Are transport rides for viewing animals?

[Eccentric Gentleman]

I know this has already been asked but the answers were inconclusive since the game had bugs. Since it's been a while I'm hoping it can be fully answered now.

Are the transport rides just for transporting guests or can they be used for viewing animals?
Is it only a few transport rides that are for animal viewing?

[audiolady]

Look at some of my screenshots. The 4x4 ride goes through the lion habitat.
Don't think any other ones would work quite as well.

[audiolady]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2633033729

[SLG]

Even if the transport ride does not through a habitat, but is very near it, would that not allow the guests to view the animals?

[Jaggid Edje]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SLGray:

Even if the transport ride does not through a habitat, but is very near it, would that not allow the guests to view the animals?

Yes, it does. But going through rather than past gets them closer to the animals so makes it more likely they will get a really good view of the animals. Just like with pedestrian viewing of habitats, visitors on rides get "thoughts" on how good their view is and if it's a good view, it makes them happier.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Eccentric Gentleman:

Is it only a few transport rides that are for animal viewing?

All of them can be used for both viewing and for transport. In fact, if you build them such that the ride does both, visitors like the ride a lot more and you can make more money from it.

The game has come a long way since release and you can make really decent money from transport rides now (whereas back a year+ ago, it was a LOT harder to make a ride profitable, at least for me it was).
The most important thing for the ride is to make it attractive though, which means having scenery along the route. (Natural foliage and rocks counts as scenery).

[Starbucaneer]

I like rides but I raise them up so that animals cannot block the path of vehicles

[Eccentric Gentleman]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jaggid Edje:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SLGray:

All of them can be used for both viewing and for transport. In fact, if you build them such that the ride does both, visitors like the ride a lot more and you can make more money from it.

So the steam train is for viewing as well as the 4x4?

[Jaggid Edje]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Eccentric Gentleman:

So the steam train is for viewing as well as the 4x4?

Yes, if you lay the track such that it passes near enough to habitats for the animals to be seen the visitors riding it will view animals while riding. And they will be quite happy about it assuming you have it passing close enough to get a 'good' view.

[grampers62]

As with everything in the game there are few limits to what things can be used for. All rides can function purely as a transport or they may be part of a tour around or through habitats. Keep in mind that guest will tend not to ride anything that doesn't go past "something to see". A ride that goes through a habitat will draw more guests than one that goes near the habitats. A ride that does not go near a habitat might not get any riders at all.

[audiolady]

I like rides but I raise them up so that animals cannot block the path of vehicles :steamdance:
Where's the fun in that?

[Starbucaneer]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von audiolady:

I like rides but I raise them up so that animals cannot block the path of vehicles
Where's the fun in that?

LOL yes but it was losing me too much monies!
The poor visitors were stuck so long on the ride they should have wasted away.
It did not stop the Giraffes though. I also excavated a ditch under the raised ride. It was my biggest "african" savanna style habitat so the raising and the digging took ages.... then I had to build animal bridges so the animals could get over the track because I realised they were stranded....
After that I built raised railway rides that criss crossed the habitats up high. That worked so much better.

[audiolady]

"Just remember, folks! No dropping small children into carnivore, or any other enclosure allowed!"

[grampers62]

But it was an accident officer! He just jumped right out of my arms.

[audiolady]

The child was 7 years old, Ma'm!

[audiolady]

Small for 7, yes. But still, don't do it again, or you'll get more than a fine!

[grampers62]

But I didn't do nuthin!