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    Change Default Folder Locations (Saved Games, Tracks, Etc.)

    in Problems, Bugs and Feedback

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    4 hours ago, TurtleShroom said:

    There is never a good reason to deny the right of the consumer to opt-out. Sawyer and Infogrames knew what they were doing, and I am pretty sure all of us who played the actual, unedited game didn't mind sharing Tracks.

    Punishing people who know what they are doing because people that don't know jack about computers MIGHT do something is a recurring theme of modern software developers, and I consider it abominable and an act of hubris. That assumption is why Microsoft permanently made almost every CD-ROM game before 2008 AD unplayable on "Windows X" because someone MIGHT expose themselves to an error on the SECDRV Driver. They gave no opt-out, and I lost many games. Society lost thousands, if not tens of thousands.  It's also why Adobe napalm bombed twenty-five years of Internet content by force, and made it straight-up prohibited to opt out. That's not to mention that Microsoft could sneak a key logger or governmental back door in any system update (and almost certainly already have), and there is no reprieve or safety. It should have been an opt-out, not an opt-in, and not giving that option to exit should be illegal. Those decisions, plus compulsory updates and no privacy, is why I've never upgraded above my "Windows VII", no matter the security risks I face for this decision.

    First and foremost, giving your program administrator permissions is not some sort of threat to your computer if you are diligent in dealing with bugs and have a program with a very, VERY narrow focus, as you do. I've ran "Open Roller Coaster Tycoon II" as an Administrator every time I've played it, for years. ORCT2 can be played offline, and if there is any exploit to take control of the computer through an ORCT2 server, no one's found it yet. Why should the ORCT2 development board act as if one exists, thereby punishing people that know what they are doing, instead of waiting for it to be discovered?

    You don't even have to automatically enable administrative positions. That assumes everyone wants to put the paths in the Infrogrames Interactive folder where they were intended to be placed. You could simply generate a notice when you change the ORCT2 to an area that would require administrator positions, stating that "ORCT2 requires administrative positions to utilize this path". That way, people can have their choice without compromising security; that wouldn't happen anyway, you designed this game far too well to make that hole easy to find. ORCT2 is a reverse-engineered version of one of the safest and most well-coded video games ever, so I doubt you're going to run into exploits unless Sawyer himself left one.

    Second, you actually believe that the precedent of writing to the Program Files is gone? Have you ever used the Steam Launcher Program? EVERYTHING in that program, including all Mods downloaded from the Steam Workshop, all custom content, all screenshots and images, and so on are ALL read AND written to the Program Files. That doesn't matter if the user is a Guest or an Administrator, or anyone else in between. Is Valve working against the OS? Is Ludeon ("Rimworld's" creator) working against the OS?

    If there is some security prevention blocking writing data to the Program Files, I've never seen it in my twenty-five years of computing, unless my user account was deliberately restricted like the Guests, or otherwise blocked via things like the Group Policy Editor. For an example of a very recent game that writes to the Program Files folder on ANY account, refer to "Rimworld", which stores all Mods in either the Steam Workshop.

    I think that people who download your game should be allowed to decide where the folders go, AND decide what the names of the folders are. If a person wants their Tracks folder on their "I" drive and their "Saved Games" folder in the My Documents folder, that should be permitted.

     

     

    Absolutely not. The My Documents Folder is defined in the Registry, just like My Pictures, My Music, and my Videos. A failture to locate them causes your User Profile to get corrupted. You have to create a new user with a working path to get back in and change the Registry for the locked out account.

     

     

    Thank you for that.

    It's a fantastic start, but it appears that it doesn't allow me to change the NAME of the folders. I would still have bloated, duplicitous folders because of this silly restriction.

    Here is the thing with Micro$courage: They control the courts both U.S. and Internationally. If anyone tries to go up against them, they can simply shut down the world or simply even weaponise the computers with windows 8.1 and newer due to the cortana integration. I brute-force removed all of that from my Windows 10 Installation and also use Untangle Unified Threat Management OS and Pi-Hole (both Linux Kernels) and blocked off anything to do with windows update and any hidden telemetry. My suggestion, if you don't like the windows setup, go with Linux (Ubuntu or Linux Mint are recommended) or even MacOS.

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    A cheat to keep the rides popular

    in Ideas

    Posted

    i am on to something here, it seems with renew rides with giving the squawkers $1,000 causes the rides to be flooded again, but not as much as it would be if it was just constructed. So in other words, the guests seem too stupid to use the ATMs always even right by every ride I have.

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    Thanks for this amazing project!

    in Introductions

    Posted

    It is a truly amazing project. I love how easy it was to set up on my windows PC and when I had my android phone. I also love how interactive the devs are, truly amazing as well. I kept hitting the 255 ride/staff and sprite limits on RCT2 for steam whereas this project has much higher limits.

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    A cheat to keep the rides popular

    in Ideas

    Posted · Edited by TheKillerChicken
    Fixed a typo

    What I find strange is my flat rides and go-karts stay popular regardless of cheats or not, or how old the rides are but the roller coaster popularity seems to die off within 2 years, or so. So what I should more specifically state is that I would like to see a cheat to keep roller coasters popular, if that is not asking too much.

    A cheat to keep the rides popular

    in Ideas

    Posted

    3 hours ago, ExCrafty said:

    As for land size, I like doing large land areas too. But I've found that over a certain size I frequently get "Guests are getting lost or stuck". I think I've seen something somewhere that said about if it takes a peep 10 mins or more to get where they want to go, they get confused and do the "I can't find ???". This happened for me even before the increase in land sizes. Almost always, my pathing is straight forward, and queue lines are on main paths without peeps having to use another path to get to the queue.

    Well, that's what I find anyway.

    It appears that a park size of over 200x200-ish tiles gets peeps confused. ...... Stupid peeps can't even read a park map, or use a transport ride properly.  :)

    I see. That makes sense. I am using a path finding plugin right now called "pathfinding workarounds" but that does not help much. I downsized to 512x512 and going to keep my paths as grid-like and munimal junctions as possible and hopefully will get the zerg rush with the renew rides cheat again.

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    A cheat to keep the rides popular

    in Ideas

    Posted · Edited by TheKillerChicken
    Needed to add some more info and questions.

    It seems like that the renew rides DOES work, but because my park is a 999x999, the guests seem to get lost after a certain point and cannot path find efficiently. I have just started playing again as my array had a crash (luckily the data was backed up) and I had to restore my games. Alrighty, I can only renew so many times (3-4) and then the guests do not zerg to the rides anymore. I thought rides being vintage would also work, but it does not (what does vintage rides do anyways?) I am in a small area, roughly 3x the size of Forest Frontiers and I cannot for the life of me to get them to get magnetised to the rides. Is there something else I am needing to do to accomplish this, or am I giving the guests pathAI too much credit for path finding?

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    'pay - free park / pay - free ride' options

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    8 hours ago, jfox21117 said:

    question - so what bearing does the pay park / free rides drop down have on the probability of park visitor's wanting to pay the default price or any price you charge on a ride?

    like for example, let's say I pick the option 'free park / pay per pride' option from the drop-down, and I have one of the default prices for the theater is $1.50, would they pay the price?

    reason why i i ask is because even when i had the option that they pay the park and pay per ride, they wouldn't even pay 10 cents for a gentle ride, whether it was the merry go round, the train - heck, not even the theater or fun house.

     

    Just curious

    There is a penalty with guests with pay to enter park, then pay for rides. I do not like it, to be honest. I personally use free entry to park - pay per ride as I seem to get the most profit from that setup. Just make sure to refurbish the rides frequently (2-3 years) to get the best bang for your profit. Rides also de-value over time, which will take a big hit on profits with pay to enter, pay per ride. The best way to make profit with pay to enter park is not placing Automated Teller Machines (ATM) so you can cycle through guests faster and make a lot of park entry profit.

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