Park Balance Bonus

[AaronTuckwell]

So, I'm building a park from scratch in Challenge Mode. I had 2 basic rides and was packing my park full of people thanks to the amount of scenery I was putting down but then noticed that there seems to be a tipping point where no matter how many guests I have in the park, they will complain about the queue length. I then noticed that my Park Balance Bonus hadn't changed in some time.

I figured that I'd topped out the scenery element of the bonus and so needed to add a new ride in order to increase the balance and reduce the number of people complaining about a long queue... And when I added a new ride BOOM! Queue complaints stopped.

It seems that you can only add so much scenery before 1: You have too many guests for the rides you have (they complain about the queue) and 2: The Balance Bonus no longer increases..

Pretty cool actually!

This leads me to my suggestion.. PLEASE can we have a breakdown of the points and how far to topping them out we are, so that we know WHEN we need to add what instead of just stabbing in the dark and hoping for the best?

Honestly, I've noticed that less guests complain about the queues if I've not added more scenery than the bonus will allow.. Might be a happy co-incidence of course..

 

[edjenoh]

So, I'm building a park from scratch in Challenge Mode. I had 2 basic rides and was packing my park full of people thanks to the amount of scenery I was putting down but then noticed that there seems to be a tipping point where no matter how many guests I have in the park, they will complain about the queue length. I then noticed that my Park Balance Bonus hadn't changed in some time.

I figured that I'd topped out the scenery element of the bonus and so needed to add a new ride in order to increase the balance and reduce the number of people complaining about a long queue... And when I added a new ride BOOM! Queue complaints stopped.

It seems that you can only add so much scenery before 1: You have too many guests for the rides you have (they complain about the queue) and 2: The Balance Bonus no longer increases..

Pretty cool actually!

This leads me to my suggestion.. PLEASE can we have a breakdown of the points and how far to topping them out we are, so that we know WHEN we need to add what instead of just stabbing in the dark and hoping for the best?

Honestly, I've noticed that less guests complain about the queues if I've not added more scenery than the bonus will allow.. Might be a happy co-incidence of course..

I agree that the game doesn't teach you this at all, while it is very important on harder difficulty. I had the same problem but, inversely. Too many rides and too little scenery and losing money on running costs and queues that weren't filling up on all rides. I think you have to keep ride and scenery rating around a similar level to min-max the balance bonus and achieve optimal guest population and filled queues that are not too long.

Although your highest prestige rides near the park entrance may still have high queue length due to their popularity and proxitity to the guest inflow. I guess you can best counteract this by placing gentler and less exciting thrill rides near the entrance and the highest prestige rated rides deeper into the park and spaced them out evenly over the entire map of your park and cluster medium/lower prestige rides/shops around the high prestige ones.