Corkscrews

Does anybody know if you can have a "real" corkscrews in RCT2? Even like the first RCT you cant seem to have a true corkscrew. When its finished off the corkscrew always is moved over one block and it is really annoying. Any info would help

*** This post was edited by SFDLAndy on 11/28/2002. ***

I don't think there is a way. sorry

Well you can make corkscrews in a different way now. On any coaster w/corkscrew element and the ability to go vertical, you can make a tophat/corkscrew kind of contraption. It's doesn't look like one, but it kind of is.

Also with flying coasters, you can make wider, uglier corkscrews by doing a 1/2 corkscrew, straight, then 1/2 corkscrew to make them wider.

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No, the same corkscrew method from the original is used in RCT2. It would have been nice if there was a large corkscrew so we could make more realistic looking dive-loops.

--Ryan

I agree Legend_n_Raven, it would have also been nice for realistic cobra rolls. That has to be one of my biggest pet peeves about building large cobra rolls- the corkscrews just don't look right with the large loops.

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What ticks me off the most about the corks in the game is that you cant build them off a diaganol so you cannot build an accurate Arrow Corkscrew or loopscrew with the corks running parallel to the rest of the track.

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You can't build a lot of things diagonal, which limits perfection to great coasters.

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I lost my hat on Poison Ivy. How pathetic.

What do you mean by a real corkscrew? I don't understand how the corkscrews on RCT are any different from the ones in real life.

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I noticed that too! The corkscrews are really spaced out, and when you build them they end in the same direction you started them in. Whereas a regular corkscrew would end to the left or to the right. Also you can't make a banked corkscrew which gets annoying sometimes. All in all though, it's still the best roller coaster designer out there. There should be an expansion pack or a patch that changes it sooner or later.

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Corkscrews in real life do not move over. They exit in a straight line from the entrance.

http://www.rcdb.com/full/silverwood-theme-park/corkscrew1.jpg

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Correction - Arrow corkscrews are built in line. B&M corkscrews (or flatspins) are not.

-Nate

SOOperGIR, yes and no. The track going into all corkscrews is about 45 degrees offset from the corkscrew's actual direction of travel. Most corkscrews with straight track before or after the inversion compensate for this with a small segment of track that jogs over to the left or right, so that the corkscrews can be "in-line" with the rest of the track. This can be easy to miss, as half of it is merely an extension of the corkscew itself, and the rest flows quite smoothly from there. Therefore, if you're going straight in RCT and simply build a corkscrew, you will quite acurately get an inversion that goes off at a 45 degree angle to your original direction of travel (but returns when done). The problem occurs in that when you click on the 45 degree turn to compensate, the option of building a corkscrew disapears. In fact, the entire "special" function goes away. Frankly, I think that it's the game's worst flaw. I was rather hoping that it would be addressed in RCT2. Depend upon it- this is way to complicated to be addressed in an expansion pack. Chris Sawyer is probably just fine with the editor as it is (despite the major problems it caused for him in designing SFMM's Viper), so I doubt we'll see any improvement in any possible RCT3, either.