I do agree that Flat Rides are lacking, but I'm not getting all bent out of shape until we see the finished game.
In interviews, Chris Sawyer has said that flat rides are much more difficult to program and turn out looking right.
Looking a the game as a park simulation rather than a coaster building program, one type of flat I would like to see is "Kiddie Rides". It wouldn't have to be much... no details realy, just something to represent those "Umberela Rides" that almost every park / traveling fair has.
One thing I have been doing with RCT I is plopping the given flat rides down and naming them different things (based on ride type):
Scrambled Eggs = Scrambler/Merry Mixer, Tilt-a-Whirl, Flying Bobs, Hymalaya, Whip and Trabant
Enterprise = Enterprise, Chaos, Paratrooper, Roundup
I guess using that same logic you could plop a carousel down to represent a Kiddie Ride.
I still haven't figured out how to represent a Wave Swinger, Toboggan (Boo! Hiss!), Rainbow / Flying Carpet or Condor.
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Face it, call ourselves what we want, but to the parks we are all "GP".
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JOHN
RCT INSOMNIACS
KIMBERLY LAKE INC.
For Swings i just use the Roto Drop but alot smaller in size.
I also use that for the Roto Jets like the ones at Knoebels. You know the ones about 10 rockets you sit in an pull the lever to make them go up.
For a Whip I just use a Ghost Train and put the Garden Clocks at each turn to be the giant wheels that move.
I agree they need more rides. About 7-8 more would make me happy. Even some of the basics Flats would be good. Whip, Baloon Race, Tilt a Whirl, Tea Cups, and Music Express would be nice. With all the extra stuff they are adding it should make the game alot better. Heck I still play RCT at least one a week.
I'd also like an easier way to improt your own sounds into the game to make your own ride messages "Welcome to Wild Mouse please keep your hands up while in motion!" ;)
Or some how be able to make peep voices, "I'm gonna hurl!" I think that would break up the scream used for the coasters.
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Knoebels visits in 2002. 6
Could we please have a Giant Ferris Wheel, and maybe some better (four person) sky ride cars. Those two items particulaly bother me, because I dont want to build a carnival, and carnivals are the only places that you find the small ferris wheel,and the two person sky ride cars.
of course the funniest thing about this post, is that I am a thirty five year old , complaining about such trivial crap
Yeah, a "giant ferris wheel" would be nice too... but I just use my imagination and use the one that is in the game.
Cricket, that's not the funniest thing about this thread... I got you beat by 2 years!
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I hope they make different themes for the rides so it could go with the park like the swingin ship into a buccaneer boat. The inverter ship into a space theme for the space shuttle rides. Like instead of adding different rides put them in the same categories as the similar ones and you can pick. Example, For the steel twister coaster there is 4 different ride trains for the one coaster that you can pick from and do the same with the flat rides.
I saw the second cover for the game of RCT@ and it had a 1st generation intamin drop on it with a water ride with a steep plunge and a looping coaster. It looks better than the first box I think I saw it at Thrillnetwork posts.
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