Hey, welcome back! Hope you all had great holidays.

I had time to think about some of the remaining technical challenges and how to solve them. One of them were a couple of visual glitches related to tunnels. I’ve reimplemented them this week and that’s all fixed now:

There was also an annoying bug where you’d occasionally get a “location occupied” error message while building coaster tracks even though that wasn’t the case, which should be fixed now too.

Tim added adjusting the weather for scenarios. There are some presets or you can fully customize it:

And we’ve started working with Gabby. She’s a UI designer and 3D artist and is working on cleaning up and improving our UI :) More on that later.

It’s been a pretty exhausting week, but we got a good amount of stuff done :)
Here’s a new flat ride, the Turbine:

It might look like a fairly simple ride, but the physics behind the swinging gondolas took a while to get right.

And there’s a new tracked ride, the Mine Train Coaster:

The wooden supports that are also used on the Wooden Coaster were a bit messy and had some problems, so we’re cleaning them up a bit now that another ride uses them.

Unity 5.5, the latest version of the engine we’re using, was released last week and so we upgraded. It broke some minor things in the UI that we need to fix but apart from that went painless.

We changed the workers so that they only help out in other zones if there are no tasks left in their assigned zone. That improves worker efficiency a lot when using zones, but might still be a bit too “smart” - maybe if they are assigned to a zone they should not care at all what’s going on elsewhere in the park…? We’ll have to keep an eye on that.

The attraction overview list can be sorted by various ride properties now such as profit and satisfaction rate to get a quick overview of how all rides in the park are doing:

And Luuk worked on Market Research campaigns, which are a pretty useful tool I think :)
When starting a Market Research campaign a certain amount of guests (depending on the duration of the campaign) are asked about various topics, and in the end you receive a handy report with a bunch of graphs as result. Especially useful for deciding which kind of ride to build next should be the graph that shows the preferred ride intensities of the interviewed guests:

And you also get a snapshot of the current needs such as hunger and thirst, and their overall satisfaction with the park.