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Paths allow your [[Guests and Staff|guests and staff]] to walk around, and are required to be placed before they are able to navigate around the park.
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Guests never leave a path unless you delete paths or they fall off a ride exit onto the ground (or you pick them up and place them off a path). Those "lost" guests wander around on the ground until they find a path.
==Building Paths==
===Path Types===
In [[RCT1]] and [[RCT2]], paths can be constructed using the path builder window, in the center of the topbar. There are 2 kinds of paths: [[Queue Lines]] and normal paths. ▼
▲In RCT1 and RCT2, paths can be constructed using the path builder window, in the center of the topbar. There are 2 kinds of paths: [[Queue Lines]] and normal paths.
Queue lines are built from ride entrances and allow people to queue for rides. In the [[RCT1|original RCT]], all queue lines were blue. [[Corkscrew Follies/Added Attractions|Corkscrew Follies]] allows the building of green, red and yellow queue lines. When a queue line connects to an entrance and a normal path, a banner displaying either "closed" or the ride name will appear at the head of the queue line.
Normal paths allow normal movement, but Queue Lines can also function as general paths if they don't lead to a ride entrance. In
Queue lines won't connect to adjacent queue lines, thus they never form intersections. In contrast, they will always connect to an adjacent normal path. Once a queue line connects to a path, you can no longer extend it.
Normal paths always connect to other adjacent normal paths. In RCT2 and RCT1, the creation of 2 paths side by side will form a wider continually intersecting path; many guests in RCT1 become stuck as they wander in circles around the paths. In RCT3, large intersecting paths no longer caused guests to be stuck.
===Path building options===
Paths can be built in 2 ways in RCT1 and 2. A first, direct method allows you to place path square by square, but only on flat and sloped terrain tile (not diagonal slopes or edges). Path tiles automatically connect to adjacent path tiles, forming continuous paths. Sloped paths only connect to paths on the top or bottom edges, 2 sloped paths running side by side never connect. Ground paths cost $10 in the original RCT,
You can also change the path style or type of existing paths that way. This applies even to underground or elevated paths. There are also different types of structures for support when building paths above ground and for tunnel entrances when underground. Replacing a path with a different type/style costs $6.
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By building into a vertical face of terrain two tiles high, underground paths or tunnels can be created. Underground paths always cost $32 in RCT1, regardless of depth. Underground paths must clear other rides/paths and surface by 2 height marks underneath.
===Pathing Systems===
Guests getting lost can be a huge problem in RCT1 and RCT2, since their artificial intelligence is very limited. Most of the time, people wander around aimlessly, but it can happen that they have a specific destination: the park exit, a ride, a food/drink stall or a bathroom.
As guests can't turn around in the middle of a path, they need a special point for that: intersections, including ride exits, shops and stalls or benches (if they sit down). On every such decision point, they will choose the direction which is closer to their target, although, they will head straight to it and don't recognise dead ends. This can lead to your guests getting trapped. If they head for a ride, they will sooner or later give up, but if they want to leave the park, it can happen that they are trapped endlessly [[Guest Moods|getting angry]]. This causes your [[Park Rating|park rating]] to drop rapidly, same as if you block the park exit. Therefore, dead ends facing the exit have to be avoided. Remember that guests can decide to leave your park on every single tile.[[File:Pathing.png|thumb|300px|The red marked paths can lead to death traps!]] Also, long or ways with too many intersections to their destination can cause guests to lose happiness or get lost. A path can be as complicated as you want, and, as long as there are no decision points, your guests can't get lost. This is the reason why it is recommended to block ride exits with one-way signs if they are causing problems.
Many scenarios start with a suboptimal path system which can lead the player into continuing it that way - but often enough, it's a wise choice to remove it and start over. Paths leading to areas devoid of attractions and stalls should be removed or blocked off, because guests walking on them will get tired.
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* The user should be careful not to delete a path when it is above water and guests are walking on it, else they will fall and drown in the water.
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==Trivia and Tips==
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*In RCT1, if you convert a [[queue line]] with guests already queuing on them into a normal path, queuing guests will continue to stay in line until the line moves. Then they will walk all the way up the queue line (as like normal paths) and reach the entrance, only to turn back and resume walking normally. This is the same behaviour as seen when closing the ride the queue leads to.
*Guests never [[Vandals|vandalize]] objects or puke when on an underground path.
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