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Just watched it, it's a great video and I highly recommend it. But the central question was almost reached many times but never explicitly stated. It's rather
by satellite2 5y ago
Just watched it, it's a great video and I highly recommend it.
But the central question was almost reached many times but never explicitly stated. It's rather simple though. Assuming 30k people are coming into the parc and want to do attraction A that can only process 15k people in a day, then at least 50% of the visitors won't make the cut. The question is how do you select those that do?
On the first system you select them via their motivation to wait a long line. Which is extraodinarily wasteful as they could be doing underutilized attractions in the meantime. But it seems the more fair system as virtual queue don't cost anything they will be sold out immediately after opening and people are selected on their knowledge of the system. Finally with the 3rd system, the perks one, people are selected with their wallet size.
In some way it's a similar dilemma as proof of work vs proof of stake in crypto.
But in the specific case of queue I think it's wrong to just lament that this is it and just go with the wasteful one because it's fair.
I'm pretty sure an incentive structure could be found to have only virtual queues in parcs while selecting visitors on core motivations.
Maybe some token system in which the visitors would be given a finite number of tokens to spend on attractions with some auction system?
- Beldin 5y agoAlternative system: the virtual queue is for free; every 15 minutes, there are only a limited amount of virtual queue tickets available for a specific 15 minute slot significantly later (eg. +2hr) in the day. If that also goes to capacity, your capacity is too low for the amount of folks you let in. Increase capacity on this ride, increase attractiveness of other rides with more capacity, build new rides, or create other things eating up time other than rides.
- mcphage 5y ago> Increase capacity on this ride, increase attractiveness of other rides with more capacity, build new rides, or create other things eating up time other than rides. All things that Disney is also working on simultaneously.