So, I have failed twice now at the San Diego Chaos Theory scenario. What happens is, I spend 10 plus hours grooming my park - successfully so I might add.
Twice now have my hours long efforts been destroyed within a matter of seconds. The first time around I have about 2mil in my account when a storm swept in. As we know you lose money during a storm, which is fine since that is what should happen. My money was quickly depleted before the storm was even over leaving me with nothing to repair the remaining damaged buildings. This drove my park rating down and eventually I had to restart the scenario since there was no way of getting back on track. No income, no money, no point to continue, right?
The second scenario, I again had 2-3 mil saved up and was working on my park's power distribution when one of the repeater stations was suddenly without power. The thing with the repeater stations is that you need to daisy-chain them carefully one by one to make sure they are drawing power. Once the daisy chain is "broken", you have to re-do ALL of the repeater stations in order to regain power. Well, before I knew it my resources were again depleted (due to no power to certain areas my income went into the negative) with no way to get back on track.
My gripe is, you spend hours building a park only for everything to be wiped out within only a few mins with no way of rescuing the park. I am quite sure that this cannot be the intended game design, that you risk losing EVERYTHING due to a storm or in the case of the repeater stations, trying to add additional repeater stations.
What is the trick here and what am I missing? I refuse to believe that this is intended and by design. And if it is by design, it's a poor design that allows hours and hours of gameplay to be completely wiped out due to a small issue that could easily be fixed if you didn't run out of cash so quick.
Twice now have my hours long efforts been destroyed within a matter of seconds. The first time around I have about 2mil in my account when a storm swept in. As we know you lose money during a storm, which is fine since that is what should happen. My money was quickly depleted before the storm was even over leaving me with nothing to repair the remaining damaged buildings. This drove my park rating down and eventually I had to restart the scenario since there was no way of getting back on track. No income, no money, no point to continue, right?
The second scenario, I again had 2-3 mil saved up and was working on my park's power distribution when one of the repeater stations was suddenly without power. The thing with the repeater stations is that you need to daisy-chain them carefully one by one to make sure they are drawing power. Once the daisy chain is "broken", you have to re-do ALL of the repeater stations in order to regain power. Well, before I knew it my resources were again depleted (due to no power to certain areas my income went into the negative) with no way to get back on track.
My gripe is, you spend hours building a park only for everything to be wiped out within only a few mins with no way of rescuing the park. I am quite sure that this cannot be the intended game design, that you risk losing EVERYTHING due to a storm or in the case of the repeater stations, trying to add additional repeater stations.
What is the trick here and what am I missing? I refuse to believe that this is intended and by design. And if it is by design, it's a poor design that allows hours and hours of gameplay to be completely wiped out due to a small issue that could easily be fixed if you didn't run out of cash so quick.