Building real rides - CoasterBuzz

I was just curious, when you build a ride to replicate a real ride at a real park(ex. Magnum XL-200 at Cedar Point), do you build it to match the rides real height(205ft) or do you build the ride to match its real speed. (75mph). Because as we all know the speedometer is a bit off in RCT. I was just curious, because I myself go back and forth between the two.

I usually always try to match the speed. The ride looks and runs more accurately that way.

Plus there are actual height marks, instead of those units that no one has any idea what they are

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Cedar Point: America's Rockin' Roller Coast!

huh??????

What units?

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Im the #1 Canobie Lake Park Fan!!!These are my top 3 coasters:
1. S:RoS @ SFNE 2. Yankee Cannonball 3. Cyclone/B:TDK

Why do I have a feeling that CedarPointNut is on something...?

It will be a lot easier to recreate real rides in RCT2, since there are now real height marks.

I can say it in English, CPN can't.
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TOGO!

I build them to look like the real rides not to spec but in appearance so the speed and hiegt may not match but the look will . See my parks, Real Thrills or Paramount's Carowinds to see what I mean. They're on the Coasters2k web site. under RCT parks.

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JOHN
RCT INSOMNIACS
KIMBERLY LAKE INC.

PT300 said:

I can say it in English, CPN can't.

What are you talking about? It wasn't that hard to understand?

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Magnum is Red,
Millenium Force is Blue.
I love Wicked Twister
And Raptor too.

What was so hard to understand? I get what he's saying. Instead of saying 200 ft, itll say 52.

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I lost my hat on Poison Ivy. How pathetic.

I've gave up on "replicating" real rides a long time ago. However, that is not to say that alot of my creations are not "based on" or "inspired by" real rides (even to the point of sometimes having the same name).

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Kind of hard to take a post as objective if a park or coaster name is part of the "user name"

SLFAKE said:
"I've gave up on "replicating" real rides a long time ago. However, that is not to say that alot of my creations are not "based on" or "inspired by" real rides (even to the point of sometimes having the same name).
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Kind of hard to take a post as objective if a park or coaster name is part of the "user name""

for the giving up part, i did that too, the rides always come up too intense or something