gunslinger scenario

[mildredalien]

Hmm, having a little trouble with this one, as far as ride building/money managing strategy goes.

I can get the bronze hat no problems, but to draw in the peeps and get my park value up I need to spend money building rides. So by the time my park value is up, I have very little money and have to pay off a £10,000 loan! If I ever manage to pay that back I'm going to need even more money to get my park value way up for the gold hat!

Any tips for this one?

[Silkius]

Okay I can only tell you what I did so here goes:

Start:
Paused and removed souveneer stalls, dropped the loan to about 2k, dropped research to £50, put the train ride to never maintain (I kept it - not needed but I like to try to keep scenarios pretty much in the spirit they were built), also stopped the mine ride and added a train (car) and raised price to £4 and noted the space I would need to edit the ride and add another platform section)

Next I hired 2x janitors and 1x handyman - trained them to level 3 (your park is a mess) also raised loos to 20p and tweaked the shops to get max outof them.
next I looked at the park - noted the big loop round the mine ride and the town loop and basically mentally divided it - looking at doubling the path width as funds allowed.

I put in a buffalo roundabout, on mine loop and wheel on the town, tested opened and ran. (I put roundabouts and wheels to 2 circuits - it increases the ride time a fraction along with the excitement )

I then ran the game to allow peeps in, and rides to make a bit of cash - placed a TNT next to mine ride (on the flat) - and started looking at the big flat area at end of mine ride for a loopping coaster.
by now I had a couple more rides which I added 1 at a time - allowing them to run and build more cash, also added more food and drinks (actualy moved a couple too to allow for my double pathing) - and using a slight lazy cheat of mine I used a roundabout to flaten land (using ctrl key) in far corner , removing it and placing it to create a flat area as a 2nd food court.

I did all this using just park generated cash (minimum loan) then borrowed a few k to build my looping coaster
Major tip : Save first - (I use a seperate save especially for this) borrow max - pause and build as you desire - get the ride right then save the ride, note any land changes/clearing you had to do, load the game and change the land, then load the ride you saved, note how much you need and borrow that - and tweak while running.
(mine was a 7+ excitement with 3 nausea so I charged £6.50 opened it and let the dosh roll in.
What I did then was as money came in - I basically waited untill every time I had 2k and paid one off using some to build more flats - add themeing shops etc., also adding staff and training (also trained stall vendors to level 1) - it takes a few years this way but it works. - I also upped my research to £150 (in £50 increments) as I dropped my loan below £2k - I was also doubling rides (1 in each half - especially the lower rides like roundabout, bucking, wheel, etc., So I could keep to pure western theme)

I then left 1k loan and built things up a bit more and continued to build up cash to about 5k - by now my mine ride was down to excitement 2 - so I edited it and took it upto a 6 (so I could ramp the price upto £5) If i was doing it again I wuld do this early (as it also now had 5 cars = better turnover)

I then paused and replaced a number of my flat rides (cos they were getting on) before paying off the last bit (so most of my rides were new before Kari Oki turns up) she wants 2x 4+ coasters - by now I was well above £75k value - but once loan is paid and you are on Tycoon level you can borrow it again (if you need it)

I used the time to continue to improve - by time I won I had nearly £10k to which I borrowed another £5k and built a giga coaster at the back of the park - after which I had a value of £130k +)
I did this because I was going to continue it past winning, but got a little peeved when I worked out i was not going to get any water rides (I wanted a rapid and flume).

not a total soloution but it might help.

[Silkius]

Some images for you :D

Gunslinger Park overhead

[Silkius]

Coaster 2 From Gunslinger

(DiamondBack - A looping coaster with 7.2 excitement 2.6 nausea)

[Silkius]

Buffalo Run (okay it cost over £20k - including some land pruchase) - Excitement 7.92 Nausea 2.86)

[mildredalien]

Thank you! I guess I just need to be very patient when paying off the loan... build a little/save a little/pay off a little etc etc.

:D

[Gil]

Originally posted by mildredalien
Thank you! I guess I just need to be very patient when paying off the loan... build a little/save a little/pay off a little etc etc.

:D

Not at all! The moment you've paid off the loan you can take it out again! Just pay your loan off, check you have a little tick in the objective box and then take out a 10k loan and build a coaster :)

[The Machine]

Originally posted by Gil
The moment you've paid off the loan you can take it out again! Just pay your loan off, check you have a little tick in the objective box and then take out a 10k loan and build a coaster :)
No. Then the tick would disappear again.

Build a little/save a little/pay off a little sounds like a sound strategy to me.

And if anything's losing money, tweak it until it isn't or bulldoze it. :cool:

[mildredalien]

No. Then the tick would disappear again.

Actually no - once you have paid off the loan as long as you fulfill any other objectives and move onto the next level, you can take out another loan no problems. It helps if you want to build something or get park value up quickly, without saving for another 3 years!

I used the pay off a bit/spend a bit strategy in order to pay the loan off.

[The Machine]

Originally posted by mildredalien
Actually no - once you have paid off the loan as long as you fulfill any other objectives and move onto the next level, you can take out another loan no problems.

Once you move on to the next level, yes, but not before, otherwise the tick disappears again.

If you could just pay the loan off and then immediately take one out again before you moved on to the next level, it'd be far too easy. :)