Ask the Experts / Real-World area equivilancy

  • 11-January 04
  • Maverick%s's Photo
    United States Maverick Offline

    Each level is 4/3 of a meter... each sublevel is 1/3. For coasters, I go by speed, it seems to fit the scaling best.

    I've actually figured each 'level' to be closer to 5/3 of a meter (1.69 m or 50/9 ft) which is approximately 5.56ft... now that number doesn't seem to be very far from the 5ft RCT scale, but you have to remember youre adding more than a half-foot for every 5, so a 200ft RCT coaster is actually more like 225ft. (real 200ft coasters go approx 75mph, whereas 200ft RCT coasters go 80mph)

    I think the max height in the game is like 115 units, but I have yet to get a coaster car that high. The fastest I could build a coaster in the game w/out a trainer is a 139mph Reverse Freefall that spanned an entire 256 map.
    posted 21 years ago
  • flmscor%s's Photo
    United States flmscor Offline
    Thanks so much for all the great insightful replies. It really helped re-affirm my own calculations and assumptions. And I met some cool people in the process!

    Cheers
    posted 21 years ago

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