Let's Play video series looking at a classic theme park simulator from the 90's created by Chris Sawyer, Roller Coaster Tycoon where you can create and build your own unique themepark complete with rides and scenery.
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Let's Play Created by – A Taylor
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Roller Coaster Tycoon Videogame © Chris Sawyer Productions / Atari
Roller Coaster Tycoon was released back in 1999 and is a construction and themepark management simulation video game. It was released for Microsoft Windows and later it was ported to Microsoft Xbox. It was the first in a long line of games and expansions released under the RollerCoaster Tycoon brand.
▬ Video Chapters ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:09:27.000 – Theme Park Ratings
00:09:35.000 – Number of Guests within your Park
00:09:44.000 – Theme Park Opened/Closed Status
00:09:49.000 – Park Admission Prices
00:10:51.000 – Weather Forcast & Increasing Prices for Umbrellas while raining
00:11:14.000 – Park information
00:11:42.000 – Recent Awards Panel
00:12:07.000 – Building your First Ride – Carousel
00:12:55.000 – Changing Colour of Rides and Entrances
00:13:33.000 – Building Paths and Entrance Queues
00:14:19.000 – Ride Rotation Settings
00:14:52.000 – Ride Capacity Settings and Queue Waiting Times
00:15:18.000 – Ride Reliability Settings
00:17:27.000 – Enabling Ride Music
00:17:32.000 – Renaming your Rides
00:17:52.000 – Charging for Entry to your Park
00:18:10.000 – Ride performance information panel
00:20:06.000 – Removing a Ride
00:20:26.000 – Testing your Ride
00:21:12.000 – Excitement and Nausea Ratings
00:21:39.000 – Custom Track Design Creation
00:22:43.000 – Building Scenery to increase ride excitement
00:24:06.000 – Rotating the Game View
00:29:58.000 – Opening your Park for the first time ever!
00:30:52.000 – Charging Ride admission to match excitement level
Question of the Day:
Have you played Roller Coaster Tycoon before? If so what is you're favourite ride?
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Let's Play Created by – A Taylor
Audio Commentary – A Taylor
Video Edited using Sony Vegas Pro 10
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"You may download and use any screenshots or in-game footage for personal use or non-commercial videos without authorisation. Streaming content through third-party services like Twitch.tv or YouTube is considered personal use." Atari
Roller Coaster Tycoon Videogame © Chris Sawyer Productions / Atari
Roller Coaster Tycoon was released back in 1999 and is a construction and themepark management simulation video game. It was released for Microsoft Windows and later it was ported to Microsoft Xbox. It was the first in a long line of games and expansions released under the RollerCoaster Tycoon brand.
▬ Video Chapters ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:09:27.000 – Theme Park Ratings
00:09:35.000 – Number of Guests within your Park
00:09:44.000 – Theme Park Opened/Closed Status
00:09:49.000 – Park Admission Prices
00:10:51.000 – Weather Forcast & Increasing Prices for Umbrellas while raining
00:11:14.000 – Park information
00:11:42.000 – Recent Awards Panel
00:12:07.000 – Building your First Ride – Carousel
00:12:55.000 – Changing Colour of Rides and Entrances
00:13:33.000 – Building Paths and Entrance Queues
00:14:19.000 – Ride Rotation Settings
00:14:52.000 – Ride Capacity Settings and Queue Waiting Times
00:15:18.000 – Ride Reliability Settings
00:17:27.000 – Enabling Ride Music
00:17:32.000 – Renaming your Rides
00:17:52.000 – Charging for Entry to your Park
00:18:10.000 – Ride performance information panel
00:20:06.000 – Removing a Ride
00:20:26.000 – Testing your Ride
00:21:12.000 – Excitement and Nausea Ratings
00:21:39.000 – Custom Track Design Creation
00:22:43.000 – Building Scenery to increase ride excitement
00:24:06.000 – Rotating the Game View
00:29:58.000 – Opening your Park for the first time ever!
00:30:52.000 – Charging Ride admission to match excitement level
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00:00:00Hello and welcome back to Roller Coaster Tycoon.
00:00:23Today we're actually going to play something that's called Open RCT 2, now what that is
00:00:30is an open source kind of remastered version of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2.
00:00:38There's like new features in the game, there's bug fixes.
00:00:42Also the game has kind of like an ultimate kind of sandbox mode that you can tap into.
00:00:48For example you can go into lots of scenarios and you can actually choose what kind of rides
00:00:55and scenery are researched at the start of the game.
00:00:59Now this is something that you used to be able to do in the actual Roller Coaster Tycoon
00:01:04sort of sandbox mode, they've just taken it a step further and you can do it now anytime.
00:01:10You can be halfway through a level and you can change all those settings which is quite
00:01:15exciting.
00:01:16Roller Coaster Tycoon was a video game that was developed, designed and programmed by
00:01:23a Scottish video game designer.
00:01:25It's an impressive piece of game design and there's been various different expansions
00:01:31released over the years.
00:01:33It came out in the sort of late 1990s.
00:01:36It was developed by somebody called Chris Sawyer who was born in Dundee, Scotland.
00:01:42I think the other game that came out around that time was Theme Park which I haven't really
00:01:47played very much.
00:01:48That was very popular I believe on the Playstation 1.
00:01:53Roller Coaster Tycoon was released on PC.
00:01:56It's all about building a theme park, building rides and managing.
00:02:01Today we're going to play the first of a long series of videos I'm going to do playing through
00:02:06all the scenarios of Roller Coaster Tycoon so I'm super excited about that.
00:02:11Today we're going to play the first ever level or scenario I should say which is called Forest
00:02:17Frontiers.
00:02:18Now this is a sort of basic park, lots of space for us to build a theme park so we're
00:02:24going to go into that in just a second.
00:02:26I think the game was released at some point on other platforms like the Xbox game console.
00:02:35There's been so many different expansions.
00:02:38There was one called I think Added Attractions which I don't really remember very much.
00:02:45There was another one called Loopy Landscapes and I don't really remember much about them.
00:02:53I kind of played the first game and then immediately went on to Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 which is
00:02:59very similar to the first game, it's just got some improvements.
00:03:03What I really like about this game is just how detailed all of the graphics are.
00:03:09The rides, the scenery, the variety of rides that you've got.
00:03:14There's a large number of rides that you've got to choose from in the game.
00:03:19Another thing that's really good about Roller Coaster Tycoon is the management tools you
00:03:26have in the game.
00:03:27One of the things I really liked when I played this when I was younger was all the things
00:03:30that this game teaches you.
00:03:32For example, usually you start a scenario with a loan of money to get your park started
00:03:39and the longer that it takes you to pay off your loan, obviously you get interest added
00:03:44every year.
00:03:45So it teaches you things like having a loan has its downsides because you get charged
00:03:50for interest.
00:03:51It teaches you things like one of the features of the game is you can run marketing campaigns
00:03:57for your park or you can advertise a particular ride.
00:04:02So for someone like myself who was maybe like 8 or 9 or 10, this game was very educational.
00:04:08I think this game is a sort of pioneer in teaching young people and older people how
00:04:14to actually go about managing your own theme park.
00:04:17I'm not sure if anybody wants to be a theme park entrepreneur but I would definitely recommend
00:04:25buy Roller Coaster Tycoon because it is an excellent way to have a grounding in the things
00:04:29that you would maybe need to consider if you're going to do that.
00:04:32I wouldn't be surprised if you ask all the theme park managers in the world, I'd be very
00:04:37interested to know how many of them have played Roller Coaster Tycoon.
00:04:40I think there'd be quite a fair number.
00:04:43Another of the highlights of the game is the music.
00:04:45The music's very good.
00:04:46It's typical theme park music.
00:04:50In particular, the carousel music is very memorable and it certainly creates that atmosphere
00:04:55of being at a theme park.
00:04:57The sound effects are really good in the game.
00:04:59For example, the roller coasters sound incredible.
00:05:03Anyone who's ever built a haunted house in the game, you'll know that there's some sort
00:05:08of realistic screaming going on and general sort of crowd atmosphere.
00:05:13It's very well done.
00:05:15One of the best sound effects in the game has got to be the jingle jangle of guests
00:05:21paying either to ride or enter your park.
00:05:25It's a very satisfying noise.
00:05:28It's a brilliant feature of the game.
00:05:30So if you're just joining me for this let's play video and you're wondering what we're
00:05:36going to be doing, we're going to be playing through all the original Roller Coaster Tycoon
00:05:411 scenarios and we're going to go into it as if it's a bit of a tutorial, just showing
00:05:48you some of the features and then as we go on to the next few scenarios, we'll kind of
00:05:54pick up the pace a bit.
00:05:56Things will be a bit more interesting maybe for you guys.
00:06:00And as I say, you can leave me comments.
00:06:02Another thing I remember when this game first came out was I used to collect and buy sort
00:06:07of PC gamer magazines and you used to always get demo discs and I'm pretty sure I played
00:06:14the demo of Roller Coaster Tycoon and really wanted to buy the full game.
00:06:18I remember going to the game shops, which at that time you had small sections for console
00:06:24games and 80% of the shop was PC gaming.
00:06:28Very different to what you see now.
00:06:30It was promoted quite heavily at the time.
00:06:32PC gaming magazines had lots of colourful pictures of what you can do in the game, definitely
00:06:38was making you want to buy the game.
00:06:40And it was perfect timing to release the game as well.
00:06:42It came out at a time when there wasn't any theme park simulator games out there.
00:06:46It was extremely popular and a big success.
00:06:51For a game to be produced pretty much by one person is pretty amazing and I don't know
00:06:57how many awards the game won but certainly Chris Sawyer definitely deserves to be congratulated
00:07:06on this fantastic piece of video game design.
00:07:11It's incredible.
00:07:12This is a game that I'm sure is going to be loved and enjoyed by many different people,
00:07:18young and old, for many years to come.
00:07:21It's a classic game.
00:07:22I think it's always going to be something that people are going to revisit and new people
00:07:27who've not been around when this game came out, it's an excellent chance for you to have
00:07:33a go at playing this game.
00:07:35So let's get to it.
00:07:37Let's get into the game and build our theme park.
00:07:42Okay, so we're going to play the first ever level of Roller Coaster Tycoon ever.
00:08:07I mean, this thing's incredible.
00:08:12We have got all the different games here that you can play, which is fantastic.
00:08:26So it says, deep in the forest, build a thriving theme park in a large cleared area.
00:08:31Our objective is to have at least 250 guests in our park at the end of October, year one,
00:08:38with a park rating of at least 600.
00:08:40What I'm going to do in these let's play videos is, as soon as I've reached the objective,
00:08:45I'm going to end the game.
00:08:47Just give you a wee taste of the different levels.
00:08:49Obviously if we achieve that before a certain time, then we're going to count that as being
00:08:56a success because we want you to sort of enjoy the videos and not feel like they're too long
00:09:01so that's what we're going to do.
00:09:02So let's click on Forest Frontiers.
00:09:06Right, so this is our park.
00:09:10As you can see, we've got nothing built at the moment.
00:09:12We've got a nice bit of land here and we have our entrance, which is where currently our
00:09:18park is closed.
00:09:19And it's got obviously the name of the park up here, just to show you a few of the controls
00:09:24if you've never played Roller Coaster Tycoon before.
00:09:27This is your park rating.
00:09:29So obviously as time goes on, your rating will be anywhere between 0 and 1000, I think
00:09:34it is.
00:09:35So obviously we want to have a high rating of at least 600.
00:09:39This little button shows you how many guests are in the park.
00:09:42Obviously at the moment, because we're closed, we've got none.
00:09:45So we'll keep an eye on that and hopefully that'll go up as time goes on.
00:09:49We can charge an admission price for entry to the park.
00:09:54At the moment it's free.
00:09:56What we'll do is, I think we'll charge just a pound entry to get to the park because any
00:10:02revenue that we get will help us here.
00:10:05But we are going to charge for getting on the rides.
00:10:09Sometimes you can charge for park entry only and then you can let everybody on the rides
00:10:14for free.
00:10:15I prefer to charge on the rides only because different rides are more popular and less
00:10:25popular than each other and the popularity is quite different across the rides.
00:10:30It's also a better way of controlling the income that you've got in the park.
00:10:35For example, if there's a ride that's not performing very well, you can easily change
00:10:39the prices and things like that with the park, however you're very stuck with whatever price
00:10:44you set, which can be a bad thing, but we are going to charge a pound at the moment.
00:10:50As you can see, it's getting a bit dark, the weather forecast is rain, so I'm probably
00:10:54going to see lots of rain, there we go, right on cue.
00:11:00The problem with when it's wet is that there are certain rides where people won't ride
00:11:04on them.
00:11:05I usually like to charge extra for umbrellas when it rains, terrible I know, but that's
00:11:10what I do, little tips and tricks you can do in the game like that.
00:11:14So going back to the panel here, this gives you a bit more information such as the park
00:11:20size, it tells you the number of rides and attractions, number of staff that we've got,
00:11:27we don't have any at the moment, the number of guests in the park, and the total admissions
00:11:31that we've had to the park, so obviously zero at the moment.
00:11:35Here we've got our objective, and that's just as a reminder of what you have to do.
00:11:41There's also a tab here for recent awards, you get awards for things like being the tidiest
00:11:46park, you get an award for having the most amount of coasters in the country, you get
00:11:53awards for being the cleanest park, you also get negative awards for being the worst park
00:11:59in the UK and stuff like that, or elsewhere in the world, so that's quite an interesting
00:12:04one.
00:12:05So anyway, let's get this park built.
00:12:08Now one of the first things I'm going to build is a carousel, now the reason I do this is
00:12:13because of the music that plays in the merry-go-round, lots of people hear that, I believe, a lot
00:12:17of people have played this game before, so it encourages people to come to the park.
00:12:21So let's build our merry-go-round now.
00:12:23It tells you obviously the cost, which is £460, and tells you a little bit of information
00:12:29about the ride, so here it's got merry-go-round, and it says it's a traditional rotating carousel
00:12:33with carved wooden horses, so we'll click on that, and you'll notice that's orange.
00:12:39So what we'll do is, we'll pop it in the centre there, and we're going to create an entrance,
00:12:47now I'm going to make the entrance here, and I'm going to put the exit there.
00:12:55When you get to your ride, you can obviously select the colouring of it, I'm very used
00:13:00to it being yellow, so I'm going to go back to that, because that's a sort of classic
00:13:05roller coaster tycoon one look.
00:13:08You can also change the type of entrance that you want.
00:13:11This is actually a feature that you only had in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, but because we're
00:13:17playing obviously the version of the game where you can get all the expansions etc,
00:13:22you get all these options as well.
00:13:25I've never seen that before, no entrance, open RCT2 only.
00:13:28That's kind of bizarre, I'm not quite sure what that one is.
00:13:31Come back to that, but yeah, we'll go for a plain entrance at the moment.
00:13:35Obviously we've got to build some paths to get to the ride, so we're going to do that.
00:13:40So if we go to the footpath tab, we can select on the entrances types we want, again this
00:13:47is a feature of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, in the first game you only got the blue entrance
00:13:52line, but we're going to try that anyway just now, because it's quite a nice colour, the
00:13:55blue, and it contrasts with the green.
00:13:57So we're going to make an entrance there, I'm going to just make that a little bit
00:14:06longer, ah there we go, like that.
00:14:09Obviously we've got all the different types of footpaths that you can have, so we'll just
00:14:15keep it the same as what we've got here, so pop that there, so that's our footpath.
00:14:21Going back to the ride, we've got settings for how the ride operates, so for example
00:14:27here we've got rotation mode, how many times it goes round in one ride if you want, for
00:14:34the guests, so we're going to keep that at the default at the moment.
00:14:38You can select how long the ride should wait just before it starts, for example if you
00:14:45want to wait until the whole carousel is filled before it starts, you can set that to wait
00:14:51for a full load.
00:14:52You can also select to wait for a quarter load, a half load, three quarter load, or
00:14:58a fully load, or any load, so lots of options there.
00:15:01It's also got things like minimum waiting time, so you can have like a minimum waiting
00:15:06time there, it's default is 10 seconds, I'm not really sure why there's a minimum waiting
00:15:10time, I would take that off actually, I want to get them on as quickly as possible so I'm
00:15:16going to take that off.
00:15:17There's a tab here that obviously tells you reliability, it's 100% just now, as rides
00:15:23age they become less reliable and they need more inspections by our engineers, like our
00:15:29mechanics.
00:15:30It tells you also the downtime, so if it breaks down it tells you what percentage of
00:15:34the time that it's down.
00:15:37You can also set how often an inspection is carried out, the more frequent the inspections
00:15:42the higher the reliability and the less downtime that the ride has, and it also tells you when
00:15:52it last was inspected.
00:15:54I haven't seen these options before, I think these are maybe features, ambulance, yeah
00:16:01I think these are features of Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, so it's forcing it to break
00:16:06down now, I don't know why you would ever want to do that, but that's there as an option.
00:16:13There's an option here saying ride needs refurbished, I imagine that is kind of like a sandbox option
00:16:19in Open RCT where old rides that are very unreliable you can reset it back as if it
00:16:25was brand new, so that's a good thing to have, because it can be annoying when that happens,
00:16:30especially for roller coasters.
00:16:32And also, oh that's an interesting one they've added as well, it says look at the nearest
00:16:36available mechanic.
00:16:39That's a very good option to have because sometimes you want to know who is closest
00:16:43to fix it the fastest, so that can be really handy that tool.
00:16:48We've looked at the colour options already, this tells you a little bit about the carousel,
00:16:53so it tells you the capacity so you can get 16 passengers.
00:16:56Now you'll notice here I put a path that was like 4 tiles long, I think it does tell you
00:17:04somewhere but I believe from memory each tile you can have 5 people standing, so because
00:17:11we've got 4 obviously we can get 20 people in the queue and then the capacity is always
00:17:1516, so in theory each time the ride fills up there's only going to be 4 people left
00:17:21waiting a little bit longer, but that's okay, 4 is quite a good length I think for the carousel,
00:17:26so that's that.
00:17:27There's obviously a music tab, we can play different types of music, for the carousel
00:17:30you're more restricted on what you can do.
00:17:34You can also call the merry-go-round something different, so we'll take away the 1 and we'll
00:17:39just call it merry-go-round, so you can rename your rides which is good.
00:17:44That button there also allows you to edit the rides, so you could move it for example
00:17:49or you could change where your entrances and exits are, so that's a very handy thing to have.
00:17:58Obviously we've got the price, so at the moment we're charging £1 for entry to this.
00:18:06New Ride Attraction Ferris Wheel, we'll come to that in a minute.
00:18:10So yeah, this tells you how much income the ride's making per hour, you get the running
00:18:16costs, obviously bigger roller coasters cost a lot more to upkeep, and also you get a total
00:18:22profit as well, so that's a good thing to have.
00:18:26Click on here, it tells you how many customers are on the ride at the moment, lots of information
00:18:31here such as how many customers per hour, how popular it is, how satisfied your guests
00:18:37are with the ride.
00:18:39Tells you how long the queue length is, so there's lots of times where the queue times
00:18:47are just too long and people are getting frustrated, so you might want to do something about that
00:18:52and change how long the queues are to stop people getting frustrated, so that's a good
00:18:58statistic there to have.
00:19:00Also tells you the total number of customers, how many guests think the ride is their favourite
00:19:05and it tells you the age of the ride, which could be handy if you're having troubles with
00:19:09breakdowns, you might be able to see that it's 10 years old and maybe needs replaced.
00:19:14And for the carousel, you could just delete it and rebuild it again, so lots of management
00:19:19decisions you have to make.
00:19:22This bit here shows you guests' thoughts about the ride, obviously we don't have any guests
00:19:28yet, so this tells you what people are thinking about the ride.
00:19:32This tab shows you the guests that are on the ride, so they might have thoughts even
00:19:37when they're on the ride, hopefully things like saying they're super excited and the
00:19:41ride's great.
00:19:43Also you've got guests' thoughts who are in the queue, that could be quite handy to see
00:19:47if anyone's getting frustrated with the length of time that they're waiting.
00:19:51So these are all great options we've got here.
00:19:54This is one of the strengths of the game, it's really good at just the detail and all
00:19:58these little options have all been thought out and programmed into the game in a very
00:20:03clever way ahead of its time, which is great.
00:20:07If you want to delete your ride, you click on the trash button, you do get a prompt just
00:20:14asking you if you're sure you want to do that, so we won't click on that just now but that
00:20:18does come up.
00:20:20Also if you're elsewhere in the park and you want to go back to the ride, you can click
00:20:24on that button, that takes you back to it, and you've also got your open, you can test
00:20:30your actions, so we'll test it right now, let's try that.
00:20:38So our ride is going on test mode, it's always good to do a test of your rides, not so important
00:20:46for flat rides but for roller coasters in particular, you want to test them, especially
00:20:52if you've made them yourself, the tracks, because you might find out that you don't
00:20:56have enough speed and the roller coaster stops halfway through, so you definitely want to
00:21:01test that, we don't want any accidents.
00:21:04So that is a good feature, and another thing that's good about the testing is you'll get
00:21:09all this information now that comes up as a result of the test, so this tells you the
00:21:13excitement rating, which at the moment is 1.34, which is low, and you've also got things
00:21:19like intensity, things like roller coasters can be very intense, or thrill rides, it all
00:21:25depends on the ride.
00:21:28Nausea rating, you want to have that as low as possible, if you've got a nausea rating
00:21:33at all really, that's medium and high, that's going to cause people to throw up a lot, so
00:21:37you don't really want to have that at all, so if you can do anything to fix that then
00:21:41that's a good thing.
00:21:42This button here isn't so relevant for the flat ride, but it's, you can save a track
00:21:47design for things like car rides, go karts, I think, and roller coasters, things like
00:21:53that, you can save the track designs, and then you can save them so that in future if
00:21:58you have another park you're working on you can get the track that you built previously
00:22:02and add it to your park, so that's a really good tool.
00:22:06There's tons and tons of downloadable content for this game online, and lots of people have
00:22:11saved some crazy track designs, there are some immense things out there on the internet,
00:22:17so I definitely recommend that you have a look at that.
00:22:22Another thing worth mentioning is there are ways that you can increase your excitement
00:22:29rating, for example, if you give people more rotations, that will increase the excitement
00:22:35level, but obviously probably reduce the profit because you've got less people on the ride
00:22:40over a certain amount of time, so that's a bit of a downside.
00:22:44One of the better ways of improving the excitement rating is actually to add scenery around the
00:22:48ride, so there's a scenery tab up here, and you can add all sorts of things, so for example
00:22:54you can add things like trees, so we'll pick something like these nice pink trees, and
00:23:00I believe any scenery that's placed within five tiles of the entrance, so not the ride,
00:23:08I think, I could be wrong about that, I'll double check that, but I think it's five tiles
00:23:14around the entrance increases the excitement rating, so that would be like 1, 2, 3, 4,
00:23:205, and over at the park, but that would, you wouldn't be able to build there, but that's
00:23:24just to give you an example of the space that you're working with, so it's 1.34 just now,
00:23:31so we'll add some trees and we'll just see what happens when we do that.
00:23:36So yeah, already it's gone up to 1.39 now, so this ride's, it's gone to 1.4, so the excitement
00:23:45rating is going up as we add sort of more scenery, so we'll mix things up a bit, we'll
00:23:53put some more trees in, get a little bit more interesting, put kind of like a back, kind
00:24:01of a, I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong there, you can also rotate the game, which
00:24:08can be handy, so we'll get rid of this tree, we are going to replace it, don't worry, so
00:24:16yeah I've got a tree there, so already the rating has gone way up for this ride, it's
00:24:22gone right up to 1.51, which is really good actually for a ride like the carousel, that's
00:24:30pretty good, we'll add some more trees I think, we'll add them on this side, we'll
00:24:40add them here, like that, which is great, and I think what we'll do is, we'll add some
00:24:53larger trees, yeah I think we'll add these trees, just trying to think what to do here,
00:25:01so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, so that's what we're going to talk about, so what we'll do is we're going
00:25:10to maximise here the scenery, that's gone up to 1.73, very good, I'm not convinced with
00:25:25the tree types here, so again we will just, so we're really making use of the scenery
00:25:37here, we'll add some plants, we can add some plants and stuff, so we'll add them here,
00:25:47I mean as you can see what a difference it's made to the rating already, we will add some
00:25:58hedges I think as well, make that nice, whoops I'll get rid of that one, so yeah it's very nice,
00:26:09it's quite good, so yeah I'm just adding lots of scenery, that's pretty much the best we can do,
00:26:26we could try that just to see if that increases the rating, my mouse has stopped working,
00:26:34oh dear, there we go, it's funny it is that sometimes, so obviously you can add trees,
00:26:41you can add statues and small trees, cactuses if you want, I'll just turn this round,
00:26:48you've got a fountain, whoops, you can add fountains, they're quite exciting,
00:26:53flowers which I showed you earlier, you can change the colour of things, you can,
00:26:58oh that's interesting, I've never seen that tool before, you can create like a huge cluster of
00:27:05them, so that's quite a good tool, we'll come back to that and try that out later,
00:27:09you've got fences and hedges, buildings like walls and roofs, things like that and you've
00:27:18got things like lampposts and these will increase visitors appreciation of your scenery in your park
00:27:24and you've got, let's turn that around again, you've got queue lines, now they're a feature
00:27:35of Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and the way they work is if you place them on the entrances it will
00:27:44reduce people's frustration while they're waiting in the queue, so somebody who might
00:27:50get fed up after 10 minutes of queuing, they might be able to stand for 20 minutes without
00:27:54being too annoyed about the queuing, so that can be a good feature to have, especially if it means
00:28:00taking more people off the paths which is causing congestion, you can have them in a queue quite
00:28:07happily waiting to go on the ride, they're not getting frustrated, so that's kind of what you
00:28:12want, you've got these sort of, these are like entrances for the paths in which you can place
00:28:21and you can actually set them to be closed or open so if you want to stop people going a particular
00:28:29way on a path you can prevent them having access to it, so well for example we could try that here
00:28:33actually, so like for example this is the entrance, sorry exit for the carousel, so we don't really
00:28:39want people to be walking up to the exit, there's nothing there, so we will close that so nobody
00:28:44will walk in there, so that's a handy tool to have, sort of crowd control, you've got banners
00:28:50you could have, so you know we could have a banner and call it carousel here if we wanted, you can
00:28:54get up and down ones, these are really cool things to have for the roller coasters, miscellaneous
00:29:01objects, not quite sure what that's doing there but there, you can research different scenery
00:29:05packs and they will be added here and that will be part of your park, so yeah that's just a wee
00:29:10taster of what we've got so far, so I'm just going to save the game, we can save up here, so we'll
00:29:17save as, and you'll notice there's a few of my previous saved games, we're going to make a new
00:29:22file and we're going to call it let's play forest frontiers, so there we go, I'll just save that just
00:29:32to make sure it's definitely saved, you can also take screenshots of the game if you fancy doing
00:29:42that or use like game, I'm using a action software for recording this game so you can get that as
00:29:49well if you want, there's also lots of options here, we'll come back to this I think, there's a
00:29:56lot of features here that are new to open RCT so we'll come back to them, let's get our park open,
00:30:03I'm conscious the fact it's June already and we don't have the park open so we're going to be
00:30:09finding it a lot more difficult to reach the objective I think in this game but we're going
00:30:16to try it, there's a few messages we've missed so it said new ride attraction now available,
00:30:20ferris wheel, new ride attraction available, log flume, so we've got some new rides there, let's
00:30:27get this park open so we've just opened the park and what I'm going to do, I'm going to open this
00:30:36up and we've got some music which is great, now I think I got some extra carousel music added here
00:30:44so online somewhere I think I downloaded it so it's a nice mix of music, for the pricing I usually
00:30:54try and charge the price based against what the excitement level is so for example we're at 1.74
00:31:03so I'd probably charge 1.70 for that, the reason I do this is when we've got lots more rides
00:31:11and it's a way of sort of balancing up the prices amongst them all very well so like if you've got
00:31:19a ride rating of like 8.0 you could maybe charge like 8 pounds to get on it but people are not
00:31:26going to complain that 1.70 is unreasonable when there is a park rating of 1.7, it just splits the
00:31:35pricing up a bit better and I notice all sorts of problems start happening as soon as you get
00:31:40very high exciting rides, all the lower exciting rides nobody wants to ride them so that's an issue
00:31:52I'm just going to turn the volume down a bit because it's quite loud carousel music but it's
00:31:56great music I love it, now no one's coming to the park, I don't really know why, where's everybody
00:32:09okay so hopefully somebody will come soon
00:32:18in the meantime let's have a look so we've got this tab which is your research and development
00:32:23and you can research different things so here we can see there's a shop stall being researched
00:32:30tells you what the progress is and when it's expected so you can also look at your date down
00:32:36here and it's the 22nd of June at the moment and you can look at the research funding you can
00:32:43we've got normal at the moment so we're spending 200 pounds per month you can set that to less
00:32:48funding or maximize your funding and you can select like what types of research you want to
00:32:54carry out so we're just going to do a general sort of research at the moment and which we're quite
00:33:00we're fine with that that's good not really getting anyone in the park here
00:33:05right I think there we go there's a guest so we have somebody here called Nelly, unusual name
00:33:16so we've got Nelly and he's not particularly happy he's not too bad he's half happy he tells
00:33:24you information such as how much energy I've got left so the longer in the park the more tired
00:33:32they get and they you know that's why they use the benches to get their energy back eventually
00:33:37they'll get so tired they'll just want to go home tells you if they're hungry or not whether they're
00:33:42thirsty tells you if they're feeling sick if they need and how long before they need to go to the
00:33:48toilet so if there's a red mark up here then nobody want to go to the toilet tells you what
00:33:53their preferred ride is so he's got intensity less than three so you look at this ride this
00:34:02has got 0.6 so in theory he should quite fancy going on that right but he's deciding not to on
00:34:09this occasion so we'll find out why that is and tells you what rides they've been on tells you
00:34:17things like how much cash they've got in their pocket how much cash is spent and tells you how
00:34:25much they paid to enter the park and how much is spent on raise items of food souvenirs etc
00:34:30what's that saying what was that message what's he saying oh I'm not paying that much to go in
00:34:44the carousel well that's my theory about the pricing gone at the window clearly he doesn't
00:34:53think it's worth it okay okay we'll try a pound that's what it was originally he's not very happy
00:35:07happiness has gone down since he decided it's too expensive so we're gonna do in the meantime
00:35:15it's gonna build another right we're gonna create a ferris wheel and we shall just take
00:35:25this around and we'll build it here
00:35:40yeah they're not happy with this and I'm gonna do so far nobody's going on the right
00:35:47the same not paying that much suspect maybe what they're doing here is they're not happy because
00:35:57park there's a entrance to get to the park we're gonna change that to free
00:36:06okay there's people coming but no one's paying the fee to me this is not good
00:36:26okay so what is happening right now
00:36:36yeah nobody's really wanting to go on this right I don't know what's going on here nobody is going
00:37:03on just not happening is it right let's build another right oh we have a customer finally
00:37:13somebody is going on what we'll do is we'll wait for any load because we want to get somebody on
00:37:24this right it's some money coming in and in the meantime let's let's build another entrance the
00:37:36capacity of the ferris wheel is 32 passengers so just do the maths divide it by five so we've got
00:37:45about six so we're talking about one two one two three four five six yeah so when I go like that
00:37:53and add our path like that and we shall add a one of those and stop them going in there
00:38:09and we'll charge yeah a pound I'll just get that open so you want to get people paying quickly
00:38:24so we've got some people queuing up
00:38:38now I'm conscious the fact that we are not doing too good here the park entrance fee is too high
00:38:46okay now what we're going to do is we're going to build a railway I think we're going to build
00:39:01a path that goes over it so what you can do is you can click on this button here which means
00:39:07construct a bridge or we're going to do that and then we're going to go up so you can get like a
00:39:17slope so we can go like up like that so we'll go like a little bit higher like that and then like
00:39:28that so we've created a wee bridge thing there what I'm also going to do is we're going to create
00:39:41a sort of area where people can eat things like that so we'll put that together and quickly going
00:39:52to do that people are going to get hungry quite soon so we're going to build a hamburger stall
00:40:08so we'll put that there and we'll get that open and there's an option that you can click on that
00:40:18says same price throughout the park so we might have you know two or three burger stalls and we
00:40:23want the price to be the same for consistency so you can select that one tells you information
00:40:28about how many burgers have been sold etc so that's open now I'm going to build some benches
00:40:36quickly because we want people to be able to sit down when they're eating so we'll just scatter
00:40:41them around you'll notice I'm doing every second half tile here and the reason I'm doing that is
00:40:48because I'm going to put bins in the other bits people to put the rubbish away good now I'm going
00:40:59to do that now I feel like we need something more thrilling so let's create something like a log
00:41:10flume now you can build your own custom design you can do your own track or you can build your log
00:41:19flume using an existing design that the game provides so there are a few here and so we're
00:41:25going to choose one one that we can afford some of them are massive we've got quite a small park
00:41:34so let's try
00:41:45I think it's better if we create our own one in this occasion and so you can start building your
00:41:53station platform we'll make it quite long because we want lots of logs and then we'll
00:42:03start building so we can go uphill like so and make it quite high
00:42:11and then we'll go
00:42:25yeah I think we'll go this way so we'll actually go over the top of the track make it a bit more
00:42:31exciting and we'll go down so we've got a big drop like that
00:42:56okay then we'll go up again
00:43:02from a flat bit and then we'll go down there we go so you can do that and you can add like a
00:43:09right-handed kind of track we'll do a straight piece and then we'll do one like that there we go
00:43:20that's looking good great and we're now going to build the entrance and also a good tip I can give
00:43:30you here is always build your entrance in the direction of where the ride is going to go so
00:43:36like for example a bad move for me to make here would be to have it at the back because then
00:43:43people that are coming in there have to walk all the way along the station platform to the front
00:43:47log here so you want to build it here instead and at the same time you probably want to have the
00:43:56at the back I think that's a good we'll keep an eye on that one because I'm wondering whether or
00:44:08not your log has to travel right to the front before they come off so we'll keep an eye on
00:44:11that so that's that now there's going to be three boats no no no we're gonna have a lot more boats
00:44:18than that we're gonna have 21 boats maximum number of logs because we want to get this
00:44:25ride busy and want it to wait for full load because we want to make use of all the space
00:44:31we've got I want the log to leave when there's another one and because we don't want them getting
00:44:39all stuck here so we can do that and let's build our entrance so there's 21 boats and you get four
00:44:46per boat so we're talking about it's 84 so you're talking about like 84 divided by five so
00:44:57I have to do the maths my mind's just gone blank I think that's 16
00:45:04and 16 isn't it yeah so 1 2
00:45:113 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 and 1 so we'll do that
00:45:24right so it's ready so let's get this open
00:45:35it's now open this is great
00:45:39you can obviously colour the different logs we're going to keep brown at the moment but you can
00:45:42you can change the colour you can have different colours per boat which is quite good and
00:45:49park rating at the moment is 670 which is great and we've got 96 guests so we need
00:45:56some more let's just have a look at how we're doing
00:46:03forest frontiers to have at least 250 guests at the end of year one so
00:46:10we're doing okay and we'll just let that go up as time goes on and what else can we do let's get
00:46:17some thrill rides so I've not actually showed you this if you go to build mode you can go into
00:46:23the thrill section and we've got things there so let's go for let's build a
00:46:28a little bit of a ride so let's build a little bit of a ride so let's build a little bit of a
00:46:34a thrill section and we've got things there so let's go for let's build a pirate ship
00:46:40because they're quite popular so we'll do that and we shall build it here I think
00:46:46and pop it there and we'll pop the entrance and exit and we can have a look see 16 passengers
00:46:54so we're talking about four length for the queue so we'll do one two three four like that
00:47:03and then exit there perfect and then we'll wait for the full loads
00:47:09and yeah let's get it open so get that open
00:47:26now something we're going to build is an information kiosk now that comes under the
00:47:31shops install section and you can sell things like umbrellas when it rains and you can sell
00:47:38park maps so we're going to do that and let's pop it here and open that and now it's actually
00:47:45just about to rain so it's perfect timing to open that here you've got your prices for
00:47:52oh yeah selling park maps we'll click that so that it's the same price for everywhere
00:47:58and you can set the prices here and I've won an award we've won an award for being the safest
00:48:05park in the country that's good that's very good we don't have any toilets yet so let's
00:48:13build some toilets because they're going to be needed soon and we'll pop them here
00:48:17here and open them I usually like to charge 10p to keep the toilets
00:48:28so it's a good thing to do it's raining so what we're going to do we're going to be sneaky and
00:48:33we're going to charge three pound for the umbrella as you can see there I've got the right red and
00:48:40white umbrellas you can change the color so if you want to change it to blue
00:48:44and there we go we've got some people with blue umbrellas
00:48:48um you can do all sorts of colors do orange now this is quite good there we go um do pink anyone
00:48:57like pink some pink ones we can have blue red let's have a red one oh we've had red blue
00:49:04blue or white even yellow
00:49:15cool so we'll put that back to blue and pink
00:49:23there we go different colors umbrellas it's starting to stop raining now so we'll put it
00:49:28back to 250 and obviously we can see there we've got a profit of 130 135 pounds 20 per hour which
00:49:38is good so we'll do that and we'll just save the game again one thing it would have been nice in
00:49:47the game that I don't think exists is uh an option to auto save that would have been a nice feature
00:49:55so here we can see a problem people are trying to get off the ride there's a big backlog
00:50:00we need to do something about that uh we'll take the minimum waiting time off and I think we'll
00:50:07take that off make it any load so that we're not got like lockage that should help so here we go
00:50:15see what difference that's making already now let's see what these visitors are doing are they
00:50:20actually going to get off yes they do so they do get off as soon as they reach the station they
00:50:25don't have to be at the front so it's good to be put the exit in the right place
00:50:31um let's see what people are saying there's a button here called guests and it's a kind of
00:50:37master view of what people are doing and saying so tells you things like you know walking on pirate
00:50:43ship on log flume uh we can uh group by how many guests are doing the same thing so there's 108
00:50:53guests walking which is a lot actually um 36 on log flume you can change that to see what they're
00:51:01thinking uh so the most most popular thing at the moment people are thinking is that they're not
00:51:08hungry um so i imagine the burger stall is not making very much money nope it's not so we probably
00:51:15built that a little bit too early and somebody's saying the log flume is really good value so we
00:51:21might want to just put the price up a little bit and because it doesn't seem to be well we put the
00:51:28price up quite a lot there but um a lot of people are saying that we're probably charging a bit too
00:51:33little for that um park maps good value so as you see as time goes on you can change your prices a
00:51:43little bit to sort of increase your profit while managing your finances so you can do that
00:51:50the music is nice here oh that's good glad to hear it glad to hear it
00:51:59all right i'm quite exhausted talking
00:52:03i still feel like we need some more rides um let's build
00:52:07another thrill ride let's build a twist hop out there
00:52:17you can get 18 passengers so we're talking about four again so one two three four
00:52:29like that
00:52:33let's start building our railway so if you go to gentle rides and sorry travel rides it's under here
00:52:47miniature railway passengers ride in a miniature train which runs along a narrow gauge railway track
00:52:55so we shall make a custom track
00:53:00let's see we will build it here i think
00:53:08we'll make it nice and big then we can start to build our track
00:53:12so we'll go straight through here see if we can actually get through that gap yes
00:53:15oh we've knocked our tree down okay that's fine we'll just
00:53:19whoops so what we're going to do is we're going to go right around this the edge of our park
00:53:24and you can build this wherever you want doesn't have to be here on the edge but
00:53:28this particular park we're going to do that because it works quite well so we're going to do that
00:53:37there we go and special s bend left
00:53:41special s bend left
00:53:45and bear in mind we can plant new trees later in the game
00:53:51i'm going to do special s bend left sort of does that kind of thing
00:53:56and i'll do that again we'll leave this bit clear because we could put some scenery there
00:54:02so we keep building that as you can see they were running out of money i've only got 500 pounds left
00:54:07and we'll keep going see how much we can place down
00:54:20like that and we'll make this right to the edge because we want to use this space here
00:54:26we've run out of money okay so one thing you can do is you can click on your money here
00:54:31she'll bring up your finance tab and you can see we've got a loan of ten thousand pounds at the
00:54:36moment we're going to need some more money so we can increase that now there's a limit
00:54:41i think it's maybe twenty thousand for this scenario now we're just going to loan five
00:54:47thousand and then hopefully what we're going to do is make it back as profit later on and
00:54:51when we can pay back the loan but we're going to do that just now and so let's start building it
00:55:01so it's looking good just a little bit short there there we go now you just join up the game's really
00:55:15good at um as long as you're matching the tiles then it fits very well so you don't have to
00:55:20there's not too much fiddly things you have to do um i'm going to put on this side because
00:55:27there's a lot of people here and i think it'd be good to get rid of that queue
00:55:32and then we'll do that one here i think okay
00:55:44uh what's the objective the end of october okay we've actually reached our objective
00:55:52we've managed to do it we're just going to let it run i think
00:55:55because it's almost october anyway so we may as well
00:56:00uh i've got one one train
00:56:08we'll get four chains let's go all out four chains six cars which means
00:56:14um
00:56:23so six per carriage
00:56:2736 this is huge 36 would be that's massive what we
00:56:35six cars per train 36 times four
00:56:41can't be that
00:56:44it's like 130 isn't it it's just like 26 one two oh my goodness okay three four five six seven
00:57:01eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen i mean that's
00:57:10that's crazy actually
00:57:16okay large queue area and let's get it open
00:57:22and we'll wait for full load but leave if another train well it doesn't matter at the start we'll
00:57:28get that one open there we go oh my goodness okay i've never seen that many trains
00:57:34it must be the length of the platform that's allowing us to do that
00:57:40so
00:57:49okay
00:58:01see what everyone's thinking
00:58:04log flume good value uh the park is really clean and tidy so we're doing a pretty decent job at the
00:58:09moment
00:58:21oh yeah i forgot to put our path from the exit it's a mistake there we go
00:58:28oh it's excitement waiting for this no test results here
00:58:35so
00:58:52we're doing a pretty good job
00:58:55um i don't think we need to build anything right now
00:58:59we're doing a pretty good job the queues are quite low
00:59:04so i don't think we need to build anything now let's just try and concentrate on getting some
00:59:07money back
00:59:10we're making some profit if you hover your mouse over that button you can see
00:59:14how much profit you're making so it says 146 pounds per week so obviously we want to increase
00:59:19that but um we're not in the red so that's good so we're doing a good job at the moment
00:59:28so
00:59:38so just about filled the train uh there's a good
00:59:43amount of people coming through new ride attraction observation tower that's exciting
00:59:51so
00:59:55now what we'll do is we will change this operations
00:59:59to leave if another train arrives at the station because obviously people are going to get stuck
01:00:03at the back waiting here forever to get off um if we don't set that but as we've got people coming
01:00:09in filling up and the train's only halfway around we won't need to do that right the second
01:00:14uh the log flumes are doing pretty good it's nice to see that there's not a blockage
01:00:19there are a few empty ones so that's working really well having that setting on i think it's great
01:00:40you can also hover on the right it tells you how many people are on board so it's got like
01:00:4454 people on the right which is great i'm going to set that setting now because there you go
01:00:49this train stopped so we need to get this train moving because it's causing the blockage
01:00:57so i'll just it's good to show you how this works so as you can see
01:01:05it's now filling up
01:01:13and again the train's leaving early but it's got plenty of seats and we've got some people
01:01:17coming in but it's holding up the train at the back so we've got to keep them moving
01:01:21um which is quite interesting i love all these management things in roller coaster tycoon
01:01:28it's really interesting it's very well thought out and it makes the game really good
01:01:38it's definitely getting busy around here
01:01:40oh yay we've done it everyone's clapping successfully completed forest frontiers
01:01:51congratulations fantastic i hope it gave you a wee taste of
01:01:55the level and what it's like um we're going to move on to the next one now and then i'll show
01:01:59you a bit more um of the game and the other controls that we haven't looked at hopefully
01:02:04we'll build a roller coaster we haven't seen one yet um yeah hopefully this has been interesting
01:02:09for you as i say i've not done that many let's play videos and obviously i want to make them a
01:02:14bit more exciting i'm not used to doing commentaries either so let me know what you think if you think
01:02:20it's a bit too much talking or a bit more action let me know um as i say if you follow me on this
01:02:27roller coaster tycoon series we will pick up the pace as we go along and as the game goes as we go
01:02:34into each level um and i can hopefully we can explore together the different features of the
01:02:40game and then it starts to get really exciting when we start to really start to build stuff
01:02:44quickly and then we're going to make an ultimate theme park at the end and i'm going to tell you
01:02:50later on what i'm going to do but i've got an idea um which is very exciting and if you keep
01:02:57following me we'll get to that okay so thank you very much and i'll see you in the next um episode
01:03:02um of roller coaster tycoon uh for the scenario called um dynamite dunes