The Roller Coaster Tycoon Thread

[JayOctavarium]

Thank you.

[Implode]

I love this game. <3 And I also love watching YouTube videos of people building their own parks.

I was debating streaming/recording some rct, but I wasn't sure there would even be an audience for it.

[ReaperKK]

The thing I don't understand... It's clear that the majority of the people that want this game are those who played it when it first came out. Those were amazing games. Atari could leave the game's mechanics and controls exactly the same, update some audio, and put some Sims 4 level graphics in there, and nobody would bitch at all. I don't want a fancy new high-tech game. I want the old game in new flavors.

These are my feelings exactly. . . .

[Implode]

Money is TROAE.

[Grizz]

But... that song was about alcohol, and actually yielded a profit between the album and tours...

[Implode]

I've been streaming RCT the past couple days and will probably put up the videos on youtube. Old scenarios are fun!

[Super Dude]

I actually really liked RCT 3, except one thing: absolutely no support for mods or custom user-created content. And because I got my copy from Steam, I don't have the workaround that does allowing uploading of custom materials.

That aside, the stuff people have made with RCT 3 is kind of amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpzHckbF1M8&list=UUG87MknPsE8cioCdaVfnVcg
(Start from the beginning for the ride's "story," but if you just wanna see the ride skip to 2:19)

[Chino]

So I'm trying to go through the scenarios in RCT in order. Last night it was time for Evergreen Gardens. I'm 21 months into the scenario and my screen goes black. I look over the arm of my couch and for some reason my power adapter is unplugged and my battery died as a result. I almost put my fist through the keyboard. 

[Implode]

I'm assuming you didn't save? That's rough. I just finished Dinky Park last night. I skipped a couple scenarios because I've played them so many times.

[Chino]

What do you think? Bigger than Bones?

[Implode]

I dunno man, I still see some grass.

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[FreezingPoint]

"I want to get off Car Ride 1"

[Grizz]

I want to go on something more thrilling then Car Ride 1.

[Zydar]

[JayOctavarium]

[Chino]

That track didn't cost anywhere near where I thought it would. I let my Evergreen Gardens park run over night and woke up to $360,000. I still have $245,000 left.

[Grizz]

... I never thought of that. Guess it's the Clerks mentality that if I'm not there all will go to shit.

[GentlemanofDread]

Pretty sure if I left it running, I'd come back to "20,000 killed by Rollercoaster Park. Starvation was the cause."

[Grizz]

Are there any needs besides nausea that have consequences? I know that energy makes guests move slowly, but will guests starve/piss on the sidewalk or just get angrier and angrier?

[Implode]

They will just get increasingly angry and possibly cause vandalism in your park. The anger will lower your park rating a lot too.

[Chino]

... I never thought of that. Guess it's the Clerks mentality that if I'm not there all will go to shit.

Well it wasn't smooth sailing. Something definitely went wrong at some point. When I went to bed, I had 2700 people in the park and was generating $1000 every 35-40 seconds. When I woke up, all my que lines were empty and I only had 700 guests in my park. I don't know what happened, but even at $0.10 I couldn't get people to go on any rides without them bitching about the price. I made the park entrance only $5, and I still couldn't get anyone on a ride unless I set the price to free. I think there is a glitch in there somewhere.

[Implode]

It's a glitch. Over time the rides depreciate, and the games were made to be played over the course of only a couple hours. Rides like merry go rounds and ferris wheels depreciate so quickly that basically have to outright replace them every 2 years or so if you want people to keep riding them. It makes perfect sense that after leaving the game on over night no one would ride anything. Just having new rides should fix that though

[Chino]

August, Year 22

Guests 14202 and 14225 are the unluckiest people in the world right now.



... And they're off!


Edit*
We're on October, Year 22 and they already want off 

[orcus116]

That's awesome, Chino.

I made a park about 10 years ago that had 10 or so different themed areas, each with its own coaster. I need to dig it up and share here.

[Chino]

Well, we are a year in and they are pissssed.


I'm a little discouraged though. It's only been a year and the ride is almost half over. I don't see it making it to the three year mark, let alone the four years that was the Bones ride.

[Implode]

Here's something that I wanted to post for a while now, but I haven't because I felt like no one would get it. Now that there's this thread, here it is:

Okay. In SDOIT on About to Crash at 1:12, there is beep that can be heard. It sounds like the notification sound from RollerCoaster Tycoon and that has always driven me up a wall.

[Chino]

I will never unhear that.

[JayOctavarium]

Holy shit.


Maybe... someone was playing RTC in the studio?

[Grizz]

First thing I thought when you assholes pointed out that beep.

[JayOctavarium]

Myung was working on Dynamite Dunes.

[Grizz]

That reminds me of one thing that pissed me off to no end in RCT (which was allegedly fixed in 2), which was that you couldn't replace the failing coaster with a clone because of the painful way in which underground track is handled with pre-built designs: you may have none.

[Zydar]

Myung was working on Dynamite Dunes.

"I want to play something more thrilling than About To Crash"

[Implode]

I streamed more RCT today, but I keep forgetting to post it here. If any of you guys are interested in what I've been building, I upload the streams to my YouTube channel.

shameless plug ahahahahahaaaaaa

[Lynxo]

Oh, following! I love looking at people's creations.

[Ultimetalhead]

Myung was working on Dynamite Dunes.

"I want to play something more thrilling than About To Crash"

Excellent.