Water Coaster

The Water Coaster is the only type that can build splash pools, which go on flat, straight track. It can’t do steep slopes or loops, so its thrills are drops into the water, turns and the splash itself. Its boats run in trains of three, four riders each.

Unlike the water rides, a water coaster is still a coaster: it doesn’t close for the winter. It belongs to the Pirate Cove theme, so inside a Pirate Cove area it earns the bigger themed-area bonus, and it is one of the starting rides on Lakeside Lights and Island Archipelago.

In Park Baron the Water Coaster can rise 45 m above the ground under its track. It can build , but not steep slopes, tight turns, loops and corkscrews and vertical drops and top hats. It is the only coaster with splash pools. Its trains run 3 cars of 4 seats, 12 riders a train, and its station is 5 to 8 tiles long. Track costs $80 a piece and the station $1,300; it costs $800 a month to run, and guests pay $3.5 a ride by default. The type adds 0.45 excitement to whatever the track earns, and its rolling friction is 0.014. Children are too short to ride it. It is free to build.

Its showpiece design, Tidal Wave, climbs 20 m, reaches 75 km/h and pulls 3.9 g, with 0 inversions over 277 m of track and a 36-second ride. It rates 6.18 excitement, 4.73 intensity and 3.16 nausea, costs $8,828 and fills 19 × 28 tiles.