... Add More Cars to Whitewater Ride

[UtesDad]

Just bought PC with the recent sale and I love the game. However, a lot of the nuances are not self-explanatory, so forgive me if this is a noob question.

I'm working on a park in Challenge Mode and just build my first water ride Whitewater (woohoo!). But as soon as I built it, I notice there's only 3 cars/tubes/trains/flumes (whatever you want to call them) going thru the ride at any given time. Checking the ride Operations options, there is a way to change the number of cars, but 3 is the current max. How can I increase this so that there's 6 or 8 cars going through the ride at once? After lots of time Googling for an answer, the only info I gathered was that with coaster rides it's a matter of adding in some block break sections, but in water rides several cars can be in the same section (between lifts) at a time. What am I missing here?

Secondarily with more cars, it'd be nice if more than one car was loading/unloading at a time. Is that even possible?

 

[breezerHOG1]

I built a water ride and was able to add 20+ cars even beyond the station limits, after I realized I had too many I reduced the amount. I always thought if you wanted more cars you had to extend the station but that's only true for coasters. Are you sure you closed the ride before trying to add more cars? You cant edit track conditions while the ride is open.

 

[UtesDad]

Are you sure you closed the ride before trying to add more cars? You cant edit track conditions while the ride is open.

100% the ride is closed.

Screenshot showing ride is closed and the "up" button to increase the number of cars is greyed out.

 

[Bullethead]

100% the ride is closed. http://imgur.com/oKJpIHo Screenshot showing ride is closed and the "up" button to increase the number of cars is greyed out.

From your pic, it looks like you've got a lift returning rafts to the station, with no regular track between the station and the lift. If so, that's your problem. Rafts in excess of what will fit on the station platform can only be added if you've got regular track behind the arrival end of the station. So if you need to tweak the track so there's some regular track between the station and the lift, and you'll only be able to add as many rafts as will fit that space.

 

[UtesDad]

From your pic, it looks like you've got a lift returning rafts to the station, with no regular track between the station and the lift. If so, that's your problem. Rafts in excess of what will fit on the station platform can only be added if you've got regular track behind the arrival end of the station. So if you need to tweak the track so there's some regular track between the station and the lift, and you'll only be able to add as many rafts as will fit that space.

This was it! I extended the track just before the loading station and was able to add another 4-5 boats. Seems odd that one of the pre-made default rides would be setup that way, but it did teach me a lot about modifying rides.