The price per ride model just isn't working. The price seems to be significantly impacted by capacity and theming/decoration rather than the actual attributes of the ride.
I have created an issue in the issue tracker about it here: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/71200
I cannot see after a quick search that this has been raised recently, and it has certainly not been addressed. If the issue is that pricing is based around capacity and prestige as opposed to the actual elements and statistics of the ride itself that seems to me to be a particularly flawed approach. The whole downside of things like helter skelters (which are cheap to build and run) are that they are low income, low throughput. The price people are willing to pay should not increase just because it's lower capacity. Likewise, if I manage to put an extra train on a coaster my income per rider should not drop. If people were willing to pay X amount when there were just two trains, in reality, they're not suddenly willing to pay less just because there are some extra seats. Instead, they just become happier because of lower queue times. As things stand, now, I am disincentivised to increase throughput and capacity as it will harm my income.
I have created an issue in the issue tracker about it here: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/71200
I cannot see after a quick search that this has been raised recently, and it has certainly not been addressed. If the issue is that pricing is based around capacity and prestige as opposed to the actual elements and statistics of the ride itself that seems to me to be a particularly flawed approach. The whole downside of things like helter skelters (which are cheap to build and run) are that they are low income, low throughput. The price people are willing to pay should not increase just because it's lower capacity. Likewise, if I manage to put an extra train on a coaster my income per rider should not drop. If people were willing to pay X amount when there were just two trains, in reality, they're not suddenly willing to pay less just because there are some extra seats. Instead, they just become happier because of lower queue times. As things stand, now, I am disincentivised to increase throughput and capacity as it will harm my income.
