Rollercoaster Tycoon Video Game – [Let's Play] Dynamite Dunes – RCT Games Series Episode 2 - video Dailymotion

Blue Orca Digital - Alan Andrew Taylor

This week's Rollercoaster Tycoon video takes us to Dynamite Dunes, a Park built in the middle of a desert. It comes with a pre-built Roller Coaster with plenty of room for expansion. The very warm climate also makes this particular scenario's guest thirsty for refreshments!   Question of the Day: Have you played Roller Coaster Tycoon before? If so what is you're favourite ride?  You can support me by subscribing to my patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/AlanTaylor543   ❤️❤️You can support my work by donating here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=YZ4HEN9HLMKZ8  ✅ Recommended Products:  Original RCT Game: https://amzn.to/4cOCYVM Planet Coaster PS4 Version: https://amzn.to/4crUcIH Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 Original: https://amzn.to/4crxtwv  Disclaimer: Some of these links go to one of my websites and some are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you.  ▬  Cast & Crew  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬   Let's Play Created by – A Taylor Audio Commentary – A Taylor Video Edited using Sony Vegas Pro 10  ▬ Let's Video Policy License  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬   "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   ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬   00:02:20.000 – Roller Coaster Lift Hill Chain Speed 00:03:07.000 – Changing Colour of Track Layout and Ride Vehicles 00:04:06.000 – Mini Camera Mode 00:04:12.000 – First Ride Breakdown and Mechanic Staff Skills 00:09:18.000 – Hiring an Entertainer 00:14:14.000 – Building Rides Underground 00:17:23.000 – On Ride Photo Section Feature 00:21:05.000 – Guest Fatigue / Placing Benches 00:21:26.000 – Building a Haunted House 00:26:59.000 – Building a Track Car Ride 00:27:50.000 – Building your first Information Kiosk 00:38:09.000 – Marketing Campaigns 00:48:10.000 – Guests out of Cash / Building Cash Machines 00:56:18.000 – Building our first Pirate Ship  It's one of the most straight forward scenarios in the game where you have a much larger amount of money than we did for Forest Frontiers with an objective or having a far higher number of guests within the park required by a certain point in time.  The landscape within Dynamite Dunes provides some excellent opportunities to get creative with designing our Log Flume and Coasters and well as pathways for guests with some going over the top of hills but also underground too.

Transcript

00:00Hello and welcome back to Rollercoaster Tycoon, we're playing the second scenario today called

00:27Dynamite Dunes and let's see what our objectives are. So it says, built in the middle of the

00:34desert, this theme park contains just one rollercoaster but has space for expansion.

00:41Our objective is to have at least 650 guests in the park at the end of October year 3,

00:48with a park rating of at least 600. Looks like the park is open and let's just have

00:56a look. So we can have a look, oh we can see we have a rollercoaster. Now anyone who joined

01:03me in the last episode to play Forest Frontiers, you'll know that we didn't build a rollercoaster

01:09and we have yet to see a rollercoaster so this is the first one. The screaming guests

01:14never gets old. So yeah this is our ride and it's called Dynamite Blaster and as you can

01:22see one biggest difference so far is that we're in a desert, not in the forest. And

01:28looks like we've got 82 guests at the moment, we've got £10,000 to play with. Let's have

01:33a look, do we have a loan? Yes we've got a £10,000 loan. Yeah so let's have a look at

01:42this rollercoaster, see what we can find out about it. So it's a mine train rollercoaster,

01:50you get two or four passengers per car. I'm not sure why it says two or four, all I see

02:00is it kind of like you can fill it with two or four so I kind of see what they're meaning. So

02:07there's three trains and each has got five cars each. It looks like it's going to rain

02:12so I don't think the coaster's going to be popular for much longer because everyone's

02:17going to get soaked. So some of the settings I can show you with rollercoasters, this is a

02:25feature built in the game, you can actually set how fast the lift hill chain speed is so you might

02:33feel that you want less time spent climbing here. We'll just play with this actually.

02:40So there you can see it's slower, now it's a bit faster. You can even hear the coaster

02:50slightly differently as you change that. That can be handy, it might make the ride length shorter

02:57or longer which may make it more exciting or less exciting. You would probably have to test it to

03:03see what impact that has on the ride. You can change things like the colour of the track,

03:10say you want to make it red, you could do that. We'll change that back to default for the moment.

03:17You can also change the colour of the vehicle, so let's say you wanted to make one of the trains

03:25red, there you go, there's a red one. You could have vehicle number two, so train two we could

03:31have red, train three we might want to have something that's blue, there you go. And let's

03:40just have one that's yellow, because why not, we'll make one yellow, it makes it a bit more

03:47interesting. There's also an option here to play music, so you can play music in the ride.

03:52You've got different types of music, like wild west. Also there's a sort of mini camera here

04:05that you can use, mini camera mode, and say you just want to see what's happening at the station,

04:11you can click on a station one, and it's broken down! Well that isn't good is it? Right, so good

04:20time to show you this. So if a ride breaks down, obviously you want your mechanic to fix it. Now

04:26we don't have one, so we're quickly going to go into the staff panel, go to mechanics, and then

04:31we're going to hire a new mechanic, which costs £80 per month. So we're going to just place him,

04:35there he is, and what you'll see here, if you watch the box, he should get a wee phone call

04:42in a second, there we go, answering a radio call. So somebody's calling him to let him know that he

04:48needs to repair the coaster, and then it tells you what he's doing. Responding to dynamite blaster.

04:53So you can click like that on the mechanic, now that mutes some of the sound, and it follows him

05:03and shows you what he's doing. So you can see here on the screen obviously what he's up to. He's

05:06obviously having an inspection of the coaster, and he's fixing the ride. And it's fixed, so that's

05:18pretty good going, do that quickly. You can set job duties for the mechanic, and any member of

05:27staff, so for example for the mechanic you can have him inspect rides or fix rides, so you could

05:33allocate a mechanic purely for inspections, that might be a good idea to spread the workload. You

05:41can also click on this newspaper icon that tells you what his wages are per month,

05:47tells you when he was employed, and it also tells you things like rides inspected and rides fixed.

05:54Not really sure how that information really changes the gameplay in Rollercoaster Tycoon,

06:02but it could be handy, you could sort of award your staff. Other staff members you can hire

06:11include handymen, cleaners, I suppose it should usually be cleaners, and there should be male and

06:19female characters. I do notice that the mechanic's male, the cleaner's male, the security guard's

06:25male, entertainer I guess could be male or female, but slight missed opportunity there to have a bit

06:34of diversity in the workforce there. I'm sure it wasn't deliberate, but yeah that would have been

06:40a nice feature to have. So as you can see there's a few instances of sick, someone's thrown up here,

06:50so we want to hire the handyman, and we'll just drop him here. Obviously there's a tool here you

07:00can use, it's like a little grabber, like one of those things you get at the fairground amusements,

07:08and to pick up cuddly toys you can do that with the handyman and drop him there, and then he'll

07:15clean up that sick. I never actually appreciated that before, that that is a homage to the grabber

07:22machines, that's quite interesting. Another feature with the staff is you can click on this button,

07:28and it's set in patrol areas, so say you had an area of your park which was always getting people

07:34throwing up on, you could basically zone that area, and then what the handyman will do is he will

07:43only walk up and down this section of path to make sure it's clean, so it can be quite handy for

07:49patrolling areas of concern let's say. And obviously you can take that off any time,

07:55you can hold that down with your left left click with your mouse, and then you can click

08:00cancel patrol area like that, and then he'll just now go everywhere in the park.

08:05You can also change his name, so my name is Alan, so you could call the handyman Alan if you wanted,

08:13or anything, so we'll call him Alan. Again you can click on that, it will take you to where he is,

08:19and you can also sack members of staff. Now you might have reasons for sacking them, you might

08:22have a park that's just got too many handymen or mechanics that are not needed, and it's costing

08:28you money and you just need to dismiss them. Your staff are very loyal in the game, they don't

08:35misbehave or you don't have to discipline them or anything like that, so there's not really a reason

08:41to get rid of them unless you've just taken on too many staff, and to be honest as the game goes on

08:47usually you need more staff, so it's very unusual to sack staff. While we're in there, you can also

08:57hire a security guard, so what happens a lot is guests that are very unhappy will start to

09:05vandalise your park by destroying your benches, destroying bins, things like that, so you might

09:13want a security guard to kind of keep an eye on them, make sure everyone's behaving. You can also

09:19hire an entertainer. I've just hired an entertainer, I didn't really mean to, but it's fine, we'll have

09:25one anyway, and he'll just make guests a little bit happier walking around, which is good. You

09:33can give them a different costume, so we've got a panda costume, a tiger costume, an elephant

09:38costume or a roman costume, so let's go for a panda, because I'm from Edinburgh and we have

09:47pandas at the zoo, so we'll have a panda in our park, and it also tells you again their wages and

09:54when they were employed, so that's pretty much the staff tab. Obviously the research tab that we

10:04looked at last time, we've just had a notification to say that we've got new theming, which is

10:11classical slash roman theming, so if you click on there, that opens the scenery tab, you can also

10:17click up here to get that, and we've got all this nice roman kind of theming, which is fantastic,

10:24really interesting, so we might use that for some of our rides, and we've got some normal funding

10:32at the moment in place for researching different things like transport rides, gentle rides,

10:37roller coasters, thrill rides, water rides, shops and stalls, or scenery and theming, and it's kind

10:46of random which one it researches next, so if you did want to research something in particular, you

10:52could take the tickets off here and then just research those things, and then you can maximise

10:58your funding as well. Obviously we've got build new rides, so let's just have a look and see what

11:08we've got to play with, so we can build a miniature railway, we've got a haunted house, which can be a

11:15really good ride for when it's raining, because obviously you don't get wet, the carousel actually

11:23is an okay ride for in the rain because it's covered, car rides not so good in the rain,

11:28but it can be more exciting rides because you can have track going over the ride and intersecting

11:36with the ride, and then you can go in tunnels, things like that, and you can go up and down

11:40the slopes, so that can be quite exciting, and you can also theme all these things with scenery,

11:45and you've got your roller coaster tab, so we can build a wooden roller coaster,

11:49and we can also build another mine train coaster if we wanted, we've already got

11:53our coaster here but we could do that, thrill rides, we've got twist, a popular fairground

12:01attraction, you could build that, we've also got water rides, we've got a log flume, and we've got

12:08shops and stalls, so that's good, so let's build, now I'm going to do something I've never done

12:16before in this level, and I've spotted an opportunity here, which is quite exciting,

12:26this is interesting, okay so let's

12:34let's build here

12:37I'm going to make it nice and long

12:47and we're going to go right

12:51no I'm going to need a bit more than that, go like that,

12:54and around, now we're going to go up, so we're going to make this up

13:07now let's go like that, now we're going to go down

13:19I don't know about that, that's a bit dangerous, okay we'll do that, and then we'll curl around

13:25the corner, now the speed's going to be quite fast around there, so that should be fine,

13:30and I think what we'll do is, we'll drop it again,

13:35a little bit, oh yeah I like this, so we'll do that and then we'll drop it again,

13:41so it's going to be quite fast-paced this bit,

13:45and then I'll go around the corner,

13:50and let's go right to the edge actually, over there

14:00and then yeah we can go up, so that's a good thing we can do

14:11I like this track I've done so far, it's something different,

14:15go down like that, and then we'll drop it again

14:19and I think we'll do that, and then

14:33we'll drop it again

14:40oops sorry bit, I think what we'll do is, we'll do that, now we'll go around

14:50to some straight tracks,

14:55and what I'm actually trying to do here is, I'm going to go underground now,

15:00now I can't construct there, something else you can do in the game is, you click on the trowel,

15:07you can customise the land, so if you want some grass you can do that, you can also

15:20you can sort of colour, texture sort of terrain for example,

15:27how to show you that,

15:31it's not really anywhere like that I can see at the moment, I'll come back to that later,

15:36you can select areas of land and you increase the height of it, so oops,

15:45so we'll do one square, what we're going to do is this bit, we're going to lower it, so

15:49if you, I'm just going to change it back to sand, if you click with your left mouse and then

15:56pull down, there you go, it's created a, it's made, sort of lowered the level,

16:05there we go, so I don't know if you can see that, but we are going underground,

16:10so you can create rides underground, right oops, yeah so we'll go,

16:21sure yeah I think we'll, just make it a bit more interesting, there you go,

16:33and as you see we're at the other end now,

16:35I'm quite sure where we're at here, is it here,

16:44there we go, that was good,

16:48so yeah we'll go up, up, up like that,

16:51and we'll go down, like that,

17:14oops a bit too much, we'll go like that, and then we'll go down,

17:19and I think we'll make a very long, actually you know what, another thing you can do is,

17:25you can have an on-ride photo section, so we'll do that,

17:29so if guests can get a picture taken of themselves, this is a good thing to look for,

17:34so that's probably not the best place to put that, so we'll make a platform like that, and

17:41I would say, where's the best place to put that,

17:44that way, probably here, so let's, you can right click on any part of the track at any time,

17:52and then you can delete the track, and then if we do next, we can create a

17:59on-ride photo section, so if we do that, there we go, that's it built in there,

18:05and you can also add features like, let's get rid of a track piece there,

18:10there's a special track, it's called a reverse turntable,

18:15so what will happen is, when the log flume comes here, it will rotate

18:19360 degrees, and then it will, it will continue along, and I want to check that, is it,

18:25is it actually going to reverse 360, or is it actually going to go 180, because it says reverse

18:35turntable, not sure about that, I think I might want to just take that out just now,

18:44we'll come back to it later, try and think of whatever things you can do,

18:52new ride available, junior roller coaster, so we'll see if we can build that, pop the path there,

18:59and we've got a kind of dust, dust kind of track this time instead of tarmac, so we'll put that

19:04down, like so, and we'll make, now there are, we're going to max, I want the maximum number of

19:13boats, 31, and there's 4 passengers per boat, so in theory that's 120, and then we'll times that

19:21by 2, so we're talking about 24, 24 entrance tiles, so 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,

19:45so quite a lot, but as I say, it's going to be a popular ride, so let's, let's open it,

19:54and wait for a full load, wow, okay, that's a lot of logs, so this, we're hoping this is

20:02going to be a very, very good ride, and popular, we've already got people coming up already which

20:09is great, let's see what guests are thinking at the moment,

20:23dynamite blaster is really good value, right, so we'll pop the money up for that a wee bit,

20:30and we'll put up 20, no, put up 20p, yeah, there's our first guest on the way,

20:37now we haven't tested this ride yet, and we probably should have, and we haven't,

20:41so that's not very good health and safety, but we'll see how it goes, I'm pretty confident it'll

20:45be okay, there's a few people throwing up, something that you can do to combat that,

20:51apart from having a handyman, is to put benches around your park, and what will happen is people

20:58that are feeling unwell will actually sit down to kind of get better, so that's something you can do,

21:05and notice there aren't any benches anywhere, so we definitely need to get them down there,

21:10and put some down here too, that we can see,

21:15again we'll put a ride section sign there, just to stop people walking into the exit,

21:22because that's just a waste of their time, and we don't want anyone really going in there,

21:26I think we need a gentle ride, let's create something like the haunted house,

21:32so pop that there, yeah, and we'll pop the entrance there, and then the exit there,

21:46and we'll create, let's create a spooky kind of entrance, and what else can we find out,

21:59it's got 15 passengers, so we're talking about three pieces really, one, two, three, let's have

22:07a look, we'll just make it a little bit longer, four pieces, I'm sure that'll be fine, and let's

22:15make a sort of dark path from the haunted house to give it a bit of theming, we could rename it

22:25I guess as well, call it haunted house, and we'll get that open, great, how is our log

22:36loom doing, our first boat is just about going underground, let's see if we've got any test

22:43results, no test results yet, because we've not made it all the way around,

22:48you can click on the eye icon, and you can select underground view,

23:07so obviously you can see the log flume there, which is underground, but it's going around,

23:13which is very good, and obviously it's going to come out the other end shortly,

23:22so we can take underground view off, like that,

23:40and there we go, it's climbing the last bit, so that's good,

23:45it's a haunted house there, save it, save as, new file, and dynamic dunes, let's play,

24:00like so, save it, there's a lot of people throwing up,

24:09let's build some toilets, because we don't have any toilets,

24:14and we'll put them here in the middle of the park,

24:20and then we'll charge 10p, just to keep the upkeep of the toilets, now

24:25the first boat has arrived, and we've got a problem, because you can't get off,

24:28so what we're going to do, is we're going to change the operations, so that it leaves,

24:32when another one arrives at the station, I'm going to put any load as well, cause,

24:39and minimum time off, so I want these boats moving, because they're causing a big blockage,

24:45at the moment, so we've got a good number of boats, hopefully this ride should be busy a lot,

24:52and we can get people on and off this ride as quickly as possible, and make sure they have a

24:57good time, so yeah, the haunted house is doing pretty good there, nice queue,

25:11got 181 guests, which is good,

25:17so we'll change this just to wait for full load, because we do want to keep a few boats back,

25:27so, it's interesting, some of the boats have been let away here, really close to each other,

25:37I'm actually a bit surprised how close they are, it's kind of a health and safety no-no,

25:42oh they've spread it a bit more now, but yeah, that one there you see, that's far too close to

25:47the one in front, lots of empty boats, which is not good,

25:57so obviously now there's a lot of people in the queue, it tells you, yeah 11 people in the queue,

26:06we've got no boats, so we need to get this one in quick, and as I say there's loads of empty ones

26:12here, so definitely want to get those boats in quick, see what other rides we can build,

26:19so we'll build a drink stall, because it's in a desert, everyone is likely to be quite thirsty,

26:27so we'll do that, I think we'll build it here, and open that,

26:39and we'll create some bins around the park as well, keep it tidy,

26:50a nice amount of people

26:52coming on a ride here, that's good, see what guests are thinking, I feel sick, oh dear,

27:02this dynamite is too intense, so we probably need a few more gentle rides,

27:09we've got a car ride, so we could create a pirate,

27:13there's one here called mini cars, that looks quite good, so that's obviously a custom track

27:23that someone else has created, or came with the game, so we'll drop that one in there,

27:30I'm just going to do that slightly forward and back,

27:34there we go, we've got £3000 left, so we'll put the entrance there,

27:43and we'll put the exit there, new ride attraction, information kiosk,

27:50we'll quickly just build that, because that's going to help,

27:54because they sell maps and umbrellas, so we'll get that open,

27:57now if I click on the car ride, you can choose the types of cars you have,

28:18so you can have pick up trucks, or you can have sports cars, or you can have racing cars,

28:24so we'll have racing cars just now, you can get one passenger per car,

28:32actually, let's have a look at that, one per car, you get two in the sports cars,

28:39so let's go for the sports cars, and let's have a crazy amount of cars, 15 cars,

28:46so 30, so we're talking about a queue length of about 6 tiles, so let's do that,

28:54so that's like 1, 2, 3, 4,

29:05no let's try something different, let's get rid of that, so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, there we go,

29:11that's what we want, and then we'll create a path from here I think,

29:17so people can get out, there we go, and then we'll get that open,

29:24and going back to the music that we had earlier,

29:38you can obviously change it, you could have pirate themed,

29:42you can have, what else should we have, rock,

30:02and my personal favourite is the Egyptian style,

30:14funky, yeah, I quite like that, we'll have that for a while,

30:32so I think for the mini cars, we'll take the wait for button off,

31:00because we want cars to keep moving,

31:14so we're doing pretty good,

31:29how much profit are we making, we're losing money, right,

31:47this is a good time to show you the finances settings in the game,

31:51so if you go to down here, there's a number of different options you've got,

31:57so this tells you a lot of information, such as your sales from food,

32:06staff wages, interest from loans, ride tickets, land purchases,

32:17landscaping, ride running costs, it's a good way to see where all the costs are going,

32:22I don't usually use this too much, I usually pay attention to the bottom line,

32:27what your profit is, and if you're not making profit, then do something about it,

32:34obviously here you've got a loan, and it's 1% per year,

32:39so in theory you want to get rid of that loan by the end of the first year if possible,

32:44sometimes not easy to do that, you've got a tab here that tells you cash,

32:49you've got less the loan, so obviously we haven't really got anything,

32:56so it's dropped quite dramatically because we are using a loan at the moment,

33:00we've got things like the park value, so as you add more rides and paths and scenery,

33:04the value of the park goes up, so obviously we've got a park value of 68,000 at the moment,

33:11so it's not a huge amount of money, but it's going up, which is good as we're building more rides,

33:15there's also a profit graph, so as you can see,

33:21profit's dropped there, but that's probably all the building that we were doing,

33:24and it seems to be creeping up a bit of a dip again,

33:28maybe we were building the log flume or something like that,

33:30and then it's gone up, so that's okay, it's not too bad,

33:33this is the one that I use a lot, it's marketing campaigns,

33:37you can run marketing campaigns to encourage more guests to come to your park,

33:43so there's one there, vouchers for free entry to the park,

33:48and we're not charging anyway, so that probably doesn't make any sense,

33:51but you can get vouchers for free rides on a particular ride,

33:56so that could be handy if you've got something that's not that popular you want to promote,

34:00you can offer vouchers for half price entry to the park,

34:04vouchers for free food or drink, you can have an advertising campaign for the park,

34:10or advertising campaigns for a particular ride as well,

34:13so that's quite handy to have, also there's a link here back to the research tab,

34:17same thing as the button here, but it's just another way of getting into it,

34:22so yeah, very good, as I say, this game is fantastic, it's very well designed,

34:30it's also a very good game for teaching you how to manage a theme park,

34:36it's, if anyone in real life was going to manage a theme park,

34:40I'd say go and get Roller Coaster Tycoon, because it's a good introduction to how you

34:44would run it, and understand all the different things involved,

34:47like health and safety, managing the hygiene of the park,

34:51making things exciting, all that kind of thing, it's good, it's interesting.

34:56Now, what was her park objective again, it was to have 650 guests in the park,

35:12so we've got a rating of 834, which is fantastic,

35:18we have not won any awards, and we're on track,

35:22we've had 326 admissions and 281, so that's pretty good,

35:26most people who've arrived at the park have stayed at the park, which is good,

35:31obviously people get tired as time goes on, so there are going to be people that leave,

35:37but that's okay,

35:41love that jingling, jangling sound, it's so good, so satisfying,

35:46so satisfying, let's build a twist,

35:50and we're going to put it somewhere random, let's put it right at the top here,

35:56now the reason I put it way up there is because I want to kind of expand the park,

36:01because we've got this one path here which is getting a little bit crowded,

36:06so we want to just spread everyone out a wee bit,

36:10um, so we'll make a path of four,

36:15like that, and I think we'll do that, and then we'll do that, there we go,

36:23and then we'll get this path back to the main park,

36:29I think what we'll do is that, and then we'll do that,

36:33we've won an award for being the safest park in the country,

36:36that's good, so we'll do that, and then we'll go down there, like that,

36:45whoops, yep, we're getting there,

36:48sorry, I went a bit wrong there at the end, let's just go down,

36:55oh dear, okay, let's try and get this path on track,

36:59there we go, so we don't need these bits,

37:01there we go, so, there we are, and then we'll get this bit open,

37:18let's build a nice cream shop,

37:20let's build a nice cream shop,

37:28fruity ices, right, let's do that, it's quite hot, so people might buy them,

37:34let's put some benches down,

37:42some bins, that should help,

37:46right, there's not really any customers yet, let's have a look,

38:08so yeah, the park's doing pretty good at the moment, pretty good,

38:17so, let's have a marketing campaign, so let's go in here,

38:23and let's get some advertising for the park, so you can select how much money you want to,

38:29well it's more to do with how long you want to run the campaign,

38:31and it tells you how much it's going to cost, so let's just go for the maximum,

38:37so we can't actually afford that, let's drop it to 2000,

38:42so for 6 weeks we're going to run an advertising campaign for the park,

38:45so let's start the campaign, so here it tells you that the campaign is in progress,

38:53we've spent a lot of money on that, but hopefully we're going to gain that back in profit,

38:58and hopefully we're going to get an influx of visitors coming to the park,

39:03which is what our objective is anyway, so that's good, so yeah, we're starting to pick the pace up,

39:15so, if you click on this tab, it gives you a list of all the rides that you have in the park,

39:31so you can obviously close them all at once, or you can select them individually,

39:37you can also select all the shops and stalls that you've got,

39:40you can select toilets and information kiosks, if you go back to ride,

39:46another thing you can do is, there's a tab here, which gives you a whole lot of options,

39:51such as popularity, so if you want to see how popular rides are, you can sort them,

39:57so the log flume is 100% popular, so pretty much everybody is loving that ride, really good,

40:03minicars however, it's only got 48%, so people are not always satisfied with that,

40:09now it might be because excitement rating, so it's at 2.69,

40:13click on the log flume, it's 5.67, so yeah, it's more exciting, it's not very intense,

40:27it's a much more child-friendly ride, so you can click on things like satisfaction,

40:33it's all pretty high, 70% at least, this one's very important, profit, you can sort by profit,

40:39so you can see here that the log flume is generating over £4,500 per hour,

40:47so that is a very popular ride at the moment,

40:52next ride, dynamite blaster, that's also generating about £3,000 every hour,

40:59so that's a very popular ride as well, you've got the haunted house, that's a pretty good

41:05income for the haunted house, £850 an hour, that's pretty good, certainly in business,

41:14and then our least favourite one is minicars, which is still making a good profit of £369.50

41:20a month, sorry an hour, which is pretty good in my opinion, so still generating lots of money,

41:28you can select things like total number of customers, so you can see that the roller

41:34coaster we've got has had the most amount of customers, you can click on things like total

41:39profit, so yeah, the roller coaster's been here the longest, so you'd probably expect that to

41:48have the most profit and being a very popular ride as well, and then the log flume is followed

41:53in the second, you can sort by customers per hour, so the log flume's the busiest ride,

41:59haunted house is actually next, more than dynamite blaster, so maybe there's room for

42:04us to promote this a bit better, there's the age of rides, so as you can see the dynamite

42:13blaster is the oldest ride in the park, built last year, that could be handy for if there's

42:19old ageing rides that need to be replaced, you can sort by income, things like running costs,

42:28so what's the most expensive to run, well it's the log flume not surprisingly,

42:32because it's very long and there's lots of track to maintain, then you've got queue length times,

42:39so the queue is longest for the log flume, log flume is very good value, so we'll probably

42:44put the price up for the log flume because it's very cheap, it should be more expensive in my

42:49opinion, £3, and then it's £2 for an online photo, so there's a lot of profit making going on there,

43:02you've got queue time, so obviously you want your queue time to be very low,

43:05these are fantastic queue times actually, 4 minutes is the worst queue we've got in the park,

43:09that's pretty impressive, 4 minutes, that's the worst you know,

43:13we've not got any 20 minute waits here, or hour waits even, so that's good,

43:22and you can sort by reliability, so if you've got a ride that breaks down a lot,

43:26like the dynamite blaster, that's handy because you might want to change how often it gets an

43:34inspection, which can reduce downtime, so that's all interesting statistics you can get,

43:42there's the downtime itself, so as you can see 0% at the moment, because they're all working,

43:50which is good, and then there's a tab for guest favourites, so certain guests have favourite rides,

43:55so dynamite blaster is a favourite ride of a lot of people, followed by the log flumes,

44:01and so yeah, all very interesting information, now the one I use a lot is profit,

44:06and sometimes if something's losing money it will come up saying minus £300 for example,

44:12and if you have that then you certainly want to do something about that quickly,

44:16because that's going to damage how much money you're making,

44:23let's just have a look at what we've got,

44:25and we're pretty good to be honest, I don't think we need to build too much at the moment,

44:33what we can do is we've managed to raise about £1000, so we'll pay back £1000 of our debt,

44:41our loan if you want, so we've now got a £9000 loan that we've got to pay off,

44:47so we'll gradually just do that, so that we're in profit and not in the red,

44:52so that's a step in the right direction,

44:58I think we'll build a ferris wheel because we've got a lot of people queuing for the haunted house,

45:03so there's sort of a need for another gentle ride I think,

45:08let's build that there,

45:27I've not got enough money, we're running out of money,

45:29we're just a bad time aren't we,

45:37whoops, really short cash, £12 to build the path there,

45:44there we go,

45:51right the sooner we get this open the better because we need some money,

46:00so

46:08twists has broken down, funny I forgot we had twists as a ride, how much money is it making,

46:16it's been making a fairly good profit, we need to get a mechanic up there,

46:21oh it's going to rain so let's get the prices up for umbrellas, £3.50, there we go,

46:38change the colour of the umbrellas if we want, let's get some pink ones up there,

46:42nah if she's mine let's go for yellow, there we go, very good,

47:06the queue for the log flume is really starting to pick up now,

47:12we're doing really well, we're pretty much up to 500 guests and it's not even end of year 1 yet,

47:25so we're doing really well, as you can see the haunted house is very busy, very popular,

47:36that's the rain gone off so we'll just drop prices down to £2.50 because we're not that mean,

47:44we're taking advantage of a good season but we're not going to rip everybody off,

47:51so we're not going to charge them too much now, oh our advertising campaign for the park has

47:59finished and dynamite blaster has broken down, so the mechanics are already there on the scene,

48:05so that's good, we'll probably get a phone call right about now, so a lot of people are

48:11complaining that they've run out of cash, a feature of rollercoaster tycoon 2 is that you

48:18can build cash machines, I can get them in this game, open RCT but you have to research it,

48:30I don't have it at the moment, that's the rain on again, so let's get some more Umbrellas,

48:39we'll give them a nice blue colour this time,

48:45let's have a look at the toilet as well, is the toilet losing money,

48:48it is a wee bit actually, let's just make it 20p for the toilets,

48:52because we want nice toilets and there we go, we don't want it losing money, so that's fine,

49:0172 customers, that's not too many considering how long the park's been open,

49:05so it's just early days at the moment for that,

49:13let's build a slide, let's do that, we've not done that before have we,

49:18so let's build it here, we'll build an entrance,

49:35like that, then we'll put 5 people at once,

49:42and then we'll get that open, so we can get a few customers, there we go,

49:46one person already is on the slide, there's definitely an appetite for some more rides,

49:54500 guests, a few people saying they're hungry, so yeah we're gonna build,

50:06we're getting hungry, so let's build a burger van, burger van, burger stand I should say,

50:13let's do that there, there we go,

50:20so I'm just having a look at all the prices for things and seeing if we can just make a bit more

50:27profit, because we're struggling a wee bit, oh there we go, we've actually got another £1000,

50:33so that's really good, so we'll just pay back another £1000 of our loan, which is great,

50:43so I'm really just having a look at guests thoughts, I'm just trying to see what people are

50:49thinking about the prices that we're charging at the moment, at the moment most people are

50:55quite happy with the prices, seeing that there's lots of good value around, a couple of people

51:00feeling very sick on the ride, oh dear my goodness, that person just not that happy,

51:07what's their intensity rating, more than four, that's 8.12, so no wonder they're feeling sick,

51:21so we could do a bit of Egyptian theming around the car rides, because that's not the most popular

51:27ride, so if there's anything we can do to make it a bit more exciting we should do that,

51:33let's pop that there, what else can we add,

51:41let's try,

51:45yeah that's pretty good isn't it,

52:03Egyptian lamps,

52:10the queue is really starting to pick up for the log flume, it's

52:13getting more popular, I feel like maybe we need another ride here,

52:32so let's build a carousel,

53:32so

54:33so

54:41right let's see if we can do a bit more

54:45promotion of the park, let's see, I've not really got much money,

54:50let's check out three thousand pounds again,

55:07so we're running an advertising campaign for the park for nine weeks,

55:12and we've just spent three thousand pounds on that campaign,

55:16so let's see if we can get the number of guests up,

55:21now let's have a look at the log flume because the queue length is getting really long now,

55:29says

55:36queue times five minutes, it's not bad,

55:39let's see if anything's getting grumpy, no,

55:48what we'll do is we'll create some queue line tv, just to keep everybody entertained,

55:56I think also we shall

56:00sign our panda mascot to do a bit of cheering up

56:06because no one's unhappy, but I just think we should do that,

56:13just considering that the queue length is getting a bit long there,

56:19right let's make a pirate ship,

56:36so

57:07so

57:29okay well that's pretty much us achieved our objective,

57:33um we've managed to get 650 guests and we've got a park rating of 843,

57:40so we've done really well to achieve that,

57:44I don't think we would have got there without the marketing campaign,

57:46so that's interesting,

57:48and for anyone who's not used to using them in the game,

57:51definitely make use of them,

57:53I'm quite happy with my log flume I've created,

57:59and yeah I'm quite happy all around, it's a pretty good park,

58:02so if you quite liked this let's play video,

58:05please comment,

58:08as of posting this, the comment section has been disabled for public view,

58:14but I just realised today that if you comment,

58:17I still receive the comments and I can reply to your comments,

58:20it's just no one else can see them,

58:23publicly they can't be seen,

58:25and actually I'm okay with that if it protects people,

58:32you know it's funny I've had an increase in people actually commenting since that,

58:39so I don't know some people sometimes worry that their comments are going to get seen

58:43by others and that's why they don't comment,

58:44so it could be a good thing,

58:46I mean I want people to engage with the content,

58:49so if that's happening then that's great,

58:52so anyway let me know what you think,

58:53and if you've got any parks you're working on,

58:55or any tips you'd like to share with me,

58:59I would love to hear them,

59:02I'm going to try and make these a bit snappier,

59:04these videos,

59:06some of the levels are a bit long,

59:11so hopefully you've learned something,

59:15our log flume has broken down and people are stuck,

59:19that's one way to end it,

59:21okay so if you tune in next time,

59:22I'll see you for another edition of Rollercoaster Tycoon.

59:31Bye.

Rollercoaster Tycoon Video Game – [Let's Play] Dynamite Dunes – RCT Games Series Episode 2

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