five in virtually no time, this park was profitable and successful much more than the first.

People loved it, they couldn't get enough, but it still wasn't the most profitable park possible. What if I could? somehow combine the two attractions, what would that look like? After some trial and error, I came up with a brilliant layout: a park where two cork screw roller coasters sat inside the air-powered roller coaster tracks, the lines snaking up and over the coaster's tracks. air-powered roller and back to the main path of the park to allow customers to queue. The result is an incredibly packed park that generates almost 40,000 per hour, complete with concession balloons and, for some reason, an information kiosk in case you're stupid enough to get one.

I lost, it may not be space efficient, but you have to admit it looks pretty good for just three trips and to top it all off, it was enough to earn exactly $100,000 in just three seasons. Somehow I still hadn't achieved the goal of the scenario. I guess I should. I actually spent the money and reinvested it into the park rather than just letting it accumulate within my bank account, but again I felt like I had found something perhaps even more exciting than the original One Ride Micro Park challenge I had encountered. I started out thinking, you know honestly, I had accomplished my goal of beating the Park micro, but I felt strangely dissatisfied, so I decided it was time to up the ante.

What if I still started with one attraction but this time I gave myself so much space? as needed, so I rebuilt the entire stage from scratch. I prepared a new theme park, a theme park to rule them all, not a park of amusement but a park of wonder. Still, I started with $0 and this time only one attraction, half a corkscrew. before the end of March 1st it was enough to allow me a second, then a third and a fourth roller coaster before you know it. It could hardly spend the money fast enough to keep up with consumer demand for approval, and popularity grew.

I was considering applying. an automatic hotkey script to build the rest of the rides, but instead I decided to make a blueprint of my two coaster designs in the track designer. If you play Roller Coaster Tycoon enough, it eventually becomes a factor, stops being happy, and starts obsessing about the rides. I multiplied but there was no variation everything was exactly the same over and over again in different colors once I used up the rainbow colors I started making everything white because you can't pause the game while you're building and I just couldn't keep up with the big amount of vomiting my guests were producing after their intense walks.

I began producing repeat patterns of the exact same roller coasters, corkscrews, and air-powered vertical coasters, and by October of the first year I had crossed over. valuation threshold of $100,000 and profits skyrocketed, although the vomit situation required constant maintenance and cleaning, both literally and figuratively, there was vomit everywhere, the sheer volume of vomit produced by over 1,000 guests being They had fun was perhaps the only thing that prevented us from realizing it. We were exploiting our full potential as an amusement park, so to combat the general public's growing distaste for the putrid, ungodly state of the pedestrian trails, I hired more maintenance staff who diligently swept up piles of vomit wherever there was vomit, in question Within seconds there was a man with a broom waiting anxiously to sweep up the accident.

From this point on, perhaps it would be more Germaine to describe the amusement park as a factory. I built the same ride over and over again and when it got too crowded in the center of the park I filtered the foot traffic through small highways Above The Coasters that lead to each other, the same roller coaster and then beyond the same coaster. Russian again and again before you know it. He had an assembly line of the exact same roller coaster over and over again. The guests couldn't seem to get enough, they loved it here. We were making money so fast and it was getting so crowded and full of vomit that the park's rating started going down, so we had to hire more maintenance staff and let them airdrop.

Disaster areas with high levels of vomiting saved more than $300,000 in less than 2 years. A wonder to behold, so I decided to use all the leftover funds to build as many prefabricated roller coasters as I could surrounding the hellscape of the theme park. When you zoom out, it looks pretty impressive. Although I didn't put any effort into it, at least the money-making strategy was creative and there weren't many other options now, I just couldn't keep up with the renovation costs and the number of clicks required to keep the park running. then I built 58 eight Corkscrew signs on the corner.

I just felt like I needed it and hired over 125 maintenance people because I couldn't keep up with the vomit on the floor anymore, all with plenty of time to spare. the Grand Final, on October 3 of the year. He had built a park worth nearly $2 million, all from a single attraction. Ultimately, I think that's what I like most about Roller Coaster Tycoon and maybe computer gaming in general, it's a game that lets you start watching. up close something simple and easy to understand, then build it and twist it until it becomes this giant, intractable but beautiful aneurysm of a sight that you can step back and admire from a distance, like something found in nature, even though it's still depicted in oversaturated pixel art from 1998.

I hope you found or remembered something to enjoy here. I am an ambiguous amphibian. Many thanks to my clients who have never died on a roller coaster until next time.