For fun?! Roller coaster tycoon is serious business 😡

@@honorarymancunian7433 Well it certainly is business... park owner business. :)

well they kinda have to anyways. Otherwise, people won't be able to prove that they did it legitimately. Also, the epitome of gaming is actually playing games just for fun in my opinion. Of course, your definition of fun may vary.

Wait you found it? I remember discovering it too and actually being annoyed by it because I was doing some other project when I found it and it was screwing with it. Did we discover it independently of each other?

Good on you for being a sport about it.

I thought it was a nod to Karl Jobst.

i thought that was summoning salt

I now want a "History of RCT Speedruns" video

@@davidthecommenter ​ @TheWatchernator I've heard all three use variations of it. That specific wording became a meme on Wirtual's channel talking about a player nemed Hefest.

I don't think he's the best player, I do think he's both an amazingly good player and great content creator.

so you say that hes the roller coaster tycoon that is mentioned in the title of the game?

​@@blauw67 who would you consider the best? I'm curious to know of someone better than Marcel. Not an aggressive question, actually curious about your opinion.

Marcel is an excellent player, no question, but like all speedruns there's a whole community working away behind the scenes to find new exploits and shortcuts 😊

@@kinghrath If only there were leaderboards for the best and fastest players with various different rulesets across various scenarios... TL;DR: Look at the folks near Marcel on the speedrun charts, watch some of their stuff, and decide for yourself. The question of who is "best" is extremely subjective (best by what criteria? How do you weight knowledge vs skills? Should you include glitch / strategy pioneers even if they are mediocre at execution? Etc).

According to Disney, about two hours.

@@tails183 Did RCT3 get a "fast track" queue line at all? I've always been surprised that RCT1 or 2 never had those, to allow you to earn more money. Maybe Chris Sawyer didn't want to cut the normal queue lines in two, or thought having two queues side by side would look weird?

Depends. If you don't have a guest goal and are pay per ride park then short ques with a high throughput to max income. It doesn't mater if your guest spend all their cash within 10 minutes of entering the park. If you do have a guest goal then long ques to trap the guest in the park and reduce overcrowding to prevent them from leaving. If you have the cash machine to keep guest from leaving because they're out of cash then short ques with a couple of longer ques just to reduce overcrowding. For pay to enter parks with a guest goal long ques to trap the guest and prevent overcrowding. If it doesn't have a guest goal then it doesn't really mater but ideally you want guest to leave soon so more can spawn to pay to enter.

@tails183 WAIT TIME 168 MINUTES

@@zaxlor RCT1, 2 and 3 never had a fast pass system, RCT1 because Fast pass was literally first implemented the year the game came out, and Id imagine Chris Sawyer would have to do a lot of reworking the guest code for RCT2 if he wanted to implement it. No answer on why it wasn't in RCT3.

I'm wondering if GameTime% would make sense as a category. It would be very different, though, since the setup time wouldn't really be a factor.

@@XCVGVCX GameTime% is essentially just the vanilla category. Get the ads and natural guest generation rolling as quickly as possible, and then build some queue line trap or something to trap 100% of the guests coming in. Except you'll see a lot of pausing at the start to save game time while rolling out the ads.

My GF would heavily disagree

I achieved speeds so that I could lure super mario from 4 different parallel universes to the park, securing me an additional 4 guests.

Here, I'll be the TJ "Henry" Yoshi of this comment section: YoU cAnT hAvE hAlF aN a-PrEsS, yOu EiThEr PrEsSeD iT oR yOu DiDnT

Are there any invisible walls in RCT2?

That's sort of true. You are allowed to use RCT1 prebuilts in FastForward% (FF%) runs, and with RCT1 deluxe every transport ride gets one u(xxxx) prebuilt. You do still need to build the entrance and exit buildings on those, but that doesn't take more than a second or two. The fully built Sky Tower is still faster though.

@@MarcelVos oh yeah the u(xxxx) builds, I forgot about those, didn't know there were transport rides that had them

Aw, you don't need an excuse to scream that! ;)

That's not a lot.

@@mirjanbouma yeah, but it was weird that it happened.

@@LetustheDragon 👉🏼😎👉🏼

Pay-for-entry parks are _rough_

I also have that from time to time. :-)

Extreme zoom means having to render more land tiles, so that’s not generally something that improves lag.

@gymnasiast90 that's true, but the entities get reduced or removed, and with guests as the main source of lag once the setup is completed, it makes sense to me to hit a max zoom out key instead of the precious few seconds where he closes all windows and moves manually. I haven't had rct2 on my PC in so many years, else I'd test it. I might still have a CD somewhere...

Which ones in RCT1 and 2 are harder? There are a few, like Rainbow Summit, Jurassic Safari, maybe Ghost Town, or perhaps Gravity Gardens, but not many. Ultimately I never had much trouble with Amity Airfield either, but lots of people do. Part of the reasons for that is that in the English version it was the fourth scenario you would encounter, after Crazy Castle, Electric Fields, and Factory Capers, which is way too early.

The auto-place feature in OpenRCT2 chooses a random guest to spawn the staff at (at least I think it's random), and when you have no guests it chooses indeed a bit of path connected to the entrance.

Yes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qaeRo9qCrqzXnqs.html

We were discussing whether we should ban the lift glitch (works with any ride but we call it the lift glitch), but it seems to be unnecessary now.

yes (in open rct)

no contest marcel wins

Enable debugging tools in the options and it'll show up.

then watch as he exposes a previous world record holder for cheating

You need nearly 5000 guests for that, and if spawning 3500 guests takes 39 seconds (as it did in my run) then spawning 5000 of them takes 55 seconds. Add to that the setup of building a ride and stall to advertise and it takes significantly longer. Not that that matters as this park rating underflow bug was fixed in OpenRCT2 so this wouldn't work in the first place.