RCT 1 - Whispering Cliffs

Whispering Cliffs

The first scenario of the expansion sets the tone of the difficulty increase. The first scenario of the original was the easy, flat and quick Forest Frontiers. Whispering Cliffs is none of these. It's very wide and ridiculously narrow, averaging about 6 spaces wide above the cliffs and 5 below. The total area isn't much more than Mystic Mountain. The goal here is park value, in between that goals of Diamond Heights and Katie's Dreamworld, except here you have a much smaller park and start from scratch.

The cliff in the "middle" of the park does have one advantage, you can build roller coasters with a station on top of the cliff and go down immediately and have the chain lift at the end (if you don't build on the water, you lose half of an already small park). The other kind of rides (all non-tracked flat rides) can be build on top of the cliff. One change that makes it easier is that scenario's from the expansion often start with more rides initially available. Most scenario's from the original start with only three or four gentle rides and in whispering cliffs (and most other scenario's that follow) start with more than six.

Objective: 17.000 Park Value in 3 years
Difficulty: Moderate
Final guests: 1.600
Park Value: 41.000€
Company Value: 99.000€

RCT 1 - Pokey Park

Pokey Park

The third Park value objective. Again 5.000 less than the previous one, but you only get 2 years. And the park is tiny, One screen “large” tiny. This is the first scenario where you must really plan forward to complete it. While this scenario allows you to buy extra land, in the end, I didn’t do it because none of the coasters required it and I don’t like buying lots of land.

First, I moved the carousel, the twist, the spiral slide and the Ferris wheel and moved exit/entrance of all of them. The paths were redrawn to save some space. All attractions were moved to the sides and corners.

As this is a scenario where you start with food, drinks and kiosk, I started researching roller coasters. I got the Steel roller coasters and the wild mouse while starting with the steel mini coaster. Steel mini coaster allow the Reversed-Incline launched shuttle mode and curved life hill while allowing quick steep drops, which allows compact design. The station was also build underground. The steel mini coaster were compact shuttle loops built above the path-system. The wild mouse in the screenshot was added late into the scenario above all other attractions.

After that I started researching thrill rides as there is not much space for coasters. Now it becomes an exercise in cramped design. Flat rides on the bottom and all tracked rides (partially) underground (there is a river ride completely underground) or completely above it (like the Go Karts and the wild mouse). all queues were very short or underground bellow the path-system. To have room for stalls, usually land had to be raised as I still wanted at least four different color of balloons in addition to restrooms, food, drinks and information kiosk.

Because this park alters game-play so much, I would consider this a hard scenario.

Goal: 10.000 Park Value by year 2

Difficulty: Hard

Final guests: 1.123

Park Value: €26.000

Company Value:  €68.000

RCT 1 - Katie's Dreamworld

Katie’s Dreamworld

The second scenario that requires a park value objective instead of guests. Strangely, it requires a lower target than the previous park value scenario, diamond heights. This park is a bit smaller than Diamond Heights and you start with fewer attractions, but this park still can’t be considered more difficulty than diamond heights, which is not a challenging park to begin with once you understand park value.

One nasty surprise about this scenario is the weather. When you start this scenario, it’s 13°C/55°F instead of the regular 17°C/62°F, according to the RCT wiki, that means it rains more often. And guests don’t ride attractions in the rain except for underground/covered ones (and most aren’t.). Which might hit your finances.

You start with no food stall, like in diamond heights, so that needs to be researched first.then , As usual, I started researching roller coasters and then thrill rides. I also like to have balloons to sell to my guests to fill the sky with balloons of different color when the scenario is won, so I always find some time to research some more stalls. After I have a balloon stall and all rollercoasters and thrill rides, I researched (boring) gentle rides till the end.

Like in Forest Frontiers, Dynamite Dunes andLeafy Lake, you can buy some extra land here. I did buy a few extra lands to finalize a coaster, just like I had to in Leafy Lake(not that I mentioned that in the Leaft Lake post) but I don’t like buying lots of lands, so I try to not buy more than necessary. I kept all attractions except the miniature railway, as it blocked acces way to often. (The storm didn’t crash). This park is based on Lightwater Valley.

Goal: 15.000 Park Value by year 3

Difficulty: Easy

Final guests: 1766

Park Value: €47.000 (new record, 2.000 more than in Diamond Heights)

Company Value:  €124.000

RCT 1 - Diamond Heights

Diamond Heights

After starting with (near) empty parks, this one starts with more guests then is the objective of the previous scenario. It contains the majestic coasters Claustrophobia and Agoraphobia, the RCT-famous dueling coasters.

It contains also many other attractions, which is nice to see when you just start out. But it doesn’t contain any stalls and for some added “difficulty” you have to research a food stall first. Its objective is also in park value instead of guests (the only park value objective out of the first five scenario’s.), quite a problem when at first you don’t know what park value is.

The park value needs to become €20.000 starting from about €13.000, though the value of attractions decline with time. Therefore, you actually need to add more than “just” 7.000.

Objective. 20.000 park value in 3 years

Difficulty: Easy

Final guests: 1822 (new record, 220 more than in Leafy Lake)

Park value: €45.000 (new record, 10.000 more than in Dynamite Dunes)

Company value: €132.000 (new record, 40.000 more than in Dynamite Dunes)