Why is the back of my park always dead???

[DVD]

How do i get more guests to fill up the back of my park? 90% of the guests never leave the proxy of the entrance leaving the back of my park dead. Even if all the rides are i the back of the park and there is nothing near the entrance, everyone seems to just turn around and never leave the front of my park. I even made maps free and the back of the park is always empty by comparison.

HOW DO I FIX THIS??

[Jmh1000]

Yah that tends to happen. First thing is first, make sure you have a transport ride throughout your park. Also make sure your park is built in a circular style. Make sure your park is full of benches, trash cans, bathrooms, atms and food/ gift shops. There is also a cheat to make all of your peeps to ride every ride before they leave if you want to look that up.

[Jet City Gambler]

Well, the ski lift or monorail ($$) is awesome for transporting the peeps around your park, but try building a little complex of toilets, ATMs, food and drink, etc. They tend to flock to those locations (especially the toilets) and then they patronize nearby rides.

Also, just build mild and junior rides at the entrance, and increase the intensity and excitement as they explore the park. Do some PR, give away vouchers for your most distant rides. You've got to seduce them. Don't plant your Godzilla coaster at the entrance.

ETA: Build a pool. They love the friggin' pool. Even a short pool slide will drive it through the roof.

[DVD]

Originally posted by Jmh:

Yah that tends to happen. First thing is first, make sure you have a transport ride throughout your park. Also make sure your park is built in a circular style. Make sure your park is full of benches, trash cans, bathrooms, atms and food/ gift shops. There is also a cheat to make all of your peeps to ride every ride before they leave if you want to look that up.

Yeah i acctually figured that out a few hours after I posted. I have a transport (which i made free) take guests to the other side of my park underground. They get dropped off and i puposefully dont have a line to bring them back so they dont just hop back on. I also put the gental rides at the front too but i havent tried making the park in a circular design. Im going give that a shot. Also didnt know that about pools, hmm. Thanks for the advise :)

[Jambie Lionheart]

Ohhh, stick a pool, just about anywhere and the peeps tend to cramp themselves into it :3 Put an aqua jet slide attatched to it and you've got an instant winner, hehe. but yeah all of the stuff from before is good. By the way, is there a certain number of toilets to peeps ratio to keep? I usually stick to keeping one toilet for any particular area of the park, two if it's particularly busy and that tends to do well :3

[Nerdchacho]

I read on the Atari website (from Atari themselves) that the guests can only "see" rides 25 squares in front of them regardless of their stats.. so in theory, where you have a park larger than this, regardless of the ride at the back and how good it is, they will never know it's there unless they stumble on it. And the guests have a tendency to stick in the one place unless they are "wandering"

So, to sort this out, the guests need to have a park map. Place information stalls or umbrella stalls at the entrance to encourage park map purchases... Then, there is no 25 square limit.

Another way around it is (as mentioned above) use ATMs and toilets as a thing to shunt people around, transport around the park, but larger parks tend to struggle with the amount you actually need, and then your FPS will struggle too.

Also, use the passport things. The guests know where they are regardless of the map thing. They will go and collect their tokens and this takes care of the 25 square radius issue.

[airforceofficermike]

I put 2 monorails at the entrance of my park with stations that have entrances only and enclosed the peeps by raised terrain 'cliffs' - 2 stations (each) at the back of the park have the exits.

At the front of the park, on the other side of the raised terrain, I made a train, with the opposite setup (using tunnels). This way guests MUST ride the monorail to the back of the park, and exit by the train at the front.

I also used the passport machines - it seemed to help

[Bossy_Blonde]

Originally posted by airforceofficermike:

I put 2 monorails at the entrance of my park with stations that have entrances only and enclosed the peeps by raised terrain 'cliffs' - 2 stations (each) at the back of the park have the exits.

At the front of the park, on the other side of the raised terrain, I made a train, with the opposite setup (using tunnels). This way guests MUST ride the monorail to the back of the park, and exit by the train at the front.

I also used the passport machines - it seemed to help

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what a good idea!