Hey everyone! Happy new year! For the first contest of 2025, everyone will have to build a coaster type which is quite rare nowadays: A suspended swinging coaster! You can still find a few of these around the world that were made by companies like Arrow, such Ninja at Six Flags Magic Mountain, or ones that were made by Vekoma, like Dreamcatcher at Bobbejaanland. Some other companies also make similar rides, usually with airplane vehicles, which are more geared towards children or families. These coasters swing freely below the track, so they usually have some helixes that swing the vehicles outward as they pick up speed!
Rules
You are allowed to make teams of up to two people in this round!
Rule 1: You have to build a Suspended Swinging Coaster. You must use the suspended swinging coaster track, but you are allowed to splice in sections of other track.
Rule 2: You must use one of the Suspended Swinging Coaster trains from RCT2 or the official expansions.
Rule 3: The deadline for this contest will be on the 27th of January at 19:00 CET!
Rule 4: For this contest, you are only allowed to use objects from the RCT1 and RCT2 base game and their official expansions, OpenRCT2-official objects, and custom objects that are included in the DKSO v2.5 bench. Custom objects that are not in the DKSO v2.5 bench are not allowed, so make sure you don't use those. You are also allowed to use a custom palette if you want.
Rule 5: The maximum map size for this round is 3600 tiles. This number will be calculated by multiplying the size of the map edges. You could for example make a map that is 72 x 50 tiles, or 60 x 60 tiles.
Rule 6: There is no limit to the amount of opened rides you can have in the park.
Rule 7: Have fun!
How to join
Step 1: Join my Discord server. Discord is completely free!
Step 2: Build your map and decorate it!
Step 3: When you are done with your contest entry, go on Discord, and send the save file to me in a Private Message. For the name of the save file, I want you to simply use the name that you use on Discord. For example, if your discord name is Hex, for the save file name, use Hex.park. After you have sent the save file to me, I will look if it follows the rules, and I will check for anything you can still improve. You can resubmit your entry until the deadline of the round, even if I have already accepted it. Please deselect all unused custom objects before sending in the save file!
Step 4: Submit a story for others to read in the voting poll! You can do this by writing your story in a Private Message to Deurklink on Discord!
After the deadline has passed, I will put up a voting poll with all the entries. In this voting poll, everyone who is a member on my Discord, including you, will be able to rate all the other entries, and leave a short review.
When the voting period is over I will announce the results in a Youtube video!
Good luck, and have fun!
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