[Guide: How to win awards with your park in OpenRCT2]

In scenarios, park awards are a good way to attract more people to your park, as they temporarily increase your park rating (if i'm not mistaken).

When i do a seach on Google on how to win park awards(like 'best staff' or 'safest park') in RCT2, i get a lot of misinformation or incomplete information. With OpenRCT2, we actually have the exact information on how to win them and the exact numbers so i decided to make a list  

The following information is all taken from GitHub and all credits should go to the people who wrote the code (and especially the comments).

First  off, when are awards awarded, and which one is chosen?

Every month at the beginning of the month, the game chooses a random award that is not currently active. The game will check the conditions of the chosen award, and will award it to the player if the conditions are fulfilled. 

How long is an award active?

Awards are active for 4 months.

How many awards can be active at the same time?

You can have 4, but because the game checks a random one every month, this is very rare.

What do awards do?

Every positive award that is active multiplies the guest spawn probability by 1.25. Every negative award multiplies the spawn probability by 0.75.

Now here's a list of the awards, with the conditions you need to fulfill:

• Untidiest park award: More than 1/16th of the guests must be thinking that the park is untidy. This includes thoughts "The litter here is really bad", "This path is disgusting" or "The vandalism here is really bad". Cannot be active together with Best staff, Most beautiful park or Most tidy.

 

• Tidiest park award: More than 1/64th of the guests must be commenting on how tidy the park is, and less than 6 guests must be thinking the park is untidy. Cannot be active together with Most disappointing park or Most untidy.

 

• Best rollercoasters award : Park must have at least 6 rollercoasters which are opened.

 

• Best value park award: Entrance fee is 0.10 less than half of the "total ride value for money". Total ride value for money is calculated by taking the value for each ride and subtracting the entrance price of the ride from it. The value for a ride is calculated from its stats, and becomes lower as a ride ages. Basically, to get the award your rides should have a low entrance fee and your park entrance fee must also be low. Cannot be active in parks without money or parks in which no entrance fee can be set. Also cannot be active together with most disappointing park or worst value park.

 

• Most beautiful park award: More than 1/128th of guests think "Great scenery!" and less than 16 guests comment on how untidy park is. Cannot be active together with most untidy park or most disappointing park.

 

• Worst value park award: Entrance fee is more than the current total "ride value for money." Total ride value for money is calculated by taking the value for each ride and subtracting the entrance price of the ride from it. The value for a ride is calculated from its stats, and becomes lower as a ride ages. If you get this award, it means the entrance fee of your park is too high. Cannot be active together with best value park.

 

• Safest park award: If a ride crashes with fatalities, the game will store a value of 8 in a variable(without fatalities it's 2). Every 2 in-game weeks, 1 is subtracted from this value, so after approximately 3.5 months, the value is back to 0.

  For the safest park award, the game checks all rides to see if this variable is 0 for every ride, and if no more than 2 peeps think "The vandalism here is really bad".

 

• Best staff award: All staff types, at least 20 staff, one staff per 32 peeps. Cannot be active together with most untidy park award.

 

• Best food award: At least 7 food shops, 4 unique, one food shop per 128 guests and no more than 12 guests are allowed to think "I'm hungry".

 

• Worst food award: No more than 2 unique food shops, less than one food shop per 256 guests and more than 15 hungry guests must be be thinking "I'm hungry". Cannot be active together with best food award.

 

• Best restrooms award: At least 4 restrooms, 1 restroom per 128 guests and no more than 16 guests who think they need the restroom.

 

• Most disappointing park award: Park rating must be below 650 and at least half of rides must have popularity below 6 (on a scale from 0 to 255, so very low!). Cannot be active together with best value park. 

 

• Best water rides award: Park must have at least 6 water rides which are currently open and have not crashed recently.

 

• Best custom-designed rides award: Park must have at least 6 rides which are custom designed, and must have an excitement of more than 5.5

 

• Most dazzling ride colors award: At least 5 rides and more than half of the rides are colourful. A ride is considered colourful if the main track color is bright purple, bright green, light orange or bright pink. Hover over the colors in the palette in the game to see the color names. Rides without a track are not counted! Cannot be active together with most disappointing park.

 

• Most confusing park layout award: At least 10 peeps and more than 1/64th of guests are thinking "I'm lost" or "I can't find <ride name>".

 

• Best gentle rides award: Park must have at least 10 gentle rides which are opened.

 

Please share this post on other websites(reddit, youtube) if you see someone asking about awards. There's a lot of wrong information out there!

[Group Park 7]

@Leudimin

If you really want to boost your excitement, read this guide.

Here's a very short one that has 10 excitement. It takes only 14 seconds to complete.

 

PS: I'm sure you can do a better job at the station building of the monorail. The station has some clipping issues and the bricks make it look really bland. Maybe try using some different materials? I think wooden walls would look good in this area.

[Is there (or can there be) any way to play the original RCT1 scenarios?]

Yes, if you install RCT1 you can play those scenarios with OpenRCT2.

Then in options, you simply link to the install path:

[Space Base (On an unnamed planet)]

On 24-11-2017 at 20:25, Wuis said:

That indeed makes it a lot better! Maybe make it like that there are different civilizations who all compete for this new planet, the different area shows each nation. Then you could come up with a civilization who builds rather weird structures like the CCTV Headquarters in Bejing , Museum of Contemporary Art in Rio de Janeiro, Rotating Tower in Dubai and Habitat 67 in Montreal. Or have like allied nations who have similar styles and like some sort of rebels who have besides some main buildings very bare buildings.

Well at least there's nothing wrong with your imagination 

(That CCTV building looks really cool though!)

[Group Park 7]

Just now, Wuis said:

I can't decide which I like rather, if you have any other colour in mind that you want to see on one of the saves you can tell me in this topic.

A

B

Choose A or B here: http://www.strawpoll.me/14476831

 

Both options will work  What bothers me more is the color of the rollercoaster.. I think it looks a lot better if you make it just a little bit brighter like this:

Of course that's just my preference, what matters is that you like it 

[A new take on RCT1 scenarios]

11 hours ago, Leudimin said:

I've been busy lately, and as result Dynamite Dunes has seen little progress (but at least it now has restrooms (US)/toilets (UK), I noticed I had not built one shortly after the previous post). Anyway, the original coaster has received a brand new station building and some themeing.

There's also a Ferris Wheel (one of the musts in my parks), which I'm not showing yet as the area is still under construction. However I haven't decided yet what to build.

Cool, it reminds me of the building i made in minecraft today:

(PS: nobody will get offended whether you say restrooms or toilet, just pick one)

[Space Base (On an unnamed planet)]

49 minutes ago, Wuis said:

The  yellow + red + green (water) isn't really a good colour combo. I think you should use a different path and use the in-game or selfmade supports. For a different area it just doesn't look different enough.   I like the start of the park though.

Yea i'm still looking for a better color combo.. I have already repainted those windows three times  Not sure if i will change the building style too much in the different areas.

EDIT: I'm already a lot happier with this:

It contrasts nicely with the red and orange, and looks much better than yellow.

[Group Park 7]

11 minutes ago, Darthyoda714 said:

Really like what you did Deurklink with the go karts, never thought of adding more karts (silly me), and the log flume is nice, like the building. Honestly i'm pretty new to openrct2 and only beginning to get good so I see your points about the flaws on both.

Here are some more tips to build nice Go Karts:

- Generally, for Go Karts you should keep the queue short as they have quite limited capacity.. If the queue time is over 7 minutes people will start complaining, which will drag down your park value.

- Go karts will usually look a lot nicer if you limit the amount of height transitions. Real kart tracks are usually flat or sometimes have a fly-over.

- For every piece of station, you can usually put 2 extra karts. 12-16 karts is what i usually tend to go for.

- You can use pipe pieces from the mechanical theme to look like tires stacked next to the track.

- I like to paint my kart tracks in alternating red and white:

[Space Base (On an unnamed planet)]

A pretty big expansion this time!

I have decided to divide the park into four quarters, each with their own color. That is assuming i do not hit a limit before the park is filled. I have now added a yellow colored part to the park. Also, it looks like the guests don't like to choose between eating tentacles or tentacles (worst food award). 

I added a new food court, where guests can enjoy a big variety of tentacles. They can also buy space suits here (white shirts).

Besides that, i built an enterprise and a roto-drop in some buildings nearby.

Inside view:

They're getting quite crowded so i should probably build some extra covered paths between the buildings.

I built an extra station for the monorail:

And finally, i built another rollercoaster named Whizzer (like its earth counterparts ), which extends over 3 buildings.

Inside view:

Here's the save, for the people who would like to view everything up closer: Space Base 05.sv6

 

[Group Park 7]

4 minutes ago, Wuis said:

@Deurklink

I see now, you said stuff about changing the tracks. I must've overlooked, sorry.  

No problem, I am glad you liked my contributions to the park 

[Group Park 7]

6 minutes ago, Wuis said:

Not claiming (yet), but I think I want to note that I find it rude that you completely changed the layout of the go-karts track. Further it's a nice update with a lot of refreshed areas, just note Darthyoda might not agree with a changed track layout.

That's why i asked nicely first  I'm not going to change someone's stuff if they don't allow me to.

[Group Park 7]

Alright, here's my contribution!

I'll put some before & after screenshots, as I did some work on Darthyoda's rides (with his permission).
First off, the pirate-themed kart track.

This is how it used to look (I already removed the building here):

There were several things wrong with it.. First off, it had only 8 cars and a big queue (more than 20 minutes.. yikes). Other than that, the race track looked very random. Also, the pirate theme was missing (although i like the name) 

This is what i turned it into:

I extended the station, allowing for more cars. I smoothened out the track and gave it some straight parts so it looks more like an actual race track. And of course, i surrounded it with pirate themed scenery 

Next up was the log flume:

As discussed earlier, it had to be moved. Also, the turns right after the drops would make it a very uncomfortable ride. Also, I'm pretty sure the first rotating element would just be skipped by logs with people in them as they would have too much speed. This is what i turned it into:

First off, i moved it a little bit from its former location. The log flume now makes its first drop to the right instead of straight ahead. It now has some straight parts after its drops as well, and uses more boats. I also gave it a nice station building and added some scenery around it. I think the log flume and the kart track became pretty nice!

Finally, I decided to add an attraction of my own. I made a pretty standard corkscrew coaster layout with two loopings and a double corkscrew. Also, i added a path through the station building to Space World, to make it easier for peeps to get there without getting lost. @RedScope53 Feel free to redo the trees in this area 

Some other stuff i did:

- Hidden some of the toilets in the park inside station buildings.

- Hired some extra staff

- Made all staff super-fast again

- Placed extra litter bins in a few places

- Fixed vandalism

- Finished fence of Space World

I think i did enough in this turn, so the next person is up! @Wuis!!!
And here's the save: The OpenRCT2 Group Park 7.36.sv6

Claimed: -
Queue: Wuis, Leudimin, giraty, Darthyoda714, 1081p, RedScope53, Broxzier, Deurklink
Missed: xbalogan, Philmon11, jensj12, Przemek, Jochem, SpiffyJack, cascadia, saxman1089, TCE, TheMightyClem

[Group Park 7]

Claimed: Deurklink
Queue: Wuis, Leudimin, giraty, Darhtyoda714, 1081p, RedScope53, Broxzier
Missed: xbalogan, Philmon11, jensj12, Przemek, Jochem, SpiffyJack, cascadia, saxman1089, TCE, TheMightyClem

[Can't build any rides]

The old-fashioned "have you tried turning it off and on again" 

[Group Park 7]

Cool update!

I like what you did to part of the fences:

Not sure about the lamps though, i'll probably replace them:

I like the entrance gate to Illuminati confirmed, I'll probably recolor it to something like this:

[Space Base (On an unnamed planet)]

So, to make up for the lack of updates in the last week, here's another one 

Overview:

I decided to go for the more natural looking green water in the craters. Also, i expanded the park a bit in all directions. I modified the monorail to have a longer path in between the buildings and gave it a longer station.

First off, i built an air-launched rollercoaster named Escape Velocity, which partially goes underground. I may build more buildings over the underground part, but for now i'll keep it this way. I also built a Top Spin called Warp Drive in the building next to it.

Inside view:

Next, i made an attraction with boats that float on a rare and exotic form of ice that is completely liquid. 

Inside view (from another angle):

It also seems some sharp beaked alien lifeforms have decided to take refuge in the crater next to it.

And finally, i built a suspended swinging rollercoaster using old-fashioned rocket trains, which partially runs outside the building. I never build any of these, but i think this one actually looks pretty good.

And the inside view:

Here's the save, for people who want to take a look:

Space Base 04.sv6

[Group Park 7]

1 hour ago, RedScope53 said:

Heres a tiny peek at whats to come.

 

I can't wait to see the rest, i LOVE toilets! (by the way make sure to connect the path to it )

[Space Base (On an unnamed planet)]

It's been a few days, but here's a new update!

Overview:

I expended a bit to the sides, and added some rollercoasters. I played a bit more with the craters but didn't manage to make something that looked good, so for now i will just build around them.

So on one end of the park we have two new attractions:

A 3D cinema called Radar Dome (the one thing i copied from the space ship ). Next to that is a shuttle coaster called Graviton (Inspired by the one from Crumbly Woods). Riders are exposed to the outside world for part of the ride, but i think it looks pretty cool.

And here's an inside view:

On the other end of the park, i built a reverse-incline launched junior roller coaster named Time Twister. I also built a new food court next to it. I will probably make some fake bridges to the top level of the food court.

And the inside view:

I am still not sure what to do with the craters, but so far this is the idea that i like best:

Here's the save, for the people who are interested:

Space Base 03.sv6

[The great circle (For lack of a better name)]

2 hours ago, wingnut707 said:

This park is so good, my computer can't even run it at full speed!

I know right! Several processor-manufacturing companies are already running my park as a benchmark  

[Group Park 7]

By the way, be careful as current openRCT2 build is a bit broken  Flying and lay-down rollercoasters will crash as soon as they go inverted.. For any rollercoaster without a full circuit (any shuttle type ride) the stats will not be calculated.

[My First Day!]

Welcome! And whatever you do, keep practicing 

[Group Park 7]

On 21-9-2017 at 14:37, Broxzier said:

When someone does not claim their turn in time, or went over the 48-hour limit after claiming it, they will be moved to a missed turn list, and the next person in the queue may take their turn.

So, i guess the next person in the queue is up?

@TheMightyClem

Claimed: -
Queue: TheMightyClem, RedScope53, Broxzier, Deurklink, Wuis, Leudimin, giraty, Darhtyoda714, 1081p
Missed: xbalogan, Philmon11, Jensj12, Przemek, Jochem, Spiffyjack, Cascadia, saxman1089, TCE

[I'm back!! Finally started Midway's Hill Valley Park]

You know there is a screenshot option in the game right? 

[Some parks cannot win]

4 hours ago, linkx said:

How to cheat win? 

In the cheats menu, there's a button that lets you win the scenario instantly.

[Date bug in oriental languages]

You should probably take this to the issue tracker on Github, I am not sure if anyone here speaks oriental