...as well as the unrealistic guest ride tolerance distribution.
It never made any sense to me. It's as if the game only wants you to build rollercoasters. I get that it's RollerCoaster Tycoon, but if they were going to give us thrill rides and other ride attractions, they should at least make them useful.
For example, let's look at the scrambled eggs attraction. Excitement, intensity, and nausea all have low ratings. It's a snooze-fest for lack of a better term. Just look at the ride! It even moves at like 5 revolutions/hour (or whatever extremely slow rotational speed is suitable, I'm rusty on mah fizzics).
My problem with this is it's incredibly unrealistic. I've ridden a real 'scrambled eggs' a bunch of times in my life. Those things are exciting, and they are intense (nausea may be another thing). Of course, these things are mostly subjective, but I'm sure that most can agree with me when I say that low excitement and intensity for a scrambled eggs ride is a tad ludicrous.
Another example - the go-karts. Like the scrambled eggs, these can very possible get low on all three ratings. Like, seriously? Go-karts? Go-karts are unexciting? Have the developers never been on go-karts before? Go-karts are one of the most fun and interesting things to do at amusement parks because it involves user-interaction and competitiveness instead of just zooming down a rollercoaster track. I understand that not all go-karts are 'exciting' and 'thrilling', but to give a low criteria on go-karts regardless of scenery is outright annoying.
Which brings me to my next point: the rating criteria. Simply put, it is bogus. For the most part, you can spend your time decorating your ride, making it look all fancy and colorful and adding gorgeous scenery and other aesthetic aspects to it, but it won't matter because guests ride for intensity and not excitement. Umm..... hello? That's horribly unrealistic and antagonizing. I can't express how much I've wanted to destroy these games when I heard the guests complain:
-'Rollercoaster/ride 1 looks too intense for me!!!!1'
-'I want to go on something more thrilling than Rollercoaster/ride 1!1!!!1!!one'
Believe it or not, Chris/Atari/Area 52, in real life, some people actually DO find things like merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheels, monorails, chairlifts and the like entertaining and somewhat thrilling. Heck, even I sometimes get a sense of thrill (and almost fright :/) from the latter two. No seat belts and wobbly carts on heights that extreme make me feel almost unsettled upon the thought of something going horribly wrong while riding those.
Why would they implement this? Like, I get that different guests have different tolerances for intensity, but it still renders the excitement factor for rides almost incredibly useless. They could have completely did away with that and the game wouldn't be changed very much. It sucks because it arbitrarily emphasizes having super high and wicked roller coasters over most gentler other rides and attractions. So basically, your roller coasters lines will be filled up while all the other rides will usually be empty. This is especially true for the first game. They kind of fixed it in RCT2, but then it got even WORSE than RCT1 in RCT3! Almost all of my non-rollercoaster rides with low intensity ratings were almost always empty. It's infuriating.
TL;DR
In RCTW I think they should do one or more of the following possible solutions:
1.) Do away with excitement and intensity altogether and make another judgement criteria that 'encompasses' both that is less subjective. What exactly should it be and be called? I'm not exactly sure.
2.) Have more realistic guests and a more fair distribution of ride criteria tolerance. That is, have more guests that actually like the slower, gentler rides.
3.) Not have the excitement rating basically pointless. Especially if they don't actually bother to explain the bare significance of such and how to take advantage of it in the game.
4.) Have more realistic ride criteria. So no labeling scrambled eggs/go-karts/3D cinema/etc.etc.etc. as boring and dull.
So yeah, sorry for sounding so rage-y.
Feel free to agree/disagree with me below.
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To activate these cheats in RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, rename a peep to the name in bold before each description. Cheats are listed by version; newer versions (listed first) include all of the cheat codes below them.
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RCT3: Wild! Cheats Top
Rabbit
Animals Constantly Breed - Should make your animals reproduce very quickly, like rabbits.
Alvin Swazonegger
Allow Large Billboard Movies
RCT3: Soaked! Cheats Top
Mornington Crescent
This allows building shops etc. underground (use SHIFT to lower an object's position until it is say, level with an underground path).
David Walsh
This allows removal of the user interface (ie all the icons, menus etc) using CTRL+U once the cheat is active. This is great for taking screen shots. Press CTRL+U again to get the user interface back.
Rollercoaster Tycoon Touch Reduce Nausea
M Brookes
Enables you can place wall pieces and other scenery items on the edge of path tiles.
Alistair Lindsay
Alters the speed at which some sound effects are played at pause, fast and fastest.
Rick Griffiths
Changes the inside of a tunnel from rubble to sharks on both sides, the ceiling and the floor.
v1a Beta Patch (for Original RCT3) Cheats Top
Andrew Thomas
Decreases track friction, which can make coasters go faster along their tracks
David Braben
Disable the Lift Chain Speed & Launch Speed limits. Normally, you are not permitted over a set speed limit. Usage: Select a coaster. Select 'Operating Mode'. You must have 'Powered Launch' selected to alter the Launch Speed.
Andrew Gillett
Unknown effect. (On the first Career mission, this code will double the value rating of your park - which will complete your first mission objective) (On other tested missions, it seems to possibly cause a slight increase in park value too)
Original RCT3 Cheats Top
John D Rockefeller
Increase your money by 1,000
Chris Sawyer
Cheer (Lp) - All guests applaud you & jump into the air
Mouse
All guests stand around looking down at the ground (are they looking for mice between their feet?)
Guido Fawkes
Enables the 'Advanced firework editor'. Usage: Scenery -> Firework Mixmaster -> Fireworks Displays -> Add firework display -> Advanced firework editor
Atari
Cheer (Fade) - All guests applaud you
James Hunt
You are given a buggy vehicle to ride in - exit coastercam and delete as scenery when done
D Lean
Open the 'Flying Camera' routes editor (also available through Ctrl + Shift + 0 without using cheat)
A Hitchcock
Hitchcock - not sure what this does (could be related to the birds like Alfred's movie)
PhotoStory
Unknown
ATITech
Every Person (both guests & staff) move super fast, though the game time passes at normal speed (rides & coasters do not speed up) (Expires after 20 seconds)
Make Me Sick
All guests become Sick and vomit immediately
Jonny Watts
PeepCam (see the world through the eyes of the guest who you just renamed)
John Wardley
Coaster Heights (ride & coaster tracks can be built without height limitations)
Frontier
Unbreakable (Buildings/Rides/Coasters do not break down any longer)
Jon Roach
Ride All Rides (make all guests ride every park ride before leaving the park) OR it may just make guests ignore their nausea rating
Sam Denney
Ride All Coasters (make all guests ride every park coaster before leaving the park) OR it may just make guests ignore their nausea rating
Atomic
Big Explosion - never saw a noticable effect on this one (assume it makes certain buildings, rides, or coasters explode OR could have some effect on the Fireworks)