Planet Coaster

[robdood]

@spork yep! Can't wait to get stuck in, tbh!

 

I'm the kind of person who ends up spending 2 hours crafting a block of toilets more than growing the park, though

 

Though having just finished a mini-addiction to Cities Skylines I'm keen to dig around the management stuff. 

 

Not sure whether to try the career challenges, sandbox, or 'challenge' (i.e. sandbox with limited money / research) first!

[T Pot]

I'll be going straight into the challeneges. I love them on RCT 1,2 & 3.

[robdood]

Yeah, I figured they'd be a good way to learn the intricacies of the management systems, but at the same time I just loooooooove painstakingly crafting buildings

[robdood]

Also, each time I reopen steam there are new workshop items for the Beta.. WTF

[T Pot]

The Alpha will stay active until April next year. There are a handful of people in the beta already, with it launching some poing this afternnon for the rest of us.

[robdood]

@King A GO GO GO I'm INSTALLING RIGHT NOW

[T Pot]

I'm in the office :'(

[robdood]

 

5.7GB

[T Pot]

I'll get the missus to install it and ill play tonight.  Can't wait
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[robdood]

Mad my man look like Where's Wally so I can play it once my parks are busy..

 

(man the character creator options are limited..)

[robdood]

Woah, took a while to load in after I placed my man on the globe - I thought it had crashed! Presume servers being hammered. 

[Geo]

Anyone getting properly awful framerate? On a 970 I can't get it about 20fps at lowest settings and it uses 100% of my GPU  can't remember it being this bad for the alpha.

[monkeydog]

My crusty 660 is doing better than that on medium and bits of high on the first career level.

[Geo]

Seemed like it was a driver issue, updated to the newest newest ones and it's fine!

[T Pot]

1 hour ago, Geo said:

Anyone getting properly awful framerate? On a 970 I can't get it about 20fps at lowest settings and it uses 100% of my GPU  can't remember it being this bad for the alpha.

 

Mine struggles a bit more aye. There was a reflections option in the alpha that you  could disable to increase performance. Dunno if it is in this release.

[robdood]

Man, ended up caning challenge mode all evening.  First park failed, these guests are demanding!  And I have no idea how to reduce queue times at the moment!

 

Money runs out so fast!  It's good.

[T Pot]

11 hours ago, dood said:

And I have no idea how to reduce queue times at the moment!

 

Enable priority passes, smaller queue lines, more filler rides.

[robdood]

I did all of that, nobody seemed to use priority passes

 

Do you mean literally short queue paths?  

 

And I can't afford any more rides!!  It's pretty brutal.  I think I will go to the Career mode first. 

 

(they totally named Career and Challenge mode the wrong way round, lol)

[T Pot]

Yeah, shorter queues so it limits how many people can stand in line. Put seats & food joints near entries and toilets near exits, that can slow the flood of customers a bit too.

[Dimahoo]

If food and drink is too near a ride, doesn't it make them sick? 

Or isn't that simulated?

[robdood]

1 hour ago, King A said:

Yeah, shorter queues so it limits how many people can stand in line. Put seats & food joints near entries and toilets near exits, that can slow the flood of customers a bit too.

When I tried that, the complaint changed from "queue too long" to "queue is full"!!!

 

 

also so seems a bit weird they complain that 10 mins is too long a queue.. hard to know what's intentional and what isn't at this stage, doesn't help that no on who makes vids etc on YouTube is playing this mode! It's all career or building..

[robdood]

OH GOD THIS GAME IS LIKE CRACK. 

 

Spent far too much time making some nice Western-themed building props..

 

http://steamcommunity.com/id/robdood/myworkshopfiles/?appid=493340

[T Pot]

4 minutes ago, dood said:

OH GOD THIS GAME IS LIKE CRACK. 

 

Spent far too much time making some nice Western-themed building props..

 

http://steamcommunity.com/id/robdood/myworkshopfiles/?appid=493340

 

Thank you. I'll be downloading them and adding shops into them.

[robdood]

Glad to be of service!  Want to do a few more tiny / budget buildings (the saloon costs 1500!) and a hotel, bank, and sheriff's office / Gaol.  And maybe a ranch / farm.  

 

Then I'll move on to Sci fi !

[T Pot]

I'm finding the beta crashes too much for my liking. It is much worse than the alpha for me. Because you can't change the autosave frequency, you can lose shit loads of work. Really putting me off investing serious time into building any rides.

[monkeydog]

I've only played around for a couple of hours so far on career, so haven't done very demanding things.  It's not crashed on me though.

[robdood]

I've not hit a crash either.  But to he fair I've  only really been in very empty maps. 

[T Pot]

It's only crashing a lot when I'm in creative sandbox. Career stuff seems fine. Very odd.

[robdood]

Is it just me or does time evaporate quicker than usual withi this, even when I've been way into other games, I'm usually quite good at guessing how long I've been playing.  I this I always seem to need to double my estimation.  1am on a school night is not good!

 

Anyway, behold my travesty of a hard-earned park: 

 

Hopefully I'll eventually save up enough cash that I can start zoning / planning / theme it nicely!  Good fun now, I've not seemed to hit the problems I had with my first park. 

 

Currently trying to work out how to change the fortune of my non-profitable rides.. There a re quite a few!  Seems like putting coasters down is definitely the way to go when it comes to making cash though, they rake it in VS flat rides. 

[T Pot]

Yeah, free Park entry and paid rides is the way to go for easy money.

 

On the crashing thing I went to the forums, it's affecting a large number of people. Just random crashes to desktop, doesn't matter what you are doing. Seems to have started when they put out the stability patch.