I made this discussion because I feel that difficult scenarios are vital to the games success. Atari really missed the mark with rct3 and I'm hoping to highlight some of the mistakes that were made.
The main thing that turned me away from rct3 was the lack of difficult scenarios and the unlimited time to complete them.
Camparisons of scenarios in rct1,2,and 3:
RCT1:
Roller coaster tycoon 1 had the best scenarios in my opinion. They had hard to beat goals and had structure where you had to beat one to unlock another. They also had unique maps where you couldn't build above the treeline or were forced to use a very small park. They had 25 parks in the original scenario list starting from very easy to decently hard.
RCT2:
Roller coaster tycoon 2 had the same difficulty levels in scenarios of rct1, but was severely lacking in structure. Structured scenarios (beat one to unlock another) gives users a reason to play through the entire campaign. It forces them to play through harder scenarios and ultimately has them spending more hours playing the game.
RCT3:
Rct3 had in my opinion the worst scenarios of the 3. They had very beautiful parks that obviously took a lot of time to create, but they lacked difficulty. They lacked difficulty in two areas. First, the scenarios goals were too modest. An example goal in 3 would be to build 2 coasters with very modest excitement ratings.. A similar scenario in rct1 or rct2 would have been to build 8 different types of coasters with a much harder rating to aquire than the counterpart in 3. Because of this, while playing through the scenarios, you were moving on to the next scenario before you even started to get attached to a park. The second area rct3 lacked difficulty in, is failure conditions. None of the scenarios in rct3 had failure conditions, you had unlimited time to achieve the goals. In the earlier installments, the failure modes were either: meet X by Y date.. or maintain condition Z (park rating ussually). Never having a failure mode killed any difficulty the rct3 scenarios may have presented.
TLDR:
Good scenarios contain:
1) Failure conditions (meet X by Y date.. or maintain condition Z)
2) A steady climb from easy to hard (ussualy takes multiple tries) in scenarios
3) A good variety of scenarios when entering the harder difficulties (very small parks, can't build above tree line, ect)
4) Structure (unlock one to beat another)
Discuss:
Do you guys agree?
What types of scenarios and goals would you like to see?
Did you enjoy the please the please the guest scenarios found in rct3, or do prefer hard goals instead (same goal, just completes as soon as you get it instead of waiting for guest X to come to the park), I personally prefer hard goals.
If you have the original RollerCoaster Tycoon and its expansions, Corkscrew Follies/Added Attractions and Loopy Landscapes, you can point OpenRCT2 to those files in order to play the original scenarios. This will also load a couple of extra RCT1 sprites that will make certain roller coaster types look that little bit better.
Step 1: Get RCT1's files
Method 1: Install
Install RCT1 with its normal Windows installer. Then install any expansions, they will install to the same folder as the base game.
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Mar 27, 2012 RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 comes with six additional parks, which are all based on the previous Six Flags scenarios. They use the same maps, and have more of a. Figured it out! You have to edit the existing wooden rollercoaster until it has a 3.0 excitement rating. It cost me 26900 coins, so I build a few food stands and collected until I had enough to build it. No need to buy more land or special add-ons. You can even create your own helixes. Perfect and save the design.
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Method 2: Manual copy
Alternatively, extract the files manually from the RCT1 CDs:
- Create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive.
- Create three subfolders in it:
Data,Scenarios, andTracks. - Copy the following files to Data (from the LL CD / RCTdeluxe_install folder):
CSG1.1(orCSG1.DAT)CSG1i.DATCSS17.DATMP.DAT
- Copy the contents of the Scenarios folder to Scenarios (from both the base CD and LL CD).
- Copy the contents of the Tracks folder to Tracks (again, from both the base CD and LL CD).
Step 2: Point OpenRCT2 to the RCT1 files
Once you have the files installed/extracted, point OpenRCT2 to those files: Either via the options window, or by editing OpenRCT2's configuration by hand.
Method 1: Via options window
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Open the options window within OpenRCT2.
Go to the sixth tab (the spanner), and click the box under 'Path to RCT1 installation'.
A folder selection dialog will pop up - navigate to the folder where your RCT1 files are and click 'Open'.
That's it - go back to the menu and you should see the original scenarios ready to play.
Method 2: By editing configuration
Alternatively, you can point OpenRCT2 to RCT1 by editing the OpenRCT2 configuration files. In the OpenRCT2 configuration directory (~/.config/OpenRCT2/ on Linux), open config.ini with a text editor. Find this line:
Add the full path to the RCT1 installation between the quotes. On Windows, directory separators must be escaped as , therefore the RCT1 installation path might be:
On Linux, that path might be (replace yourUserName with your user name):
You only need one path to RCT1 here, even when you have RCT1 expansions installed. These expansions sit in the same directory as the base game. Save config.ini, start OpenRCT2, and the menu should offer the RCT1 scenarios.