Sonic Claw Machine is busted

[Robhold]

I get the cross selling
i get you guys are from Sega

But I have people forming lines in every Sonic Claw Machine even when i have like 20 of them already. Tone it down, please. The game is Two Point Museum not Two Point Sonic Claw Machine. At first it was funny, now it's becoming tiresome.

And counting they're one of the two most efficient ways to increase entertainment. Being that quests (and guests) ask for entertainment, the museum ends up looking more like a Sega/Sonic Advertisment Diorama.

Adding that pretty much all the "nice" detailed decorations are Sega/Sonic branded. I get it, you need to be corporate. But I payed for a Museum themed game and it's all cross selling. I'd rather have cosmetics on theme. To me It's annoying

[brad]

you'll see shorter lines for it if you have more interactive exhibits or just a bigger museum in general

[JVC]

You'll pretty much always see a line of at least 5-6 people in front of every single interactive object. The games are hugely popular with your museum guests.

[Kunovega]

What you need are more interactive exhibits, they all get about the same amount of attention

[Robhold]

Yeah in any case, it applies to all, the claw machine is just an example. The costume pick rating in gift shops is also like 3x for Sonic costumes than the museum theme costumes. The stuffed animal racks also get emptied on the Sega racks faster than the museum racks. Tried all combinations from exhibition only, to half and half, to one of each rack. The eagle eye view of the Museum will show Sonic themed characters everywhere, adding the statues and interactive game preferences it looks more like a Sega diorama than a Museum sim. It's far more developed towards showing off the corporate assets than the new title.

[Gekkeloko]

It was already clear they're simping for SEGA because of launch times, this just adds to the pile now.... figures.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Gekkeloko:

It was already clear they're simping for SEGA because of launch times, this just adds to the pile now.... figures.

It's hardly simping to promote your own company, they are literally owned by SEGA. You're accusing them of simping to themselves? I don't think you know what the word means.

[Ellye]

The stats for the Claw machine aren't good at all.

It has queues because every interactive exhibit has queues. And pretty much any other interactive exhibit is better than the claw machine.

[alkalinecube]

I haven't encountered any problems entertaining my visitors, and I only have two Sonics, four Realisations, one Dino, one Gnome, and one Relic River. I also have one of those carnivorous plants that turns visitors into clowns. Is there some huge difficulty spike in happiness that I haven't reached yet?

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by alkalinecube:

I haven't encountered any problems entertaining my visitors, and I only have two Sonics, four Realisations, one Dino, one Gnome, and one Relic River. I also have one of those carnivorous plants that turns visitors into clowns. Is there some huge difficulty spike in happiness that I haven't reached yet?

Thank you for leaving this comment! I unlocked the Relic River but could not find it because I was looking through the build menus...didn't realize it was an interactive display.

Your comment was, literally, the only reference to it anywhere here or on reddit. Helped me to find it. :)

Also glad I read this thread, because I had not been paying much attention to the stats on my interactive displays and was just treating them all like they were equal.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Ellye:

The stats for the Claw machine aren't good at all.

It has queues because every interactive exhibit has queues. And pretty much any other interactive exhibit is better than the claw machine.

It's good for how early you have it (starting) and it compares fairly to the first 5 interactive displays you can unlock. It doesn't start to fall off until you get to the later ones, but then those are better than all the early ones.

[Mac]

the 5 display one is better for several reason, including school trips, all the kids can go on the machine at the same time.

The only thing i don't like about the machine is the very, playpen approach it has, the over the top colours doesn't match anything else around it lol looks always so out of place where ever i put them xD

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Mac:

the 5 display one is better for several reason, including school trips, all the kids can go on the machine at the same time.

The only thing i don't like about the machine is the very, playpen approach it has, the over the top colours doesn't match anything else around it lol looks always so out of place where ever i put them xD

The trade off there is half the fun rating, that's the balance. Simple solution is building basically all of them for variety and properly placing them.

I usually put that one in a little vending area with some benches, it's like a rest break section that doesn't need to match exhibits. Put it towards the outside of the alcove and you can still link it to a donation bin on the otherside near the exhibits.

[Piperbird]

I can't get anyone to ever fix my sonic machine. I watch them walk toward it, and it says 'repairing claw machine' and then they stop, and turn and go do something else. They won't go anywhere near it until it is actually at 0%. I thought maybe they couldn't reach the side of it or something, so I moved it to the middle of the room, but still no - they will not go anywhere near it to repair until it is 100% broken. They'll repair every other station just fine long before it even hits 50%.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

I can't get anyone to ever fix my sonic machine. I watch them walk toward it, and it says 'repairing claw machine' and then they stop, and turn and go do something else. They won't go anywhere near it until it is actually at 0%. I thought maybe they couldn't reach the side of it or something, so I moved it to the middle of the room, but still no - they will not go anywhere near it to repair until it is 100% broken. They'll repair every other station just fine long before it even hits 50%.

There was a hotfix this morning that may have solved this issue for you:
"Fix for janitors not repairing some interactive displays when there was an active queue" is one of the points in the hotfix.