Croustibapt

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Oh wow, my very first accolade in… what, 15 years?!

To be honest I wasn’t expecting that. Even though my RCT skills improved while building this park, I noticed that the general New Element level went to new heights with OpenRCT2 and all the plugins during the last 5 years or so. So, it’s a nice surprise and I’m really glad you enjoyed this map!

Thank you all for your nice comments. I do agree that it’s not the most detailed map ever (that’s an understatement lol), so I do hope I’ll find time to work on this particular « issue » at some point. I’m quite happy with how my parkmaking evolved during the last few months, but it still has room for improvement of course. :-)

@Liampie: Yeah in retrospect, I also think this map is way too big compared to the real life park. As I previously stated, I’m also quite bad at foliage and I find that making a forest-like / muddy landscaping is easier for now. I’d love to master the art of neat landscaping / foliage « à la disney ». Someday, hopefully.

I’d love to see your take on Nigloland though!

Well it won't be a 100% accurate recreation. It's more like a semi recreation at this point to be honest, I changed quite a few things here and there. 
In real life, the mine train and flume ride are indeed in the woods and can't be seen from the paths, so I think this screen is pretty close to the real deal. But other parts of my take on this park are way different than the real counterpart.

The thing is, I've gotten better with wild / forest-like foliage with time, but I'm still reaaaally bad at making manicured gardens. And I feel like making a bad manicured garden will definitely undermine the general feeling of the map.

what the fuck

@RWE 
Thanks! I watched Sssamy's tutorial on YouTube. Anyway, Nigloland is a family owned theme park located in a valley full of woods, so the foliage isn't really well maintained in some parts of the park (mainly the oldest part of it). But I'd also loved to master the art of making realistic well maintained foliage, à la Disney.

@Liampie
Yes that's exactly this ride. Obviously the screen I posted is still very early WIP. I posted it to show that, well, I'm still alive and playing from time to time! I'm taking your remarks into account and will change a few things here and there soon.

@Timothy Cross
I've been really bad at foliage for years, it undermined my parks way too much. I've been watching tutorials made by other players and it helped. Thank your for your insight, it will be useful to help me create more realistic foliage!

@Babar Tapie
You've made a version of Parc Asterix, now it's my turn to recreate another French theme park lol! I had the chance to meet the current CEO of Nigloland years ago while attending a coaster enthusiasts meeting on the premises. He's such a nice guy! Nigloland is basically the park that saw me grow up, my family lives 1h drive away from there. So this will be my tribute to this very charming theme park, that became the 3rd most visited French theme park as years went by.