Dusty Greens too easy

Anyone play through Dusty Greens yet? The goal is to do $5,000 in ride tickets per month. I dumped a small spiral lift coasters and a relatively small B&M and did it in the first year. Seemed really easy for not being in the beginner scenarios.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

Hey Jeff, Had you beaten the SFOT scenario yet?

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I think I would be better off just closing the mini-golf courses, alowing the peeps to enjoy rides where the line actually moves. I did a Spiral coaster and a small Schwarzkopf shuttle coaster, as well as a couple flats, and I had it in the second year.

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Sean, who was asked for ID when buying RCT2.
Nitro, Gemini, Laser, Ice, Thunder...The American Gladiators!
The only Coasterbuzz member with Ridgeline Racer in their Track Record.

That's like Vertigo Veiws (RCT LL). Accept you had to get 8000 bucks for 5 months straight, but i had it done in an hour (earth time)

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I'm loud, I'm annoying, I'm the anti-rollback.

Nope, haven't played any of the SF scenarios. I'm actually not that interested in doing so, to be honest with you. You can tell they're a product of marketing and not that of a good level designer.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

I tried the Belgium park and failed miserably. I was doing fine until the end of the 4th year when people couldn't find their way to the exit and my rating dropped from 999 to 0 by the end of the 5th year. I couldn't do anything about it either, the peeps are just dumb!

It's pretty easy to get money when the peeps are willing to pay $15 to ride a wild mouse or $12 to ride a magic carpet :)

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Jonathan Hawkins
Starcoasters.com
"The internet is a great way to get on the net." -Bob Dole

Does anyone else think those Six Flags scenereos are a sly slap-in-the-face to Six Flags? :-)

I mean, I opened them up and looked around, and there was trash everywhere, not nearly enough bathrooms, the coasters were timed like crap, always stopping on the block breaks... it was a really poorly run park! (um, almost like real life!! ;-)

Haven't tried it yet, but I went straight to the "expert" scenarios. Blew through the Alpine Adventures one with not even a hiccup - if this qualifies as "expert" then I see the challenge of the scenarios hasn't been raised. I've still yet to lose one (ever - had a few close calls though) since the original RCT arrived.

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www.coasterimage.com
Dorney Park visits in 2002: 19

I didn't play through ALL the scenarios in LL yet (may go back and do so someday), but I've never failed a scenario either. I'm actually somewhat curious as to what happens when you do ;)

(And I would be EXTREMELY annoyed if after spending several hours playing a "by the end of year N" scenario I in fact failed it...)

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--Greg
"For all we know, Stonehenge is just the ruined supports for an early roller coaster." -- RCT2 manual
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I failed the very first scenario when I got the original RCT. I was wasting too much time trying to figure out how to build stuff and not enough working on the actual park.

The little window that usually pops up to say you won still does, it just reads that you "failed your objective."

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"When I was growing up, we were taught something called manners. You'd understand that if you weren't such an idiot." - Jack Handey

Which actually brings up a good point. You can keep playing! So for the people who were being crybabies about the Super Sandbox scenario requiring a park rating of 700, so what? After you fail, keep playing!

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

That's true, but for some reason, I'd rather keep playing a successful scenario than a failed scenario...even if I almost passed the scenario.

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LocoBazooka--Sevendust, Nonpoint, Stereo Vent, Mushroomhead
Korn Tour (With no name)--Korn, Puddle of Mudd, Deadsy

As I like playing by building anything like in super sandbox, I like to boogie down and try to do the scenarios. But what I hate is that they give you so little, so I end up making my own, which kind of gets annoying after a while. I will start downloading some soon, we'll see how it goes from there.

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I lost my hat on Poison Ivy. How pathetic.

I also finsihed Dusty Greens in year 1, how appropriate that the scenario is taking over a mini-golf operation, cause the level is a "gimmee"

I used what seems to be the standard recipie mentioned above: build a shuttle loop and a Spiral Coaster and toss in some flat rides for good measure. I was getting the peeps to spend $10/ride. I agree the mini-golf courses (at least one of them) had to go, since to sell ride tickets you need people moving, if not for space.

I also learned that just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. I wasted a bunch of time tweaking a Roto-Drop. I built that thing 590' tall. Guess what it scored 25.00 on the Intense-O-Meter, I then lowered it gradually (450', 310', 250', and I think it finally just barely cleared inspection at 170').

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David Bowers
Mayor, Coasterville

Shuttle loopers in pay-per-ride scenarios have always been the key to winning a scenario. That's why it's frustrating when you don't have one at first!

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

I think kiddie coasters also help quite a bit in PPR scenarios.

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Sean, who was asked for ID when buying RCT2.
Nitro, Gemini, Laser, Ice, Thunder...The American Gladiators!
The only Coasterbuzz member with Ridgeline Racer in their Track Record.

Yeah, actually I think that roto-drop thing is pretty unrealistic. The "Drop Zone" at PKI is over 300 feet tall. If you try to do that in RCT2, it's way too intense. I hope that's an issue fixed in a patch, to be honest. It gets too intense too quickly, as you should be able to get at least 300 feet out of it. Just my opinion though.

I do think this scenereo should have been in the "Beginners" category, and that first scenereo in the beginners should have been bumped over to the "Challenging" category.

As for kiddie coasters, that new Mine Ride coaster just plain rocks!

Can anybody beat June, Year 1 for Dusty Greens?

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When I read Jeff's post. it got me in the mood to playing RCT2 again (no surprise there), so I played Dusty Greens and I would have to agree, it as pretty easy. I did the same method as Coasterville Dave did, a spiral coaster, shuttle loop, and some flats. I would also have to agree that the roto drop is pretty unrealistic.......

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*** This post was edited by cdrpointcrazy4 on 10/19/2002. ***