Post making contest 5.0

This is scenario #3.





Leafy Lake: 500 guests by the end of year three. I said I wasn't going to overdo this one. I said I couldn't clutter every scenario up with scenery, because eventually time and money will not be kind to me, and I should maybe get used to this whilst the going was still easy.

I spent £9,216 on landscaping during October Year 3.

Or, to put it another way - I repaid my original £10,000 loan around the start of Year 3 (I'd paid back half of it during Year 2 but took it out again to finance Admiral, the wooden coaster in the second shot). Then I had to take half of it out again because I insisted on spending several thousand pounds on shrubbery. I've got really good at unpausing the game for just long enough to place a single item of scenery...

Anyway, this scenario saw my first shuttle loop (Dragonfly, bottom of first pic), the first land purchasing (not much, mind, just a few corners plots for the railway) and the first time I felt it necessary to renovate unprofitable flat rides, because being able to only charge thirty pence for a go on the carousel doesn't help with the moneymaking. It's almost as if I were playing seriously. I really wasn't - the circumnavigatory railroad was a pet project that nearly bankrupted me at the beginning, an echo of the time many years ago I made an utterly perfect one that ringed a much smaller park huddled around the lake. 'course, this time I expanded up into the additional land at the rear, so it had to make its way up there too, meaning that despite construction having begun during April Year 1, the Lakeside Locomotives didn't first pull out of their stations until June Year 3. Go figure.

(I love the look of the miniature railways, but they're hideously impractical. If I do build transport rides going forward, they'll most likely be chairlifts or shuttle monorails... he says, knowing full well Diamond Heights comes with a pre-build railroad and that he has to have trains in Evergreen Gardens...)

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