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Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Extreme Heights

I remember being like 13 or 14 when I had RCT2 and I would play this one because the objective was literally to build the biggest tallest faster coasters you’ve ever built and there are no rules or money, and I would never get far because of both the landscape and the guest amount, but now I’m back with a vengeance, and with the sophistication this game has given me, and I will now build one of the worlds most extreme amusement parks.

My goal is to make every coaster have an excitement of at least 6, and an intensity of at least 9, which for some coasters is harder than you’d think. You just have to have a ton of really small elements compactly placed under a giant lift hill so that the train is speeding through these elements at a wildly unsafe speed. If your coaster could run smoothly at 100 feet tall, make it 200 feet tall.

Again the problem I always have with this parks is the space management, I love to break large open spaces into smaller chunks, so it’s easier to fill with compact coasters. I don’t like when one coaster occupies an entire side of the map. Because of this, my park is taking a really long time, coupled with rebuilding coasters to either get a lower or higher intensity rate.

The thing with this park is you have to from the beginning build like there are already 4,500 guests in the park. Wide and long paths with many courtyards to hold the thousands of people that are going to be crowding the space at a time. I can’t believe in a roller coaster based challenge like this that the game wouldn’t give me every style of coaster? Like not even a wooden coaster this is ridiculous.

I beat the park in September of year 12, with only half the park completed. I expect this park to have about 7,000 people in it. It is now year 16, all my rides are finished, now I just have to theme the entire thing. I have 5,800 guests. Basically as long as your rating stays up you’re going to have people coming into the park regardless if you have new rides.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Extreme Heights (Part 2: Rides)

This park is so extreme I have to split it into multiple posts. Basically this park is difficult because it relies on coasters, and coasters that are hard to build. Every ride in this park has an excitement rating of at least 6, and an intensity rating between 9-10.

So I built a lot of multiples of coasters, and some types of coasters I didn’t build at all. Here is a list of all the types of rides I built:

5 LIM launched coasters, 4 being dueling shuttle coasters, and 1 being a standalone full circuit coaster

4 Giga coasters, 2 launched and 2 with an elevator lift

4 Launched Freefalls

4 Reverse Freefall coasters

2 Mine Train coasters

2 Air Powered Vertical coasters

A Dive coaster

A Corkscrew Coaster

A 4D coaster

A Stand Up Twister coaster

A Suspended Swinging Coaster

A Lay Down coaster

A Twister coaster (Raging Fury)

A Hypercoaster

A Floorless coaster

An Inverted coaster

A Roto Drop

Excitement ratings range from 6.72 (LIM Shuttle) to 10.59 (Launched Giga), while intensity ratings range from 9.05 (Hypercoaster/Dive Coaster) to 9.97 (Twister/4D).

Building these coasters were really hard because not only did I have to build super exciting coasters but I also had to make every one of them in this tiny green zone, and a lot of them I either built too intense or not intense enough, the basic idea of building intense coasters is to make the trans go very fast through small elements, this usually means having negative Gs in the red which is fine, as long as the intensity is right. Coasters like Floorless and LIM coasters don’t need to be changed because their intensity is usually over 9 to begin with.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Silver Group

Since I’m quarantined I finished this whole group in 20 days, and it has a lot of highs and lows, not a lot of variety in scenery, 7 out of 10!parks are in a forest/grassland area, so it’s a rather regular group but I enjoyed it.

My best parks this group have been Extreme Heights, Mineral Park, and Rainbow Summit. Each of these parks gave me a set of restrictions to work by, and I think I exceeded my own expectations of being able to build extreme coasters, coasters in a vertical wall, and terrain coasters. The parks turned out beautifully and the coasters are the main attractions of these parks.

My least favorite parks are Giggle Downs, Lucky Lake, and Coaster Crazy. Compared to the others, these could’ve turned out a lot better, wide open spaces are not the best for me, and I don’t like building over water in general, so these were tough, and they turned out fine but I’m sure someone else could design them much better.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Extreme Heights (Part 3: Theming)

I spent a good 10 years/2 full days theming this park, and my approach was to give each station and ride area it’s own theme, and try to veer away from making everything cohesive, so nothing in this park looks the same, everything stands out.

I started strategizing the paths for this park before even beginning to build, I knew I wanted my flower midways through the entire park, 3-wide paths with flowers down the middle so it’s not just one huge path, so there’s more to look at. I knew that every coaster had to have a courtyard or plaza of some sort, so the main paths wouldn’t get too crowded. I also knew the food had to be off the main paths in either plazas or Bazaars, some which have up to 22 shops. I made sure there are a ton of palm trees everywhere, and that every coaster has its own set of trees or theming.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Rainbow Summit

So knowing that this park is easily one of the (if not THE) hardest parks in roller coaster tycoon, I’ve decided that I’m going to play it as soon as I unlocked it, because just thinking about it makes me stressed and I want to get it over with because I’m confidant I can beat three rest of the parks in this game.

So this park not only has a height limit and a huge guest objective AND no marketing (the part that I’m most worried about), but it also has a pay to enter system, which means it will be harder to make money. This park is HARD.

I’m realizing about halfway through this park that all I have to do to beat this park is to break the game. I have to break roller coaster tycoon in order to achieve my goal. I already have 4 underground shuttle loops, and imma build a bunch more compact exciting coasters underground as well. I think I’ve got this one in the bag. It is April year 2, and I have 2,000 guests. July year 2: 2,430 guests. September year 2: 2500 guests. At this point I have 38 rides including 11 coasters. August year 4: 2,900 guests. This is ridiculous. Too crowded.

Well I beat the park with 3,050 guests, haven’t built a ride since year 2, just basically monitoring paths and guests for 2 years, I’m honestly shocked that I got it first try, and I’ll post a picture of what my park looks like after I beat it, because I know that 80% of this is being demolished when I start my beautification process. But now is the fun part! Designing many terrain style coasters, which I’m good at and I like.

You can do a lot with 35 feet. All of the coasters I’ve built have high excitement ratings, and they becoming higher the more trees are around them. Any type of coaster can be built in this park, if there’s a will there’s a way. There are no underground mega coasters in this park, so what you see is what you get.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Lucky Lake

Compared to other parks like Extreme Heights and Rainbow Summit, Lucky Lake is a breeze, it’s just really annoying because as usual I don’t like building things on water, but I’ve made an exception for this park.

The first thing I did was completely revamp both the mine train coaster and the existing pathways, took out all the bridges on the pathways because they looked ugly, and fixed the mine train so it wouldn’t have to keep going under these pathways, and so it actually had brake runs rather than a small block brake at the end. All of the coasters I built are custom and nothing special really, of course there’s way too many people in this park since it’s a money-free park, so that’s the only problem really.

Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic: Alpine Adventures

I’m letting everyone know right now that I’m about to take some dynamite to some of these mountains. I’m not even going to try to challenge myself with the amount of flat land that is given. It will still look natural I promise.

I only finished this objective with 14 rides? Seems low to me but I guess if u charge 6$ for a coaster u can get anywhere. This challenge was apparently very easy. This park went on longer than I thought it would because destroying mountains is expensive, even though I only took down 3.

The park has 2 main areas, a southern valley and a northern valley, as well as the Summit building. I put all the rides in the valleys, with all the coasters climbing the mountains and venturing into the rest of the park. I really wanted to accentuate the mountains, so everything is very natural and nothing seems out of place.