Why can't people understand that longer lines means FP+ is working well?

[JeremyGNJ]

If you take a simplified example, the math becomes very plain:

Lets say you have 5 rides in a park each ride lasts one minute. Then you have 100 people in the park riding those rides.

If each person rode 4 rides, then your initial wait time would be 20 minutes per ride (ie. 1/5 of the people are in line at each ride). After the 61 minutes (the time it takes the first rider to ride 4 rides), the line wait time would drop by 1 minute every minute.

So 71 minutes after the park opened, the wait times would be down to 10 minutes per ride.

If the lines are longer than this, it means that people are riding more than 4 rides per day...and thus FP+ is working well.

 

[Robo]

 

[2Tiggies]

Indeed!

 

[jenaemmaFL]

 

[flatlandcycle]

Now I understand why some people like FP+.

 

[mm1971]

What about when there are 100,000 people in the parks and 18 rides? Too lazy to do the math, but pretty sure those 100,000 people are doing less riding.

 

[flatlandcycle]

What about when there are 100,000 people in the parks and 18 rides? Too lazy to do the math, but pretty sure those 100,000 people are doing less riding.

Yes the OP set up an algorithm with constants, and by about the second line of text began treating them as variables.

 

[lions1995]

I think they are trying to say, after you have finished your 4 rides you should stop.

Kinda like - "No more ride for you"

I guess it works if everyone is happy with 4 rides.

 

[JeremyGNJ]

Yes the OP set up an algorithm with constants, and by about the second line of text began treating them as variables.

Yes. 4-rides per visitor is the variable....X. If the wait times are longer it must mean X is higher.

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

 

[flatlandcycle]

Stay in school.

 

[jaceraden]

Is this the "new math" everyone is speaking about?

If so, I'm in big, BIG trouble!

 

[wyurm]

"War is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery!" At least that's what I took away from the original post.

 

[momof2n2]

I'll stay home; you can have my four rides...

 

[Robo]

I think they are trying to say, after you have finished your 4 rides you should stop.

Kinda like - "No more ride for you"

I guess it works if everyone is happy with 4 rides.

Everybody go home.

 

[WillAustin]

Yes the OP set up an algorithm with constants, and by about the second line of text began treating them as variables.

Yes.

I think they are trying to say, after you have finished your 4 rides you should stop.

I think this may be the real behind-the-scenes intent.

But if everyone gets to wait 4 minutes less over an entire day, instead of 1% of the people getting to wait hours less than everyone else, how is that not better and more fair?

 

[SirDuff]

Yes. 4-rides per visitor is the variable....X. If the wait times are longer it must mean X is higher.

Or that Y - number of people riding rides is higher.

Or that Z - number of people per ride load/number of ride loads per hour is lower (some posters have reported this with Pirates, for example).

I could probably come up with Q, R, and S if I gave it more than 45 seconds of thought.

 

[Love Tink]

Yes, I know whenever I am at the DMV I look around and think, "Why can't WDW do this well at making their lines intolerable?" But they're making progress now! Longer lines huzzah!

 

[Mom2Stitch]

Another April Fool's day joke I'm hoping.....

 

[Ravenne]

And here I thought I was alone lol.