gardener14 said:
Nora said:
and with the ops cutbacks making the lines longer..
Is this true? Are the lines actually longer because of less staff? How about lines at the restaurants, are they also affected? That's terrible if it's true.
Well you see, major roller coasters in the park have 3 trains they can run at a time(except for Verbolten which can run up to 5 trains at a time.) Usually on days that aren't so busy they usually only run 2 trains on each coaster(again except for Verbolten which usually runs 5 no matter how busy the park is). When a coaster runs 2 trains it requires less people to operate it. this is how many people it takes to operate the coasters during 2 train operations:
AC: 4 employees to operate(2 to check harnesses, 1 to operate the control panel, 1 to monitor the Quick Queue, and other misc. things)
Alpengeist: 4 employees to operate(2 to check harnesses, 1 to operate the control panel, 1 to monitor the Quick Queue, and other misc. things)
Griffon(this is the one that I'm not too sure about): 4 employees?(3 to check harnesses, 1 to operate the control panel, usually 1 of the people who is checking harnesses also monitors the QQ)
LNM: 3 employees to operate(2 to check harnesses, and 1 to operate the control panel, the employee closest to the exit monitors for handicap people to come in, since their is no QQ on LNM)
Verbolten: During 5 train operations, and 4 train operations it takes 5 employees to operate (4 to check harnesses, and 1 to operate the control panel)
Now on 3 train operations LNM, AP, and Alpengeist need an additional employee to check harnesses, to speed up the process. I think Griffon Might need an additional employee to check harnesses, but that is the only one that I'm not sure about, so if the park can't afford to pay the additional employees for 3 train operations then they will not run 3 trains even on busy days which will make the lines longer.
Also, Darkastle has a different amount of employees to operate it depending on how many ride vehicles they are running. On less busy days they will operate less ride vehicles, so they only open 1 loading zone, and 1 exit zone. On busier days they'll operate more ride vehicles which requires them to open 2 loading zones, and 2 exit zones which requires 2 more employees, on top of the other countless employees it already takes to operate it. If the Park can't afford to pay those 2 extra employees on busy days then it will make the lines longer.
Also eateries will have less lines open, because the park can't afford to pay the extra employees to operate the extra lines. Then on busier days lines at eateries with less lines open will be longer.
EDIT: I get this information, only on my numerous observations at the park, if some of my information is incorrect please don't criticize me.