How Much Can You Charge For Your Shops in RCT2?

How much is a balloon? Or a hamburger? In this video we find out!
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[@Deurklink]

Thanks for the shoutout Marcel! Something which I found out after writing the guide is that there's actually a line of code that prevents guests from buying ice cream when the temperature is below 12 degrees.. So their cold weather value is actually never used! The same goes for sunglasses as well.

[@claudetheclaudeqc6600]

so charging the price of the normal conditions it is!

[@kiwami5604]

I can’t believe in all my years playing this game I never considered that the in-game temperature would affect how much guests would pay for certain food. I always thought all food types were basically the same and the different types were just for theming.

[@naibakie8519]

It's amazing, seeing how much thought and attention CS put into the different systems in the game, and how we're still learning about them all today!

[@Bonde7280]

@@naibakie8519 If you really want to see how much thought and attention he'd put into his games, you just need to look at his first game. Transport tycoon. Its kinda sad after making these two masterpieces he has turned to mobilegames.

[@Gameprojordan]

Funny thing is I'd always try to imagine what kind of food would be good in certain environments. For example I already assumed people in a snowy park wouldn't want to eat ice cream and would rather have something like hot chocolate to warm them up and crave their sweet tooth. But that was moreso with the obvious shops, and I didn't think it legitimately effected the sales and pricing. It was more so just me role playing and trying to inject some realism into my parks

[@ArtSMRdianne]

@@Gameprojordan same!

[@Davtwan]

Different types of food also affect guests in various ways too. For example, popcorn will make guests thirstier and thus more likely to buy a drink.

[@smith9808]

I still can’t believe Chris Sawyer put this much thought and detail into his games. His hard work really paid though, considering how we’re still talking about it 20+ years on. Incredible game!

[@Aereto]

A lot more detail in mechanics than most modern games with a big budget.

[@NolePTR]

He did it all in x86 assembly too. Which is just masochistic.

[@MiguelRPD]

@@NolePTR thats exactly why. He basically built a car from scratch so he set everything out the way he wanted to along the way.

[@your-mom-irl]

@@NolePTR I know he did transport tycoon on assembly, but rct2? Was that also assembly? Sounds crazy.

[@wuberkz1692]

@@your-mom-irl sounds crazy yet it's all completely true. Chris was a genius madman

[@WereDictionary]

I keep being amazed at how detailed Chris Sawyer made these games. There are so many tiny things I would never have noticed so Im happy that there are people like Marcel who shed light onto these things.

[@FFKonoko]

He has some stuff in common with the dwarf fortress guy

[@stellacollector]

Honestly, out of all items with varying price with respect to temperature, tentacles are the most unexpected one.

[@hunterwylie6969]

I always chalked this up to my limited knowledge within US parks, but are tentacles a not-so uncommon thing to be sold elsewhere? And is it truly reasonable for this to be temperature-dependent? And are we talking tentacle bits similar to fried calamari, or more of a “octopus-on-a-stick” product? The questions are seemingly endless for my limited vantage point here in the US…

[@Gameprojordan]

My personal guess is It's because the tentacle drastically increases guests thirst level, I'm pretty sure it's on par with or worse than pretzel stalls. So a guest wouldn't be as compelled to want to eat something that would dehydrate them that much in a hot environment

[@hunterwylie6969]

@@Gameprojordan easy fix: add beer cheese dip like they do for pretzels! 😂 But that reasoning makes sense to me. RCT devs definitely put a lot of depth into these dependencies, so it isn’t far-fetched.

[@Gameprojordan]

@@hunterwylie6969 mmmm cheese..... haha but yeah seriously the developers of this game were thinking really far ahead with all of these features. It's insane how innovative games were decades ago compared to now, no soul left in modern gaming companies

[@HiSodiumContent]

Cmon now, that isn't exactly fair. I mean, I dislike most modern games, but there's still some soulful bangers getting released, mostly by small teams and indie devs. But you know, if you're talking about studios with thousand person teams and shareholders the publishers gotta answer to, then yeah, the soul has been mostly stripped from those.

[@hngldr]

Also advice for getting the most items sold - always try to sell them right after the exit to a good ride. Guest happiness is almost ALWAYS highest right after they get off a ride, slowly draining until they get on (and then off) a ride again. I've been doing this for years and there is a NOTICEABLE difference. Parks use this strategy IRL as well. Out and about on paths, the majority of things that affect guest happiness impact it negatively, and the things that positively affect happiness hardly move it at all. Meanwhile a coaster ride can take them from 25% to 100% easily.

[@roddydykes7053]

Yeah I remember an in-game loading screen tip saying to put Hat and T-shirt stalls outside your best rides because happy guests are more likely to buy extras like those and on-ride photos

[@WackoMcGoose]

Just be sure to put those food and drink stalls at the END of a ride... If you put them at the entrance, expect the ride exit to become a puke carpet.

[@Pophet84]

your advise doesnt work for every ride. a lot of guest feel sick directly after a ride and will buy NOTHING at all, untill they got some rest in form of a bench or first aid. but your tipp does help with min/max playstyles in which you build no "spinning/high nausea" anyways. which btw would be a good video topic for marcel. rides with high nausea are in general less popular AND make your guests sick.

[@KingChayle87]

The tentacle one confuses me because I never thought about whether it was a hot or cold item

[@wisniamw]

did you ever heard about boiled octo? and did you ever heard about ice cream octo? I always try to go with this logic more or less

[@Gin-toki]

@@wisniamw octo icecream does exist in some parts of the world :P Also I have not heard of boiled octo but fried octo, which tends to be rather hot, like all fried foods. And on that note, in some hotter parts of the world, they eat a lot of fried food, so the temperature apparently does not bother them in this regard.

[@belacickekl7579]

I always thought tentacles were hot! .... Wait, wrong subreddit hahahaha

[@wisniamw]

@@Gin-toki never heard of octo ice creams, wonder how they taste :D But still, its fried so expect ,,hot" shop

[@kissenklauer7011]

the table states the price of tentacle drops when it's hot and when it's cold. but it loses most value when it's cold outside. maybe a dish that's best enjoyed on a neutral day? lol

[@DJAvren]

'Hello and welcome to another video' I was just imagining Marcel doing an April 1st joke where he uploads a duplicate video from the day before, but only changes the intro to 'Hello and welcome to the same video'

[@Templarfreak]

"this video is heavily based" - marcel 7:13 at the same time, the random chance also accounts for those people that you said may have a set limit of how much they want to spend but then redecides later if they would rather go a little over their set limit :D

[@AaronRotenberg]

All those guests who think ice cream is better when it's hot out are getting ripped off. The best time to eat ice cream is when it's cool, so that it doesn't melt before you get to eat it.

[@peterlockhart3923]

Thanks for the tutorial on how to make me feel like Disney upper management!

[@chompythebeast]

Charge anything close to Disney prices, even adjusted for inflation over the last 20 years, and nobody will buy a thing lol Well, except for Umbrellas

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

I'd like to know this in RCT3. The inspector is constantly pestering me by saying "The prices at [insert stall here] are too cheap". However, customers aren't as willing to pay high prices as they are in the first two games. It's especially annoying in sandbox mode where money doesn't matter.

[@richardg6983]

Turn off the inspectors thoughts, put him in a deep hole and cover it up

[@alexstewart9592]

@@richardg6983 You can also just tell the inspector to not check stalls.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

@@richardg6983 Silence his thought crimes

[@fightaman7]

Hi Marcel, any chance you can do a video explaining how ride popularity works? I always thought that excitement rating affected how popular a ride would be, but I believe I recall you saying that it has no effect whatsoever. Whenever I create dueling coasters, even though they're the same type and have nearly identical stats, 1 seems to be a lot more popular than the other. I've been wanting to understand exactly how ride popularity mechanics work but haven't found a thorough explanation so far. Thanks for all the great RCT2 content!

[@procrastinator0219]

Short video idea: Jumping fountains plus other interesting notes from Chris Sawyer’s website. I really love finding out more and more about the mechanics of a 20 year old game.

[@darkowl9]

I always wished that RCT was a bit more like Bullfrog's Theme Park, in that in Theme Park you could adjust the salt on food, ice in drinks, caffeine in coffee etc., so you could end up making your guests all hyper, salt their food so they're desperate for drinks and such. You'd make bank, but with the downside that they were much much more likely to vomit everywhere. RCT is a great game, but I do wish it leaned a bit more into dark humour sometimes.

[@EvanBear]

"caffeine in coffee" Is everyone drinking decaf in that game? :D

[@jakobfel2]

Chris Sawyer and his truly tiny development team seriously deserve major commendation for the level of depth that the first two RCT games have. It's actually pretty absurd how deep they are, yet they're also developed in such a way as to not make you feel overwhelmed as a newcomer. It's an incredible feat of development.

[@theonlyron]

You might be interested in a talk that award winning game designer Ben Brode gave lately. He talked about exactly what you're describing: Games with lots of depth, think replayability and mechanics you can min/max, with a small amount of complexity, the amount a player needs to learn to understand how to play the game effectively.

[@Davtwan]

Speaking of details in stalls, I would like to know the differences in satisfying hunger and thirst for the various food and drink stalls. For example, ice cream has a nice ability to satisfy both hunger and thirst while popcorn can make guests get thirsty faster due to how salty it is. It’s stuff like that which make the stalls even more interesting.

[@Toonrick12]

So the ice cream is more of a milkshake then?

[@Davtwan]

@@Toonrick12 - Not exactly. It satisfies thirst by either decreasing it slowly or just pauses it from going down. I forgot which is the case.

[@theonlyron]

Hey just chiming in to mention that Marcel did a video in which he debunked the "salty foods" belief, and said that no food makes guests thirsty faster, IIRC 🙂

[@coasternut3091]

Do different foods refill hunger differently? Does coffee give the guests more energy? These are my questions

[@jedi92486]

Back when Corkscrew Follies came out I got a strategy guide for RCT. For years I thought it was a pretty comprehensive guide. This channel has bit by bit completely destroyed everything in that book! XD Now I wish I could get an updated book with all this info.

[@esotericpince]

i would totally fund a 2000s style strategy guide made by marcel, theres such a charm to them even if the information is useless to experienced players

[@ryanm.968]

@@esotericpince Agreed. I have an RCT2 guide that has a LOT of bs information and strategies directly contradicted by Marcel and experience. I love rewatching these videos, and a companion book would be awesome.

[@beunjoris]

@@esotericpince Can we make this happen?

[@FirebunbunYT]

Do you know the name of your book or where I can find a PDF of it? I'm morbidly curious.

[@SleinMcAwesome]

Quit STALLing and tell us the price already! ;)

[@genoesposito2895]

The tentacle stand is so goddamn weird.

[@MarcelVos]

The weirdest part is that when they consume the tentacle the animation makes it look like they're drinking out of it.

[@belacickekl7579]

I have been to several theme parks, and never once have I seen any stands selling tentacles, tbh. Definitely not for me

[@jimmypatton4982]

I could image theme parks in Japan or other places being much more likely to sell them.

[@yourex-wife4259]

I love when game designers have attention to detail like this

[@gargaduk]

@@8LegoVogel8 No, it was a general statement.

[@gargaduk]

​@@8LegoVogel8 So maybe you still didn't get it, what they wanted to say (I'm assuming), is that they like attention to detail in general, in any game. Not just this one in particular.

[@gargaduk]

​@@8LegoVogel8 "Or is it that's there's a general love for attention to detail, applicable to all sorts of games, like mind-games?" Yes, this one I think. It's really not that complicated :) Although the example of mind-games confuses me again. Just video games.

[@CrAzYpotpie]

@@8LegoVogel8 Wtf are you talking about?

[@chrinschbro]

Hi Marcel I LOVE your Videos and your streams :) Thank you so much for giving us all this ;)

[@decalcomanie123]

I noticed there's a satisfaction percentage that varies among stalls. I always consider that to reflect how appropriately priced the items are, considering food and stuff don't really have stats other than their price. Is that something related to pricing?

[@ArtSMRdianne]

You can max out the price they're willing to pay but the satisfaction rate will go below 75%. Like toilets, you can ask more than 0.20ct and they still pay but 0.20ct is the max you can ask and still keep 75% satisfaction. Never compromise with umbrella ;)

[@raphahardt]

The level of detail of this 20 years old game never cease to amaze me

[@ext93]

I still remember the neighbors letting my sister and I borrow the cd for rct1 back in 1999. I asked my parents for RCT the next Christmas. Then corkscrew follies was released and my sister got it for her birthday. The game blew my 6 year old mind and its still amazing 20+ years later

[@StefanVeenstra]

Maybe you can do one on guests stats and how they impact/relate to eachother? Happiness stat is an important factor for many things, and knowing Chris' eye for detail I wonder if energy/hunger/thirst has any influence on that happiness stat. Guests do sometimes “complain” about not being hungry or thirsty after approaching a shop. Wonder that influences their mood.

[@HECKproductions]

i always put souvenir stands (especially balloos because they can be bought multiple times) in front of exits of popular coasters the extra happiness that the guest will have due to riding a ride will make them easily pay much more

[@Knuxfan24]

The temperature ISN'T cosmetic?!

[@StefanVeenstra]

Overcharge too much and the guest won't only complain, their happiness decreases too. So it's best to keep the overcharge acceptably within range of the normal happiness value of 128. That way more people will buy and you'll turn a better profit. Personally I round it up to the next .00 or .50 from the initial pricing. (＄1 for ice cream, park maps, ＄1.50 for cold drinks, ＄2 for hot drinks and food. Some food even for ＄2.50 (burgers/chicken/fries) or ＄3 (pizza, tentacles))

[@roddydykes7053]

That’s what I’ve done too, I always make maps super cheap though to encourage guests to not get lost (don’t know if it does anything besides send them to different rides throughout the park though)

[@ArtSMRdianne]

@@roddydykes7053 funny I make them .80ct because they all want a park map to not get lost 😄 My strategy is always .10 or .20ct above standard price and then sunglasses, toys shirts etc go up with .30ct

[@Chris-cj5rh]

Hooray! Marcel listened to my idea

[@LEWIS1992]

"If you keep your guests very happy, you can get away with overcharging" *Disney has entered the chat*

[@thomasesthomas1996]

I usually use the total profit, selling drinks for a minimum $1.00 for drinks, $1.50 for food, $2.00 for souvenirs. Balloons and cheap food 0.60. Umbrella always $18 profit. Toilets 0.30.

[@martind2520]

Chris Sawyer: "We must have a perfect simulation of how guests will pay for items." Also Chris Sawyer: "Cutting the grass and watering the plants will do nothing, but the handymen will spend most of their time doing those jobs!"

[@YadonTheCat]

I completely forgot this game even had a temperature display, I never knew it did anything

[@r.i.pwindowsxp6876]

This game has more detail and care than many new triple A games

[@Kiraidi720]

I don't usually comment on these but it's absolutely fascinating how in-depth you go with some of the aspects of this game. For a long time I always wondered if I was overpricing or underselling the shop items/food and this video answered pretty much all of those questions very thoroughly, thanks a bunch.

[@KillinTime2792]

marcel, if you were a peep in rct2 and you had to survive in a park for 10 years, which stalls would you get food/drink from the most?

[@ext93]

Tentacles only and hot chocolate only, bro

[@Mechanoid]

Marcel, thank you for this

[@dokay999]

Can you please make a separate video about weather. That has been the topic so often now and sounds interesting. It has so much influence. It's fun to watch you. Thank you

[@ryanm.968]

Do some food items fill up guests better than others, or is popcorn equal to a burger?

[@yofyo]

0:13 "This video is heavily based-" oh don't worry, we know

[@SonofTiamat]

Food stalls! I've been curious about this for a while

[@dirtz5702]

I'd love to see a detailed analysis of the atm machine, I imagine it's similar to this complexity

[@KaganB]

Hey Marcel, great video! Well made and presented. Question for you… Other than keeping guests happy, are shops even worth the time? I feel like 1 mediocre coaster makes more money than several shops and stalls, so in scenario play I usually only build the bare minimum of shops and stalls to keep guests happy. Of course info kiosks with €20 umbrellas are an outlier, but typically rides are a FAR better investment than shops and stalls. I just don’t waste my time building extra shops and stalls beyond keeping guests happy unless it’s for aesthetic/realism purposes.

[@summerforestfairy]

✍️ keep ✍️ guests ✍️ happy ✍️ for ✍️ exploitation

[@DanielSchmidt94521]

Thanks. I finally beat some of my scenarios thanks to watching your videos. Your thoughts really help my progress. Im a big fan of this game and love your channel.

[@__8120]

"this video is heavily based" so true Marcel

[@kwatar54]

2:51 is what the Marcel Vos veterans are looking for...

[@reillywalker195]

You can tell this game was made by a Brit since 21°C is considered hot...

[@AM-di4pq]

I always charge $4 for souvenirs, shirts, hats, photos, and umbrellas (to make it harder for me). I always place these stalls so the guests run into them as they exit a ride, like a IRL gift shop and it works great. $2 for all drinks, and $2.50 for all "dinner" food. $1.50 for maps, balloons, ice creams, cotton candy. I also zone entertainers around food stalls, which I place near ride exits, so guests are happier and can find food faster.

[@ext93]

Yep, I like to place hat/shirt/souvenir/etc stalls near the exit of my few best coasters. Happy guests almost always buy after a good ride (unless they get sick) and they can buy something to go with their overpriced on-ride photo 😁💰

[@ext93]

You are great, Marcel. Thanks for another informative video

[@OrangeSodaKing]

Mind blown!! Love it. Also, still hoping you do a video about litter bins!

[@ArtSMRdianne]

How long does it take for them to be full and in need of a staff member to clean it out?! Employees for 5 years can have 7 emptied litter bins or so?? And then there's me placing bins after ever 10 tiles so there's no trash

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

The funny thing is, it's actually better to have sunglasses when it's raining because it protects your eyes when you're on the rides (depends how hard it's raining of course; if it's a deluge and everything's closed then obviously that's an exception :p)

[@indyandherjones]

Another reason this game is so amazing. The attention to detail with gameplay is bonkers

[@DarkWarchieff]

So temp can do things? Why the HELL do they ride water rides at freezing point?!

[@SineN0mine3]

People irl ride water rides if there aren't a lot of options. In colder places water rides tend to focus less on splashing people and more on making people *think* they're going to cop a soaking. Besides, if you paid to get in you're going to try to ride everything you can.

[@kotzpenner]

"This video is heavily based"

[@martinferrand4711]

If you know the average temperature of a zone, and the average amount of rain (frequence and duration) then making a prediction of expected gain per item sold is easy Are those informations known in this game? Sorry i don't really know much about this game, i'm mostly talking about math ^^

[@tifforo1]

The wiki says that, if you count the expansions, there are only four different climates that influence temperature and rain. If you take out the cold climate from an expansion that's only in a few scenarios, and the desert climate that's only in like three scenarios, basically every scenario has one of two climates, one that's normal temperature and one that's warmer and I think rains more. Obviously, the month of the year is strongly related to temperature, and I'm almost certain it's part random. I suspect month is related to rain as well. Most in game scenarios are three or four years

[@martinferrand4711]

I'm interested in crunching the numbers with a bit of programing :) I would like to know if average temperature of levels are known and if the amount of rain is known (frequence and duration in average) If both are known I think it's possible to help the community a bit :)

[@PlatinumEagleStudios]

Make this same video but with RCT3. I'm curious to know since I tend to play RCT3 more than 2. Plus, you should make more RCT3 videos.

[@djriki0]

@MarcelVos Why in every your video is CC only the netherland language available? Can you fix it to english (as spoken) please? Thanks. Great vids! 🙂

[@kvdrr]

On the 1st of April, Marcel will make a video with clickbait thumbnail & title, recite his raw data findings in 5 seconds without any explanation of why and how, and make it one hour long with black screen filler. And ads.

[@hngldr]

That's wild that the temperature matters - I never would've thought of that!!! Thanks for the video!!!

[@RobAdieComedy]

I would love to see you revist this video and actually find the optimum price for every item and every scenario. When I play, I HATE having to manually change prices to fit the temperature.

[@supersonicbros23]

Dear Marcel Vos While screwing around I trapped a guest in a island with free food, drink, and benches and he never used either since he got here, despite exhausted, dehydrated, and starving to death. What decides whether they'll use amenities such as benches or buy food?

[@martinchamberlin3359]

Ignoring the weather factor, you can find the optimum price using the chart at 4:22. Just multiply each "Extra Price" entry by its corresponding percentage, e.g. $0.20 x 0.75, 0.875, and 1.00. Whichever is the highest result is the most profitable "Extra Price". So assuming happiness is always over 180, the extra price of $1.90 x 50% = 0.95 is the highest value on the chart.

[@cowscrazy]

Is there a video about how far guests will travel for Food/drink/toilets before they start to complain and park rating goes down. I have a fairly large park and I feel I have a good balance of shops . Or is it possible to have so many guests in your park its impossible to stop them all very being upset about something. You can't please all the the people all the time sort of thing.

[@DeanAmx]

Marcel could you explain on which food/drinks that provide garbage?

[@PaulCashman]

"I'm not paying that much to be attacked by tentacles from Tentacles Stall #2!"

[@TubeCody]

This blew me away

[@rtyuik7]

4:25(ish) - also known as the Disney Effect-- keep guests Happy, so theyll Spend More Money

[@capacitatedflux]

51-70°F sure doesn't feel like it'd be a "normal" temperature. I know I don't want to be eating ice cream at 60°F. Feels like it should be closer to, like, 60-80°F. Might not translate as well with Celsius calculations though. I can't believe I never considered the effect temps would have on pricing, though.

[@chompythebeast]

You gotta remember, the dev is Scottish. A 60°F day is a fine day indeed in the north

[@capacitatedflux]

@@chompythebeast true, and I did indeed forget the dev was Scottish.

[@SineN0mine3]

Living in Australia, when the rellies from the UK come over they complain about it being hot on the same day we complain about the cold. Temperatures under 20 something are generally considered on the cool side here, but in lots of places up North that's like beach weather. On a side note i have no idea how to convert celcius to farenheit in my head but google tells me 70°F is roughly 21°C, so I'd agree with you about it not being hot. About it not being icecream weather, I beg to differ. With the addition of hot fudge topping and a thick blanket you can eat ice cream proper cold days.

[@Flaminstarwarsguy851]

With this information in hand, I wonder which stalls are the best and worst? A guide on the best and worst food, drink, and merchandise stalls would probably be quite interesting to watch.

[@WeebJail]

wow this has way more thought put into it than my 6 year old brain could have ever imagined huh

[@familybroakajonny]

Dang!! I never knew the temperature affected the way guests buy things. What a great detail for a 1999-2003 game. I’m still learning new things about this game LMAO.

[@benjsmithproductions]

Love the RCT umbrella mechanic. I was 8 years old and my games were teaching me price gouging for kids.

[@velvetbutterfly]

Me: "man I need to get busy, I have work I gotta get done, things I want to learn" YT: "how much can you charge for your shops in RCT2?" Me: "well, damn. Guess I'm not getting anything done"

[@SadDragonNoises]

Here's a tally of how many stalls do better in each temperature: Hot: 9 Warm(Base): 0 Cold: 15 No Change: 7 Not Hot: 0 Not Warm: 0 Not Cold: 3 Needless to say, if stalls are your cash cow; choose a cold climate.

[@RatelHBadger]

You could micromanage the shop prices depending on the day/season to ridiculous levels to maximize profits. Delightful!!!

[@firockfinion3326]

Neat!

[@Mina_Fox_90]

Thanks. Should have known beforehand when it comes to the temperatures and climates per scenario. Next, you should do one about what food/drink stalls are most profitable and recommended without impacting guests other needs. For instance, the Pizza Stall is a great price to construct and have multiples of and about the most profitable of any food stall - which can guarantee the player a Best Food Award; and how the Exotic Sea Food Stall on the other hand is very expensive to build than most other food stalls and has a terrible profit and that tentacles cost exactly $1.10 per supply - more than most other food stalls, and how food stalls like them are the last you would need in your park up to completing or should only be built post-completion per scenario.

[@PrismariLaura]

Coming from a tropical country, seeing 21°C be described as "hot" made me laugh a bit lol Around here, "hot" usually starts at 27°C

[@zacharyrollick6169]

Man I used to play this game on an IBM desktop running Windows 98. Real cache of nostalgia. I need to find my discs for RCT 1 and 2. Its been so many years since I bought Triple Thrill Pack at Wal-Mart.

[@Pophet84]

i always up the default by 30 cents for EVERY shop. i know it is not perfect whatsoever, but it works and is easy to memorize. that includes toilets for 30 cents.

[@brandonwombacher2559]

Does this information apply to Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic Also Or Is This Exclusive To RCT2?🤔

[@joshuadoll9000]

I find it interesting that umbrellas will sell for more money when it's cold and sell for less money when it's hot. That doesn't seem quite right as honestly I'd expect umbrellas to sell more when it's hot as people would use them to shelter themselves from the direct sunlight and give themselves some shade. I honestly see more umbrellas out on a hot, cloudless, sunny day than on a miserable, dreary, rainy day.

[@ArtSMRdianne]

I bet it depends in what part of the world you live in. People over here will look at you strangely when you're walking with an umbrella when it's sunny 🤭

[@joshuadoll9000]

@@ArtSMRdianne True but umbrellas selling better when it's cold is definitely weird. I can't imagine why someone would want umbrellas when it's cold out. I could understand if it was cloudy but simply cold doesn't make any sense.

[@OrangeSodaKing]

Maybe it doesn’t rain as much on hot levels? I’m pretty sure it rarely rains on desert levels like Dynamite Dunes. Maybe that makes them less interested in buying umbrellas.

[@JD3Gamer]

I’ve always just done the base price for everything except for the umbrella which I set to $20

[@rahmspinat]

To a whole universe pf pixel thrillseekers, Chris Sawyer is a genuine god, complete with free will, the inability to communicate with the deity, arbitrary rules, smiting, and the ability to create side-gods.

[@Saucy-ws6jc]

$.50 for drinks to keep Michael Douglas's character in 'Falling Down' happy

[@ComfyCherry]

I guess it's because I'm aussie and it's bloody hot here most of the time but 21° degrees is a nice temperature anything over ~25° is where I draw the line personally.

[@Mizai]

this is why Disney wants $20 for a umbrella

[@Centbair]

Charge 20 for an umbrella + rain = stonks. It is a good way, as guests normally don't go on rides when raining. If you charge for the rides, umbrella is the best way to break even or earn more. :D

[@jasmijnariel]

Does giving away things for free, like balloons, make them "buy" more of them?

[@JoegaroghanOfficial]

Challenge idea: Can you beat RTC with Max prices for all shops and rides?

[@Synnystershy]

I usually charge a price that gives me £1 profit. *EDIT* only food and beverage items.

[@dinoblacklane1640]

21 degrees is considered hot 12 degrees is not considered cold Man these rc people are definitely British

[@Arkouchie]

I forget which game, but I remember an RCT game where you could sell very very cheap fries with a ton of salt and then overcharge massively for soda and make a fortune.

[@veggiet2009]

Just to be annoyingly specific this base price (+ factors) is the maximum they're willing to pay?

[@roboblade6046]

I love that people will pay more for a map when it's cold. "Please tell me where I can get out of this SNOW thank you have 10 cents more than normal"

[@sazzlysarah]

Hhhmmmm, I wonder if there's a plugin to control the prices based on condition similar to the ride price manager plugin...

[@R.DeMora]

21° C is hot? That's a very chill and cool afternoon. Hot would be 35 to 40°C.