Airtime Competition

[Freddie1]

How about an Airtime Competiton? No prizes, just see who can get the most airtime on a coaster. No rules so no size, legnth, type of coaster ristrictions, or any of that stuff. Just Airtime. Let me know what you think, it's just an idea.

[Ariks]

Good idea, it should have a length restriction though otherwise it will turn into a 'who can build the longest ride'-competition.

[RCT4me]

Let's make this one a hyper/giga/strata coaster type contest. There too many competitions that involve inversions. (after all, airtime is mainly why I ride coasters, though I enjoy the B&M twister type rides once in a while)

[BorisTheFish]

how about limits to the stats toos, as its easy to create a high airtime monster if you dont mind Uber-Extreme ratings

[Thergothon]

How about just making it a % based on ride time? Of course, the ride also has to be ridable to prevent ultra extreme intensity rollercoasters.

That way shorter coasters are just as viable as long coasters.

[Freddie1]

Ok on all of this, but I would like to include woodies. Limit stats is good, legnth restriction I don't mind but dosn't matter to me, ANY type of coaster goes, but no inversion pieces. I think we need to utalize (sp?) overbanks on the count of being easy to turn at high speed. Rating restriction agreed. MUST BE RIDEABLE! So is this a possibility? When should we start?

[Freddie1]

One other thing, I don't think we should be able to use recretions that will defenitly have airtime. Original designs only. I don't know, is this a stupid rule and a stupid idea all together?

EDIT: How did this end up in general disscussion? It was started in Exchange. Oh well...:downcast:

[eagle_force]

I'll work on a giga, but my woodie that I already have uploaded, is HERE (http://img161.exs.cx/img161/4426/stats9qv.jpg) or http://img161.exs.cx/img161/4426/stats9qv.jpg Keep in mind that this is already made, but not for this contest, it's my design for Nintendo Land

[Freddie1]

Ok, so the benchmark is set at 46 seconds. Any challengers? Mine was 31 seconds, so I iwll have to see what I can do.

[BorisTheFish]

Originally posted by SFNERules
EDIT: How did this end up in general disscussion? It was started in Exchange. Oh well...:downcast:

its been moved again now lol

anyway, mine was somewhere near the current benchmark, it may be slightly less though, can't remember off by heart

[Thergothon]

I posted a 1:08 in the other thread and rizzla posted a 1:2x aswell.

However I still think that this should be % based on ride time. eg my ride is 2:31 with 1:08 air time so it is ~45% air time.

I think this method is better as there is nothing stopping me from making a sandbox park with one gigantic giga coaster that rockets itself around the map for an hour just building up a stupid amount of air time.

S.

[BorisTheFish]

dammit, i just got 50 as well, but as a percentage sounds like a good idea to make it fairer

[Freddie1]

OK, lets do the percentage thing.

[rizzla]

Two things to note (in another thread here I just argued that proposing rule changes should not be thought of as negative):

1. Maybe only one circuit? Thergothon, our coasters do five circuits and that increases the airtime slightly. Mine's 1:13/2:20 (or rather, 73/140 seconds: 52%) - on a single circuit it is exactly 50% (though 0:13 of 0:26 - such a short ride - maybe the numbers are just more inaccurate).

2. Maybe a minimum ride length / ride time? 50% on my coaster sounds good, but 13 seconds don't impress...

[BorisTheFish]

lets make up rules as we go along!!!:haha: