Get the "Brightest Star In The Sky"-Achievement.

Get the "Brigthest Star In The Sky"-Achievement, if it doesn't trigger as usual.
This quide will help you get it in under 10 minutes ;)

Overview

If you're anything like me, with these kind of games, you'll probably be gunning for the 100% completion on steam, before going nuts on some of the sandbox or challenge levels.

But the gold-star achievement is bugged and doesn't always trigger straight away.

With this quick tutorial, you'll be able to get it (probably) within 10 minutes :)

So sit back, watch the little quick vid I made and try it out yourself.

So What's Going On?

For some reason, the achievement doesn't trigger, when you have the bronze and silver star.
So the key is, to get the gold star before the others.

The best level, I found, is the very first level in the game: Pirate Battle.
The reason for this, is that has simple goals that are easy to achieve.

But you need to be crafty for it ;)
So let's dive in, shall we?

1100 peeps, 2 rides and marketing...

As the title suggests, the key is marketing and sticking to 2 rides.

You start off with the rocktopus and the coaster.
Sell the rocktopus, straight away.
My preferred moneymaker is Ascendance.
That one always draws in massive crowds, you charge a high price and most of my parks actually have 2 of these and 2 Hyperjumps. And still the queue's are always full.

So plop one down and give it a pretty long queue. Make sure to have a 100% queue rating.
I prefer to use this lamppost from the Steam-Workshop, taken from the dutch amusement-park The Efteling: Efteling Big Steel Lamppost.
Position it right and you're guaranteed to get a 100% rating :) Cheap, small and really effective!
*Thanks to the creator: Daaneia :D Love it!*

Price it at 16,50 and speed up your park. You'll see the cash come rolling in ;)

Next up:
MARKETING! ;)

Keep an eye on your finances and guest-count.
Use the 2 tv-commercial campaigns, preferably the 2 focussed on teens and adultgroups. We're trying to get 1100 peepz with 2 intense rides, so the kids aren't going to help ;)
Make sure to uncheck the auto-renew. These campaigns are expensive and we still need to get the 15k parkbalance ;)

You'll find that you'll probably top out around 1050.
This is probably because of park rating.
So add some shops (2 will do) and a couple of big scenery items.

I used the 2 pirate shops and the massive animatronic ship with the kraken. Also used one of my favorite workshop items from the Efteling: Talking Parrot/Sprekende Papagaai by Oebar (Thanks for this one!)

You should hit the 1100 pretty quickly now. And that with just 2 rides!!!

As soon as you hit your mark, sell everything you don't need: the shops, the 2 scenery pieces and fire one of the janitors.

You might even consider going down to the entrance and do a large selection and sell what you can.

Voilá: 15.000 and the gold star :D
And if all goes well, you're steam achievement should've triggered :)

Recap

So, hopefully, you'll have your achievement under 10 minutes.
It worked the first time I tried this and going back to retrace my steps for the guide and video only took me about 7 minutes.

This makes it a quick way to try if you can get the achievement and if it doesn't trigger, just try it again :)

Hope you liked my first guide and hopefully helped you get your achievement :D

Thanks to the content-creators of the workshop-items I used :)

Youtube Video [Was removed because my YT-account got closed for some reason :()

Direct Link

[LOKYMIR]

@CoolRPGNerd You are the boss

[CoolRPGNerd]

Thanks for your post. I'd have never guessed that was what was going on! And I was going to try exactly what you recommended, but I think I stumbled onto an easier way yet ...

I happened to find myself in the scenario editor and thought, "What if I create an empty scenario with starting cash of $25,000 -- and a Gold objective to have at least $10,000 total cash? (For good measure I added Bronze and Silver objectives to (a) build 3 coasters, and (b) to have 1500 guests in the park, so neither would be met up front.) Then I selected "Save and Play this Scenario" ... and as soon as it loaded, the achievement immediately popped. Done in sixty seconds! Yay!

[APerson]

didnt need the achievement; read it anyways.

[JackTheRex]

Took a bit for me to get 1,100 visitors but this guide was very helpful, thanks.

[Bran Dragon]

Please read the comments first before posting Broth3r ;)

[BR0TH3R_TUB3]

it says video is no longer available because the youtube account associated with this video has been terminated

[bluenono]

Additionally, you can set the coaster ticket price to $26.90

[laurenmbuchanan]

I CAN'T GET TO THE VIDEO

[Bran Dragon]

Thanks Blazwura :)

[blazwura]

Didn't need the video, description was great :)