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Coaster Toaster

Coaster Toaster
Hey,

in the latest livestream they mentioned transport rides (post Alpha2). It would be very cool if the train could cross pathways and people have to wait until the train passed.
In addition people could interact with each other for example waving or people who are angry because of the waiting time.
I don't know if anybody suggested it before but it would add even more realism to this awesome game [big grin]
 

bev1012

bev1012
+1 to this. Reminds me of the train that used to be at Thorpe Park where it would go through some of the park and around a lake to a small farm i think :) I know it crossed though a couple of main paths but i can't quite remember what barrier system it used. I just remember hearing its whistle, everyone stopping & waiting for it to go past. I loved it. Hope we get a path crossing
 

Coaster Toaster

Coaster Toaster
Thanks :) I'm actually from Germany and I live close to a big Theme Park called "Europapark". The barrier system is here only a St Andrew's cross with red lights and a bell.
Something like this would be awesome with cool animations:

Panoramabahn_1920_AT_Europa-Park-01.jpg

eisenbahn01.jpg
 

bev1012

bev1012
Had a thought about actual tunnels as well. Maybe a toggle between just the normal terrain auto-tunnel & a more realistic brick tunnel etc like they use in real parks
 

Coasterbuff

Coasterbuff
DaveB said:
Had a thought about actual tunnels as well. Maybe a toggle between just the normal terrain auto-tunnel & a more realistic brick tunnel etc like they use in real parks
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The Connie Express is an important feature for Planet Coaster and was named by Sam Denny in remembrance of of his Grandmother, who sadly passed away just recently. As we have seen, this beautiful steam locomotive will be one of the highlights of the games Transport Rides, which is still under development. AS we have seen in the recent live stream video, the track that this train will run on, has been lovingly made to look very realistic. I should imagine, there will be track pieces, that can be added, to cross paths, with working barriers and maybe other special track pieces, such as points and crossovers. As far as tunnels are concerned, I assume that we may be able to bore through mountains (similar to the coasters) or raise the land around the tracks to create tunnels (similar to raising land over paths). These tunnels will need to have tunnel entrances built, by using the building pieces, unless Frontier can give us several different ready made tunnel entrances to just place down.

The only thing that was not natural with the Trains in RCT3, were the rather steep track pieces that enabled slopes to be made. This is not natural in real park railways, because trains cannot climb gradients steeper than 1 in 40, without having cog assisted track. So really to be authentic, I just hope they let us build track (similar to the coaster spline method) so that gradual gradients can be made, to climb round a hillside. I am sure that Frontier have thought through all of this and will give us a good set of railway building pieces, for running trains around our parks. Maybe a few more types of locos and carriages to choose from as well.
 
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