RCT Welcome To My Worlds

[Thx]

Hello everyone, Thx here, first post.

I have been playing the Rollercoaster Tycoon series for more than ten years now.

I started with RCT-1 and cut my teeth on the Razor Rocks scenario, that's the first time I really felt like a "Tycoon" and pretty much maxed out the game.

RCT-1 was a lot of fun, but it was frustrating when it came to building structures with the very limited scenery available.

(You ended up making "buildings" out of raised terrain and covering them with pathway rooves, lol.)

For years I played 2, but nowadays I build in RCT-3 pretty much exclusively.

Here are some screen shots of my latest projects, post your own if you like...

My latest park is named "The Plaza" and is so named for the large glass shopping center off to the right in this nightime aerial view...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0421_zps5a1e7ea2.png

It is still very much a work in progress so I have the roof off, but there are three swimming pools, one rollercoaster so far and a half-dozen thrill rides along with the shops and food court...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0124.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0103.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0149.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0145.jpg

The Plaza is not just an amusement park, but is really designed to be a whole community with hi-rise resorts, office towers, restaurants, theaters, etc along with rollercoasters and thrill rides.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0140-2.jpg

Much more to come, love RCT shop-talk and don't be shy about sharing your favorite screen shots.

And thanks in advance!

Thx :smallsmile:

[Storm Bringer]

first off: welcome to the Playground!


second: I wish i was half as good at park design as you appear to me. I want that park.:smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:

kudos

[Thx]

first off: welcome to the Playground!


second: I wish i was half as good at park design as you appear to me. I want that park.:smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:

kudos

Thanks, and I'll be sure to put up the game file either here or somewhere when I get the park open which I am shooting for early spring.

It will have been almost a full year of development by then.

Here is one of the latest projects for the park, the Wedge building...

I wanted a condominium for permanent residence as opposed to another resort, something just under 2000 sg. feet, here is the beginning...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0294_zpsaf7fe07b.png

Modern, split-level, the wedge shape was bold, but would prove challenging to lay out a workable interior...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0300_zps59db6fa6.png

Fortunately I can save structures and lay out a bunch to mess around with, here is a typical if not neat and organized build site, this building took two separate ones...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0314_zpsa93e3060.png

Finally you have the floor plan all figured out and set the windows and lighting and maybe a few ornaments...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0305_zps26061484.png

I still don't have much in the way of custom interior scenery like furniture so I have to improvise as much as possible. (And that can be of one of the fun aspects if you look at it that way, there will always be some scenery you need but don't have, lol.)

Here I tried to build from the "inside-out" as much as possible to include a kitchen, mock furnished living room, master bedroom/bath floorplan with room to add another bedroom and bath over the kitchen...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0384_zps887b85ef.png

While the wedge shape was selected with the exterior foremost in mind, I knew that the large angled glass would afford breathtaking views from every room...

Two of these units would be joined together in pairs and then a number of pairs stacked upon a lobby...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0325_zps80072a9a.png

Inside there is room for the resident elevator and two enormous Lexan truss rods depicted here in red...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0316_zps1fd8652f.png

The truss rods are sunk deep into bedrock, four giant bolts put tension on the Lexan rods and keep the whole building rigid and not just sitting on top of a foundation, but firmly fastened to bedrock.

Now we are ready for a platform to build the stack upon, here is a shot of the lobby with the roof off...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0322_zps91195e91.png

Inside we have a couple fountains, some plants, a few vases a lobby desk and a full buffett, coffee and soda bar, compliments of the house.

Here is the finished lobby, ready to start stacking...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0386_zps464ee0a6.png

But wait a second there Hoss, we're not quite ready yet... what's going to go on the very top of the skyscraper?

I could have just capped off a pair of condos at the top of the central joining member and put a red light on that, but I really wanted a structure at the top and considered several shapes including a star-like pointed structure, a lightning bolt shape, but finally settled for... another wedge.

The Skybar...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0388_zps95d7d2d5.png

A semi-glass roof and stratospheric view do more to put you in the clouds than even the generous drinks they pour. Don't worry, a sheet of that armor glass could easily support two elephants jumping up and down on it as though it were a trampoline. (Even pink elephants...:wink )

Here is the Skybar with the roof off...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0326_zps54a904f0.png

Another buffet table for happy hour, some tables without chairs, (no good chairs yet :/ ) plants, the same ol' large vases and a small bar with the biggest view around.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0389_zpse5aef116.png

So, we put the Skybar on the top and start stacking pairs of condos... (the bar is not depicted in this screen, so you are not going crazy, lol)

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0385_zps1fd757c9.png

After a number of levels you finally put the whole thing on top of the lobby...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0323_zps24733b9b.png

Instead of building from the ground floor up, in RCT3 you build from the top level, save it, then put down another level, what will end up the next lower level and stack what you have saved on top of that... then save again and repeat as often as you need, with this technique you can build much higher than the old method of 5 or 6 stories, I can go 100 if I want.

All the way into the sky...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0339_zpsec4b6330.png

I decided seven levels and the Skybar would be tall enough, I had originally planned on ten levels but thought that was too tall for this park in the end...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0338_zpsa72270d3.png

It almost resembles a vertical windmill and I did have the idea of letting it turn maybe once every 15 minutes or so and everyone gets an equal view: everything.

Even though there are only seven levels of condos, remember they are two-story and spaced twenty feet, so altogether you are about 300 feet up at the Skybar...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0341_zps4d2b731d.png

And of course we have a wedge-shaped swimming pool in the back built over steep cliffs...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0353_zpse1f777e2.png

I really wondered where I could put this tall structure, I sure didn't want it in the front blocking our view of other buildings like the Trocadero, so I flattened a hill and put the Wedge building among the steep hills in the back of the park.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0334_zps5e728670.png

So there we have it, from concept to finished building...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0370_zps4f980274.png

And I just finished this Chinese restaurant: The Pink Panda...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0442_zpsb80cbb00.png

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0430_zpsb3380596.png

There is a bit more to do to the restaurant, a sign, some more shrubbery and maybe some pink neon accents...


Much of the space you see here will have thrill rides, so I don't have too awful much more to go. lol

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT3%20second%20album/Shot0439_zps310950d8.png

Thanks again for the welcome and nice comments and don't forget to post a few screen shots if you guys like.

Thx

[Acanous]

Wow, that's some crazy architecture. The wedge-complex makes me wonder if a building like that would be possible in the real world, and how much it would cost to make.

I'd feel rather insecure with my whole living quarters hanging from a concrete spire by afew I-beams and rebar.

[Isak]

That... Is... Awesome!

Personally, I've always been in it for the Coasters myself... Back in the RCT1/2 days, I was pretty darn good at doing recreations of real life coasters. Had a fairly decent reputation for it at the old RCT Station site.

Themeing/Building design was something I was never terribly good at though. Decent, I could build an OK station for my spotlight coasters... but no where NEAR what you can do :smalleek:

That looks awesome though! Keep up the good work, and I'd be happy to see it once it's done! :smallbiggrin:

[Thx]

Wow, that's some crazy architecture. The wedge-complex makes me wonder if a building like that would be possible in the real world, and how much it would cost to make.

I'd feel rather insecure with my whole living quarters hanging from a concrete spire by afew I-beams and rebar.

Thanks, glad you guys like the pics.

Well, if the building were made of cement and rebar, I wouldn't feel confident with it either... that's why I had thick steel in mind for the central column, boiler-plate, along with steel, composites and Lexan for the condos...

No cement at all except for the pool...

Lexan is a polymer similar to Nylon and I had envisioned a couple beams running under the floors and connecting a condo with the adjacent one.

Like Nylon, Lexan wil bend and twist, but takes Herculean forces to break... so if a condo broke where it meets the central column, it might lean, but it will not detach...

And as far as costs, yes, these would be very expensive, maybe 5 or 6 million each or more even.

I thought maybe they could sell off all but the top two condos and have a weekly lottery drawing with a weekend stay at the top of the Wedge as a prize...

But yes, for less than 2,000 sq. ft. these are extremely pricey, Tokyo prices, lol.

Here are some more pics from the park...

This is the Blue Taj Cineplex with the roof off...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0216-1.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0226.png

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0225.png

Here is the Trocadro nightclub...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0190.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0193.jpg

These were made with no custom scenery...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/Shot0198.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT-3%20album%204/Shot0474_zps915f0c8d.png

And the very latest, a Farrell's ice cream parlor...

Here the interior...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT-3%20album%204/Shot0462_zps2f66645b.png

And here pretty much finished...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT-3%20album%204/Shot0499_zps7d1df7f5.png

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT-3%20album%204/Shot0492_zps6d3bcdbe.png

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT-3%20album%204/Shot0473_zps179fcf9b.png

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj68/THX1138album/RCT-3/RCT-3%20album%204/Shot0498_zps625d8482.png

Thx