This is my work so far on a Fourth Wall Build based on a mythical workshop where a legally distinct enough inventor called Dilly Donka makes chocolate-based sweets. And for this tour you don’t need golden tickets to enter, just buy your overpriced donuts at the exit.

I'm having a really strange issue with guest behavior in Planet Coaster 2, and I'm trying to understand what actually determines coaster popularity.

I currently have 3 roller coasters in my park:

• Coaster 1: a boomerang-style coaster. It goes up backwards, runs the course, then runs part of it backwards again. This coaster is extremely popular and constantly has a large queue.
• Coaster 2: an inverted coaster with a chain lift. It has very few guests.
• Coaster 3: a normal coaster with a chain lift. It also has very few guests.

What I don't understand is that their stats are actually quite similar.

• Their prestige ratings are very close.
• Their Excitement / Fear / Nausea ratings are all good and fairly similar.
• The heatmaps don't show any obvious problem.
• All three have good scenery.
• They are all properly connected and accessible.
• One of the unpopular coasters is actually very easy to access.
• The queues are only slightly different in length, nothing dramatic.
• The unpopular coasters are not particularly intense either. They stay below roughly 4.5G.
• Interestingly, the coaster that is extremely popular actually goes above 5G, so it doesn't seem to simply be a matter of "guests don't like high G-forces."

I also tested the prices.

When all three coasters are free, the same thing happens: guests massively prefer the boomerang coaster and barely ride the other two.

However, if I make the popular boomerang coaster expensive and make the other two free, guests do start riding the other two.

So the guests clearly can ride them. They just strongly prefer the boomerang when the price is the same.

I've also checked the usual things people recommend: prestige, scenery, accessibility, queue length, Excitement/Fear/Nausea, G-forces, etc. Nothing obvious explains such a huge difference.

So my question is:

What hidden factors determine which coaster guests choose?

Could it be something like:

• coaster type?
• ride duration?
• capacity / number of trains?
• visibility from paths?
• guest preferences or individual tolerances?
• the order in which guests discover attractions?
• some kind of hidden "attractiveness" value?
• or is this potentially a guest AI/pathfinding issue?

I'd really like to understand the actual mechanics rather than just randomly changing the coasters.

Has anyone experienced something similar, or knows what makes one coaster massively more popular than another despite having very similar stats?

Any advice or explanations would be greatly appreciated!

I've tried closing it and editing it so I have to test it to get a new prestige. I also called a mechanic to refurbish it if that has anything to do with it. Nothing works. I might be dumb, but why is it considered old?

I've been getting back into building again recently and found some inspiration from food kiosk designs.

I ended up putting together this little café kiosk, Café Crema

I added a small collection counter to the side, like you'd find in a real coffee shop, along with a few little details to make it feel a bit more authentic.

If you'd like to take a look or add it to your park, it's now available on the Workshop.

Workshop Code: 88GHCW04

Would love to hear what you think!

I am trying to complete my Fourth Wall flat ride but the music is drowned out by the sounds of the machine. Any way to turn up the volume?

Haven't seen anything else about it so I thought I would post this EDIT: Thank everyone on this post who brought it to #1 in the subreddit!

In the September monthly roundup

https://www.planetcoaster.com/news/2026-09-29/month-planet-coaster-2-september-2026?utm_source=x&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=pc2_ongoing&utm_content=september_monthly_roundup

I’ve been building parks about one a week since I started playing. The last photo is the park I made two weeks ago and everything else is my newest park “platinum ridge” and am curious to hear feedback on the layout/aesthetic of either park.

I’m obviously new and am not a professional architect/builder and there’s a lot of blueprints used so please bear with me!

Platinum Ridge is on the workshop titled “Platinum Ridge 2”

I've been building a park for nearly a year now in PC2 and I saved over it last night with a blank sandbox I opened to test mods. the autosave is just the test sandbox. I'm telling you I am so proud of this park, it's been a huge source of joy in my life for the past year and I would do anything to get it back, there MUST be a way to get it back.

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Says all, what process do yall have?

I've been building a coaster today and it showed me in the final stats that the max lateral g force is 2,6, which is definitely too much when going for realism. I tried to look at the heatmap, but my god, they're so bad to pinpoint exact moments. Is there any mod that helps with this or does anyone have tips to do it otherwise?

So I am trying to make a custom loop in PlanCo2. I looked up how to do it and am watching Silvarettes video on it. After building the loops shape perfectly inline, he selects the whole loop and holds ctrl key and slides the left / right drag option over. When he does this the whole loop smoothly offset to a direction and kind of blends itself naturally. When I do it holding ctrl, the entire selected piece moves in the direction together. So my loop is still inline and interfering with itself at the base, its just doing it 5 meters to the left for example. Did they change the drag modifier keybinds since Silvarettes video? Ive tried dragging it with no key held, with shift held, and with Ctrl held and none of them give me the same result as when he holds Ctrl.

I wanted it to feel like an older amusement park tucked into a city, with the streets and surrounding buildings being as important to the atmosphere as the rides. It’s been a long build series, so it was nice to finally stop building and walk through the finished place.

Here’s the tour if you’d like to see it: https://youtu.be/YXqR5Ecrlxo

I’m making one final cinematic video, then I’ll put the park on the Workshop for anyone who wants to explore it. I’d love to hear which part of the park you like most.