Third RCT2 Expansion Pack!

RCT fans have splintered into two groups... scenery junkies and coaster builders. I'm all for a nice looking station, but it's not Scenery Tycoon.

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If you want blank scenarios, that is what the scenario editor is for.

If I want scenarios full of useless buildings, that's what the scenario editor is for.

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Hey Gonch how about some screenshots of these reskinned rides. I saw the shops and scenery at their site but the only "new" ride I saw was the caveman cars.That ride looks alot like a new go carts vehicle in Time Twister.

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JOHN

What "reskinned" rides are there? The website shows very few screenshots of the "new" rides. Where's the flying skooter ride?

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john13601 said:
Hey Gonch how about some screenshots of these reskinned rides?

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Ok, here's a sampling of what I've stumbled across so far. Stick with me.

Gentle rides - open this screenshot.

Starting at the top left:

1. Ball Play Area is a skinned crooked house.
2. Rubik's Riddler is also a skinned crooked house.
3. Wild West Museum - not sure which this is.
4. Caveman Cars is the car ride with different vehicles.
5. Wild West Show is a skinned Circus.
6. Toy Box is a skinned 3D Cinema.

Now the Thrill Rides. Check this screenshot.

Again from the top left we have:

1. 4 Angry Bulls is a reskinned crooked house. This one is really goofy as the people enter, walk between the bulls (where the crooked house entrance normally is) and then disappear. No one rides the bulls.
2. Deep Sea Diver is a skinned crooked house.
3. X-Wing Movie House - oddly enough this is a skinned crooked house, not a skinned 3D cinema. Go figure.
4. Freefall (tilting seats) - As far as I can tell, the seats don't tilt and you can't change the ugly yellow back piece added to the vehicle. I guess it's supposed to look more S&S but it's ugly if you ask me.
5. 4d Max is a skinned 3D cinema. Simple enough except that there's a graphic glitch where the theatre overlaps the entrance. See it here.
6. Bowling Alley is a skinned 3D Cinema.
7. Cat boats is just one of the boat rides with the Cheshire Cat vehicles ripped and added at the new boat vehicles.

That isn't all of the rides, just the ones I've stumbled across so far.

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Jeff said:
RCT fans have splintered into two groups... scenery junkies and coaster builders. I'm all for a nice looking station, but it's not Scenery Tycoon.

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Same here. Seems a LOT of the parks I have seen even before this expansion are themed more than Disney World. If I'm downloading a park, I'm doing so because I like the coasters, not for how nice your entrance is.

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Rob Ascough said:
Where's the flying skooter ride?

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I don't know. I think I've loaded all the scenarios and I haven't seen it anywhere. That's not to say for sure that it's not included, but if it is, they're making you work for it.

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Thanks Gonch if you find anything else of interest please post a shot otherwise I think I've decided against this. I already have several of those rides, both wild west rides and the ball play area, which seem to be the best of those. The only thing I think I'll miss is the Flinstone's style cars. It was made by Amazing Earl. He has much better rides on his own site. He should seriously consider contacting Chris Sawyer and partnering up for the next RCT.

Many of those like the Rubik's Cube remind me too much of the crap rides at RCTCompetition. There's some real garbage there like the CD ride(stacked CDs) Allosaurus ride,and Ross'Wheel which looks like a casino but doesn't move, and get this, in the ride description window it says something about the author liking some guy instead of a real ride description.

The only real game enhancement I'm interested in is a tool that allows you to load parks intact into the senario editor as landscapes so you can add new rides/shops/scenery to them without having to rebuild all your rides and shops.

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JOHN

Yeah, John - I don't see myself using this much either. Occasionally for scenery, but that's about it.

My final take on this - If you didn't like WW or are already complaining about TT then I don't see how you can say you like this - except that it's free. If that's the case then you just want something for nothing.

I personally don't think $20 or $30 is too much to drop on something you're interested in. The WW and TT stuff looks way more "professional" and if we're using over the top themes anyway, then I prefer the "real deal". I guess it is a good alternative for anyone who balks at paying for the official add-ons, but I don't fit that profile and I think that my money not only secures much nicer scenery but helps fund the corporate machine that may someday give me RCT3. There's no reason the two can't co-exist, but I don't see this as a substitution for the official add-ons.
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Dorney Park Visits in 2003: 17

I tried downloading the UCES pack earlier today & only got about 62% of it before the darn server quit,since then I've been having trouble getting websites to load,I'm all of a sudden getting the classic "error website not responding "message.

I guess it's really not worth downloading the UCES then & what with TT coming out in a few days you're better off just gettiing that instead,it took roughly an hour & a half to download(of course I never even got the full download because the server went down) & I'm not gonna waste my time trying again,not to mention the hard drive space.

They should just let you select individual scenarios on the site instead of having to download the whole package,& there's this policy they've got on redistributing any content seperately but the UCES creators should know by now that once folks get it they're just gonna start making their own parks using the scenery/rides & have them available somewhere else anyway.

It looks like about half of those rides are those from Amazing Earl's site.

The ones I like most, though, aren't there. He made a ring of fire ride, wave swinger, and skydiver; and is currently debugging a Chaos ride. These are ones that seem useful to me to use in the game, since they look and act like real rides. When have you ever seen a giant toy box in a park?

(Buggy's site has some neat stuff, too... working Dippin' Dots and Icee stands, for example. These are the things that I can use to liven up my scenarios.)

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Pretty much all of those shops from Buggy's are included in the UCES thing. I didn't do screens of the shops but maybe I should. Many of them are just plain fugly. The Buggy ones are by far the best of the bunch.

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Dorney Park Visits in 2003: 17

Well I do applaud the makers of this as I have often fantasised how I would create the ultimate add-on. One that fulfills everyones wish list. I know it's not possible but at least these people tried. So if any of the creators are reading this, thanks for your time.

Perhaps if this is recieved well enough they will be inspired to do another with more collaboration with Amazing Earl(the best thing to happen to RCT since the steel twister).

Gonch if you happen to come across any more flats like the rumored flying scooters or some decent new train types for the coasters please post them and thanks for your time also.

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JOHN

Maybe they had to take the flying scooter ride out due to it not working right or something.

I finally got the download completed(thanks to a different server link) but have yet to install it to the game,it does look like they at least made an effort with some of the scenerios & some of the scenery actually looks good too.

I especially like the western themed park entrance used in one of the screens,that's work wonders for some of my custom made parks,once I start working on them,of course I also plan to get TT as well when it's released.

It was posted on rct2 that the flying scooters ride was not ready in time for the release date.

That's exactly what I heard over there as well,I guess we'll be able to get it at a later date once it's completed & properly tested to get all the bugs out.

This is just stupid. All they did was make some scenery with Doctor J's creator, modified old rides, and make scenarios. "Whoopde-Fricken-Do", sounds like a waste of space myself.

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Shaun Rajewski
CoasterLine
Amusment Park Website Design - Coming Soon

Well, since they are distributing it for free, I don't think that anyone can complain. I mean, these people DID put time and effort into this add-on... if you don't like it, don't bash them for their work, just go about your business without downloading it.

That Amazing Earl site is cool... I love the SkyDiver and Super Loops rides! Has anyone downloaded them and added them into the game? Do they function just as regular rides do?

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-Rob
A.C.E. member since 1990
Posting @ Coasterbuzz since 2000
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Yes they do Rob. But just so you know you can't see the peeps in the super loop but the again the real ride is pretty much a cage anyway and hard to see the peeps. The back arm from the inverter ship isn't removable but doesn't really take away from the ride. Tha skydiver is also neat although I haven't messed with it much. So far I've just been putting all these new rides in a small senario for testing once the Chaos is complete I may build a full blown park with them. Unfortunately they increase the file size of a park dramatically. One ride, the alpine bob which is made with an enterprise, raises the file size 4 MBs by itself. The chaos is also a re skinned enterprise.

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JOHN