RCT Discussion / Park Updates

24-January 04

G Force Offline

Worlds of Fun has just hit year 200:

Frontier: 95%

Africa: 90%

Asia: 85%

America: 75%

Entrance: 75% (Will probably be redone)

Mediterranean: 60%

Northern Europe: 70%

Kids Area: 5%

Waterpark: 1%

Surroundings: 5~20%

Overall: 65~70%

Hope for a June/July release!
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Steve Online

Wow. Can't wait for that, Russ.
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BelgianGuy Offline

Shaping up nicely, are you going to make the waterpark functional?
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RCT2day Offline

That's an interesting park layout. You'd normally find things like an Arrow looper, Intamin 1st Gen drop tower, and kiddie area towards the beginning of a park. Gotta say, I love the placement of that Steel Force coaster.
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Liampie Offline

The entrance seems like the best area in the park, I wouldn't redo it...
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BelgianGuy Offline

You could however build a second smaller entrance from the park's early days that got replaced by a more suiting and large enough entrance
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Liampie Offline

^Good idea. Visual storytelling.

edit: May solve the problem RCT2Day pointed out too
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Jappy Offline

Easkerton Towers is being worked on every day at the moment. Still no sign of stopping! Well... Until college starts again next week. Even then I'll be able to work on it though.
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bigshootergill Offline

^ Can you build during classes?
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Jappy Offline

^ Can you build during classes?

Technically I can, since most of them are tought in big auditoria and the professors can't see what the students are doing on their computers! But I like my courses, and if I pass them all, that means more time to build during summer! What I meant was that I don't have that many classes this semester, giving me plenty of time to work on Easkerton Towers.
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Faas Offline

Great progress Jappy! But I'm sorry to say I think it's all a bit underwhelming. All themed areas as well as the castle could be made so much more unique and distinguishable. Now you can only distinguish the different themes because of a building or two, and the castle because it's just slightly bigger than the other buildings.
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G Force Offline

Thanks guys.

That's an interesting park layout. You'd normally find things like an Arrow looper, Intamin 1st Gen drop tower, and kiddie area towards the beginning of a park. Gotta say, I love the placement of that Steel Force coaster.

You could however build a second smaller entrance from the park's early days that got replaced by a more suiting and large enough entrance

The entrance seems like the best area in the park, I wouldn't redo it...

On the topic of the entrances, initially I planned to have a secondary entrance in the European circle around the pond, but cut it out for space. Possibly I can put one in near the S&S tower, if I modify the area a bit, and expand the map more. Also, another coaster has been suggested by quite a few people, if anything is added it would probably be a family coaster as I think I've hit all the other levels needed for a park of this size.

When it comes to the original entrance, I feel the architecture is lacking a lot in identity and misses out on a lot of potential. The style its built in doesn't really fit in with the rest of the park, it needs updating.

My intentions for the water park are for it to be fully functional, but not to large, maybe 2 or 3 slides and a wave pool, nothing to intense, mostly due to the object limit.

Jappy: It seems you try to connect and string you areas together rather than have them flow. Maybe approach the park as a whole rather than each area individually. On the micro side it looks great from the screens, its just lacking a bit in the macro I think.
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Jappy Offline

Jappy: It seems you try to connect and string you areas together rather than have them flow. Maybe approach the park as a whole rather than each area individually. On the micro side it looks great from the screens, its just lacking a bit in the macro I think.

So it needs to be connected more as a whole? Hmmm.... Any tips on how to achive this?
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MCI Offline

^Start over, close your eyes place random path all over the map. Then connect it.

That´s how I do it, but I´m not an expert.
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Jappy Offline

That's how I got so far in the first place.
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nin Offline

So it needs to be connected more as a whole? Hmmm.... Any tips on how to achive this?
I believe we've had a few topics on park layouts, but perhaps a new 'more compete' one is in order. The best thing to do is observe real park layouts and even bits of urban planning, just seeing how actual places are laid out in real life and translating that to game.

Many of my parks are based on Disney's hub-and-spoke model but I also tend to use the 'loop' model as well, where a single or double loop is the basis for the park and everything else splits off from that. Not all real parks follow these models, some look like they have little planning and just followed the flow of traffic and based a layout off that. This makes for more interesting layouts for sure, but given the nature of the game I've always found it hard to pull off (as unplanned stuff can start to look bad quick). In that case it again may be best to just look at real park on google maps or something and try to mimic the style.
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Recurious Offline

Just discovered the RCT Discussion forum on this site. Didn't really know these kind of threads existed. This is the current map of a park I'm working on: Silver Hills Amusements Park. Can post an aerial too if you guys like.
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Liampie Offline

I've been enjoying working on Seaquarium a lot during the past week... Made some nice progress, hopefully resulting in one or two screens soon. Also I calculated that the park section of the map is actually equals something like 85 x 85. Not bad at all actually. Let's aim for the moon.

I'd say it's about 50% done
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][ntamin22 Offline

My vermillion updates aren't as frequent as they used to be - considering just dumping them here instead of updating solely on the Project page. Anybody opposed?

They're pretty long, so I'm probably using spoilers.

Jan. update:

Spoiler

January 25th 2016 Status: [Still] totally sidetracked by World of Warships, but occasional progress.

Out-building yourself can be a real issue with multi-year endeavors like this project. I don't touch an area for weeks, months, or even a year, and then coming back to it can be potentially messy in a lot of different ways.
Maybe my idea for what the area should "feel" like has changed, or now it needs to change to match other, newer ideas and areas, maybe it no longer feels like the same quality level, etc.

I really hope I can keep ahead of myself long enough to get some things finished, or I'll end up stuck in a cycle of tearing up old work and then deciding that next to this new replacement the other stuff needs to come out too.

A sampling of cross-map work recently:

- tore out the majority of the Hillside main building (which was already modified to add the monorail station there) to add a dropoff loop and a clearer landmark to identify the guest check-in area.

- tore out the entire 3-park highway exit / parking gate structure to revise the whole thing. Again.

- considering tearing out the VA railway and re-routing it. Again.

- Likely tearing out some of the Ruined Kingdom in VK to revise it. It isn't bad work, per se, but it doesn't match the flashier work in VE and the VK entry.

- A big sweep through all existing attractions and areas is planned to really look at how "iconic" or "emblematic" the parks are. Too many ride and area entrances are just there without really being played up as set pieces, which doesn't match the depth of theming I'm trying to convey for the resort.

Currently there are [6] maps started. The 3 parks are actively being built on, if only in small patches, and four resorts are under construction.

(Map1 - CPLD) Vermillion Escape: 90% Complete, 6/6 Coasters

(Map2 - SVKY) Vermillion Adventures: 35% Complete, 7/8? Coasters

(Map3 - SEGU) Vermillion Resorts - Hillside: 70% Complete

(Map4 - HNSN) Vermillion Kingdoms: 40% Complete, 4/5? Coasters

(Map5 - WLTN) Vermillion Resorts - Bay Shore: 55% Complete

(Map7 - DZBY) Vermillion's Solero Springs: on hold

Isla Hernando: Released

The Vermillion Resort is the life work of one man, known to the world simply as Hernando. When he first bought a few acres on the riverside, he planted the trees that are still on the property today and turned his orchards into the finest for miles around. Hernando always loved entertaining the folks who would come to pick their own fruit, so he began to add attractions and soon expanded across the river to create a full-fledged boardwalk. Hernando's Boardwalk has grown over the decades into one of the finest multi-park amusement destinations in the world, with rides, shows, and all sorts of incredible experiences for visitors from around the world.

April update:

Spoiler

April 12th 2016 Status: [Still-still] totally sidetracked by World of Warships, but occasional progress.

Slow going as almost universally any progress involves heavy codex work and a lot of thinking.

Frightening amounts of re-work are still an issue; doing as much tearing-out as putting-in.

A sampling of cross-map work recently:

- reworked the front half of VA to build in A) a proper hotel entrance from the Imperial B) some more shorefront realestate C) some kind of solution to a big path / area intersection that continues to plague me.

- rebuilt the highway interchange for the Gateway station again and laid monorail tracks to connect up the VK/VE circuits.

- rebuilt (or at least partially tore down) one of the Hillside buildings to open it up a little and unify the architectural feel of the resort.

- added tennis courts at the Hillside's quieter building

- taking a serious look at architectural solutions for one of the VK areas and might rework about half the buildings.

- (ongoing) A big sweep through all existing attractions and areas is planned to really look at how "iconic" or "emblematic" the parks are. Too many ride and area entrances are just there without really being played up as set pieces, which doesn't match the depth of theming I'm trying to convey for the resort.

Currently there are [6] maps started. The 3 parks are actively being built on, if only in small patches, and four resorts are under construction.

(Map1 - CPLD) Gateway Station, Vermillion Escape, Vermillion's Imperial Resort: 95% Complete, 6/6 Coasters

(Map2 - SVKY) Vermillion Adventures, Vermillion's Imperial Resort: 40% Complete, 7/8? Coasters

(Map3 - SEGU) Gateway Parking, Vermillion's Hillside Resort, Vermillion's Trailways Resort: 50% Complete

(Map4 - HNSN) Vermillion Kingdoms: 45% Complete, 4/5? Coasters

(Map5 - WLTN) Vermillion's Bay Shore Resort, Vermillion's Bahia Crown Resort: 55% Complete

(Map7 - DZBY) Vermillion's Solero Springs: on hold

Isla Hernando: Released

The Vermillion Resort is the life work of one man, known to the world simply as Hernando. When he first bought a few acres on the riverside, he planted the trees that are still on the property today and turned his orchards into the finest for miles around. Hernando always loved entertaining the folks who would come to pick their own fruit, so he began to add attractions and soon expanded across the river to create a full-fledged boardwalk. Hernando's Boardwalk has grown over the decades into one of the finest multi-park amusement destinations in the world, with rides, shows, and all sorts of incredible experiences for visitors from around the world.
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Liampie Offline

Great to hear this is still on its way. Incredible project. It's like you're compensating for never having made a full sized park...
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