Park / At Versicoloured Valleys
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On RCT2.com there was a contest with very complicated rules.
Short Summary of the main rules (there are even more to make this one complicated
- On the provided (128x128) workbench build a peepfriendly park.
- Park must be divided into areas (4 at least)
- Each cell/area may only have one coaster (though many other rides are permitted), and in each following cell the excitement rating of the coaster must be higher than in the one of the previous cell
- Park guests must not be able to walk from one cell/area to another (or backwards): they must only be allowed to enter the next cell if they have ridden the coaster in the previous cell (in which case they cannot stay anymore in the cell where that coaster is, but can only enter the next cell)
- Goal of the contest is to get as many guests as possible in the park that ride all the coasters in your park, while keeping park ratings as high as possible. Landscaping and archy will also be taken into account. Hacking is allowed, though not on coasters!!
While having much less time than the 3 months that stood for it (due to RL), and while not only the rules where worth a headache, but their execution and the effects these have on the flow of peeps in the park (+ the endless testing) were worth 3 more headaches, the park developed very well and I had great fun making it and trying to beat the peep-behaviour within the rules.
My "At Versicoloured Valleys" won.
Here are some screenshots of it.
A download for the park, as well as overview and many more screenshots, you can find on RCTFusion,
here
The park is named "At Versicoloured Valleys", because the 4 cells I did all have their own main colour and more or less own kind of archy.
With the download comes a Readme with, amongst others, more explanation on the rules, as well as a kind of "walkthrough" on the critical parts of the peep-flow for controlling the rules (was meant for the judges, but is added for the really interested ones
Hope you enjoy
(edit: fixed broken links)
Edited by Emergo, 03 December 2006 - 06:17 PM.
Anyway, the park is very pretty. The architecture is a little monotonous within each section but certain parts shine through, like the Red Roof town hall and that building by the water under the woody.
I like the little stream section with the waterfalls, but it seemed like too much filler for that corner -- not much else going on.
The coasters weren't that great. You could probably tone down the elaborate lift hill structures a bit, or at least leave one of them alone. Also, block brakes should never actually stop a train unless it's a final brake run or there's a breakdown of the ride. The layouts in general seemed a little contrived.
I will never, ever understand the fast staff option.
Congrats on the win. It's a nice looking park.
Good stuff Em'.
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@CBass: Thanks for your comments. Yes, I also like the Red Roof Townhall (and the Red part) and you are right on the "fillers". (There are many more of them than you mentioned).
It was not a really small map, the rules where time-consuming to live up to and, as I said, I had far less than the 3 months that stood for it. So I had to do much more "treeing" and "fillers-up" than I personally like.
No, I am not a great coaster-builder anyway (just doing my best and trying to improve
Can also imagine you will "never" understand the "fast staff" option!
Makes me half crazy to see them running around.
But....eh it makes me even more crazy to see them "working" in the normal mode. All those handymen that are just lingering around and turn their head of when they should just be cleaning puke/trash what I hired them for??. All these staffmembers that in RL I would never hire in the first place??? Ok, even in RL you have to do with some bad apples, but a complete staff?? So I despise the game developer for making this choice, and opt for the - for me - best choice of two ugly ones
@d4rkj4nu5: whenever you get the time, hope you enjoy it and like to hear your comments.
@x250: Thanks!
Although I have won some contests now (always nice, but it is not my main purpose for playing/loving this game) I still feel very surprised if people, especially if they are not "beginners" themselves
As I said above, the "red" part is also my favourite, together with the hotel-thing.
I know coasters are still sucking (and they are not my main interest/pleasure), but good to hear that at least they improve a bit.
@JKay: also thanks. The beige hotel-ish building was a pleasure to create and I still like it too.
@Akasha:yeah....the enclosed lifthills....I just liked to make something out of them. No, not "realistic" at all. But...ehh, I just enjoy this game for my building pleasure and - up till now, one never knows what still is to come..- I don't care for "realism".
(with which I don't say that I cannot appreciate other styles where people create real good and very "realistic" looking parks, on the contrary, I can admire them when executed well, but it is just not my pleasure to build them or strive for it myself).
@Phatage: thanks, very pleased and honoured with your positive comments, and about the weakness of the coasters I already said and agreed above I think.
I think you also said something about coaster "escape etc." on Rct2.com, but having a flu last week I was more in my bed than out of it, so I did not respond to anything very quickly. Still, I thought about it, but cannot make any connection to where you could have seen it before. Fact is though, that initially I used a coaster-layout that was made by my teenage son, just after he brought the game into our home. (he lost interest completely in the game within two months, and I later picked it up
Thanks again everyone for all comments, really appreciate it!.
so much for ne being all that
Please leave and come back when you are more mature. 1991, holy shit, your're like 15.
My point still stands.
So why don't you just leave, if we suck so much?
He is a she
Btw...thats hosted at RCT2.com not Fusion
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The screenshots of her park are