Guests are lingering in my park with no money

[drexciya]

I'm having a major issue right now with my current park, where a large percentage of my guests are wasting valuable space by lingering in the park with little to no money. They'll take their time walking across the park to go on a roller coaster, only to get there and realize the 4 dollars they have isn't enough.

I've never seen this in my other parks. If I sit and watch the queue entrance to one of my more expensive rides, it seems like half the guests who approach the queue turn away because they don't have enough money. No one is saying they are too expensive (they definitely are not), just that they themselves are out of cash.

And yes, I have plenty of ATMs, with are free.

It's creating a chain reaction of problems, too, as it's affecting my vendors pretty heavily. Guests splurge on gift shop stuff when they come in, then they wander around hungry and thirsty, spending their last bit of cash on a couple rides and choosing not to purchase any food/drink.

I was finding it very odd that I have 500 or so people in my park (and I've got 3 coasters, 5 or so thrill rides and like 4 gentle), and my one food shop can't even make a profit. Then I realized it's becauase people are staying in the park way too long without any money to spend on their needs/wants. Guests are saying my basic food and drink shops are too expensive for them even though they are set to default prices.

I should mention that I'm playing on Harder difficulty, so this could just be a side effect of that. But if so, that's a pretty dumb difficulty mechanic. And I'd guess that the gift shop bug has something to do with it as well, though I didn't have this problem with my recent Hard-difficulty park.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

Update: I just observed a family of four walk to every single ride in my park, even though they couldn't afford a single one. Like.... come on. This is so dumb lol

[Monkeysam]

I found having transport rides that have a station right near the exit helps get rid of them... those who choose to go home can do it fast.. of course you will loose money of the transport costs.. but over all i found I made better profits on ultra hard by making it easy for guest to leave fast when they finally want to.

[BLÀde]

close the park and re-open it when everyone is gone.

[Muserato]

Originally posted by BLÀde:

close the park and re-open it when everyone is gone.

I second the motion. I actually did that for one of the holiday scenarios to be able to meet the monthly goal requirement.

[Neptune]

Yes I had the same issue http://steamcommunity.com/app/493340/discussions/0/152393186491781903/
And it is annoying to have them running around with no way to flush them out.
They just add to the lag, statistics ( they do get grumpy) etc .

The trigger for them to go home seems to be the number of times they go to a shop or ride for which they can not pay and overall hunger and thirst of the group.
Having the food shops at only one area close to the entrance of the park seems to help a little.
And plenty of not too busy shops to let them get this trigger.
The best way to get rid of them is to close up the park and renew the visiters or to refurbish all the rides at once. But this gets rid of the guests with cash also.

But yeah this needs a fix,and it should work whatever the lay out is of your park.
They should just go home with low cash or be able to use the ATM a couple of times more then once.

[Jokerluvr]

I have the same EXACT issue!!! But I have this problem with every single one of my parks. It's beyond frustrating. I hope they fix this soon.

[Banisha]

Originally posted by FT Jokerluvr:

I have the same EXACT issue!!! But I have this problem with every single one of my parks. It's beyond frustrating. I hope they fix this soon.

HEAR HEAR !

[Dakuwan]

OP, what is your parks scenery rating? Have entertainers? They have to have reason to get more money, i mean, if they wont pay for basic food price..,