I beat Evergreen Gardens with 10,000 Guests | Marcel Plays RCT #5 

This is again a bit different than usual for this series as it involves very little scenery, but this is the kind of videos I originally had in mind for this series. Playing RCT as it was meant to be played, just building massive parks with tons of cool rides everywhere. Let me know what you think of this style of video.

This episode of Marcel Plays RCT is really good value!

An OpenRCT2 feature I’d like to see added is have security guards replace vandalised benches/bins/lamps etc. when they walk past them, or at least report it in a message and you click approve to fix it or something

Watching the park slowly become more and more full was so much fun, I loved all the custom coasters! This was my favourite episode of Marcel plays RCT so far!

I love that one photo section - imagine walking past the kiosk after you get off and seeing the TV screen cycling through a bunch of photos taken at 6 km/h

Personally, I enjoy setting the balloon colors to correspond with district theming. It's fun to see how far the different colors reach across the park!

I played through this scenario yesterday! Not quite as many guests, but I was feeling proud of the coasters I built. I've gotten good at building them, largely because of this channel. Keep up the content Marcel!

The spaces you can fit coasters in never ceases to amaze me. I have been playing this game wrong for 20 years!

A 21-minute video? We're in for a treat!

The fun part is that Evergreen Gardens is one of my favorite scenarios. I would go all in on the decor and the trees. Basically adding even more gardens.

I have found that lost guests are just a way of life in this scenario. I combat it with many Information Kiosks and free maps, but the sheer number of paths mean that some guests are going to run around in circles.

@MarcelVos I’m so glad I found these videos. I’ve been staying up late into the night getting back all my nostalgia for RCT.

First thing I do in this park is delete all of the pathways everywhere to keep guests from getting lost 😂

A handy tip I found for Evergreen Gardens in RCT2 is to close all the pathways to places you haven’t built anything yet with no-entry signs, so guests don’t wander around finding no rides and then getting bored and lost. That said, you seem to have solved the same problem by just building something everywhere to start with :D

I love watching Marcel during lunch break, it relaxes me greatly.

Whoa, this video was an emotional rollercoaster. You probably did it, but sighting on awards also brings more guests, didn't it?

You know its a good day when marcel uploads

Marcel going "I prefer building custom coasters because of flexibility and goofiness" hints to me that one of the possible future park challenges is "only pre-build designs" :P

To save you clicking finger, check out the numpad construction hotkeys. They're very useful and quick once learned. Maybe you could make a video about them.

I cannot explain how excited I was to come home from a long, exhausting day of work and see that you posted another installment of your best series yet.

Thanks for continuing with this series, even though you had doubts with it before. I love the more casual playstyle, even if scenery was mostly missing this episode, which was understandable considering the self-imposed goal. That's something that could happen in a casual playthrough too!

It's so satisfying watching the creation of all the custom coasters! I'm really enjoying this series! (speaking of which, as of now, I don't think this video made it onto the playlist)

Ah yes, the Energylandia approach... adding in multiple coasters of the same type

This game was mas my childhood & is so close to my heart. I wish I understood the intricate mechanics of the game back then.

I "re-discovered" this game a week ago as i found the cd in the depths of my room. the memories came back. i love this game so much. its great!!!

Hi I'm the guy who was locked in the car ride for 2 years. Great video! I definetly did not kill your park rating.

I've personally found with the boat rides that if you just wall in a small area around the station the guests will still somewhat naturally flow towards the other end of the platform, i've never had issues with guests getting lost or saying "I want to get off."

Another banger video from Marcel! This was my favorite "Marcel Plays" video so far. It makes it look like fun! Now I want to do my own take on this idea!

Hey Marcel! Just wanted to let you know that for some reason this video isn't in the playlist of your Marcel Plays series. I'm loving it so far! Keep up the great work dude, you're one of my favorite youtubers

I love this run because it lines up most like how I used to play this game (but Marcel did much better than I would do). This is maybe the most badly I've wanted to play RCT since 2019 (according to Steam that is when I last loaded it up). Great job, Marcel!

When the world needed him the most, he returned with the lets play!

“It’s bobsled time” - I see what you did there 😎🇯🇲 (Cool Runnings the movie for those wondering)

Very interesting direction for the series; I love the focus on park-building in an organic fashion! Keep up the amazing videos + be sure to keep having fun while making them! It's always a joy to see them in my inbox! :-)

Evergreen Garden was always my favorite, what a sight to see with 10,000 guest and completely filled up, awesome work Marcel!

Great vid and really entertaining series. Keep it up! :)

Nice job! At around 10 minutes, I like to build steeplechase as a dueling ride, then at least I get some excitement out of watching it :)

Ohhh, this was always my favorite park. Back in the 90's it felt absolutely huge!

i love these series, this used to be probably my all time played map. Can't wait for all the other map to be played by you in this series

Even though this is a bit different than the other parks in this series I still feel it fits. It’s a more casual style than your usual play style of hyper optimisation and micro coasters and I feel that’s what the series is as a whole.

It's amazing that this game is able to support such a huge park

The moment you play modern action games and MMOs... just browse RU-vid for fun... find this video... and start to remember how much fun RCT was back then... .. now I want to make it working again and play ^^

I’d like to see a video where you try and recreate one of the parks from the background when you first open the game. Those parks always look so cool

my s.o. and i watched this and they were mostly being like "this is actually selling me on rct more than the meme videos because this feels like im getting an understanding of what playing the game is like"

In regards to waterrides like boat hire and others, you can have the guests free sailing if you fence in the area they can sail in.

“I ain’t giving away umbrellas for free” this is my I love marcel

Anyone: 1000 guests! I can do this! It’ll take some time, but i can do it in 4 years! Marcel Vos: that’s adorable.

I shouldn't have watched this before going to sleep, because now I'm going to have night terrors about fences. Second scariest thing in RCT1 after the rapid breakdown of station brakes.

I really love the little Detail that the stauration is lowered for Clips from "earlier" times in the video... Nice detail :D

5:19 this is a very cool looking mine train coaster, the helix around the chain lift looks Great!

I've been playing through the original RCT with the goal of beating every scenario with a positive company value and paying the loan all the way off, and also not being boring, but having at least one of every ride and stall I can fit, while also making a lot of custom rides. Dinky Park proved to be the most challenging so far. It felt like I really came down to the wire with adding enough value to reach the $10,000 park value goal. I technically paid the loan off after beating the scenario, but I had a positive company value at the time of completion, so I considered it a win.

And I thought beating it with 2200 guests (over double the required goal) like I once did was already crazy. Marcel was already over that by late August, year 1!

A suggestion for an episode, is building all the stations and path in a small area near the park entrance. Maybe 25% of the available area. This means the rest of the park is track pieces only. You'd end up with this dense ball of stations and guests near the entrance and the rest of the park would be track spaghetti.

Love the series dude, keep them going! fijne koningsdag

Definitely loving this video format!

What I suspect happened with the mechanic that phased through the wooden coaster is that he tried to fix a car he couldn’t reach. The maintenance window says the ride broke down because a restraint was stuck open, and mechanics always head towards the specific restraint that got stuck when trying to fix it. Said restraint could’ve been in a car that stuck out of the station when the train came to a stop, and so the mechanic tried to walk towards that car, but as he reached the end of the station he fell out and walked onto the grass behind the platform.

How did you get the notification with the current soft guest cap? That's very handy

YOUR BEST VIDEO YET absolutely awesome park, breakneck pace!

"After all, we do need to give everyone the option to get wet." - Marcel Vos. Hell yeah, brother!

Absolutely loving this series!

When I was a kid I'd ALWAYS make sure to paint what I did. Sure, they were more elaborate unaliveing coasters, but they looked good. And I made the best damn car ride and Go Kart Tracks you could imagine.

Great series! Just wanted to inform you this video (at time of posting this comment) is the only one not on the playlist with the rest of these ‘Marcel Plays’ scenarios.

Rip balloon stalls, they will be missed. We won, but at what cost?!

And to think that as kid playing this, evergreen gardens and it's scenario goal seemed extremely daunting at the time! Now I'm seeing how it can be beaten by 10x the required guest count.

Well it's interesting. Once upon a time, very long ago, I built a park in custom scenario in which I chose the maximal number of rides that was possible in scenario editor before starting the game, and built one ride from each type, including one copy for each type of cars and also one copy for each type of mode (reverse, shuttle, continuous. I did not use the mode with stopping breaks because it was too complicated to design it). Each ride had the maximal number of trains and maximal length of each, and I had huge park on 256x256 map. Still, I had only about 5000 guests no matter how I used campaign and 999 rating and very low prices. Guests were leaving happy and satisfied instead of staying. Theoretically - and I calculated it, the rides could contain about 10000 guests at the same time, so I think the park could host about 30000 people without problem. I know that there is OPENRCT2 that some programmers did a project to extend game features but unfortunately, I did not see an option to include all types of all rides at the same scenario, and enabling flowing of guests to the park by some manual "switch" that user can turn on and bring unbounded amount of guests (if a final bound is needed, let's take huge number that the processor still can handle, like 32184).

This one and the Diamond Heights playthrough are my favorite videos of yours

Nice video! The wandering mechanic made me laugh

7:39 - To be fair, maybe those guests at the back want a picture of themselves trying to catch their breath after going through two loops and a helix that goes through said loops. :B

I'd love to see you take on a "dangerously dense" challenge in one of these episodes. Just build a theme park so dense & packed that it would be fit for Kowloon.

Small mazes are by my experience, the absolute best way to get guests in for cheap. Just have a premade 2x2 maze that literally is a straight line to the exit. It's way better then the slide because far more guests can enter it, which increases it's value (from what I can tell anyway).

Marcel low-key promoting OpenRCT2 while destroying these scenarios faster than the most energetic guest drowns.

Imagine being trapped in a broken car ride for TWO YEARS! I can't XD

You’re so awesome dude! Love all of your videos!

"I am not giving away Umbrellas for Free" I was in shock, i really thought you were thick... Good to know you aren't that sick :D

This scenario was for me where the game started. Tutorial over and lots of freedom to build a park. I continued to play here for quite a while even after it was officially over.

Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up! 11:06 ! COOL RUNNINGS!!!!!!!

Marcel will quickly get carpal tunnel from all this clicking, still a really fun video marcel. Keep it up

Beautiful, this is what we dreamed of as children.

YESSS! please more "Marcel plays rct" videos 😊

very enjoyable marcel, pls more of this!

This was epic Marcel. Well played bro

with actual free rowing space.. 2 blocks to be exact, but ITS FREE!

Love to see a new episode in the channel's best series.

14:45 If the scenario allows, I used to make all ride supports blue or red, tracks either blue or red and the 3rd colour if it was an option lime green.

Video idea: Finding the ride icons (the pictures on the ride construction window) in the RCT1 scenarios. A lot of them are in Megaworld Park or the RCT1 real parks

15:18 "After all, we do need to give everyone the option to get wet" Marcel Vos, 2023

I used to get mind numbingly bored just making two custom coasters. I can't imagine how you can spend this much time doing this.

Loved the video! I did have two questions though, related to park rating: 1. How did you prevent guests from getting lost? I feel I always have to start Evergreen Gardens by blocking and/or simplifying the existing paths. 2. Some of your queue lines seem very long (Ferris Wheel, Motion Simulator, Log Flume and Car Ride are ones I noticed). I think I even noticed some guests looking at their watch, indicating they "have been standing in line for ages". How did you get away with that, without TV's or entertainers? Looking forward to the next scenario!

I remember that even if you charge the excitement value for the rides, you can still charge $1 for park entry, which i used to do so i knew at all times how many ppl entered the park in total.

16:16 - I think its to do with the fact you had a sloped path from the exit building, sometimes mechanics will phase through the floor and if you have it underground then they will sometimes fall through the void.

@3:24 i also always want one of every ride type! Also..... i always detach the prebuild paths to have the bare minimum (making sure the paths are in squares)... so the guest do not get lost...

The 6km picture made me spew my drink 😂😂

The phasing mechanic reminds me of the drowning one you had in an earlier video - the path to the exist goes downwards the moment it connects to the exit building. IIRC, the other video was getting park value through imprisoning lots of guests.

I am loving this series!!!

You know its a great day when Marcel Vos uploads.

Did the lost mechanic perhaps phase through the path to the exit of the ride? I remember something like that from a previous video, either the "Do nothing" challenge or saving the theme park from massive debt. The mechanics drowned and another one couldn't be hired.

19:23 i feel bad for the guys waiting 2 years in the cars to fix the car ride

Ahh yes, a Marcel video for my lunch break!

I wish I could go to this park. 60 bucks for all those custom rides is a steal! Even with the 20 dollar umbrellas xD.

Love this series!

"Marcel's Evergreen Gardens is really good value!"