Employees randomly drown themselves in nearby lake
I'm playing RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe and I already observed it twice that a mechanic drowned in the lake. It happened in two different parks, in both cases there was a path and a rollercoaster station along the coast. I couldn't tell where exactly the mechanics drowned since I only got alerted by a red notification "mechanic # has drowned!" when they already were gone.
How and why does that happen?
Best Answer
It's to do with the terrible tracking of the AI. If a path is near a body of water, and a ride is also nearby, this can lead to them taking a "shortcut" through the nearest body of water.
This can also occur if a large section of path is deleted. They try to track back to the nearest section of path, but that doesn't always work out...
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