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Thanks very much-- happy you found the channel! The intention is to do the RCT2 scenarios also as I've never really played through them beyond the first couple. They were all pretty terrible so I jumped to sandbox building pretty early on in my gaming life. But I think it could be fun to go back and see if we could do them better. Right now the thought is to do RCT1, both expansions, the extras, then jump to RCT2. This should keep me busy for a few years!

This is an interesting thought and one that I haven't necessarily considered before since I've always been a proponent of wanting the steep pieces on this ride type, diving corners, S-bends, etc. I think they challenge you'd run into is trying to get the shall piece to still level out at the appropriate height. Which I think would extend the length of the segment further than the slalom sections would be. If we ever get into half-height pieces it's more viable, but that seems potentially messy. Roomie on the New Element discord is working on low slope monorails right now which look very cool but are still a ways off. So potentially it's a future thing, which would be neat! Personally one of the very specific pieces that I'd love to see for the mouse is a 3 across hairpin corner. Because of the geometry it'd have to be a full 180* since a 90* wouldn't line up, but I'd love that option between the 1x1 and 2x2 corner to space out the slaloms a little bit more and allow for better custom supporting. Not sure that's high on any of the current trackmaker's plans right now, but maybe one day!

Thanks very much!

Thanks! This was definitely a fun one originally since you had a bunch of space to work with for building.

I always liked that name better!

Thanks very much! I'm trying to balance going into the thought process without going too far down that rabbit hole. But it's definitely fun to do.

If the land adjacent to this loop was available I'd have definitely bought it and thrown something like Knotts' Jaguar in there. Something for a future scenario perhaps!

@@AmusementAcademy would still love for this series to continue after you finished all scenarios by just going back and now going all out, ignoring the goals. Kinda like Deurklinks series, but with an emphasis on making it realistic

Yes, I post it at 10:00am my time, which is GMT+3. So it'll usually come early in the US.

It's not a great spot for attractions since it's got a weird slope and isn't super well placed against the path loop, but I think the log flume works decently here because it can handle both of those items pretty well. Thanks!

They really did. It's a fitting way to end the season and what an incredible job by their whole team through all the rounds.

Sure! You can send it to theamusementacademy@gmail.com.

That's tough! I love a lot of parks for a lot of reasons. One of my favorite classic parks has got to be Rivers of Babylon (www.nedesigns.com/park/124/rivers-of-babylon/). 21 years ago and it still looks solid. I love most everything that Alex puts out, like Age of Sail (www.nedesigns.com/park/5869/age-of-sail/), and some other recent spotlights like the highly themed Belle Isle (www.nedesigns.com/park/5907/belle-isle/) or the dirty American realism Mahoning Gardens (www.nedesigns.com/park/5566/mahoning-gardens/). There's lots of great parks out there for sure-- definitely makes it hard to pick.

It would have been neat to see this park fully fleshed out. Really impressed with what all you put together in a short amount of time.

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I like to be a bit of a critic sometimes since it keeps me pushing to try and improve! I am pretty happy with how this launched coaster layout turned out, though. I wasn't sure what kind of 'big' coaster I could do with this map, and I think it's pretty suitable! As always, though, practice makes better. I've got 25 years in this game and there's still plenty to learn and discover. But as long as you're having a good time doing it, it's all good. Thanks for watching!

Liseberg is such a nice park! I always like the double towers in RCT-- I feel like it looks better than the single.

It was my first looping coaster, so I have good memories of it!

Me too haha. But mechanical engineering wasn't for me, so I got an architecture degree and went that direction!

This earned 4th place

@@whatthehexadecimal8830 oh, right 3rd place match but the park earned 4th duh

Set in a time when global warming has melted the ice away, hence all the solar power

Spot on! It's funny how easily the rest of the park gets away from you while you're focused on something else.

Thank you! A lot of times the issue with landscape in the scenarios is that it's super regular. Like they've definitely just gone with the landscape tool for pretty general shaping, which is fine but doesn't lend itself to looking great with a ride on top of it. So trying to get some simple adjustments to give it some variety and changing the ground texture can make a big difference.

@@AmusementAcademy thanks for the tip!

It really is a different level of RCT. Check out The Screameasy and Meccha videos-- those were probably the best two from the contest and were pretty incredible.

That's a good thought. I don't think it would be too challenging, though not sure on how long it would take. But I like the idea any. Andrew at Mickanman's RCT Station did that a few times on videos and it looked really nice. I will see if I can incorporate that into some elements. Maybe it's a separate video for some of these earlier ones. I'll play with it. Thanks very much for the suggestion!

You need OpenRCT2 with at least RCT/RCT2 installed. OpenRCT2 is a free open source version that includes a lot of new basic features in the game.

Yep, this is the way. I have the original RCT installed with OpenRCT2, so I'm running this in Open using the .sv4 filetype which brings all the original RCT1 (with expansions) land and wall textures into it.

Yes-- the scenario videos have become kind of the primary thing at the moment, but I do want to do more Academy videos like coaster building or continuing our parks with custom scenery.

@@AmusementAcademy amazing I really enjoy the coaster building & scenarios it’s been helping me a lot with RCT classic lol

Thanks very much! I agree on the food stands and it's something I want to get better at doing in scenario play since I think it really makes a nice aesthetic difference.

I'm guessing it was just a matter of not adjusting the prices down for the aging of the ride. I don't often go back and micromanage the smaller rides as the scenario goes along if I'm making enough money-- I probably need to pay more attention to it, however.

Yes! There's so much life in this map. It looks great.

I appreciate a good landscape that lets you set up a park to complement the overall look and feel. Terrain leads to creativity like you say, and I think it can make these builds more fun.

@@AmusementAcademy 100% agreed!

That's a good point and I love how you said it! It is a pretty straightforward out and back type layout. I didn't want to go too high off the ground or too long of a tunnel, so the slope did prevent some interaction that I'd have otherwise liked. But I'm sure we could probably do a bit more. Crossovers do make it more interesting. It's a good point too about using the water-- I wanted to activate that little sandbar area since I wasn't going to build much on it directly. But another option could be to come out perpendicular to the landscape and into the water than wind back to land. Lots of options. Good thoughts!

While I don't inherently mind going into the water for some stuff, I've been guilty of making a spaghetti of rides that ends up kind of blurring the islands into one big mass-- and I wanted to try and keep the overall landscape character here. It's also a bit of an added challenge!

Patience, good things come in time.

@@ThyPandora are we there yet?

Later this week!

Trying to keep them coming somewhat regularly! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching them! It's been great to go back through some of these absolutely incredible maps.

They were both such top tier parks. Screameasy is still the ultimate for me just with the more 'realistic' focus and the placemaking, but when I look at Meccha, I can get lost in it. So many details, so many great signs, and clickable stuff, and stories, and all of that. If my projects could achieve the same amount of 'life' that these maps have, than I could be very happy about it.

I always had PlayStations growing up so my experience with the Nintendo franchises was pretty limited. One of these days I ought to go back and play it.

Sure did. I made a comment while we were queuing for this that I wouldn't be surprised to see an accident on it someday. Wrong ride, right park unfortunately.

I think there could have been some more scenes back there for sure, but I didn't necessarily see it as too rushed. But that's probably because I mostly spent time watching the coaster...