Parkitect News

This months update contains the following changes:

• incrased maximum Monorail Coaster train length from 8 to 12
  
• improvement placement of buoys if the park border is on a cliff
  
• made Thrillseeker achievement less confusing to unlock
  
• fixed Hydraulic Launch Coaster ghost train not getting launched when building while the game is paused
  
• fixed an issue where it was not possible to open a boat ride if there was already another boat ride nearby
  
• fixed guests not complaining about extremely short rides as they were supposed to
  
• fixed balloon bought from customizable product shop being invisible
  
• fixed a very rare case where an attraction entrance would not properly connect with the queue
  
• fixed a rare case where a guest could be displayed with two different animations at once
  
• fixed modded flat rides could get stuck
  
• should fix issue where achievements might not get awarded on Steam
  

All submissions can be found on the Workshop - thanks for everyone participating!

These are the 5 winning entries:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1820810719
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1825122165
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1823033217
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1822190219
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1824399846



For September 2019 the new Build Challenge is to build an Inverted Coaster!
The top submissions get included in the next game update as default blueprints.

We have finished setting up the new office and are back to proper work now :)
For this month we have another patch release that mostly fixes some problems, but there's also a few nice things in there:

• added guests can be unhappy or demand park entrance fee back if they didn't have a lot of time to spend due to park closing
  
• improved performance in parks with many balloon shops
  
• improved performance when placing huge blueprints
  
• improved walls so they can be built on the park border in either rotation
• improved look of crowds slightly if many people are heading into the same direction
  
• uncursed the sadness factory (updated ferris wheel loading procedure for shorter cycle duration)
• changed experiences and price satisfaction ratings to update a bit more frequently
  
• changed it so that there is always a research team hired by default when starting a new park
  
• changed Janitors to only walk into queues if they have the task to clean paths
• fixed path tunnels not getting completely removed when removing water above an underwater path
  
• fixed an error that could occur when multiple guests where buying a product from a shop that was running out of resources at the exact same time
  
• fixed guests could leave and re-enter the park when heading somewhere under very specific circumstances
• fixed changing colors of balloons in balloon shop affecting all balloons
  

We're also working on a bigger update in parallel - more on that later!



All submissions can be found on the [url=http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=453090

We have a small bugfix update for you today that resolves the following issues:

• fixed Hydraulically-Launched Coaster being able to use more trains than intended
  
• fixed paths sometimes accidentally getting deleted
  
• fixed mechanics walking into queues
  
• fixed transport system tubes not being a bad scenery rating source
  
• fixed Knight entertainer costume being replaced by Raptor costume when loading savegame
  

Additionally there's a new experimental version available - it should work exactly the same as the default version but has some bigger changes under the hood. If you want to give it a try before we release it to everyone go into your Steam library and right-click Parkitect, then select Properties -> Betas -> select "experimental" from the dropdown.

If you encounter any issues with this experimental version please let us know :)




All submissions can be found on the Workshop - thanks for everyone participating!

These are the 5 winning entries:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1756853995&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1755358907&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1760119946&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1757365294&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1758997881&searchtext=



For July 2019 the new Build Challenge is to build a Steel Coaster!
The top submissions get included in the next game update as default blueprints.

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Half a year ago Parkitect 1.0 has been released, which seems like a milestone worthy of a small update!

Todays free update adds the following:

Knight costume for Entertainer
A fitting costume for the medieval deco theme



Photo Spots
Encourage your guests with these new path objects to marvel at your scenery and take a photo of especially beautiful places



Boat Dark Ride
A pretty high-capacity gentle water ride where guests ride in boats through nicely themed scenery. The boats have no restraints so this ride is only capable of very small drops.



Flat ride modding support
Thanks to contributions by Michael P the Parkitect Asset Editor allows modders to create completely custom flat rides now, such as this Barrel Dance ride by p.marcell



In other news, due to Garret being located in Canada and me in Germany we’re forced to work remotely which is working fine, but I had grown a bit tired of working from home every day for the past five years of Parkitect development. So over the last few months I’ve been busy with setting up a proper small office and we’ve hired a second full-time programmer.Thanks to your support Parkitect has done really well and is continuing to do so, which allowed us to do this. We’re all set up now to continue supporting Parkitect and new projects eventually and can’t wait to pick up work at the new place in about three weeks :)



All submissions can be found on the Workshop - thanks for everyone participating!

These are the 5 winning entries:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1735214596&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1742250451&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1730035740&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1730903033&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1729862120&searchtext=



For June 2019 the new Build Challenge is to build a Suspended Coaster!
The top submissions get included in the next game update as default blueprints.