Can we get the transport rides fixed?

[KpCarnright]

I can't figure it out... Sometimes My rides are fulled up on the que..... and then there's the other 89% of the time where no one even gets on it.... Even if it's set to free....

I've learned how to force them, don't allow them to have a path from big area to big area.... But then you wind up with a full que and a bunch of people freaking out that they're stuck.... BUT it forces them use the transport!

Anyone have any other ideas?

[KpCarnright]

Update: it's been working perfectly since I did this

[Septumplastik]

I have a large zoo with a boat ride and a very long jeep Safari. The boat goes through Hippos, past a habitat with common savannah animals, stops at a food court and then loops back through hippos and crocodiles.
The jeep ride goes through pygmy hippos, elephants, cheetahs, hyenas, stops near the lions, then loops back through a huge habitat with giraffes and those wildebeests.

When I load the zoo or close and reopen the rides, both rides fill up fast to max queue. After a while, people stop queuing for the boat, but the jeep tour will still get the occasional person riding it, but it's nowhere near full.

This leads me to theorize that two factors influence if people use rides or not: attractivity and distance/time or energy saved.
The jeep tour passes much more interesting, high value animals and covers a much larger distance. The boat tour is pretty meh, and guests may as well walk the path and get better views of the animals that way, so they don't ride the boat at all after the initial interest of a 'new' ride tapers off.
The jeep tour also follows a path offering the same views, but because of its length, the occasional person will still hop on, or at least use it to get back after they've seen the animals.

A good way to test this would be a big ticket animal that you can't view from a path, only from a ride. If guests still don't use it much, it's probably bugged. If they queue like crazy, it's simply a matter of the rides we had built not being as great as we thought they'd be.
But of course it could also be the case that the devs changed some values a little too much and guests simply hate rides now.

[KpCarnright]

I wrote this thread at -$14k on the gondola lifetime.....

Ended my career scenario with +$22k <3 so I can confirm, if you force them to take the ride (make a long ass que path, trust me) they will in fact use it to move in the zoo

Make a staff path though.

[Septumplastik]

Originally posted by QuinzelTMaD:

I wrote this thread at -$14k on the gondola lifetime.....

Ended my career scenario with +$22k <3 so I can confirm, if you force them to take the ride (make a long ass que path, trust me) they will in fact use it to move in the zoo

Make a staff path though.

I'd love it if we could research golf carts for the staff to get around the zoo faster. Or segways. I'd pay 2.59 for a golf cart and Segway dlc.
While we're at it, maybe medics for guests who need help when it's too hot or cold...

[KpCarnright]

Originally posted by Septumplastik:

Originally posted by QuinzelTMaD:

I wrote this thread at -$14k on the gondola lifetime.....

Ended my career scenario with +$22k <3 so I can confirm, if you force them to take the ride (make a long ass que path, trust me) they will in fact use it to move in the zoo

Make a staff path though.

I'd love it if we could research golf carts for the staff to get around the zoo faster. Or segways. I'd pay 2.59 for a golf cart and Segway dlc.
While we're at it, maybe medics for guests who need help when it's too hot or cold...

Wouldn't that be amazing?