I really loved the RCT1 scenarios and the challenges they gave you but some were rather easy and didn't take long to beat so I would definitely like to see some scenarios that will take a long time to achieve. The management side of this was rewarding when you were able to build a park that finally operated in the black as it gave you a sense of achievement. I also have a creative side so I like to build great looking areas with themed rides and so on, being able to have both would be great. What I mean by this is that some scenarios were achievable if you only focused on generating money so the creative side was less important as far as beating the winning conditions but the flip side was the x-amount of park guests that would require your creative skills to come into play to achieve in the allotted time frame. A strong mix of both would be my choice, a scenario editor is also a huge want so I could set my own winning conditions. Throw in a sandbox mode with a few options such as with or without finances and other restrictions would be awesome.
One thing I did really enjoy with RCT3 was the options you had with selling food or items, you could turn one burger into various ones by adding or removing different items, drinks were also the same and you could sell various colors of balloons that you could see all around your park. I would be really excited to see a huge amount of options again in these areas as it adds to the management side of the game. Maybe some more depth here as well where you need to purchase stock for all your shops, also in other areas such as park advertising there could be more options than we have seen in the past, from memory there were some fairly generic options for advertising so being able to customize your advertising budget and where you advertise would be awesome.
Ticket prices could also have much more depth, RTC1 was fairly straight forward with one price fits all which was great at the time but I would like to see the ability to make varying ticket prices for different age groups, social groups and yearly, month, week or 2 or 3 day passes maybe. This would definitely create a much more robust approach to finances and management in general. All in all more depth and options is my vote for the management side of things and also maybe a park that actually closes at night and reopens in the morning with peak times of the day, week and year and maybe a holiday calendar that allows you to target certain times of the year with promotions, etc. Hmmm, more depth please, more depth. [yesnod]
