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I don't think there was a topic for this, and if there was, it would be down in page 10 or something. As to expansion packs, get the UCES (User Created Expansion Set). It's free, and it contains lots of new scenery and a few rides, as well as some beautifully designed scenarios. Search for "UCES" on Google.

If I could figure out a way of securing my stylus, I could play Meteos on a coaster. Now that would be a coup.

I believe that Mindbender is a slightly larger mirror clone of Drier Looping with an extra helix. Is this right?

I am considering releasing my signature ride collection in the form of a track-pack, but I need your input. I currently have: Racer 2: A twin-track LIM racer, modeled after Racer from Deep Valley 2. ® Racer 4: A quadruple-track racer, based off Racer 2. (T) Corkscrew: A custom Vekoma Corkscrew model, featuring a double-down first drop, a double corkscrew, a loop, and a helix. Runs three four-car trains, and is a peep-eater. ® Cyclone New: A woodie based of the Coney Island Cyclone, but with a few extra features. Runs 4 six-car trains. (T) Bobs: A GCII woodie, thoroughly tangled. More double-downs and helices than you can shake a stick at. Runs two 12-car trains. (T) Hydra: A B+M based off Hulk, featuring Hulk's inversion sequence, but does not die off the MCBR. Runs 3 seven-car trains. ® Funfer Looping: An insane German-fair-style Schwarzkopf, with five loops arranged in a pentagon. Runs seven (!) seven-car trains. (R, barely.) Cyclone @ Idylwild: A Crystal Beach Cyclone knockoff, taller, faster, with more insane maneuvers. Runs 2 twelve-car trains. (R, I think.) Rex Gravitatis: A disgustingly large Intamin plug-and-play, in the styles of Regina, Balder, and GeForce. Runs seven four-car trains. Will require more adding of custom supports and stations, as I hit the object limit. (T) Werewolf: A Gravity Group twister, loosely modeled after Loup-Garou. Watch for the many double-downs and the bonus helices at the end. Runs three 6-car trains. (T) Things to look out for: On Rex Gravitatis, while testing, two trains will take two turnarounds simultaneously. On both Rex and Funfer Looping, the seven trains are colored red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet respectively. Corkscrew takes the corkscrews before the loop. Hydra, when testing, will have two trains take the final two inversions simultaneously. Cyclone New stacks. The launch speeds of Racer 4 are different for each track, yet each train hits the in-line at more or less the same time. I want to know if anyone would be interested in these, and if I need to add anything to the collection.

I dislike the racer: it wasn't that brilliant in RCT1 (it is a premade; I never use premades besides my custom "signature rides", e.g. Bobs, Funfer Looping, Corkscrew, Rex Gravitatis/Banshee, Cyclone New, Cyclone @ Idylwild, Silberpfeil, Racer 2, Racer 4, etc.) Personally, I suggest you revamp it with swoop turns for the turnarounds.

I tend to avoid posting here willy-nilly, but my day was completely awful. So here goes: I got up to my new alarm, which never fails to make me crabby. So I turned it off, read GEB for a while, then got down at noon. I looked at the paper, and then checked my e-mail. Then my father came in the room and screamed at me... something about not using the computer before breakfast and you got down late so no computer anyway. I ate a leftover steak, then went to help my sister find something. I got yelled at again. "If you are not finished listing those books in fifteen minutes, I'm throwing them out!" I have several boxes of books in my room, which are going to college with me. Throwing them out would likely result in someone getting injured and me being grounded and not being allowed to go to college. So I go to finish the job. "Wait. Clean up the kitchen." So I do that, then organize the books, and then state my desire to go to the library in Newton, in order to procure a few books, seeing as all the ones I have are in boxes and I've read them all anyway. So I first have to go to the dump to get all the bushes out of the van. Of course, if I'm going to the dump, that means there is trash to be taken there too, and so I'm forced to drive the van without the use of my rear-view mirror. This is no fun. Neither is getting the brush out of the van, as it is jammed into every possible corner and not easy to clear. So I eventually do that, go back to the house (my father requested to go to the library with me, so he could get something) and learn that he has to take a shower and won't be ready until 3. I have an appointment at 4. After more yelling ("You didn't get up this morning, I've been working, you selfish brat"), he goes to do that. 3:15, we're on our way. At the library, I take out about 43 books (as I am wont to do) and am checking them out when he runs up to me and screams that it's all my fault that I'm now late and there will be consequences. So I finish as fast as I cqan, somehow manage to get the books into the van, and then start worrying about the consequences. This is not helped when he determines that the best way to go to the appointment involves me turning left from a forgettable side-street onto a large thoroughfare, in a place that always makes me nervous. This is the worst part, because I'm now in the middle of the intersection, trying to turn left, and he is screaming at me to go or to stop (usually 1/2 second between the two). I finally turn left, and eventually get to the appointment, 15 minutes late. When I park, he states, and I quote, "You have very poor right-side-of-the-car detection skills." I parked ON THE DAMN LINE! It is a damn sight better positioning than most people can seem to do, AND THERE IS NO PARKING SPACE ON MY RIGHT!!!!! I could have parked one inch to the left and been fine, but I was already very stressed, for these reasons: 1) I was late. 2) He had already expressed the opinion that wasting his time was the same as stealing from him. 3) It was partially his fault: I didn't take a 15-minute shower. 4) Fuller (the aforementioned side street) is a street that I avoid for the very reason that got me stuck in the middle of the intersection. 5) The consequences could involve my possessions being destroyed (this has happened). Well, it turns out that my mother was able to talk him out of his consequences, which were to force me to return the books I had got out. This was the first good thing that happened today. And, of course, I have to go to work tomorrow and face the boss from hell. Everybody calls her "Dolores Umbridge". I started this, but I really wish I hadn't, as it is unfair. Specifically, it is unfair to the original Umbridge. At least the one from the book can pretend to be nice. AND my DS is dying, my copy of RCT3 crashed my CD drive (I had to forcibly open the drive in order to extricate it), my father insulted Lewis Carroll (who, for the record, was NOT on drugs when writing Alice in Wonderland), and, apparently, I don't care about anything except my computer. Now, is this fair? I think not.

I think that someone should try to marathon Olympia Looping.

Oh. That makes sense.

Here's my own entry. (This will not be part of the contest, as there might be a conflict of interest, seeing as I am the judge.) Funfer Looping, a five-loop, seven-train Schwarzkopf. (The camera screwiness is completely unintentional.) Capacitor - Alaeriia.zip The file. Redunzelizer, a 4-looping custom SLC. Euro Scream, a multi-looping invert (also 7-train operation.)

I actually do like Wired. It is creative, and the only problem that I can see with it is that you stacked trains. It's always good to see someone actually using the custom scenery I put in there.

Orochi

While a lot of you have moved onto "bigger and better" things (like RCT3, which I recently shredded), I know that everyone has a soft spot for RCT2. In this vein, I want to see the best fairground coasters you can do. The Rules: 1) Use the workbench provided. You may not build in the mountains; this is a FAIRGROUND coaster, not a theme park coaster. Any terrained coasters will be disqualified. 2) No adding more custom scenery; I am at my limit already. 3) Allowable ride types: Looping, Inverted, Compact Inverted 4) No more than two stations. 5) MUST run at least four 6-car trains (on Looping) or 7-car trains (on the two inverted types)... more is better. (If I can do 7 trains, then you can do four.) 6) Make it look appealing... no sense in having all the good bits buried in the ride, out of view of onlookers. 7) Must invert at least three times. I am going by "inversion count" on the Stats page. 8) Make it compact. Scoring will be as follows: Capacity: 40 points Appeal Factor: 25 points (How would it look if you were standing right in front of it? Look at Schwarzkopf's designs. He knew how to draw the punters in.) Station: 10 points "Flow": 15 points (e.g. does it keep its speed?) You may get bonus points for any of the following: Station fly-throughs, swing-outs (once per ride, the track may leave the "box"), and inversions beyond the minimum. If full trains "stack" more than once per ride-through (1 train completes the course = 1 ride-through), then you lose points. HOWEVER, "stacking" may occur where riders are not on the trains. (For example, you may have an exit-only station, a bunch of block segments, and then an entrance only station. The trains waiting to enter the entrance-only station are not "stacking" by the "lose points" definition.) This shouldn't be too hard. I will accept up to three designs per entrant. These three must be in the same saved-game file. Idylwild Beach contest.zip This is the workbench.

Colossus is Laser with a little bit more helix. Laser is Scorpion with an extra loop. (However, a bit of the first helix threads the loop, as opposed to an airtime hill.) About that: Schwarzkopf's "Doppel-Looping" models have a very similar track layout to the Silberpfeils: (X = track crosses course, O = track does not cross , / = helix, * = loop) Silberpfeil: OX*/X// Doppel Looping: OX**/X//

I find that regular infusions of RCT2, Age of Empires, and Meteos help immunize me against WORK. "Not now. I'm on True Meteo."

150 Cobra Cars = Ownage

um... the Crystal Beach Cyclone was at a park named Crystal Beach, near Buffalo. It was designed by Harry Guy Traver and was not a side-friction coaster. It was, however, famous for requiring a full-time nurse to revive fainted riders.

We have found the Mean Streak of Spain!

Oh yeah! I had forgotten about that.

Sure the DS can handle it. It has two graphics engines, each of which can operate on either screen independently of each other. THe DS can't play DVDs, but that's what DVD players (read: NOT PS3 XBox 360, or PSP) are for. (Actually, that's what those are for, and Nintendo is for games. )

(pickiness) Why does Windigo have a launched lift? B+M said they would never do a launched lift. (now for the real world) Who cares about what B+M think? All my parks have launched Beemers, too.

I don't expect much from this. My second park sucked, as did numbers 3 through about 65. After that, they started getting a little better. (My first one sucked as well.) You'll get good at it.

Gotta love CD's hideous pricing.

Amazing Earl. He also has a Chaos, a Double Inversion, a Ring of Fire, Morgan Woodie, and a crapload of other stuff. Amazing Earl

We all have our fortes. John does realistic parks, I do crowded parks, Harwood does disturbing fiction... I'd say that we all get along quite well. Oh, and I created a 4-across Racer model. Good video, great park, and PLEASE don't bring Lydia into the next one. Second sequels generally are bad.

Did anyone notice that the dog got its name changed from "Prut" to "Henry"? Why would they do that?