Open till closing time

[down86]

I have a suggestion to make the game abit more like a real life managing game.

Lets the park be opened and closed at the time you gave. So when you say the park opens @10 and closes @18 then the ppl will go home around that time. After closing time you will see a graph with some reviews of the park, the money you made and how happy your staff is. You could even work with weekdays from monday till sunday. Where you will se a difference in how busy the park is. Do promotions for holidays and make a schedule for your staff on which day they are free of work, so that there is even some staff management.


I would love to see this added to the game. It could make management something different.

 

[AaronTuckwell]

I was an advocate of seasonal opening and daily / monthly opening in the early days - where the park closed for a period of time and you are able to clean up, fix or service rides etc.. but I don't think that the current game time-line would accommodate this without massive changes. The game time passes far too quickly for the activities that your guests undertake and in some larger parks it takes your guests anywhere up to 3 game months to walk from the entrance to the far back of your park.. So expecting them to get there and back within the time scale of an in-game 10 - 6 makes it impossible.

I'd absolutely love to see a full year, seasonal cycle where you choose what months you are open and closed. Then what activity happens when you are closed etc. Sadly, I don't think we will ever see this happen due to the work that would be needed to make it viable. The cost of doing it (time, people hours, programming etc) far outweighs the benefits of doing it.