Perhaps a few tweaks and compromises would work here:
- Reduce the size of some of the hitboxes. A Coaster doesn't need 10m of clearance above the height of the track, the height of a car with a passenger's outstetched arms is enough.
- Add some more 'placable' themeing within the track rides, such as the log flume/rubber rings, we don't just want rapids, we want waterfalls too.
- When placing a blueprint ride, have the option to "delete" any scenery that's stopping it from being placed
- When building tracked ride/coasted had an option to *delete* any scenery that's stopping it from being placed,
On the last 2 points, just put a red box around the item that will be deleted, make it a switchable thing. It's so annoying trying to make a coaster and it wont let you place a track segment because there's a rock or tree in the way, you have to exit editing the coaster delete the rock edit the coaster track and try again, often to find you need to edit another one. Sometimes I've themed an area of my park, then decide I want to add an additional ride and this is quite honestly tiresome.
Being able to build scenery above/around tracks is really important, most "runaway mine train" type rides have scenery that looks like you're about to smash into something that you narrowly miss and is all part of the ride, but I have to build the coaster with huge amounts of clearance.
