Ticket Prices

[Pirate Smo]

Hi All,
When doing Challenge Mode, do you play around with ticket/ride prices or leave them all as it is.

I tried to make all rides free and make my ticket prices around $30 it worked and people were coming in but money was dropping, then i added some cost to my rides again and people where angry.

It just went wrong....

What do you do with your prices is my question?

[n00B]

I do a small entrance fee and typically slightly lower the price per ride (not too much). I fiddled around with thw shop prices ...and extras... but dont seem to know what these extras cost.

All in all as many wrote the management side needs some tweaking and updating and i am convinced this is work in progress. Seems frontier listens to the community input so lets give it time :)

[BLÀde]

you can charge a lot more for rides by leaving the entrance fee free

[Failure incarnate]

I keep the entrance free and I keep the ride's default price but I tend to slightly overprice the food & drinks to compensate, there's some complaining but they're still buying.

[_Patrick Swayze]

I also do a small entrance fee and instead raise the price per attraction. Just keep an eye on what the visitors think. They will tell you if an attraction is too cheap or expensive. No comment regarding the price of an attraction should probably mean you set it just right.

I believe it's easier this way as you dont have to fiddle with the entrance price everytime you add something.

Also; Entrance fee impacts all attractions, while just the attraction price only impacts just that.
If your park isnt balanced in the kind of rides (low fear / high fear etc.), I think this could cause problems:

Say you have 10 coasters and 2 small attractions. Entrance fee is 30 dollars. Those coming for coasters are probably fine with that if the price for the coaster isnt too high. However those coming for just the 2 small attractions will find any price you set for that too high.

Now I cant say 100% that the mechanics work like that in the game, but makes sense to me..

[Will]

Originally posted by Pirate Smo:

Hi All,
When doing Challenge Mode, do you play around with ticket/ride prices or leave them all as it is.

I tried to make all rides free and make my ticket prices around $30 it worked and people were coming in but money was dropping, then i added some cost to my rides again and people where angry.

It just went wrong....

What do you do with your prices is my question?

I have never seen entrance fee work well. My parks have average spending of around $70 so if you have a park with $30 entrance and free rides of course you're not making much money.

[Vinny the Fox]

Best way to gauge ride prices is to raise the price by a dollar or two every time the que for the ride gets longer than it would take to fill the ride once or twice. By doing this my ride prices that started off at like 4.50 end up being around 12-14 each. This way the guests don't complain about long ques and I never need to adjust the entrance fee from free. It works rather well and my parks are always profitable even without raising concession stand prices.

[Dakuwan]

If they cry about queuing too long, raise the price. If complaining about price, lower price.

Higher price =shorter queues
Lower price =longer queues

The more rides i add the more the price at the gate, i usually raise 2-3 dollars per ride. Park price is good as long as you have no missed guests.