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- FoolKiller1979
You have two ways to do this. First is when you get the message at the top that says they will be there you will see one or two little icons on the right. One will look like little footprints. Click it. Or when the Vip arrives click on them and the icon is somewhere in their menu. This icon will allow you to schedule what rides, and in what order, the VIP will ride. I found it slightly annoying that you couldn't actually build what they want and then they just do that while they are there. But when you can schedule them you can run them wherever you want. I think you can do that with your custom families too. I know some people cheat the system by having tons of custom families to raise attendance and then scheduling them to do overpriced rides over and over. To me it would just be easier to use a money cheat code.
Well, excitement ratings are a finicky thing. I don't think that I have ever built one that was above Very High.Thats what I was afraid ofYou spend tons of time working on themes and all you get to show for it is something in the eights. I was hoping with all that work that you should get at least into the nines with excitement. I find it realitively easy to get a coaster in the mid sevens without any themeing at all. I guess you just need to theme them out of personal pride on what you can create.
Part of the issue with Excitement Ratings is that they are partly affected by the peeps in the park. If they are looking for an medium or low intensity then it will lower the excitement of a big coaster. No amount of theming can fix that. I had one water raft ride that I went to town on with the dinosaur theming, including going past a tall bush to find a raptor or T-Rex roaring at you. It was low intensity and low nausea, but the theming won me an award and the excitement was through the roof.
Looking at Night Terror, it has such a high intensity and nausea rating that it should be an excitement of about 7.5 (close to Heart Attack). But because of the way I had to build it to be "indoor" the AI sees it as having a ton of underground elements, which boosts me almost an entire point.
Heart Attack and Grand Flight have very little theming. Grand Flight just has a glass arched station and Heart Attack has a laser show in the middle. The theming in Grand Flight is minimal compared to what the coaster is. And the AI doesn't even acknowledge the laser as part of Heart Attack, but when it is on peeps on the nearby pathways will stop and watch it. It actually affects my overall park rating and not the coaster itself.
So, yes, most of the theming is for personal enjoyment more than anything. In the career mode I will put a lot more focus on ride design than theming. If I do any theming it is just because it calls for it. Honestly, when career mode wants you to have a coaster of a certain rating you are better served seeing if you can afford a pre-designed one that meets those specifications.
In Sandbox Mode you don't have time or money constraints so you can spend however long you want playing around. My paths are actually three squares wide with gardens in the middle and all kinds of stuff. I am actually working on themed sections of the park.
My overall plan is to have a water park section and a zoo area. I'm also wanting to design a waterfall coming in from one side that will go into a pond and out through a stream cutting across the board and winding into the animal enclosures. I will put canoes or something like that in the pond section.
I downloaded the theme, which comes with walls and signs and whatnot, then I built the buildings myself around custom stalls. After I built them though I saved the building as a custom structure, so now anytime I build a park I can just bring up custom structures (looks like a wooden framed building) and place it.
I haven't had a chance to do a slingshot one. They look like fun, but when I see them I just haven't had the chance to try it.
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