Does the refund system work as intended?

AegisKay

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I recently decided to play around with the park ticket prices to see how it affects the game play. As it turns out, charging at the park gates is a great way to increase guest average spending. However, after a few hours I started losing enormous amounts of money on park ticket sales, sometimes negative $6k a month on park entry sales.

I believe the system works like this; guests buy the park ticket, go on a ride that breaks down and flags the ticket invalid, triggering a refund on park exit. In a charge per ride park; guests buy the ride ticket, go on a ride that breaks down and that single ticket is refunded on leaving the queue.

This seems to be a little ridiculous, especially when charging nothing for the rides. Even so, if a transport ride breaks down, surely the value of the ticket would be removed from the park entry fee and not the price of the whole ticket (which can often be around $100 a time)?

Does this work as intended? If so charging for park entry fee's appears to be a pointless system unless every ride has a small queue, which guests seem to complain an awful lot more if queue's are too small.

Does anyone know any tricks around the refund problem aside from rigorously spamming the ride inspection buttons for park entry charged parks?
 

AegisKay

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breezerHOG said:
Most people have chosen not to use the park admission because its easier to just monitor the price of each ride, especially if you have the ride aging/reputation enabled. Its kind of messed up how an aging ride will be completely ignored by guests even if its set to free
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I find the reputation penalty from rides doesn't take a massive hit so long as the prestige is high enough from the start. The 20% penalty does hit harder with higher prestige, but its essentially a temporary tax for not re-branding or waiting for "classic" status. Even in a park with all the rides free, all the rides will be used so long as the attractions are rated highly enough. But I do understand the frustration with the logic.
 

breezerHOG1

breezerHOG1
AegisKay said:
its essentially a temporary tax for not re-branding
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I forgot they added "re-branding" another useless feature... you want your rides to become classic because classic rides have the highest prestige, rebranding only sets you back
 
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