Finances

Most (but not all) scenarios in OpenRCT2 require you to manage money. This manifests itself in multiple ways:

  • You have to make sure you don’t run out of money.
  • Most scenarios either allow asking a park entry fee or a fee per ride, but not both.
  • Some scenarios also have objectives that involve money, like achieving a certain park value or selling a certain amount in your shops.

Income and expenses types

In OpenRCT2, income and expenses are divided into 14 groups:

  • Ride construction: Costs incurred when building or extending rides. This includes shops and stalls.
  • Ride running costs: Tracked rides have variable running costs (based on how large and extravagant they are), while flat rides and shops have fixed running costs (not counting shop stock).
  • Land purchase: Some scenarios allow you to buy additional land or construction rights. While the cost per square might look low, keep in mind that you often need to buy quite a few squares to fit new rides.
  • Landscaping: This includes raising/lowering land and placing scenery. Raising and lowering land can cost a lot of money.
  • Park entrance tickets: Self-explanatory.
  • Ride tickets: Self-explanatory.
  • Shop sales: Shops are cheap to build, but provide some additional income, as well as keeping your guests happy. Includes on-ride photo sales.
  • Shop stock: Self-explanatory.
  • Food/drink sales:: See “Shop sales”.
  • Food/drink stock: Self-explanatory.
  • Staff wages: These are paid every week. You can see how high the wages for every staff member are in the Staff window.
  • Marketing: Marketing brings extra guests to your park. This costs money, but succesful campaigns pay for themselves.
  • Research: Researching new rides and scenery costs money, but you can set the amount of funding in the Research window.
  • Loan interest: Paid every week.

Managing finances

You can open the Finances window in three ways:

  • By clicking the amount of money you have:

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  • By clicking the button in the toolbar, if you have it enabled:

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  • By pressing the hotkey (defaults to F).

The window will now open. There are six tabs:

  • Financial Summary: provides an income/expenditure table, lists current loan, park value and company value and allow setting your loan.
  • Financial Graph: shows your cash (minus loan) over time.
  • Park Value Graph: shows your park value over time.
  • Profit Graph: shows your weekly profit over time.
  • Marketing: allows you to start new marketing campaigns, and lists which ones are currently running.
  • Research Funding: allows you to set how much money to spend on R&D every month, as well as which areas should have priority.
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