Roller Coaster Tycoon: Roller Coaster Building

How to Begin

You have built your first park ever! It’s a pretty simple park no hills, a lake, all grass. You are absolutley thrilled and ca’t wait to begin. You go straight to the roller coaster building icon and want to try to build your own. Right away you realize you are low on money. Click on your money and you should see a loan button, click up on it and you’ll see that your money is raised, but use this in ration as you have to pay a 5-10% loan intrest every month. Also keep in mind a good roller coaster will be around $30,000.

Let’s Build

Start off by building station platforms. I would suggest do the maximum number of platforms so there is more carts on the track, so more people can get on the ride which means they will spend less time in the queue line which equals happier guests.

At the start I always go up and all the way up as high as I can and don’t forget to chain it so they can actually get up. There I will drop off as much as I can, not all the way down, this will make the ride too intense for most guests and they will not get on.

Special

This is where some thrilling coasters get exciting. When applicable it will show a special button under the track direction buttons. When you click on this button and depending on the model of the roller coaster several special options will open up. Like sometimes a loop, sometimes a corckscrew. Most of these you’ll need speed so do these right after a big drop.

Underground

Some of my best coasters appear underground. After your station platforms click down instead up up. Make sure you raise the land accordingly going below and back above ground or you won’t be able to fit your tracks under.

A good Coaster should have an excitment rating around 5.0, intensity rating of about 9.0 and naseau rating of about 5.0