Guests keep complaining that various rides have long queue times. How can I improve this? I've tried making the ride more expensive, but that hasn't deterred people. What can I do to rectify this?
Do about long queue times
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Guests keep complaining that various rides have long queue times. How can I improve this? I've tried making the ride more expensive, but that hasn't deterred people. What can I do to rectify this?
Best Answer
The easy solution is to make the queue shorter. People won't queue then and look for other things to spend their money on. Ideally a queue should just be long enough to buffer one full load, plus a few extra meters to compensate for irregular inflow of guests. And besides, shorter queues also have the advantage that it is easier to get a 100% queue scenery rating.
But that only fixes the symptom and still generates "queue is full" negative thoughts. The root cause of the problem is often that the ride isn't as efficient as it could be. When you can optimize the ride to have a higher throughput, you can prevent bad thoughts from waiting too long and make it far more profitable.
With rollercoasters you can double the throughput by using two trains. You can do that by:
You can add even more block breaks or use multiple lift hills to allow even more trains, but that usually requires some more planning and is usually only worth it for extremely long coasters.