Guests and Staff

= Guests =

The whole purpose of Roller Coaster Tycoon is to cause pleasure by satisfying the simple desires of your tiny "guests". Each guest looks like a young adult male wearing a randomly colored shirt and pants. His machine given name is a consecutive number based on his appearance order on the entrance path to your amusement park. Each guest is also randomly endowed with a fixed Intensity Preference, Nausea Susceptibility rating, and wad of money, which helps to make each guest a unique individual. Guests are not invulnerable, and will die if they fall in water or are caught in a ride accident (drowning guests can be saved if you react quick enough with the "pincers"). Although the game limits the number of guests that you can have in a park, a poorly designed park with attractions too close together will still cause the guests to complain about crowding.

Guests can also carry non-consumable items such as maps, photographs, umbrellas, hats, etc.. With the exception of Balloons, guest will never lose a non-consumable item. Guests can only carry one item of each type (when presented with the opportunity to acquire more they will often make a comment about already having one). If a shop can color an item, then the guest who acquires the item from that shop will be seen carrying an item of that specific color.

Easter Eggs
You can change the name of a guest to something other than the default name assigned by the game. The limitation is that you can not name two guests with the exact same name. The game also includes "easter eggs" which are activated when you rename a guest as one of the following:

Official
Chris Sawyer: Frequently stops and takes flash photographs

Damon Hill: Drives Go Karts at approximately 2 times normal speed.

John Wardley: Thinks "Wow!" while riding on a ride.

Katie Brayshaw: Frequently stops and waves.

Melanie Warn: Remains constantly happy and energetic.

Michael Schumacher: Drives Go Karts at approximately 1½ times normal speed.

Mr. Bean: Drives super slow on Go Karts.

Simon Foster: Frequently stops and paints pictures.

Not Real
E=MC2, E=MC3, John Bibrough, John Mace, Timothy Mcveigh, and Tony Day.

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= Staff =

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Handymen

Cost = $35 per month

Uniform = (Red) Color can be changed

Assignable Tasks = Sweep Footpaths, Water Gardens, Empty Litter Bins, Mow Grass

Note that any Handyman that does not mow grass (mowed grass makes no difference to guests over un-mowed grass) will almost always stay on paths like guests. Be careful however if you use paths as roofing tiles. If these roofing tiles fall within the Handymans patrol area, the Handyman may jump up on the roof and get stuck there (you have to use your pincers to put them back on the real path, or the real path will never get cleaned)!

If the Handyman is given lots of work (lots of gardens to water, trash to sweep, or vomit to clean), keep the patrol area very small.

It appears that vandalism and vomit do not occur in tunnels, so these areas may not have to be patrolled as much (remember that chance of vandalism is directly related to the concentration of litter/vomit on the ground).

Mechanics

Cost = $55 per month

Uniform = (Blue) Color can be changed

Assignable Tasks = Inspect Rides, Fix Rides

Note that a mechanic must have access to the EXIT of a ride to make inspections/repairs.

It is a good idea to assign one mechanic to each ride and set the rides maintenance schedule to 10 minutes.

Mechanics should have access to every station on a multi-station ride.

Mechanics are never required for Miniature Golf.

Security Guards

Cost = $45 per month

Uniform = (Yellow) Color can be changed

Note that the 'Safest Park' award refers to ride maintenance and reliability, not security.

Entertainers

Cost = $40 per month

Normal Costume = Panda, Tiger, Elephant

Theme Costume = Roman, Gorilla, Snowman, Knight, Astronaut

Have Entertainers patrol the end section of long queue lines (lines over 9 minutes) to keep guests from complaining about the wait and to increase the time before guests leave a long queue in disgust. Also have Entertainers patrol long walkways without rides and areas of high trash/vomit potential to divert guests from making negative comments.