Please makes water slide physics fun again

Dear Frontier, when you first announced water parks, I was really enthusiastic about building water slides: build crazy slides with hills and turns so that riders don't get thrown out of the tube was a lot of fun in RCT3 and it was what made them great.
After seeing your Videos about the slides I realized, there only seem to be some kind of coaster physics we're the rider/slider is glued to the track middle. No swinging up to the sides of a high speed curve, no falling out of the tube if the curves walls are to low or the hill to small and in the special elements it seems to follow a preplanned path, too.
Why even add higher side walls to a slide if the rider is stuck to the middle and there is no risk of falling out. This just doesn't make sense (or it is only for them to look more realistic, but with no gameplay effect).
Please take a deep dive look in how your own RCT3 soaked addon, which got this better realized 20 years ago...

I get the feeling when I watch your Videos, that you maybe had something planned here, but maybe it was to complicated or pc resource intensive, that you decided to cheap out and made slides reusing the coaster physics.
I mean even on the special Elements you show the pre-planned coaster path the sliders will take ...
Maybe the collision would need too much resources for real slide physics, but just let them swing up to the sides and when there is no slide below them (because they swung up too high) fall of the track...
Pleeaaassee give us physics back, that is an quite essential feature in my opinion. I hope I got it right, because my english isn't the best (and I can't change the title anymore).
 
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This is so Right. How come that soaked did this better? I hope that this was just because it was on an alpha version.
Game developers tend to simplify games too much. I remember understood the concept of a coaster physics and flumes when as a child. Surely my designs wern't realistic, but I did have fun to understand why my guests would fly off my flumes and find ways to fix it. This was really great.
Beside all this, seeing peoples just stuck to slides is just pretty ugly, disapointing and sad to see on a such great game.


Nevertheless I understand that Dev must find a way to satisfy most of gamers and some might find it annoying to struggle to build what they want.
But D@*%! Please (not only Frontier though) stop lowering the level of thinking to make life easier for players, an esay life never helps to grow and in fact it is the darkness that makes plants search for light if you see what i mean.

Sorry, I usually never complains but I thought if only one person did complains, this would never get a chance to change...and I'd really like this to change.
 
I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thinks this. I've been wating for a great water park game like RCT3 Soaked since PC1 came out. Please Devs, give the riders and dummies going down water slides physics. Please, nail it in the ball park with this water park aspect of the game and I'll play this game to Kingdom come!

 
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