MisnersRCT

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Yes, UIX!

It was absolutely amazing and ground breaking at the time. I actually didnt release my finished park Briarcliff because of it. Thanks for jogging my memory. I wanted to go back and do more with it than I did because it was so much better than what I had just finished. I thought I was going to be super progressive with my scenery merging because Id only seen one other park that used it, and now I cant remember his name but his work had a sit down B+M coaster with excitement like 15.66! Actually his whole Park was full of super high excitement coasters if I remember correctly now. The sit down coaster had loops and the train cars would disappear going through the loops because they werent supposed to do that. He was well known for making some of the trainers we were using at the time, (pre-beast trainer and he figured out hex editing, too) but his name leaves me for some reason. My mind wants to say his name started with an H for some reason but that could completely be wrong. He used merged tracks and I was dead set on doing it different than anyone had ever done.... then go figure maybe a day or two before I was ready to release my park to the world, and Nevis came out with the show stopper and the unveiling of NE to the rest of the RCT world. I actually remember IMing Iris telling me Nevis was working on something that was gonna change the RCT world and he had something to do with it. Man was it amazing when it was finally released.

I still talk to Mike Robbins, we are Facebook friends, and he might be able to help with the RCT History (post NE launch) more than I can. I can give a bunch of history pre-NE but anything after NE started is when I was basically gone.

Liampie,

I was around for the very first release on NE designs which was (I believe) Nevis? Or maybe xcoaster or posix? It was a park with an alpine themed coaster with actual ski jumps using track merging which I cant remember whos it was now because it was so long ago...... forgive me if it was someone else. I think it was called extreme universal or something like that.

I frequented NE for a few months after that, but then headed off to college, and girls became much more of a priority after that for me. I would check NE sparingly every few months from there, and then I probably stopped completely after 2005 until maybe six years ago when I reinstalled rtc to play around a bit.

I was not around by the time H2H started up I dont think, unfortunately. NE was very new when I stopped playing RCT. Also, I had my own website I was running and while not a competitor to NE by any means, I had a lot more time invested into keeping my website up, and once I decommissioned it, my playing RCT or keeping up with the community was pretty minimal. Steve Franks alone kept me busy with 2 releases per week at times.... I was really fortunate to be offered his collection when Cav stepped down. It was passed onto Red Phoenix of RCT Station after I closed down MisnersRCT.

I wish I had kept the website up as an archive. Would be awesome to go back and see all the work I put in maintaining that website..... there was a ton of cool parks and content there for sure. Again, before NE kind of changed the way parks were built/themed. Merging track and scenery was BRAND new when I completed my last mega park (Northampton Oaks Amusement Park is here on NE). I actually never released it until a few years ago because I forgot I finished it, and it was right when I was leaving for school.

wow, what a thread to bump. some really fascinating reads in here.

 

what was the danimation civil war? what happened there? 

 

 

There was a bunch of stuff that was going on, and it depends on who you talk to about it as well. I spoke to Dan and Alex pretty regularly, and if I could summarize what REALLY happened, minus all the drama that followed (which i only know some of it), Dan wanted to move Danimation away from an RCT community and focus more on his business of graphic design, animation, and production. If you go there now, that's all you will see.

 

There was a bunch of turmoil and drama that followed as Dan moved on from the RCT community, and at the same time a "NEW" sort of secret community of the best RCT designers (now known as New Element) was forming. With Dan moving on, and a lot of other people starting to look elsewhere to provide their services/designs, things got really messy to say the least. People were mad at others for stealing staff/talent, rumors started flying, a few CRAZY threads on the danimation forums got going, it was really a total meltdown.

 

Is 'Fatha still around? I knew him as Sir Fets before he became the NE Legend he is now. We worked on a few parks together, and he might have some additional perspective on this that would elaborate on the side of the story I know.

I'm about to bump this topic up the chain again, but maybe it will spark some others to share their memories, too. I haven't even thought about RCT in probably 6 years, but I was talking to a friend today, and we were reminiscing on things we used to do when we were younger. I actually started talking about RCT, and came to find out I lost all my old parks I had worked on. I ended up reaching out to Mike Robbins and he pointed me back here. Anyway, my story.

 

I got RCT in 99 when it was released. Around the same time I was looking on the internet for roller coaster ideas, and I stumbled upon Chocobogo's RCT page. He had a way to upload roller coasters people had created, and I started thinking I wanted to create my own website for all things RCT related. 

 

MisnersRCT was born, as I was building my wesbite, and playing the game I was introduced to Cav from Cav's RCT Depot, and he became my website design mentor. Mind you this was all over AOL Instant Messenger too! I decided I wanted to become a web designer, so Cav spent a bunch of his time helping me learn new things I could do with HTML. Around that time, Danimation was launched as well. I spent a lot of time talking with Alex and Mike there.

 

Cav ran a contest for Riverfront Amusement Park that I ended up winning because I designed rides like Disney World covered rides. Shortly after that Cav decided he was going to step away from RCT, and asked if I would begin hosting Steve Frank's Collection of Real World Coasters. I also had a monthly featured park as well on the website.

 

Then, I graduated HS, and headed off to college. I did not have time to run a website any longer, and closed Misner's RCT. I stopped playing right after RCT2 came out, in fact, most of the trainers and editors that exist today weren't even around when I left the RCT world. NEDesigns was just forming and Danimation was just ending around that time. I built a lot of parks through the years, but never consistently as I spent a large amount of my time maintaining the website.

 

I don't think I'll probably ever build another RCT park again, but in my search for some of my old parks, I figured why not do a little sharing here as well.