How do Benches and Bins work in RCT2? (Path ornaments explained) 

Getting horribly nauseous, finding a bench, thinking you are better, trying to stand up, and immediately sitting back down again is not a bug, its incredibly realistic.

Marcel calling the guests “little bitches” caught me off guard

The level of respect the guests have for the "NO ENTRY" sign is pretty high considering they will throw trash on the ground every few seconds if they don't find a bin lol

Man, the jumping fountains are peak RCT. Absolutely absurd levels of detail for completely random things that don’t even matter at all, that’s why I love this game

I used to use stone benches instead of wood ones because I thought vandals had a harder time breaking them

RCT is a marvel of design, programming and optimization but I'll never get tired of the funny situations that fall out of it, like a guest seeing vomit and getting so mad they bend a street lamp, or continuing to eat their fries while driving a go kart

a lot of gags with guest names this time but 10:38 asami thinking she cant find korra is next level

- Lovable Dutch accent - Relaxing vibes - Interesting information Oh yeah, it's Marcel time!

You are the text book definition of an enjoyable content creator. I have no interest in the game that I played for a bit when I was 7 or 8 but I watch every single one of your videos and occasionally fall asleep listening to you as you have a very calm and relaxing demeanour and it's interesting to learn from you, even if the information is of no use to me, so thank you Marcel for being you!

I like how bins are implemented a lot. 3 burger wrappers takes up way less space than 3 large size drink cups, and the probability is a cool way to keep that variance without having to track the exact items that are in every single bin in the park.

A nauseous but high energy guest sitting down and standing up repeatedly sounds kinda realistic actually, picture someone sitting down for a breather but thinking they're good and standing up, only to immediately get dizzy and sit down again.

13:15 I audibly wheezed when I saw 'Mama Luigi Spaghetti'

Ok that vandalism part really makes me laugh so hard, like Vandals karate chopped them but the peeps don’t even care stays sitting them. Splinters on their asses.

Love all the guest names! Asami looking for Korra and Spirit of The Law shoutout are my favourites!

14:12 Hey Spirit of the Law, guys here!

6:50 marcel is a fellow CTWC enjoyer!

Jumping fountains were always my absolute favorite path element as a kid. My parks may have had a lot of vomit and litter, but the jumping fountains were great.

I absolutely loved jumping fountains playing this as a kid. Legit were one of my favorite parts of the game.

I've been playing RCT on and off since it came out. To this day I'm still amazed by all Chris Sawyer was able to put into the game so many years ago, especially given the limitations at the time. Genius.

Guest name: Taylor Swift Next Guest Name: Pol Pot Quite a whiplash there.

As a kid I didnt understood how "no Entry" worked because I used the red color and wrote "No Entry" and guest walked through the sign... I needed hours to use the no entry button xD

The name "Blue Scuti" caught me off guard the most. if you know the Classic Tetris community and their notable players, you know. Also might I add, idk if this can happen in the PC port of Classic but in RCT Classic, when you place a sign with the no-entry button checked on the edge of a sloped path, guests will ignore the sign and proceed as normal.

Happy Guest: "I like emptying bins, straightening lampposts, and fixing benches"

I always do a bench-bin combo, personally. I'll place benches around food stalls, and guests will buy food and sit down. And when they get up, there's always bins for their trash a few tiles away.

"This is not a park, it's a sandwich" -- nice Psychostick reference

no matter hwo much i play this, marcel has useful tidbits even about simple things like this that i had no idea about, this game has endless knowledge to gain

Can we take a moment to appreciate Marcel's imagination to name the guests in their parks?

"... But since guests are little bitches..." Lmao that was great. Don't think I've ever heard you curse until this video and i loved it 😂

Sad noices when you've discovered as a child where you have the ability to place lamps in rct, but they never work.

Very nice to see Jan Peter Balkenende enyoing his life in your theme park 😄

"It still does the same thing: nothing." That had me actually cackling. Great video as always, Marcel

Jan Peter Balkenende coming in with a nauseous stride

a nice early morning video from marcel about benches and bins in roller coaster tycoon .. nothing better to have a cup of coffee to

👍I first enjoyed RCT in Korea 23 years ago, but it's still fun thanks to your informative videos.👍(google translate)

Even if you never read this, Marcel, I just have to say that your videos always make my day (as well as always make me want to boot up RCT, haha). Every video is a delight and are a perfect way to start winding down after a long day at work. :)

I have to say, seeing Eliud Kipchoge visiting your park caught me off guard. The fact that he was waiting in a queue line makes it even better, heh.

I just noticed the guest in the queue line at 14:15 was named "Spirit of the law". I watched their content too. They cover Age of Empires 2 in a similar format.

Really like the structure you put in this video! Very informative and well paced. I think this is one of your better vids

I really wished lights did more, i think child me wanted this the most. I really wished that it added a night mode with the lamps casting a nice painterly style lighting. Functionally i could see lamps helping the path finding algorithm in some way

"Guests will not search for a trash can, but if they come across one, they will use it." Walt Disney approves this message.

Since I was young, I have always loved the jumping fountains. Mesmerizing.

Your channel reignites my love for this game every time I watch a video. There’s just something about how crisp each little nook and cranny of a park looks in this game, it’s just so incredible

I love how you present your videos. I love the rewatchability in these

Watching my dad still play this from time to time, he still does the same thing thinking it works. He likes to place signs saying which way the park exit is thinking the guests will get lost less. If only that were the case lol

It´s Amazing how Chris did a Great trick in saving Memory with that Wastebin randomization Method he can count to high Numbers by just using 2 Bits , It is`t exact but did anybody realize it? Thats awsome Engineering just the Quality you need with minimum Reccources..

Amazing not just for RCT trivia but also game design practices and implementation

I've been following this channel for so long. I don't even play roller coaster tycoon, yet I'm so invested

I love the different guest names you use for the examples!

Even when i already know many of the things you still manage to make the whole video interesting from the start to the end.

One of the neatest little innovations of Parkitect is that mechanics can repair vandalized path objects. It's really helpful for running a park in the long run.

I appreciate that you answer the question posed in the title with the thumbnail because it makes me curious as to WHY that is the answer. Clever clickbait.

I feel like it says something about me that i get genuinely excited to watch a man talk about what makes people decide to sit down in a 22 year old roller coaster game ~

WOOOOO! been waiting on this one for a while, i know this one will be another usefull banger

Thank you for your fascinating and in-depth analysis on Carlos Sainz in RCT2.

Haven’t played this game in 10 years but you make me want to get into it again

Oh my god. Marcel set up by calling the guests "little bitches", then absolutely choke-slammed me by saying that they will "karate-chop the shit out of your stone benches" 🤣 Absolutely top-tier commentary; made me snort-laugh which is extremely rare 🤣

Holy shit, that phenomenon when Guests are standing up from a bench and sit there again in the next second is something, that I saw so many times in 25 years of playing this game, but I never asked myself, why this happens

I once tried assembling a professional RCT2 team. But they didn't know how to use these ornaments... I had to bench them at the first game and then bin them when they didn't improve...

Me: "Hmm I wonder if he'll ever run out of content..." Marcel: "Here is how benches works!"

Love your videos, they are very informative! Thanks!

Marcel I find your voice very comforting and it works so well with your background music. You are like the Age of Empires 2's "Spirit of the Law" of Rollercoaster Tycoon and that is awesome

I like these informational/helpful videos you do.

Another great informative video. I have experimented with getting bins on queue lines within openrct2, using the tile inspector. That was a while back and I don't remember what success I had but It did look better to have a bin at the start of a queue line. The tile inspector can be a blessing here by cutting off a connection and eliminating a lamp, bin etc.

Hey man! Awesome vids, I was curious: You said guests will ride rides just fine if they have food/drink, but I have guests turn rides away pretty often saying "I haven't finished my drink yet" just thought I'd note that I feel like they do reject rides when they're holding food/drink sometimes (or only drink? Not sure). It's awesome that I can play this game for 10+ years, 1000hr+ and still learn new things from your vids lol, great stuff man!

Ah yes practical game infos. Love that these videos are coming back^^

Excellent video, Marcel. Thanks!

2:00 I did not expect Marcel to get so aggressive here and yet it perfectly fits the topic of discussion.

These explain videos of fundamental game mechanics are my favorite kind of videos next to ride overviews. I was scared that you had already explained everything that exists about rct2 because it was a long time ago since you did your last video about that.

Since it is not a symmetrical probability distribution, it's not necessarily correct to say that that the 'average' for that bin is 21 just because a 21-piece bin capacity has about 50% probability, or that the 'average' for two bins is about 42. I made some code to quickly simulate the process of bins filling up and based on that experiment, it turns out that the average capacity is the intuitive answer; at 1/8 probability of each item counting for 3 items , a bin holds an average capacity of 24 items, and two bins hold an average of 48 items.

I had no clue the jumping fountains had so much love put into them, that's awesome

Holy crap! I thought the fountain stuff was just always random. Shows just how much care was put into the game! Also...what if someone paid you to stare at those fountains? They are indeed very mesmerizing!

Love your videos I'm glad I found this channel

My near 40 years of life has peaked at watching an explanation of 6 different types of fictional bench

The pizza stall has litter? I'll have to check that out, I thought it didn't. And I never knew lamps could go on queues! You're the best!

Honestly insane how you still manage to come up with new content for this game still

I know that this would make security guards even less useful, but I really wish handymen could automatically fix vandalized path ornaments at a cost instead of manually having to track down and replace them. In a huge park, tracking them down and manually replacing them is annoying.

Nice "Blue Scuti" reference the day after CTWC!

Aw man, that day and night cycle looked like a great mechanic to have.

Thank you for keeping this game interesting!

Entertaining as usual

6:00 another reason to not remove these benches from my experience: If a guest enters a ride with a food item in their hand, their nausea goes up faster. I don't know if this is 100% true or not but I get a lot less nauseous guests walking around if there's enough space to stop them from eating on a ride. It also stops littering in queue lines by quite a bit.

"This is not a park, it's a sandwich" Nice Psychostick reference. :D

Frankly when you said the trash can only had a capacity of three I thought for a brief moment Sawyer had done something overly detailed in that each trash item had its own decimal value of an item so while the value is only 3 the actual item capacity is higher due to everything only being worth a fraction of a single item.

Yeah, on a 0-255 scale, Blue Scuti is pretty sick haha. Dont think we didnt recognize it Marcel :P

That was funny little birches 😂 I love your vids

Loving the guest names! Jan Peter Balkenende:D

7:35 I love the Psychostick reference!

Time for Marcel, Hooray

6:31 That's the first time I've seen an animation for the guests looking at each other when sitting on a bench. Just when you think you've seen everything in RollerCoaster Tycoon, something new rears its head!

I don't even play this game and just happened across the video. Was very nice short video to waste some time in. The water fountains look very pretty, especially the flowering pattern.

Marcel! Get a bin with over 100 items... I wanna see how high you can get it lol you got this!!!

In terms of benches near food stalls, I personally find that in a charge-for-rides heavily-optimized park I tend to have so many guests wandering around because they're out of money and haven't decided to leave yet that my paths would just be way too crowded if I didn't sit my eating guests down.

As a child i loved to use the water jumping tiles. They look so much fun.

Ohh long time ago. I like these episodes!

1:35 Didn't know that😲 2:10 🤣🤣The way you say it. Qn: 3:00 Why fountains sometimes stop functioning after awhile?? 4:40 I just hook them all to a bench😅. 5:45 But good to contain guest. 6:45 Yes yes. 7:35 🤣🤣 The park name. 8:20 Yes😞. 8:30 😲!? Similar to Pokemon. 10:20 😲!? 11:30 Whao😲💖~ 14:10 🤣🤣🤣. 15:00 Thank you. 15:20 Lesson learnt👍.

14:55 Mr Weebl shoutout! Love that song

Love your videos

Marcel Vos the Boss!

One reason I like to use benches for food is to contain guests in one area and surround that are with bins to increase the chance that they don't throw away their garbage.

17 years playing some form of Roller coaster tycoon, and I never knew that there was an animation of guests throwing things into a trash can.