Oh I forgot to post about this but earlier this week I FINALLY took on the venerable Amity Airfield scenario in OpenRCT2 for the first time ever in my life.......
And I BEAT IT ON THE FIRST TRY!!
I didn't even expand all the way onto the taxiways and runway, either! I had already beaten the guest goal by the end of year 2 out of 4 with the POWER OF ADVERTISING even though my soft guest cap wasn't even at 3000 yet, and I busted the guest goal by 50%!
It's really incredible how many of the game's scenarios are *actually beatable* by just knowing how the game's mechanics work.
You don't even have to cheese it to beat many of these scenarios, either. I've only used cheap cheese methods to give myself win condition insurance, and then I play normally through the rest of the scenario until I don't need the cheap win tricks.
Then I see by how much I can beat the scenario's goal, in the given time limit if one exists, by playing my way. :3c