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[rwadams]

There is no point in arguing about it. I judged the parks, so it was totally My Call. Both parks had what I felt was the proper spanish feel to them.
X made a great park, it was a close call. But in the end I gave the nod to SF and it had nothing to do with who he was.
I think I run a very fair seiries of competitions here and will continue to do so.

Rog

[Six Frags]

Chill man, its not like you have almost everybody here at this site think you're god because of all your awards anyways.

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I'm sorry if I worded myself wrong Phatage. What I meant to say is I tried to put in some references to Spain that I know of.. My goal was to have fun creating a park, not to make it accurate and a total recreation..
I admit X's park is more accurate and maybe better fits the Spanish theme... As I said, that wasn't really my goal...

If I had more time though, I would've did more research and put in more Spanish references...

SF

[Xcoaster]

Gee, I leave you guys alone for a few hours while I sleep, and I get a bunch of comments, on what I thought was otherwise going to be a mostly comment-free entry. Anyways, I'll comment on said comments in a second, in the meantime, here's the park overview:

And here's a shot of the entrance:

I also have one I was going to post of the Don Quixote coaster, but I think there's a two screenshots per post limit or something. I have more screenies and a lot more rambling on my site, under the Road Rally link. Here's a direct link:
http://www.freewebs....drallyparks.htm
Also, I made a new avatar last night. After I'd posted the images to the site I felt like playing around in Paint. Once NE starts working again, I'm going to post a topic for this park there too.

Anyways, thanks for all the additional comments of the park. It's always nice to get a little praise, and the critiques and comparisons I've been getting are just as good too. The comments by Phatage are probably some of the nicest I've ever gotten. You know I work hard from experience? I had no idea I had any kind of reputation. That's cool. Also, I haven't had this much arguing over whether I should've won since my first RCT2 park, XI's: Asian Excursion, back at Danimation. Ah, memories. Well, thanks for putting some life into this topic.

From Six Frags:
"Most important for me is though, that I had fun building it, and that I like the result of the park..."

True, if I built just to win, I would've given up a long time ago. A *very* long time ago. Still, I try to build with winning as my goal.

From Phatage:
"Most of the rest of the park actually reminded me of Russia much more than Spain anyway."

Well, you know, if he changed a few names, come November, that might not be such a bad thing.

From CoasterForce:
"...but the coaster [Los Toros, probably] didn't use enough of the landscape."

Yeah, I didn't really feel like making a lot of height elevation with the land was necessary in this one. I've done it a lot more in my other RR entries, but I didn't think it would really fit what I was going for in this round. Some more hills would've been okay, but the only places I would've considered mountains are in the 3 unused corners of the park, or with Voyage, but I didn't think they were needed, unless if I was going for the Pyrenees theme Six Frags was doing (I briefly considered it for a drop ride).
-also-
"XCoaster, you should really consider making a large scale solo; you have the talent to be NE quality."

Thanks. I keep trying to get one done, but as I mentioned before, my projects are always too long and my style ends up changing halfway through, and then I feel like I need to restart it. So for the last 3 months I've had one in planning that will be substantially smaller, and that I should be able to get done. Not sure when I'll start building though. I still have more research I can do on it.

I still think that Six Frags had me beat mostly on that his was a superior layout, and flowed better, and that it had better naming to boot. The mountains helped make it look more interesting as well, but I don't think they would've been so good in mine.

I forgot to add these links to my site. Here are some buildings that I used as references in my park (I used many others for smaller things too):
Pamplona City Hall (I used it as a steakhouse)
The Alcazar (Those spires would've been nice to include too)
Windmill from La Mancha (Could've used more rocks around here)

Edited by Xcoaster, 06 February 2005 - 11:35 PM.

[mantis]

I wouldn't have recognised La Sagrada from that, but good job anyway.

[cstrkd]

These are some pics of my park that I sent in. Personally, I think this deserves runner-up more than Ultratycoon's.


You can find them at http://photobucket.c...ms/v470/cstrkd/

SCR1=overview

SCR2=coaster

SCR4=dock

SCR5=landmark: Alhambre de Granada

Edited by cstrkd, 09 February 2005 - 04:03 PM.

[CoasterForce]

Well, I can see where you're coming from, and I'm not going to comment on whether it deserves it or not (and frankly, that would be pointless), but you still need to work on a few things. Don't get offended by this, but take it the right way. It's constructive criticism.

You need more variety to your archy, and try to make use of more 1/4 stuff in the scenario. You have long lines of walls in your buildings, and it gets to the point where it becomes too repetitive. Also, you need to make every flat ride have a purpose. The ones in the back, by the water, appear to just be "space fillers". Make it have a purpose...like, use waterfalls, landscaping, etc. around it, give it a nice queue, etc. They're just too unoriginal to add anything to the park. Building flat rides like that, without a purpose, was fine back when it first came out, but for a contest, you have to step it up. Which brings me to my last point, landscaping. Basically the whole park is completely flat. Look at SF's entry, and that is what won it for him. The landscaping is what sets the good from the best; I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Height differences, valleys, hills, waterfalls...use all of them to your advantage.

That being said, you show a lot of potential. Don't get mad you didn't get accepted; holding a grudge won't accomplish anything here. Read what I said and keep at it, and you'll be on there soon enough.

[cstrkd]

Thanks for the comment. I will try to improve on the things you listed.

[RCTJ]

Congrats to all that have entered. Next time I will enter Most important you sixfrags.