Manual PC Rollercoaster Tycoon

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The Station Platform is pre-selected as the first item to be built. That’s

because on the completed ride, the Entrance and Exit must be adjacent to

the station platform. Positioning the station first is good planning.

♦ Move the mouse pointer over the landscape. The cursor is a white box

with a yellow arrow in it (like the Entrance cursor). The box marks where

the first piece of Station Platform will be built, and the arrow shows the

direction the cars will travel.

♦ Click once to build the first piece of Station Platform.

♦ Now, move the mouse pointer back to the construction window and

click on the Station Platform picture in the window three times to build

the remainder of the platform. The cursor moves forward each time and

continues flashing.

Next, we’re going to create the starting rise, the length of track in which a

motorized chain pulls the cars up an incline to set up the rest of the ride.

First, we determine the direction of the next piece of track. Near

the top of the construction window, select the center arrow (the

Straight button).

Second, we set the grade (rise or drop) of the next piece of track.

Below the direction buttons, find and click on the Mild Incline

button (just to the right of center).

Lastly, we add the pulling chain to this section of track. Click on

the Chain button (to the right of the incline buttons).

You probably noticed that as you made your selections, some of the

choices in the other areas changed from available to unavailable or vice

versa. What you can do at any point in the design of a roller coaster

depends on the structural and functional limits — and the safety regulations

— appropriate to the type of track you’re designing.

♦ Click on the picture of the track piece (as you did for the Station

Platform) to add it to the design.

If you understand how you built that straight, inclined, chained section of

track, then the rest of the design and construction process should be clear

to you. Curves, drops, and everything else are built using exactly the same

process — choose a direction, choose a grade, then build the section. As

we build this particular design, however, we run into a few of the limits on

what we can do. (This is not a complete list, but it covers the issues we

run into during the tutorial.)

♦ Now, extend the main path to reach the Queuing Line.

Now, you have a completed Merry-

Go-Round with paths and a waiting

area, but it is still closed (as you

can see by the sign flashing on the

Entrance).

♦ To open the ride, click the green

light on the right side of the

Merry-Go-Round 1 window. (If the

window isn’t open, click on the

Entrance or the ride itself to open

the window.)

Now you have an open ride, but the park is still closed.

♦ Hold the right mouse button down and move your cursor to “drag” the

landscape until the park entrance is in view. You see that the main park

entrance sign is still flashing a Closed message.

♦ Click on the entrance to open the Forest Frontiers window.

♦ Click the green light (just like the one that was in the ride window), and

the park is open for business.

♦ Close the Forest Frontiers window.

♦ Close the Merry-Go-Round 1 window.

You now have one ride working and the park open. It’s time to build

something a bit more ambitious.

Click the New Ride button again.

Select the Rollercoasters tab (the face flying downhill).

♦ Select the Steel Mini Roller Coaster picture, then click the Build This

button. The Select Track Design window opens.

At this point, you can choose to construct one of the pre-designed track

layouts, or you can choose to build a custom coaster. We’re being

ambitious, so let’s go with the latter.

♦ Select Build Custom Design, and the Roller Coaster Construction

window opens.

Entering The ParkEntering The Park

Remember

If you make a mistake and build

something in the wrong place, you can

right-click on what you built to

remove it. You will not get all of the

construction cost back, but there is

usually a refund of some sort.

(Removing natural objects such as

trees does not count as undoing

construction; for removal, there is a

separate cost, no refund.)

RCT JC_Revised ManInt 8/13/03 4:00 PM Page 10

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