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[greg]

Personally I hate the skeleton Swings, Robotic arm & the flying saucers. None of these are realistic rides that you would find in a theme park. I know that the saucers ride did exist (at Disney I think), but it still reads as a fantasy ride.

[ClockworkMyr]

The Robot Arm without a doubt. It's an awesome ride, betrayed by the size of it's store (It can only carry two passengers on a long ride, so people are going to be constantly thinking "The line for Robot Arm 1 sucks. I always pick the wrong line." (Hold up, did they say "SUCKS?!")

[wabigbear]

The Merry-go-round. It's undersized and waaaaaay too fast. Real kids riding it would go flying off right and left.

[ClockworkMyr]

Oh yeah, forgot about the Merry-Go-Round, that isn't so merry... It goes about as fast as an RCT2 carousel with control failure (Which is always hilarious)

[citytrader]

The Merry-go-round. It's undersized and waaaaaay too fast. Real kids riding it would go flying off right and left.

Absolutely agree! How hard would it have been to get that one right?

Actually, most of the "themed" rides are pretty dumb. Gallows Swing, Space Arcade, etc. They should have spent time and money on MORE rides, especially flats and KIDDIE rides!

[Wolfman]

The Swings. They got the rotation of the tilt, in relation to the spin, almost the same speed, and in the same direction. (The tilt is supposed to rotate in the oposite direction.) Most of the dual-actions attractions are half wrong. The smaller turntables on the Tea Cups (or is that Reese's Peanut Butter Cups??) rotate in the same direction as the main turntable. Usually, these rotations are opposite.

The Robot Arm COASTER is about the hardest coaster to build, next to the third dementional coaster with the swiveling seats. I haven't even TRIED to figure out the splitting coaster yet. I think I'm saving it for when I really go off the deep end. RCT 3 will get me there.

[ClockworkMyr]

The Splitting Coaster is very much like the Multi-Dimension Roller Coaster, but induces mad lag. Generally, I leave the tilt of the seats alone, and once you get past the lag, it's like building a racing coaster. The Robotic Roller Coaster is hard to understand. Try the tutorial on the new Wild Coasters, that contains tutorials on how to make those coasters. I can't really figure out the RRC for the life of myself though. |=?

[Wolfman]

Tutorials are alright. I've made a few of them myself in the past. But nothing can teach you better than actually working one out yourself. For instance, I've been working out a Robot Arm coaster on and off over the past few months (actually, it's been a year!) It just got to the point that I was working on it too much. (The structure is rather involved.) It started to seem to me that if I changed one movement, it caused a domino effect. I had to change movements before AND after the movement I changed in the first place. It's a mess.

The settings were the worst. Programming each track section is how I started, until I figured out that the best (smoother) movement comes when you just program key positions on certain track segments. Then I quit programming a position for each track segment. Whatta nightmare!

Here are two of my Yahoo videos, of two versions of the same attraction, in development/construction I've been working on. And nope, it ain't finished yet.

First Version
Second Version

So maybe it's no surprise when I said I don't think much about the robot arm coaster. It would of been better if you just clicked and drag directly on the parts, positioning them, instead of doing it by the numbers. 45 deg. this rotaton, 30 deg. clockwise, the arm has to lift into this position. The seats rotate into the curve at such and such point. BLAAAAAAAGH!

[ClockworkMyr]

I saw those a while back. I also saw your Roller-Soaker as well. =) I wasn't sure what kind of coaster that was, but it's pretty good for a robot coaster.

[Tornado6]

The Robot coaster. Very unrealistic.

WAIT, it seems like everyone hates that ride.