Thanks David.
As you and others may or may not have noticed the RCTHQ forums became the RCGHQ forums because I intend to support all of the 3DRCG's that come out including TVPC. I feel that having multiple competitive games will only enhance the Amusement Park experience.
Key issues that I am mainly looking for include,
Ride accuracy to the original, particularly where flat rides are concerned, Darkness by Default within all structures, a True 3D grid or off grid mode, perhaps an alignment manager that allows placement of all objects around a 360 degree pie at 1 degree increments. A plug or anchor point system as tiny dots by the thousands within a park area, as mentioned an alignment manager, a flat ride tool box to concockt new flat rides types, importation of 3D scenery both static and animated, a track ride event construction kit, and finally a true building generator.
The biggest quark I had with RCT3 was that building pieces and placement were essentially in 2D like RCT1. A building generator that lets you take a squared, rectangular, circular, and even pyramid shaped structure and quickly customize, stretch, add propertiy types to, mix and match styles, and than face it any direction plop it down, be able to pick it up and replace it where you want it is the quick easy solution to making things in true 3d the way it should be.
Yes you can still have the separate scenery pieces, but a BG is a big item for many who want to say create and stretch a giant space oval over their space mountain, or create New Orelean's style structures including a Haunted Mansion in seconds and plop down an entire town within a few minutes.
Chuck the copy protection, learn from Atari's failure with secure rom, that the game is usually broken and pirated online sometimes before its even released. Stop punishing those of us who pay. Why allow those who would steal it to have the luxury of a broken copy while those of the true consumers have a copy protected version. Its time to shead the CP and the CD only read access and just let your customer's install and use it, plus you save money by not CP'ing it. Yeah I respect you as a fellow Publisher your needs financially, but honestly, you remove many headaches by foregoing extravagant CP on it. There will always be the dirty rats who steal, but there will also be the greater majority who support honest endeavors too. respect those customers and their happiness via word of mouth will sell your products bigtime. Install CP on them and you risk similar Atari type products. Anyhow those are my own feelings on the issues.
But yes, I intend to be involved with all of the RCG's to come out. Honestly David, with Chris suing Atari, my gut feeling is he will get back ownership rights through the courts if what he claims actually happened and I tend to think it probably did. That being the case, it will be interesting to see if Chris revives the RCT legend, but I rather doubt that too. But I honestly support all the RCG's, it will be interesting to see who comes out with what first and how they implement it. I am hoping you will make everything off grid or 360 alignment active when you come out with the PC version of TV.
Remember while it may not seem like it, accuracy especially on flat rides is a big key to a great many things.
