Roller Coasters Project Cosmos: Orion - Planet Coaster Record Breaking Floorless

[mudvayneimn]

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Ride Blueprint

[video=youtube;rXTL46KZ-QM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTL46KZ-QM[/video]

This is Orion, part one of Project Cosmos - a three part release of some older material - finally finished. Each ride in Cosmos utilizes familiar B&M elements with a more stylized, unique twist.

Orion is the tallest, fastest, and longest floorless coaster, with the most inversions. The flow incorporates some of the newer B&M aspects, with familiar element flows, with some unique inverting elements.

The Stats:
Length: 4,500 ft.
Height: 190 ft.
Drop: 182 ft.
Speed: 71 mph
Ride Time: 2 minutes, 4 seconds
Inversions: 8 (143 ft. Tall Loop, Dive Loop, Flat Zero-G Roll, Astral Roll, 2 Corkscrews, Cosmic Immelmann
Max Positive G-force: 5.02
Max Negative G-force: -0.8
Max Lateral G-force: 1.77

Ratings:
Excitement - 5.82
Fear - 4.00
Nausea - 1.41

 

[wowman]

wow

 

[tricktrack]

That´s a wonderful layout! It flows so well and has great transitions. The only minor quibble is the last corkscrew it seems to enter the element a bit too abruptly, but those corks are almost impossible to get right in PlanCo.
The fact that this layout doen´t have at least an 8 for excitement shows how off the rating system is. Inversions don´t seem to excite those little PlanCo-peeps at all.

 

[mudvayneimn]

Thank you for the compliments on the ride. I agree about that stretch, it actually kept me from releasing it for the last two months. The unfortunate drawback of trying to create a smooth, realistic, new-age B&M looping layout is that lower excitement rating. I found that smoothing the transition to the corkscrew even a little bit more (for realism) affected the rating even more. I ended up settling, gotta keep a massive ride bringing in the guests!

 

[tricktrack]

Thank you for the compliments on the ride. I agree about that stretch, it actually kept me from releasing it for the last two months. The unfortunate drawback of trying to create a smooth, realistic, new-age B&M looping layout is that lower excitement rating. I found that smoothing the transition to the corkscrew even a little bit more (for realism) affected the rating even more. I ended up settling, gotta keep a massive ride bringing in the guests!

Yes, I noticed that too: smoothing out the kinks in the track leads to lower excitement. PlanCo peeps are all masochists!