Planet Coaster 2

Staff in Planet Coaster 2 have relatively simple needs, with their happiness at work chiefly focused on their level of pay and their break schedule.

As covered in our Staff guide, staff schedules can be fully customised and their level of pay set at one of three levels:

• Fair
• Low
• High

Your decisions on staff pay and schedule will have a direct impact on Staff Morale, effecting how efficiently your staff members work and possibly even driving them to quit.

Planet Coaster 2 has loads of Blueprints to choose from to get your perfect theme park up and running in no time!  

From coasters and rides to pools and shops, the default Blueprints available to you can all be edited and adjusted to fit your vision for your park.

Put simply, Blueprints are a collection of objects or scenery items. Blueprints can be an arrangement of flowers, a row of shops, or even a giant coaster... or all those things saved together. You can even create Blueprints of paths and pools!

There’s a selection of beautiful pre-set default blueprints available in Planet Coaster 2 to give you an easier time building the theme park of your dreams right out of the box.  You can also save your own Blueprints of creations hat you might want to re-use, or share them with other park managers in the Frontier Workshop.

Guests’ experience can be affected by their Mood and how it changes throughout the time they spend in your park. Guests arrive Content but their Mood will fluctuate based on how well you met their Needs and how many fun things there are to do.

Guests will have Thoughts about their Moods and what is making them feel that way, which will give you an idea of what is and isn’t working within your theme park.

As you run and expand your theme parks in Planet Coaster 2, you’ll need to hire – and occasionally fire – staff to work in your park.

The Staff Schedule allows you to set what staff members are doing throughout the day, along with setting which Zones they are working in.

By default, staff work every hour of a day doing their default task and are scheduled for one break.

Work Blocks are how you plan out your staff’s daily schedules. Work Blocks are set to the staff member’s type of work by default, but the Advanced Settings allow you to select a specific type of work or a specific work target for that block.

New to Planet Coaster 2, Staff Zones can be created around your park to split it into smaller parts – each with their own colour and icon. By default, any Staff placed within these zones will limit their work to the zone, allowing you to control where your Staff are working in your park. Staff not assigned to a zone, will work across your entire park.

Staff Zones are also useful for reviewing the performance of different areas of the park – learn more about this in our Park Management guide.

Staff members will need a Break if they work for more than 4 hours in a single day, otherwise their Morale will decrease.

Breaks are taken in Staff Rooms which you’ll need to build and maintain around your park. Staff Rooms have a maximum capacity, so you’ll need to make sure that there are enough Staff Rooms spread around your park for all your staff members to take their scheduled breaks.

Some guests will come to your park in a group and this information will be stored in their guest info-panel. It will tell you what kind of group they are in e.g. Teen Family, and this will allow you to quickly access the information of other guests in their group.

The kind of group a guest is in will affect their finances and tolerances of certain aspects of the park. For example, if your guest is part of a Family with Children, their tolerance for long queues and higher prices could be much lower.

You must pay each of your staff members to work in your park, with different staff members having different pay rates. The amount you pay each of your staff members can be customised with Pay Tiers, setting Low Pay, Fair Pay or High Pay – the amount you pay your staff will directly impact their Morale.