Staff

Staff in Planet Coaster 2 come in all shapes and sizes, each performing their own functions in your theme park.

Janitors

Janitors are responsible for cleaning your theme park and keeping it spotless for guests to enjoy. A clean park is a happy park, so Janitors are important to your park’s success.

Janitors will clean rubbish and vomit, clear bins and benches, and also scrub Toilets and Changing Rooms around your park.

Ensuring you have enough Janitors is key if you want to have a spotless park!

Ride Attendants

Ride Attendants are new to Planet Coaster 2 and operate your park’s rides and Transport Stations. Ride Attendants are essential for your park to run, and guests cannot get on the ride or transport without a Ride Attendant.

Vendors

Vendors are responsible for operating all of your park’s shops. You can’t serve your guests without them, so you’ll need to make sure you have enough Vendors on your staff schedule to cover the demand!

Lifeguards

Lifeguards are responsible for keeping the pools around your water parks safe for guests to enjoy.

Lifeguards are assigned to Lifeguard Chairs or Lifeguard Posts and can only watch the area within range of their Chair or Post. While on duty, they will assist guests who panic in the pool within their area.

Mechanics

Mechanics work on machinery in your park, like rides, generators, water pumps, and transport stations, keeping everything working as intended.

Mechanics automatically head over to machines that need repair or servicing. They can also be called over to refurbish machines to get them back into tip top condition.

Mechanics also fill another vital role in your park, generating research points at the Mechanic Workshop. These points are then used to complete new areas of research in the Park Management panel, unlocking new rides and experiences for your guests.

Entertainers

Wearing a variety of fun and fabulous costumes, Entertainers will walk around the park and enhance your guest’s experience.

Entertainers who wear branded costumes will make nearby guests more likely to gravitate towards the shop they’re advertising. Entertainers who wear themed costumes will also help satisfy guests’ Entertainment need.

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.

Morale is a reflection of how happy your staff members are while working in your theme parks. Morale is calculated at the end of every day and is affected by your staff’s pay and breaks. 

Staff can be:

• Very Happy
• Happy
• Content
• Unhappy
• Miserable

Learn more about how Staff Morale works, along with tips to help improve Morale in our Keeping Staff Happy guide.

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.

• Fair Pay – all staff begin at this tier automatically, which has no positive or negative consequences to their Morale.
• Low Pay – saves you some pennies, but decreases Morale.
• High Pay – costs the most, but nothing improves Morale like being highly paid!

Pay Tiers can be changed at any time and an average of the Pay Tiers used will be calculated at the end of the day to factor into your Staff Morale.

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.

Staff members will need to spend a minimum of 5 in-game minutes in a Staff Room for their break to count and will automatically leave the Staff Room after 10 in-game minutes to work on their next assignment.

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.

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.

Break Blocks last an hour and can be scheduled for any time except at the very start or the very end of the day.

Empty Blocks mean that the staff member is not working, and not getting paid. There cannot be empty blocks in the middle of the day, but blocks can be emptied at the start or end of the day to make a staff member’s day shorter.