How can Frontier promote this?

[tyczj]

Mind posting the example of the sloped brakes? Curious to see the degree/angling at play.

there are plenty of coasters that have a sloped brake/block brake section that head back into the station

The problem is, and always has been even back to the RCT3 days, that Frontier seem to fixated on basing each of their coasters on one single coaster in real life - not using a lot of the same manufacturer/track design for a larger sample of examples. I'm no expert by any means on coaster manufacturers and types, but I don't see why we can't have it set up so that we
- a) select a track type
- b) select a compatible car type
- c) build the track with as much freedom as is technically possible for the combination of selected track and car.

All that instead of having a different coaster listed for each of the single real world examples that Frontier have chosen. It would make the menu look tidier and more organised too.

To give an example, the curved lift-hill restriction was removed on the Anubis hypercoaster. That uses the exact same B&M style track as most of the other coasters in the game. Surely if it's possible on that one, then it should be possible on the others too? [weird]

Now I'm not saying that it is necessarily possible for a B&M track like that to have a curved chain-lift, but my point is that if they are able to allow it on one of the B&M coasters, surely it should be exactly the same on the others? It voids any "realism" excuse for the other types that use the exact same track.

This is exactly how coasters should be organized, I never understood why there is a need to have a coaster type for every train type even though its the same track type. Allowing track selection would significantly reduce the coaster menu clutter instead of having what is basically the same coaster listed multiple times.

If applying restrictions was the decision behind this then base the restrictions on the train type that would would select after the track type. Alpha 1 already allowed you to change the train style so we know it can be done

 

[BigDragon]

Mind posting the example of the sloped brakes? Curious to see the degree/angling at play.

Storm Runner at HersheyPark is equipped with sloped brakes. It also has a switch track station and a rapid change from right bank to left bank. See https://rcdb.com/2498.htm .

Sloped magnetic brakes are common now. However, there are examples of sloped friction brakes too.

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This is exactly how coasters should be organized, I never understood why there is a need to have a coaster type for every train type even though its the same track type. Allowing track selection would significantly reduce the coaster menu clutter instead of having what is basically the same coaster listed multiple times.

Completely agree with you. I've never liked the separation. It always seemed like it was for marketing purposes rather than engineering purposes. A lot of coasters have the same exact track but simply use a different train based on the forces encountered on the ride.