RCT Discussion / Spotlight Showdown Final

So according to this, PoM is better than IoE? What a load of bullshit...

And according to this, Legacies is among the 8 strongest spotlights. Meanwhile, either Rivers of Babylon or The Aegean will be knocked out.

If Zippo's beats Isole Calabria, I'm quitting RCT for good.

Fuck you, Zippo's is incredible.

Fuck you, Zippo's is incredible.

I like Zippo's a lot, but I agree with Trav and don't think it is on the same level as Isole Calabria

I think it really has a lot to do with what date you joined. Older people, like me and inVersed, obviously like all the older parks, which I think have a much fuller atmosphere, much more deeply themed. Where as newer parks always seem shallower to me, I never get the feeling I used to when I open new spotlights.

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I wouldn't say it's about join date but more about your preferences. Some prefer newer detailed stuff, others prefer atmosphere most of all, others prefer coasters. Unfortunately, with the way the community progresses, stuff gets old quickly and tastes change, kinda like music. Classic rock vs. rap, classical vs. house, it all comes down to opinion, and general tastes change, which is why judging all of the spotlights is a difficult job to do completely objectively.

I may have joined in 2007, but I build stuff since early 2005, when it was still the norm to use walls and full tile roofs. I'm very much into older RCT, but sometimes the newer stuff is just better. Isole Calabria looks good, but Zippo's is much more original, credible, cohesive, it's bigger, more content, better foliage, much more atmosphere and life, and much more fun stuff like an area themed to faeces and junk. Moreover, IC doesn't have fish food.

This reminds me that I still have to do that review I promised Xophe.

I just posted screens in the Art Gallery of why I much prefer a park like IC to Zippo's
It has nothing to do with details or scenery pieces it's just that Turtle's composition of everything is simply better

In my opinion small details aren't what make a good park. When I'm looking through a park and I see an employee rest area I know that's where they take a smoke break I don't need to see them doing it. Or when I look at all the lamps I know the lightbulbs go out I don't need to see a mechanic on a ladder changing them. It's the overall atmosphere that matters to me

Details like those enhance the atmosphere for me, though. Sometimes it takes more than just nice foliage and good archy to make great atmosphere for me. Little things make it plausible beyond just a "model"; hell, IC has plenty of smaller things (ie shrines) that complete the picture. DisneyAir has moving pistons; sure, they could've been stationary, but kinetically, they add a new level of plausibility to the park. I guess that's what I enjoy most: plausibility. It doesn't need to be realistic, but it should be convincing.

I don't really see the similarity between shrines and pistons to the examples I used

Anyway, I kinda do look at RCT as a 'working model', which is why I don't add peeps. Rides and things such as water fixtures and pistons would also be kinetic in a model like this. I don't really try to build an 'open amusement park' so maybe that's why I look at things differently

Down to the last few hours to get your votes in. The votes go final 20 mins after midnight (EST).

Sweet 16 results:

1a. Busch Gardens San Simeon by Fatha 19
13a. Spellbrook Shore by J K 8

2a. Zippo's Wacky World of Wonders by Xophe 18
3a. Isole Calabria by Turtle 9

1b. Dreamport by J K 21
4b. Disney's Movie Magic by Fatha 6

2b. Sea World Atlanta by RRP & x-sector 10
3b. Six Flags Carolina by CedarPoint6 17

8c. Legacies Themepark - Europe by Liampie 21
13c. Ports of Magia by artist 6

2c. Six Flags Santa Fe by robbie92 23
6c. Silver Valley Theme Park by Loopy 4

1d. Rivers of Babylon by sacoasterfreak 19
5d. The Aegean by natelox 8

2d. Dimensions: Realms of Creation by Kumba 14
3d. Mount Sinister by Mala 13


The Elite 8 will be next with...

1a. Busch Gardens San Simeon by Fatha
2a. Zippo's Wacky World of Wonders by Xophe

1b. Dreamport by J K
3b. Six Flags Carolina by CedarPoint6

8c. Legacies Themepark - Europe by Liampie
2c. Six Flags Santa Fe by robbie92

1d. Rivers of Babylon by sacoasterfreak
2d. Dimensions: Realms of Creation by Kumba

You guys have another 5 days to vote and then it's on to the Final 4!

Wow DRC pulled it out late... was so about to cheat but I really won!!!

Also ding-dong PoM is dead! How it got so far idk...

Oh and I was 6 for 8 in picking the elite 8, so go me

BGSS
SFC
SFSF
DRC (upset alert!)

the only ll park to make it is bgss? aww man, thats sort of a shame. I'm predicting dreamport for the win at this point.

Yeah, suprise suprise all the worthy LL parks but 1 aren't anywhere to be seen.

Yeah, there should be some natelox in there definately. Not me or robbie.

I'd say 6 of those 8 aren't worthy of being there.

Aaaaaaaand Legacies gets robbed.