Need Help with Transport Ride : Guest only use one of the two stations

[Turrican]

Hello, i could use some advice.
I wanted to build a theme transportation ride. I use the steam train and build a very nice western themed train station with a queue that goes inside through this station with tons of theming.
The train then drives around my water flume mountain and passes by three areas where i have animatronics and events. After that he returns to the station.

That was the plan.
However, after opening there was no visitors at all..even with no admission cost. Ok i thought, maybe cause its a transportation ride, guests want at least 2 stations. So after the last animatronic event instead of going back to the station, the train makes a sharp turn and arrives at another station. Then it makes a sharp turn back and goes back to the first station..so a rather fast journey between station 2 to staion 1. I connected the station 2 area with the rest of the park with a path, that is not really a direct connection. So the guest do have to march a bit to get there.I themed it too and opened the ride again.

Again no guests wanted to enter my big station....none. :(
However guests are flocking to the other station ,to take the short trip (including paying!).

I removed the complete station 1 theming and building parts to see if somethign was blocking the guests path inside the building..but no success.

What is the issue of them ignoring my first station, to travel through some themed events to arrive at station 2...but loving the short uneventul trip to station one from station 2.

I spent so many hours theming and building all the themd events and the station....i really dont want it to be a waste of time.

Anyone can shed some light?
Thank you.

[ez1]

Hi, first of all, the main purpose of the steam trains and monorail are to move guests from one part of your park to another quickly. That's why they are called transportation rides; their entertainment value is very much secondary to their primary purpose of moving lots of people efficiently over longer distances.

So yes, you need at least 2 stations to make them work. No one will ride them just for the scenery value. And there has to be a desire for the riders to go to the destination; the ride itself is not enough. For example, using the train as a ring ride around the outer edge of the park, stopping at various spots along the way with popular rides, is how it is meant to be used.

So the reason why no one uses your original station is because it is not connected to any area that the guests want to go to. If you build something appealing like a good roller coaster nearby and connect a path to it, I guarantee you will have lots of people wanting to go there. Right now, no cares to go there simply to see the station and ride the train.

[Turrican]

Thanks for the answer. Well i know...or knew a bunch of transportation rides that were used just for pleasure with only one station and some events during the ride.(Phantasialnd in Germany comes to mind with its Monorail).

However putting some thrill rides next to the second staion made people finally use the original station. Actually makes a decent profit now...should be even better when i finish my Minecoaster next to station two and my very popular Log flume next to station 1.

Clicking on the guests using station 2 should have give me a hint why they use it (to get to the log flume). So thanks again ,everythign worked out well in the end.
:)

[Myst]

ACTUALLY i have a train ride that people will ride just cause......

What I have noticed that yes nearby rides do help out remember TRACK SCENERY has a HUUUUUUGE impact on people riding it!

And each scenery rating is DIFFERENT for each station to station so you have to remember to decorate both sides!

[Touch my tralalala]

The train stations must be a little further one of the other, and guest need to have some reason to go there by transport rides (flat rides, rollercoaster and a long pathway to that point) to justify using the transport.

I jsut made a new park and to use the transportation rides i created islands.

I have the main entrance, with a couple of rides, at the end i have some drinks, food and gifts and then the station.
This area is surrounded of water.

Then, i have another island, a nother "land" with some rides...
This island has a train station too, for ride transport.

My guests in order to go there are forced to use the transport ride.

This park will be like that.


If you plan to use the normal way, be sure to have a long path until you place the 2nd station, good rides, and nice theme else your guests will not use the transport system.

P.S.: On main station = main area i set the price to 2usd to go to area 2.
On 2nd station = 2nd area i set the price to 4 usd to go to main area.

This way, peeps are forced to pay, leading positive cash on transport ride, cashflow is nice too.