If Planet Coaster 2 goes ahead, there are some things I would love to see in it that I have wanted since I started playing the game.
Whether these were in DLCs or in the real game, I would be very happy to see them in the game.
Theatres
I would love to have sit down theatres where you can play videos, and people will queue up outside, waiting for the entrance doors to open before going in and taking seats, and the video could start. It would also be good to have trigger points in the video like for example if you can select at 1:20 in, then a flamethrower turns on, adding a special effect element in. There could also be live variants of this with actors, however it might have to be either like the carousel of progress in Disney with animatronics, or simple pre-set shows that Frontier make for us.
4D Elements
Adding on to theatres, I would love to have a 4D theatre where a video could play, and using a timeline, you can set movements of the cabin like for example Star Tours in Disney (you would also be able to set special effects with triggers). I would also like this to be implemented into rides where trackless rides could be paused and then a 4d section could play out, once again with the timeline and movement, like in Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway at Disney, or at Remy's Ratatouille Adventure in Disney.
Pistons
I think when making night time shows, it can be difficult to take your eyes away from some scenery or animatronics which are awkwardly standing completely still until they are used. So instead, I suggest pistons could be added to any object to push it in any direction, and objects could snap onto them for ease of play. This could create amazing scenes in rides too, for example going into a room which seems empty, until scenery springs up from the ground and then it becomes a highly themed area.
Projections
This is one I am really passionate about as I think it can bring your theme park up to the next level. Projectors can be placed around the park, and you can select videos/photos for them to display. Then, by selecting scenery and building items which are in a certain radius of the projector, it will map the video onto those screens. As an addition to this, maybe water fans could be created like in Fantasmic and these water fans can be projected onto.
Entertainment +
I would love to see more entertainment throughout the park, for example I want to see a band walking through main street playing their songs, and more mascots too. In addition to this, photography like the PhotoPass people in Disney would be amazing as an extra source of income and something else for guests to do.
Omnimover
I think an omnimover is such a necessity for everyone's park. It would be great to have as quick way to get people on a ride, and is just a good ride type in general which we are really missing out on.
A way to get in
It seems silly how at the moment, the way to get into the park is through a teleporter. Especially since for example the tropical region, its on an island, so how are guests getting here? It would be great to have a ferry or something come by in this example and drop people off for the park. For other locations, there could be a road or two connecting the park and the outside, and if your park does not have a car park, which would be a great additive to have parking spaces which the park could detect and then would then bring cars in. If it does not, then there could be a sidewalk where people can walk in from a potentially exterior car park we cannot see.
Ride vehicles
I think the amount of ride vehicles is currently not good and should be able to be customised with TMTK or some other tool where players can choose custom vehicles, which could end up saving Frontier a lot of time which means they don't have to release a trackless ride twice with two skins.
Just fix paths.
Water Park
I wanted it, I have recently joined the forums and soon found out everyone wants it. Come on, some water rides would be so fun! But if they do, they are going to have to fix that manky looking water to something more appealing to plunge into. Whilst I think this has been denied that it is happening, a new game would also be really cool just about water parks, I am just not sure there is quite enough content there for a full game.
Actual shops, hotels and restaurants
I want to be able to walk into shops and hotels and even restaurants and customise them. It could bring so much life into the game in my opinion, and we could have a separate editor for things like this too where it has different parts and cool stuff like that, maybe things like Rainforest Café would then be made possible too.
Mods
If Frontier are never planning to add anything more to the game, I would say at least make it easier to mod Planet Coaster! If Frontier don't want to do the work, we would be fine with just doing it ourselves! However, the modding system seems to be very complex, so only some basic mods can be added which is a real shame.
Resizing
The intention with Planet Coaster seemed to be a limitless game, but the fact that the size of objects cannot be changed really disappoints me because we could have some really good opportunities to add forced perspective into the park and resizing things could be cool to make a land where you are small like Toy Story Land in Disney where everything is bigger, which would be great for theming.
While I am sure this is far from original suggestions, as we are all playing the game and want the same things, I think the more it gets publicised, the more chance we have of making it successful and Frontier taking action. Whilst the game is sort of dead, we never know the future. Really, if we do want Frontier to do something about it, a game like Park Beyond is going to have to blow up, causing Frontier enough damage in player base to start updating. PC2 is not confirmed and is far from that, I was really disappointed when I first found out that PlanCo would not be receiving any more updates (probably) and I think the game deserves some love and these updates would be amazing.
If there is anything I have not added I hope you will tell me, but these are my initial ideas (which I know I share).
Whether these were in DLCs or in the real game, I would be very happy to see them in the game.
Theatres
I would love to have sit down theatres where you can play videos, and people will queue up outside, waiting for the entrance doors to open before going in and taking seats, and the video could start. It would also be good to have trigger points in the video like for example if you can select at 1:20 in, then a flamethrower turns on, adding a special effect element in. There could also be live variants of this with actors, however it might have to be either like the carousel of progress in Disney with animatronics, or simple pre-set shows that Frontier make for us.
4D Elements
Adding on to theatres, I would love to have a 4D theatre where a video could play, and using a timeline, you can set movements of the cabin like for example Star Tours in Disney (you would also be able to set special effects with triggers). I would also like this to be implemented into rides where trackless rides could be paused and then a 4d section could play out, once again with the timeline and movement, like in Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway at Disney, or at Remy's Ratatouille Adventure in Disney.
Pistons
I think when making night time shows, it can be difficult to take your eyes away from some scenery or animatronics which are awkwardly standing completely still until they are used. So instead, I suggest pistons could be added to any object to push it in any direction, and objects could snap onto them for ease of play. This could create amazing scenes in rides too, for example going into a room which seems empty, until scenery springs up from the ground and then it becomes a highly themed area.
Projections
This is one I am really passionate about as I think it can bring your theme park up to the next level. Projectors can be placed around the park, and you can select videos/photos for them to display. Then, by selecting scenery and building items which are in a certain radius of the projector, it will map the video onto those screens. As an addition to this, maybe water fans could be created like in Fantasmic and these water fans can be projected onto.
Entertainment +
I would love to see more entertainment throughout the park, for example I want to see a band walking through main street playing their songs, and more mascots too. In addition to this, photography like the PhotoPass people in Disney would be amazing as an extra source of income and something else for guests to do.
Omnimover
I think an omnimover is such a necessity for everyone's park. It would be great to have as quick way to get people on a ride, and is just a good ride type in general which we are really missing out on.
A way to get in
It seems silly how at the moment, the way to get into the park is through a teleporter. Especially since for example the tropical region, its on an island, so how are guests getting here? It would be great to have a ferry or something come by in this example and drop people off for the park. For other locations, there could be a road or two connecting the park and the outside, and if your park does not have a car park, which would be a great additive to have parking spaces which the park could detect and then would then bring cars in. If it does not, then there could be a sidewalk where people can walk in from a potentially exterior car park we cannot see.
Ride vehicles
I think the amount of ride vehicles is currently not good and should be able to be customised with TMTK or some other tool where players can choose custom vehicles, which could end up saving Frontier a lot of time which means they don't have to release a trackless ride twice with two skins.
Just fix paths.
Water Park
I wanted it, I have recently joined the forums and soon found out everyone wants it. Come on, some water rides would be so fun! But if they do, they are going to have to fix that manky looking water to something more appealing to plunge into. Whilst I think this has been denied that it is happening, a new game would also be really cool just about water parks, I am just not sure there is quite enough content there for a full game.
Actual shops, hotels and restaurants
I want to be able to walk into shops and hotels and even restaurants and customise them. It could bring so much life into the game in my opinion, and we could have a separate editor for things like this too where it has different parts and cool stuff like that, maybe things like Rainforest Café would then be made possible too.
Mods
If Frontier are never planning to add anything more to the game, I would say at least make it easier to mod Planet Coaster! If Frontier don't want to do the work, we would be fine with just doing it ourselves! However, the modding system seems to be very complex, so only some basic mods can be added which is a real shame.
Resizing
The intention with Planet Coaster seemed to be a limitless game, but the fact that the size of objects cannot be changed really disappoints me because we could have some really good opportunities to add forced perspective into the park and resizing things could be cool to make a land where you are small like Toy Story Land in Disney where everything is bigger, which would be great for theming.
While I am sure this is far from original suggestions, as we are all playing the game and want the same things, I think the more it gets publicised, the more chance we have of making it successful and Frontier taking action. Whilst the game is sort of dead, we never know the future. Really, if we do want Frontier to do something about it, a game like Park Beyond is going to have to blow up, causing Frontier enough damage in player base to start updating. PC2 is not confirmed and is far from that, I was really disappointed when I first found out that PlanCo would not be receiving any more updates (probably) and I think the game deserves some love and these updates would be amazing.
If there is anything I have not added I hope you will tell me, but these are my initial ideas (which I know I share).
