Maybe someone of you may have noticed the sketches and the concept arts of the developers... I saw something like a coaster car for a Intamin Highspeed Accellerator... This may mean that you can finally build your own Formula-Rossa like Rollercoaster. I wonder what the maximum launch speed could be....
Dev Diary #2 - Rewarding Creativity (Gameplay, UI and coaster building included!)
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They have said that they're going for a piece-by-piece system, but obviously one that you can heavily manipulate. I have a feeling that they will provide you with a variety of different piece-lengths in order to make every possible configuration possible.
I know what you mean.... Alpha/Beta access is pretty expensive on it's own. Nearly $50. I'll probably get it though...if I manage to buy a new computer. I just can't justify spending an addition $40 for CC.
Hahaha well done!
The game still has one year of development left. That's....a really- really- long time.
As for the coaster footage...showing off their coaster designer was not the purpose of this video; this video was created to show off their "modular building system" and how scenery will influence your guests' experiences/interactions. The coaster was just included to demonstrate how you can bring the two together...enhance its looks, rating, etc. Their roller coaster designer will most likely get it's own dev diary.
That said, they still do have a long way to go, especially when it comes to optimizing the game. If you re-watch the video you'll see that the game is current averaging 35 FPS, which is barely playable- if at all, and that's on beefy systems. But the game is still in development, just like RCTW, which people don't seem to realize that what you're seeing is not representative of the final game.
I have every faith in Frontier...
there is still nearly a year of development don't forget it, they will show us over the time 
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I'm hoping for a world where you have about 7 plots of expandable land on each world. You then have a monorail and highway connecting each. On one of the plots of land you build your parking lots and roads like in Cities Skylines. There can even be smaller plots of land within the world for resorts.
I still don't get what kind of info we get when we join Coaster Club. Is it worth it?
You really have to try to find stuff wrong with the game at this point. I mean, using pieces to construct coasters, that can be morphed and shaped into any angle, giving the flexibility of nodes but the simplicity of placing pieces is outdated? Only seen two coaster types two months since dev diaries have started, when the game is to release in like 6-7 months? What had RCTW shown in in two months of dev diaries, absolutely nothing. One single screenshot, if lucky.
Do you not appreciate the effort that goes into these? You call this "lack of information"? This is 20x more information than RCTW has ever released. Besides this, you'd be getting a written development blog each week if you spent a little money on the Coaster Club.
And where have you not seen "actual gameplay" footage? Look with your eyes, the two devlogs are full of them. First devlog is mostly wireframe footage, because that was all that was accomplished at the time. This devblog showed the amazing, beautiful, and not pre-rendered, terrain system, building system, and engine as a whole, plus a tease at the coaster building.
Now be patient. There is still 4 more dev diaries to be released before open-alpha starts. By then your speculation will be viable, but now, it's too soon. [yesnod]
The main devlog is a video and posted about once a month as stated by one of the staff.
RCTW has vertices, and even that isn't smooth. Unfortunately, this is a game, not a coaster simulation. The only way to get perfectly smooth coasters is to use a professional tool, which I consider No Limits to be.
However, just because Planet Coaster uses pieces doesn't mean it will work against you to be as rough and jagged possible. I'm sure it will be smooth, and easy to use; current polish in all aspects shows us it will. If you still don't have faith, don't purchase the game. [noob]
However, the developers read the forum, so I'm sure your input will be taken into account. I wish my Linux port idea was taken into account. *wink* *wink* [squeeeeee]
However, just because Planet Coaster uses pieces doesn't mean it will work against you to be as rough and jagged possible. I'm sure it will be smooth, and easy to use; current polish in all aspects shows us it will. If you still don't have faith, don't purchase the game. [noob]
However, the developers read the forum, so I'm sure your input will be taken into account. I wish my Linux port idea was taken into account. *wink* *wink* [squeeeeee]
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How do you know it doesn't give that control? There was only like a total of 5 seconds of footage showing the coaster editor.
And we are not going to get the level of precision that No Limits offers. No Limits is its own beast, and it should stay that way.
Don't worry, it's still way early in development, we haven't seen the coaster editor in its entirety so judging it is completely premature. I have faith it will be great!
About 30 seconds into the dev diary, you can see a wall covered with pictures of the models for coaster cars for about 7 or 8 different coaster types. I know they don't show the track so it might not count as showing a full coaster type, but it atleast shows that we will have a great variety in the game.
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