Scenarios with a loan interest of 10% or higher, are much better dealt with by quickly repaying the loan instead of letting the loan run and drain the park's finances.

This allows the player to either make a direct profit (in pay-per-ride parks), or to charge a large entrance fee (in pay-per-entrance parks) at the gates and draw lots of guests into the park's shops and stalls for an indirect profit scheme.

This means that the first important direction to take when building a park, is to set on operating several high-profit rides with great guest capacity and excitement ratings: ally shuttle rollercoasters and well decorated tracked rides.As such, it is advised to take great care of the scenario's loan interest (in the Finances screen near the loan options) before setting on a loan strategy. In most cases, players will start with little to no-profit, forcing them to take a large loan, then slowly but steadily recover their finances as their parks get more and more profitable.Most of the flat rides allow very little change in their entrance fee: it's often much better to leave the entrance price as-is, and put effort into rollercoasters and other tracked rides, when comes the time to make a profit.While roller coasters are the big money makers, it’s far better to have a few small rides turning a monthly profit (or good enough to allow the player to charge a decent entrance fee) to help offset some of the construction/landscaping/scenery costs.Before taking on large and costly projects (such as building a new roller coaster), having a basic park up and running is often advisable.In vanilla RollerCoaster Tycoon it is the player’s choice, but from Loopy Landscapes onwards this is predetermined by the scenario.Players should also check whether their park's a pay-per-entrance or a pay-per-ride park, so they can plan their expansion accordingly.Hiring the correct amount of staff members and giving them reasonable patrol areas is often a good idea. In already established parks, the starting staff is often inadequate to the park's needs.If there are any pre-built rides/attractions in the scenario, now is a good time to check their status and pricing information.It is also in most cases a good idea to sort out the park's research priorities now since in most cases (especially in the first two games) the research instructions are set with normal funds and on every branch of the research tree. This gives them a chance to familiarise with the park and get its finances in order. Players should pause the game at the start of each scenario.

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