3rd Small Park Competition-Spooky

[DWWilkin]

A small, balanced, working park...__________________________________________________
For the competiton (Updated 3/20/05):
Spooky Theme

31 by 31 max size (961 squares)

Maximum of each Ride type:
12 Thrill rides
6 Gentle
6 Junior
6 Others (includes Water rides)
3 Coasters

**Note that you may have 2 of the same ride (Tea cups 1 and Tea cups 2, this would count as 2 rides)

Maximum 18 stalls of various types
Maximum Staff of 18 (And as many vendors as needed)
(This does not include the Park Inspector so you could have 19 staff)
Maximum of 3 fireworks shows

Park to end day no later than midnight
90% of Paths at ground level

Criteria to win:
1) Best use of Money$$
2) Open park and run without tweaking for 1 year and see a park rating by the judges (taking an aggregate of their scores)
3) Overall total of Excitement
4) Averages of Excitement

Special achievement for highest FPS

Judging categories:
$$ spent to build park
# Guests at end of year 1
List of what guests are doing at end of year 1
List of what guests are thinking at end of year 1
Total profit at end of year 1
Park Value at end of year 1
Company value at end of year 1 (Start with 1000 only for contingency money to pay your staff.)

**Note that the Judges will open your park, open closed or testing rides, but it is better if the entrant does so. The judges will not do anything else but observe your park for a year. Judges will not modify Fireworks shows for start times or months playing.

Find the starter park here:

http://rapidshare.de/files/1360818/SpookyPark.dat.html

View an Image of it here:
http://img257.echo.cx/img257/112/spookysmallpark7fa.jpg

Once you have the starter park place it in the Scenario Folder in your RCT Folder in your MyDocuments folder... Open and run the park as a custom scenario. You can pause as much as you want during the building of your park, or even leave the park completely paused throughout. Try not to run the park for longer than a month as you test rides. An alternative is to save the park while paused, test your coaster, and return to your saved point.


Comeptition will last for 1 month. (April 21st to May 21st)
Mulitple entries are allowed.
All entries to be listed or PM submitted to the Judges by midnight May 21st 2005

Our upload site for the parks and judging went down this month and we are working on another. Please PM me for an email so you can send me your part. Or place on a hosting site somewhere and post the location to the thread so I cna retrieve the entry.

Judges are:

DWWilkin
HulkLocalNews
DCWill

Tikitiki (Coordinating)

Current Entrants are: (I will add to this list as entrant post in this thread, or PM or submit entries):


wickedfan07
I feel Sick
Koaster Kid
RCT3Phreak
Maddack
Bokkie
DisneyFREAK1178
Vortexian


DC Will's Park Video from the last competition :up: :up: :up: (http://rapidshare.de/files/843599/lagoonad.wmv.html)
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[KoasterKid23]

Yes!

[i_feel_sick]

Hmm... Spooky! Now hopefully we can round up more entrants... Its a very dynamic theme... And a lot is possible... I'll get started tomorrow...

[DWWilkin]

There is some concern about covered rides. I did not change the climate settings as such, so let's see what happens. If the park is rainy and dark and doesn't work I shall make changes. I will begin a test park soon to see if it is a factor in game play...

[wickedfan07]

Very cool. I'm gonna try to get on this one. Hopefully I'll suqeese some working time in between school work...I'm glad the school year is almost over! anyway, nice looking starter park, DWWilkin.

Happy gaming
wickedfan

[DWWilkin]

Originally posted by DWWilkin
There is some concern about covered rides. I did not change the climate settings as such, so let's see what happens. If the park is rainy and dark and doesn't work I shall make changes. I will begin a test park soon to see if it is a factor in game play...

I have been saving and resaving the climate as Spooky about 6 times, and then opening the park up and trying it out, only to find that it has defaulted back to Desert... This is clearly a bug, but one I do not know if there is a work around for. Patch 2( which I I have) is the one I believe that gave us multi climates, but perhaps it is just not working correctly. So Spooky theme away without rain or lightning.

Now if someone else can take the park and edit it to get the Spooky climate in and post it back, that would be beter.

[Maddack]

Park to end day no later than midnight

wtf? that ain't spooky! :mad:

Also add it has to be made in sandbox, or I will again make it in scenario editor muahahahaaha. I will wait a week before I begin.

I have been saving and resaving the climate as Spooky about 6 times, and then opening the park up and trying it out, only to find that it has defaulted back to Desert

w00t? I never knew there was a spooky climate, but as you know, I like desert better.

[DWWilkin]

Maddack

Once you get the file, you should place it in your Scenario Folder, and play from there...

Not Sandbox... Once you open the park as a scenario, pause if you wish. This will make accounting the money perfect for the judges...

[KoasterKid23]

HELP! I have big problems with the new park! Every time I try to load it the whole computer freezes and I have to shut down. So I went the scenario folder where I put it and found out that it is only 7kb compared to the 2.5mb of all the other of my parks! After downloading it a second time it was still the same! I will pm you also DWWilkin...:(

[DWWilkin]

Just did a download test myself and got the 832K park... It is called SpookyPark. I am not sure what the problem is... It says it has been downloaded 5 times (now I would guess six times...)

David

[KoasterKid23]

That is really odd.:cry:

Here is a pic of what happens to me:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v631/KoasterKid23/SpookyPark2.jpg

When I click through rapidshare it says 852kb, but when I download it the file comes out as 6/7kb.

If we can't get this resolved I will probably check with mbrookes in the help/tech forum.

[DWWilkin]

Hi all

If anyone is having a problem with the dwnloading, like Koasterkid

PM or email me and I will send you the file directly...

Thanks

David

[tikitiki]

Hey all, KoasterKid are you perhaps remoting or downloading it to a network drive?

Cheers Tikitiki

[KoasterKid23]

We got it figured out now. He had to email it directly to me.

PS: I'll post a pic tonight.

[tikitiki]

**waits** :)

[KoasterKid23]

Sorry about that tikitiki...we are in totally different time zones, well here they are:

http://img56.echo.cx/img56/9572/entrance1zg.jpg

http://img56.echo.cx/img56/1203/foodcourt0kg.jpg

http://img56.echo.cx/img56/5255/impulse0ap.jpg

http://img56.echo.cx/img56/2140/goblin1zs.jpg

[DWWilkin]

Yikes on that Impulse Coaster. Is the Excitement and Intensity greater or lessor due to the castle?

[KoasterKid23]

Originally posted by DWWilkin
Yikes on that Impulse Coaster. Is the Excitement and Intensity greater or lessor due to the castle?
Yeah both excitement and intensity rose, but no too much. It was kinda tricky building the towers though, because the curved walls and the straight walls don't even come close to lining up. I will probably edit the towers a little bit, but the basic idea will be the same.:D :up:

[Bokkie]

Allright this looks like a challenge.
Count me in !

[DWWilkin]

Bokkie is in!!!

(Can we have Kyla go round and round on the chairlift... LOL I just saw that today in a link on someone elses post...)

[tikitiki]

Sorry bout that coasterkid....Fabulous Job! I always look toward these!

Welcome Bokkie! Kinda sounds like coookie Crisps :bulb: :haha:

Cheers Tikitiki

[Bokkie]

That's because you pronounce it incorrect.

Not oooo like we do, but the short "o" like clock
Then add "ie" like Ernie's "whieeeeee" (or like tea)


Is it allowed to use the ground shaping tools?

[DWWilkin]

Though you have a nice flat area, you have 100K to spend on anything you want. So if you want to build a giant hill, or crater, go right ahead...

[Bokkie]

Nice flat area indeed, but its lower then the scenery edges.

[DWWilkin]

So ya don't like David's Big Rock Candy Mountain??? Hmmm...

Actually there is a big shadow effect becuase of the big mountain, and it would have been even better if I could have saved the Spooky rain and lightning Climate, but that never worked...

[Bokkie]

I didn't say I don't like it ..

Just wondering if I could use the CTRL key when putting scenery :)

[KoasterKid23]

Originally posted by Bokkie
I didn't say I don't like it ..

Just wondering if I could use the CTRL key when putting scenery :)
Yeah...I actually ended up leveling the whole park because it was half a block off all the way around so nothing would line up.:p

[DWWilkin]

I'm sorry guys, I thought I had that completly level when I finished it up...

[wickedfan07]

::finally downloads the park file::

[Bokkie]

It's a bit a shame that there is no wooden scenery...
Very usefull to make a ghost town, I really don't like the spooky scenery, way to less pieces. (1 kind of roof, no 1/3 height walls..)


Did you already do an Western look park?

Really wanna do that, I'm the master in it :)

[DWWilkin]

Western theme should be our next theme...

[Bokkie]

A urinoir, does it count as a stall?

[DWWilkin]

The 18 stalls that you are alllowed would be from the 4 buttons, Food, Drink, Shops, Other (??)

[i_feel_sick]

Hey DWWilkin, you might want to check out the starter park... nothing actually levels up, paths/scenery/rides, there's something really wrong there!

[DWWilkin]

I will, but that is wierd, I flattened the plateau with the raise land to the cursor function...

[Bokkie]

U should use the "flatten terrain for rides & scenery" ..

Anyway, what about the selling items of shops?
When I place a shop, it doesn't sell every item yet.
But since I may not let the park run, I can't invent them either..

Will judges add selling items to the stalls? (If contestent has set money to invent)

Other question, it sais "it's better that the contestant test his/her rides" So I can unpause to test all atractions, but has the park to be closed or open while testing all?

[DWWilkin]

Originally posted by Bokkie
U should use the "flatten terrain for rides & scenery" ..

Anyway, what about the selling items of shops?
When I place a shop, it doesn't sell every item yet.
But since I may not let the park run, I can't invent them either..

Will judges add selling items to the stalls? (If contestent has set money to invent)

Other question, it sais "it's better that the contestant test his/her rides" So I can unpause to test all atractions, but has the park to be closed or open while testing all?

I had selected every spooky item, but possibly under generic inventions I had not added in the additional food items. So perhaps I will get a chance to

1) Flatten terrain for rides and scenery
2) add the extra generic food (2 Chicken pieces, 3 chicken pieces, etc.)

tonight and repost the park.

As for running and testing, After building the park, you can save, run and test the rides if you like them, go ahead with the saved version. You can unpause the game on march 1, run your ride and repause and then save the game, byt hen it being march 3 or so.

Or if you run the game, we (I've so far done this) take your scores at 10/31

The big hint we have has been build your park, save, run your park to 10/31, read the peep thoughts and status information and readjust the park from the saved version.

[i_feel_sick]

Umm.. So you're gonna post another starter park, DWWilkin? That would be great, but what bout the peeps who already started making their park ? :confused::confused::confused:

[DWWilkin]

I am going to take a look at it...

If it is a big deal (it might only cost $100 to flatten the park in scenario mode, not a big deal, but if it cost $20K, then a big deal)

and see what I come up with... I'll keep you all posted.

[KoasterKid23]

I think...but I am not 100% sure...that it only costed me a little over $300, I am fine with this though so could I just stay with my current park?

[DWWilkin]

Yes, please do KaosterKid

As I said, i'll check myself and if it is cheap, we'll stick with the current park. If I missed the additional food and items for sale I apologize. Will that really effect things?

[KoasterKid23]

Originally posted by DWWilkin
Yes, please do KaosterKid

As I said, i'll check myself and if it is cheap, we'll stick with the current park. If I missed the additional food and items for sale I apologize. Will that really effect things?
That shouldn't be too much of a problem...we ALL have to work around it so it ends up being even anyways.

New Pics! I just finished making a small skull shaped pool and then started and finished a go kart/darkride. This was my first darkride or attempt at one, so it isn't all that great, but it still looks really cool. I still have to work a little bit on the interior walls to get it just perfect.

Here they are:

Skull Pool (http://img168.echo.cx/img168/7329/skull6js.jpg)

Ghost Karts--Before (http://img244.echo.cx/img244/2323/ghostkartsbefore5og.jpg)

Ghost Karts--After (http://img244.echo.cx/img244/8937/ghostkartsafter6za.jpg)

[Bokkie]

Looks good Koasterkid, but not half as good as my park hahaha ;) (joking)


About the selling items... You CAN'T select them all in the scenario editor. You only can invent them during gameplay (not in the scenario editor since you can't invent something there.)
But I don't like the "worst food" penalty, therefore I wondered if judges would add selling items if the contestent has give an amount for the research.


The flatten terain thingie doesn't cost much, so I just did it anyway.


About the date... Everytime I load the park it starts withouth pause.. I'm already at day 6 just with loading the game...
Though my park is closed, so no people can enter..

May I reset the date in the scenario editor once the park is finished, then let it run just to test all atractions, and then upload the park ?

One other thing, 90% of paths on ground level.. When I make a sloped hill with a path on it, I suppose that counts as ground level too?

[DWWilkin]

I loaded up the park as if I was an entrant, put in a chicken stand and all the variety of chicken were for sale. So I think that is working...

Perhaps I need to hear back on what stalls explicity don't have items for sale? I am not sure if the AI handles this well but you can always create your own. If you only had the 2 piece chicken for sale, you could drag another copy of that over and rename it 3 piece chicken and price it higher. It might not sell becuase the peeps may be smart enough, but it would get the item for sale at the booth. I do not think in either event this effects gameplay that much.

When I flattened the park it was about $400 so I think that is small. If I raise a plateau again, i will remember to add the step of flatten for scenery and rides. Appearantly the flatten to the height of the cursor does not really flatten. (Learn something about this game all the time.)

On the date, yes that happens. When i finished building Lagos Park for the first contest I had advanced to March 3rd. Please do not reset the date in the Scenario editor. Please just play out the game. You will see that when running, due to the park size you have built with the rides you create, that is what forces the # of peeps in the park (probably with some relation to excitement of rides, etc...) so a few days at the beginning lost do nothing except cut down on a few dollars of profit, which pricing would make up for. As a judge watching so many parks I can tell you that by June I can see the plateauing of how many peeps will be in your park for the 10/31 cutoff.

The 90% is not strictly enforced, but yes to the sloped hill. The idea is not to have suspended pathways everywhere, and not to have raised rides on top of one another with paths to get to them. (How many functional Merry-go-rounds could you stack on top of one another?)

[DWWilkin]

Beta Tester entrant and judges...

here are several of us who are in the Beta in this competition. I will work on the assumption that we shall be able to find a work around for any technical issues that arise during the contest, but we of course need to keep in mind that no entry may include any Soaked material...

Thanks

David

[Bokkie]

Hum, will there be any judging of scenery?

Can I start advertising just after testing and opening all rides & park (so just before saving to send in..) ?

[DWWilkin]

I am not sure if I have the advertising enabled. I think one of our notes suggests that this is something that you should use your money on, but it plays out that you get to that plateau of attendance so it may not matter at all.

As for scenery judging half of the score is based on the subjective look of the park in the eyes of the judges, so you will be judged on how the park's appearance.

[Bokkie]

Li'll preview :

I need to color the ground still..


http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_01.jpg

[DWWilkin]

Oy Vey... That coaster looks pretty intense!!! Good work!

[KoasterKid23]

Yeah, awesome coaster! I like how you put the rotodrop in the center of the helix...very cool! Keep up the good work!:D :up:

[Bokkie]

Originally posted by DWWilkin
I loaded up the park as if I was an entrant, put in a chicken stand and all the variety of chicken were for sale. So I think that is working...

Perhaps I need to hear back on what stalls explicity don't have items for sale?

Try the spooky shakes to mention one, it sells only one brand of shakes. Same for spooky & witches hats, burgers, sandwiches and a lot of other boots.

Doesn't matter to much I guess, as long as the peeps can buy different things they're happy.


My park is finished, just the last touch of benches, littercans and lightning, and then my staff.

And then finally I can test it...

Another sneek preview:

The Curch of Alternative Believe with his graveyard :

http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_02.jpg


(btw, why are my screens just links instead of showing the screenshot??)

[DWWilkin]

Sacriledge!!! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

I like it!

[i_feel_sick]

Here's my entry for the 3rd SPC...

"Where Ghosts and Vampires Play" - A fun place for creeps to hang out :D

Clicky clicky (http://img229.echo.cx/img229/7854/wgavp5rp.jpg)

Sry graphics are on low, its my card :( ... can't see the buildings clearly...
Will submit it in a day or two... the uploader on the first page right ??

Hey DDW, whaddup with the 2nd SPC ???

[Maddack]

I finished my park too. I was considering a fireworks show but since that never appealed to me and I never really made one that project was cancelled. uploading and picture soon. Now I will watch Rat Race.

[Bokkie]

Sick one, the raft thingy at the border of the park is nice,
and I like how the wooden coaster and the watersplash ride are combined.

[Maddack]

Okie dokie my park is uploaded. Picture of it on this site (http://maddack.tripod.com)

I feel sick didn't you do that kind of raft and coaster ride in competition one too?

Plus DWW please how slow can you be at judging, really? It should be no more than a week duh.

[KoasterKid23]

Originally posted by Maddack
Okie dokie my park is uploaded. Picture of it on this site (http://maddack.tripod.com)

That looks awesome! You really crammed the rides in there! Great job!:D :up:

[i_feel_sick]

Originally posted by Maddack
I feel sick didn't you do that kind of raft and coaster ride in competition one too?

Nope its the rivevr raft ride.. for the 1st and 2nd SPC, I did the Trams ride around the park... I think a transport ride is very necessary for a "real" park (atleast in the ones i've been in)... Well, and you cant have transport rides in the middle, only around the perimeter (duh?) :D

[Maddack]

Oh. In that case my park isn't "real" :p oh I haven't seen a spooky park anywhere in real life.

I was just wondering because I have seen a picture somewhere with what I described.

[Bokkie]

I do know parks withouth any transportation ride though.

I've searched for some spooky themed parks, but or it's just one or a few spooky rides, or it's a "halloween horror" thing, only open with halloween and no real rides, but actors playing horror scenes as you walk by.

[DWWilkin]

My first park was Kiddie Land in West Los Angeles, since we were very little, it had a ferris wheel and a very small rollercoaster and a Merry go round and some others... It was so small though it did not have a transport ride... Judging is not effected by whether there is a transport ride or not...

[Bokkie]

Still some question 'bout food stalls.

I've run (sorry for bad grammar) my park for a year, and people are complaining, really hungry..

Ofcourse, when you look at the pizza stall, they only offer a veggie slice (no offence for the vegeterians out there)...

Don't know if that has anything to do with the complaining, but the sandwichstall too only has one selling item...

I tried to invent selling items while testing all atractions, but there's not enough time. Tested how long it took, and it was over a month to invent all items (for the stalls I use)


I suggest for the next compo, start the park, invent all items for the stalls and then go back to the scenario editor to select the date and so on..


Btw, pretty impressed by Maddack's park !!

[DWWilkin]

I am not sure that choice is the AI issue over being hungry rather than stalls to peeps ratio... And then price also... Broke Peeps can be hungry but can't afford the price of a cup of coffee...

[Maddack]

I have a suggestion for you Bokkie that I did for the Pizza Stall. I added another veggie slice, renamed it to "Hawaii" (don't ask why) and added all the extras to it. This way I had two different meals. I then raised the price of the slices like crazy. The one with extras costs more (and make more profit) and people actually prefer to buy it! The veggie is there for the cheap people... maybe they want to afford a visit to my expensive toilets!

Originally said by Bokkie:
Ofcourse, when you look at the pizza stall, they only offer a veggie slice (no offence for the vegeterians out there)...
LOL! Good joke! :haha:

[DisneyFREAK1178]

WOW IM SUCH AN IDIOT!! i was looking at the post for 2nd Small Park and i said to myself, wow when does the next one start I wanna join in it. Then I see the post 3rd Small Park. DARN!! I MISSED IT!

Sign me up for the next one!

[DWWilkin]

This contest is still going until this coming Sunday! Go for it DisneyFreak1178, we have had entrants get their parks done in 2 days before...

[DisneyFREAK1178]

r u serious......*tingles* OO OK I"LL DO IT!!! just teach me how to install the park lol srry.

edit woops solved

[DisneyFREAK1178]

Uh oh serious issue. the leveling isn't right! now the shops are a few inches off the ground and ques to rides are hard to make. (and very costly)

Edit: God I'm such a lazy ***. I honestly have to read before I post. Ok well problem solved again. Wow this is fun.

[DisneyFREAK1178]

Ok here it is, my mini park and all it's glory. The money at the top is basically what's left of my money. My gates are going to open exactly on the hour and day you see there.

http://img64.echo.cx/my.php?image=shot00000zw.jpg

Ok from way up there, it looks kinda iffy but at a peep's perspective, it's rather neat.

I could not pick as to what my fav ride was so here are my 4 fav's.

The Haunted River (rapids top left ) - A turbulent tour through the rapids of the haunted forest.

The Bloodsucker - (Virginia Reel top right) - just a regular virginia reel with a cool name

Flight of the Vampire Bat - (Lay down coaster bottom left) - This coaster is a wild, hair-raising ride with near misses to other cars and the track.

Haunted House - (dark ride center) - Inside the main building (which I did much better than expected with) is the dark ride Haunted House. dang I need a better name for it.

[DWWilkin]

Very Cool. And well done. You do have several more days to make more parks should you choose to. KoasterKid generally tries to put a ride in almost every space possible as an example of strategy. I look forward to running your park. Generally I down load parks the last few days of the contest and then at the end of the contest and start the next contest going. After that, it's judging time...

[KoasterKid23]

Originally posted by DWWilkin
KoasterKid generally tries to put a ride in almost every space possible as an example of strategy.
Definately! lol...this gets me introuble when I try to build huge parks though, then the lag monster comes around. :haha: It works out very good with this competition though...

@disneyFREAK
Feel free to use any of my various strategies and probably others...These competitions definately have helped me construct better parks just based on what others have created! Good Luck!

Awesome park by the way! I should finish mine...I totally forgot about it! lol :haha: :haha:

[DWWilkin]

I just counted, and perhaps this time we have 7 entrants so far!!! That would be great. Now that the Soaked beta has ended, perhaps those who were in the Beta can get back to the fun work of the Small Park Coaster Competitions!!!

[DisneyFREAK1178]

ok guys that's not necesarilly my full park. It's done and all, but I'm gonna add a few more things to it.

[vortexian]

Originally posted by DWWilkin
I just counted, and perhaps this time we have 7 entrants so far!!! That would be great. Now that the Soaked beta has ended, perhaps those who were in the Beta can get back to the fun work of the Small Park Coaster Competitions!!!
Make that 8. Let's see if I can make a good park:)

[DisneyFREAK1178]

Ok, I'm closing in on one year. What do I do when the year is up?

[DWWilkin]

Great Vortexian


DisneyFreak: Do you have a saved park version? The idea is you submit the park as close to March 1, year 1 as you can and the judges run it for you. As a strategy what you do is build the park, save it, run it for a year, read your peeps thoughts, then identifying changes you think you should make, go back to the saved version and make them, and then submit the park. Most of this is contained in the first thread...

Good Luck all!!!

[DisneyFREAK1178]

OOOOOOOOOO. Ok no wonder.

My only issue. What if I can't get it too close to March 1 year 1

Edit: oh wow did I screw it up!!!!!!!!

[DWWilkin]

I find in the sample parks I have done for the contest I can get it to no later than March 9th and even earlier, (March 2nd) Just hit pause right away, when building coasters, put them in test mode and have the construciton window open and watch the ghost cars. It all works out...

[DisneyFREAK1178]

uh oh. I think I'm in a jam. U see, I thought you meant, make a park, open it and watch how it works. After the year. You save the park and give it to the judges to see the stats after a year of operation.

Hey wait, I may not be in a jam after all. Oh wait, I think I am. Ok I'm gonna check soon.

[vortexian]

This is an example of my park. Nice, don't ya think?
http://img270.echo.cx/img270/7172/shot00165rm.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=shot00165rm.jpg)

A little explaination: Twilight town
Path of peril: purple coaster at the edges of the park.
Witch Brew: river rapids.
-Down for Maintainance- Fair: Area with the merry-go-round, ferris wheel and top spinner.
Haunted house: crowd attractor and just a haunted house.
Twilight Manor: Haunted Hotel in the Back
Bat Fright Flight: Light blue coaster
Heath of the graveyard races: Go karts between the Down for Maintainance fair and the haunted house.

Be c:cool:l

One more thing. I uploaded the park. Now just wait?:bored:

[Bokkie]

Some screens, (two already posted.)

Overview
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_04.jpg



Entrance, I tried to make a spooky town feeling..
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_08.jpg



Church of Alternative belief & his graveyard.
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_02.jpg



Detail
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_09.jpg



Detail
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_07.jpg



One of the two coasters.
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_01.jpg



Entrance of the coaster & broken castle field with spin ride thingy.
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_05.jpg



Detail of the exit.
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_03.jpg



Second coaster
http://users.pandora.be/bok/RCT/Spooky_06.jpg



Just a little knowledge, all atractions are named of famous witches !! (check google, first hit hehe)

[DWWilkin]

We are getting some great stuff now!

This is becoming very cool. I got my RCT 3 almost back to normal from the Soaked thingie, (no can't say a word...) and so I can start work on contest 4... Western Theme... Which we will start sometime on Memorial Day Weekend.

David

[vortexian]

Nice work Bokkie. Only which attraction is called Baba Yaga?:p

[Maddack]

Wow some very cool parks here... This competition just keeps getting better and better...

edit: Now if we could get the winner of 2nd contest this year...

I can be judge in competition #4, I have never built a western theme park, and don't feel like it either :P

/TCWarrior

[vortexian]

I just noticed that the site where we should upload our park is gone. What happened?:eek:

[DWWilkin]

Yikes...

Well either two things,

1, the site is down temporarily

or

2 we no longer have pages their

So TikiTiki, are you about? Any clues? (Tikitiki also has been immersed in Soaked and had cleared his work load so he could do that instead of focus on this...)

Otherwise you can always PM me and I will send you my email and you can send me your park, which i will then distrubute to the other judges...

[DisneyFREAK1178]

Ok my park is fine and completely built but I think I screwed up what I was supposed to do. I'll join the next one and get it right I swear. But as of now:

My park is currently saved in year 2 on July 16. I don't have a file of the park before it opens.

[Bokkie]

PM'ed Wilkin too for my park.

Btw, all parks have to be in before some hour, in wich hourthingy is this ? (gmt 0?, I'm gmt+0100)

Anyway, can't be disqualified now, since we can't upload hehe :D

[DWWilkin]

Hi all

I've pm'd Tikitiki who has access to the site at Nick's Video where we host the parks. I haven't heard back from him yet.

You can Pm me and I will give out my email address. I then will accept your park.

As for a deadline. It is May 21st 11:59PM your timezone. (If you are up after midnight that night, you are up way too late on this. Go to sleep ;) ) But I think everyone will be done by then so good luck, god speed, and all the best (Boo!!!)

[tikitiki]

It seems either the upload folder has been deleted, or moved, or the name has been changed. In the mean time I will be looking at providing alternative upload meathods.

Cheers Tikitiki

[KoasterKid23]

Everyone's Parks look awesome! Here is a quick preview of my work...just one pic for now, more pics tommorow!

http://img290.echo.cx/img290/7387/skullpark4gg.jpg

I hope you guys get the uploader up and ready! Good luck!:D :up:

[Maddack]

Nice idea there Kid! Why not colour the water in red or green too?

Looks like the floor is buried in the land too... haha RCT3 bugs!

[DisneyFREAK1178]

Hey DWWilkin. Check your user cp for a pm i sent you.

[i_feel_sick]

So the official uploader's down.. so where do we host the park save file??? This is the last day today.. right?

[DWWilkin]

KoasterKid---SkullPark... Wow, I like the pumpkins...

Disney--I have tried to reply to your PM for 2 days but your box is full ;) Hey if the gang says you could resubmit, as we have had done in the past, maybe they will be able to give you a couple more days.

Sick---I'm Pming you with my email address so you can send me the park. I hope TikiTiki will have the upload site working soon.


All The contest ends tonight at midnight your time. We will start the next go round over memorial day weekend here in the states (that's one week.) If our other judges do not chime in soon, I will be looking for a few other judges to go back for Competition 2 and this one...

David

[DisneyFREAK1178]

ok well, i fixed it now. srry didn't realize it.

[KoasterKid23]

Hey everyone! I have been working hard at making a cool little video of Skull Park! I am not very good at moviemaking, but I think it turned out very cool! This movie is kinda skippy. Overall the movie is 2 minutes and 12 seconds long. You get to ride the main attractions of Skull Park. The full on ride video is of Goblin...the white and green hyper coaster. Enjoy!

http://rapidshare.de/files/1917000/Skull_Park_Final_-_Small.wmv.html

I will be emailing Skull Park to DWWilkin later today! Sorry if it is a little late, hope you guys dont mind:) . I had to do some tweaking and whatnot before I send it in.

[wickedfan07]

Any idea what the new theme will be? I couldn't enter this one either due to personal reason, showever the next one will be running after school lets out, giving me MUCH more time to work on RCT3 stuff. So, I was just wondering if anyone had any idea about what the next park is going to be.

Happy gaming
wickedfan

[DWWilkin]

Hi all...

I have four entrants turned into me as of now. If there are others (Wicked sorry you had to drop, hey guess what is now touring in LA (or will be shortly) should I go. I have been listening to the cast recording. I like Popular...) please PM me for my email, or put them up on the web so I can download it.

The next theme which I will be hammering out this week is... Western... (we haven't done that yet.) I am thinking we should follow this with Generic which would be up in July, and then follow that by our first Soaked competition...

I am open to hearing your thoughts on this however. I have not built out the park yet for Western so if there are some definite opinions, please let me know.


David

[vortexian]

Four entries? Which entries excactly?

EDIT: I also have a nice western starting scenario for you to practice. http://rapidshare.de/files/1920573/Desertbasetest.dat.html

[DWWilkin]

The four entries I have are

Bokkie
Vortexian
I Feel Sick
KoasterKid

Maddack, with the site down, I can't get to your uploaded park, can you send it to me?

Now for judging...

I hate to say it but our other judges are not as forthcoming as they have been previously.

Perhaps it is time to try something different.

I have forms that do the various ratings. For the most part they come in the same except on subjective which can be worth half the score.

What if I let the entrants judge each others park, that is you run the park to 10/31 record the data and send it back to me. I then put that in my database. On the subjective part, you will be grading everyone else but your own. This then will be averaged together... Any thoughts or comments? Or perhaps we will hear from our judges...

[Bokkie]

That's good for me.

Everyone gets one park?

[DWWilkin]

The way I have it is everyone looks at all the parks, runs them and submits their results in various categories (like profit on 10/31, etc...) Entrants run all parks but their own...

David

[i_feel_sick]

Hey guys,
The idea of judging each other's park is great. But not for me, as I will be away from my system in just 2-3 days :( Off to university.. So no RCT3 for me for a long, long time... So things may not go as planned...
BTW, what bout the judging of Retro Sci-fi...?

[DWWilkin]

I was thinking we should do it for Retro also... My judging is all done, but I think to be unbiased we should have more than just one judge..

[DisneyFREAK1178]

I'd be happy to judge if you want! Just tell me what to do!

[vortexian]

I would have no problem with judging. I already wanted to ask if everybody would upload and post their park after the contest was over.

[DWWilkin]

I will publish the parks to the web
then send out the details in a later post.

I still need to get Maddack's park

I will also send out a post of the grading sheet. Does everyone have access to excel or a spreadsheet program?

[tikitiki]

Looks like I can't do anything about the uploader at this point :(

Though I will try to get another one up soon!

Cheers Tikitiki

[vortexian]

I have access to excel. Only my computer has a bit of a problem which means that I can't play RCT3 for a while. I will notify you as soon as it works again.
EDIT: it works again, although the main problem isn't solved. It can happen anytime again.

[tikitiki]

Yet again, now MatrixNetworks is down :( which where I was setting up the uploader...gawd this is crazy

[DWWilkin]

Originally posted by vortexian
I have access to excel. Only my computer has a bit of a problem which means that I can't play RCT3 for a while. I will notify you as soon as it works again.
EDIT: it works again, although the main problem isn't solved. It can happen anytime again.

I had a similar problem at the end of the first contest, and had to send my computer back to the manufacturer for a week to be repaired...

Good luck!

[vortexian]

With me, the problem isn't THAT big. there only is a minor problem with the electrical power. As long as I don't have turn him off, there's no problem.

[Bokkie]

Play non stop then :D

[Maddack]

I have been away all week, so I couldn't log on here. I PM:ed you the link to my park DW.

Yes please try judging like that in the last two competitions. I don't have excel though :bored:

[DWWilkin]

Judging

Here is a layout of the what we need to judge for competitions 2 and 3. I think at this point in time the best way to do this will be to open this up to all of the current entrants...

Don't judge your own park

I shall provide in the next few posts links to each competitions parks so you can download them

Then you can fill out the judging sheet and email me your results. You can PM me, or you can post your results in a post and I shall compile it. Perhaps if we want we can start a seperate thread for the judging (chime in please)

Here is the form and a link to the excel form I use:
Park Name
Entrant
Judge

##
# of Peeps in park 10/31
Park Rating 10/31
FPS 10/31 (rename a peep "FPS")

$$
Cost of Park
Remaining $$ (100,000- Cost of Park)

$$
Cash 10/31
Profit 10/31 (This is current cash-Remaining $$ from above)
Park Value 10/31
Company Value 10/31

# Fireworks (3)

# Shops
# Food Stalls
# Drink Stalls
# Other
Total of (18)

# Janitors
# Mechanics
# Security
# Entertainers
Total of (18)

## Excitement
# Coasters (3)
# Junior (6)
# Thrill (12)
# Gentle (6)
# Other Rides (6)

Total Rides/Excitement
Average Excitement

Subjective Rating 1-10


http://rapidshare.de/files/2572839/SmallPark.xls.html

to use the form, or send me feedback, we of course need your name, and the park you are judging. Take the financial readings

Then run the park, you can do this at FF until 10/31. Rename a peep if you want to award the optional FPS award please... Then record the other numbers. Some like # of staff and stalls is to ensure the submitted park is within the guidelines.

In each of the categories of rides add the total of those rides 5 thrill rides of average excitement of 3 each means 15 excitement points on that line. This is a validation to ensure that the numbers I have are correct.

The judging is 5 points for first place, 4 for second, etc in these categories:

Least cost of Park
Most Peeps
Highest Park Rating
Greatest Profit
Highest park Value
Highest Company Value
Highest Total excitement
Highest average excitement

and then the subjective rating which is worth 4 to 40 points. Your score of 1 to 10, times 4 is the value...

Any questions, please ask.

[DWWilkin]

3rd Competition Spooky entries needing your judging:

I feel Sick:
http://rapidshare.de/files/2536550/IfeelSickSpooky.dat.html

Vortexian:
http://rapidshare.de/files/2536586/vortexianspooky.dat.html

Bokkie:
http://rapidshare.de/files/2536610/SpookyPark_Bokkie.dat.html

KoasterKid:
http://rapidshare.de/files/2579442/Skull_Park--KoasterKid23.dat.html

Maddack:
http://rapidshare.de/files/2579471/SpookyMaddack.dat.html

[DWWilkin]

The Judging is in...

THe Winner is:

Maddack

Followed by a tie for second of Bokkie and KoasterKid

In third we have Vortexian

And no slouch giving us a great effort is I feel Sick...

Each of these parks were a lot of fun.

Maddack's is outstanding, and with Maddack's permission I would like to post it to the thread again...