[RCT2] Highest Capacity Ride

[MFJorts]

One thing that has fascinated me with the RCT series is making rides that are super-efficient and can put through as many riders as possible. I recently was able to beat my previous mark by a good 40%, which made me wonder what the maximum capacity ride is. Anyone else ever ponder this?

 

Obviously the type of ride matters. A 2-seat hoverbike coaster will not be able to keep up with a 36-seat Giga coaster. But there is also the load/unload factor: rides with more compressed seating fill up faster than those with elongated trains. I have had good success using Vertical Drop and Floorless Train coasters, though I'm sure there are a few others that work well, too.

 

I'd like to open up a sort of informal competition to see who can design the highest capacity ride. I don't use any trainers or custom scenarios really, so as a starting point I would like to limit coaster and train configurations to those included in the base game and expansions. I could make an exception for settings that make rides more closely match real life (i.e. adding another car to a type of coaster so that it matches the longest train of that coaster type in real-life). Other settings such as Peep preferences I am fine with tweaking, I just want things to be fairly realistic overall.

 

What are your highest customer per hour readings? I've attached my best result via screenshot, please include one with your entry if you can.

6972 customers per hour. I didn't even know that was possible!

[willthegolfer]

Park needs more ferris wheels. In all seriousness I am interested to see how this works out, I'll probably try this myself.

[DWLY101]

I'll give this a try.

Park needs more ferris wheels.

It sure does! xD

[MFJorts]

^&^^ lol I add a ferris wheel complex sometimes when I need to boost my peep count to meet the scenario goals. As far as I can tell, they are the most cost and space effective ride for doing this.

[MrSum1_55]

My record highest capacity coaster was a B&M junior hyper. I placed two block sections in the middle of the ride, in addition to a long Leviathan style brake run, and a long station that could load one train, unload one, and stack one in the middle. The result was a coaster that could run 6 trains while stacking no more than two, and a capacity of over 7,000 pph. It could dispatch immediately after a train filled up.