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Building your dream park inPlanet Coaster 2takes a lot of planning, but it’s possible when you have a bit of help. Whether you walk through the main scenario on your own or you choose to experiment on your own in the sandbox, your creativity is limitless.
With a bit of guidance, you can get started on the right foot. From building pathways to increasing your park’s popularity, we’ll help you start designing the perfect park for all of your guests. Here’s everything you need to know about running a theme park to get started in Planet Coaster 2!
Hire Entertainers
One of the staff members you’ll likely overlook at first is the entertainer. As they don’t have a clear purpose right away, like the janitors, lifeguards, and ride attendants, it’s easy to think you don’t need them–but you do!
Placing entertainers in your park willhelp boost the guests' moods, ensuring they have a great time and keep coming back. There are a variety of mascots to choose from, and each of them adds a touch of whimsy to your theme park. You may not love all of them, but your guests will!
Research Better Facilities
Using your research points is important. Not only can youunlock new ridesfor your park, but you can even unlock solar panels to power the rides and attractions.
Having these advanced attractions and resources ensures that you’re able to power your park and provide limitless entertainment to your guests. Continuing togrow and developwill lead you to new possibilities in your park, and you’re more likely to see an influx of guests.
Decorate Your Park
Another feature you shouldn’t overlook is scenery. Every ride in your park has a scenery rating, and guests will notice it. The scenery can make or break a ride, drawing in a crowd or leaving only a handful of hopeful guests.Giving a ride a themecan make it easier to decorate, andassigning staff zonescan keep theme-specific entertainers in the right place.
You wouldn’t want to go to a theme park that lacked any sort of theme, so why would your guests? Take the time tobuild shells around facilitieslike bathrooms and shops andadd seating, trash bins, and other decorations.
Customize Pathways
You can decorate the park in a variety of ways, but you can alsocustomize the pathsyou create. From creating queues to enter rides to winding roads around the amusement park, you’ll need tohave clear pathways for the guests and staffto use.
You can alsoraise and lower the pathson PC using the shift key!
Building staircases is one thing, but you can alsopaint over the pathsto match a theme or give your park some more color. With somany customization toolsat your disposal, make use of them to make your park a thriving business!
Have A Variety Of Rides
Even if you have a favorite coaster, it’s important tohave multiple ridesto appeal to as many guests as you’re able to.Flat rides are smaller and less intense than a full rollercoaster, but you’ll need both types of rides in your park to increase the rating for variety.
Guests ofall ages visit your theme parks, which means you need to have attractions they can all enjoy. This doesn’t mean you need to have extreme coasters everywhere, buta balance between calm and chaotic ridesis preferable.
Also, don’t forget tobuild pools and flumesto draw in a wider audience!
Take Out Loans
Station platforms for coasters cancost you tens of thousands of dollars, despite the track pieces being far cheaper. Plus, you’ll want tokeep your employees well paidso they don’t quit on the spot and leave you in a bind.
Money is hard to come by when just starting out, and while it may seem like a bad idea, you cantake out loans to get the fundingyou need right away.
The loans don’t have to be a burden. You canpay them back at any timethrough the finances menu in any amount. Just be warned that you canonly take out so muchat a time, and the longer it takes to pay back, the more money you’ll owe.
Check In With Your Guests
Thereputation hinges greatly on what your guests think, whether there’s enough food options for them, what the weather looks like, and many other factors. Whileyou can’t control all of them, you’re able to provide ways for guests to have a good time no matter what.
you may see what your guests are thinking byindividually checking on each of their thoughtsor you cansee a broad overview in the guests tab. Seeing what aspects of your park need improvement according to your guests willhelp you build a better and more successful park!
Schedule Your Employees
While guests are the bread and butter of the park,your employees are essentialto running the whole operation. From the vendors selling delicious food to the ride attendants letting guests onto the attractions,each of them has a schedule, salary, and break time.
You canview the staff schedulefrom the staff tab and see how content each of your employees is. You can also organize the work schedule to ensure that there’s plenty of coverage each day–which means thatrides won’t go unattendedand there will be fewer pauses in the business day.
Experiment With Rides
You’ll learn what works best for you byexperimenting with different ridesand attractions. The sandbox setting is perfect for this, as you canplay freely without worrying about consequencesin the main campaign.
Test out platforms,see what the limits are for guest tolerances, and play around with different settings to see what makes your park work well. You’re sure tofind a balance between what you like most and what works bestfor guests.
you may save your designs for later use if you love them!
Charge For All Services
Need to use the bathroom? There’s a price for that. Got rained on and need to use the body dryer? That’s another charge. While small charges like this might annoy you,your guests will pay themso long as they’re reasonable.
If you need to make more money for the park,consider lowering the price of entryto entice them to shop more. Alter the cost of tickets for each ride to direct traffic and build a better reputation. Evena charge of $0.10 can make a differencewhen you have thousands of guests lined up!
