chainedbanana
Hyper Poster
I found myself having a little deep dive into the construction of Th13teen (as you do) and reading the old speculation posts at what people though the 'special element would be - and an early 'rumour/theory' was that it would have alternate endings/elements.
And it got me thinking - especially with the technology of switch tracks, turntables and innovations in the last decade or so - that we might indeed see a coaster that has randomised 'different routes' or elements - with each ride being different - and therefore multiple sequences and track sections.
Could be fun from an experience point of view, but a nightmare for the enthusiast who wants the cred - because how would you count a cred that has different parts? say the ride had 10 elements but each ride only ever did 6 of those - and you couldn't control which 6 - so it would take many many rides to achieve all elements!
would riding it once count as the whole cred? even it is was only 60% say of the total track length! would it count as multiple creds? would it be an extra 0.5 or 0.25 of a cred getting the other parts? (ps don't @ me from a maths engineering point of view I'm just using examples from the top of my head ).
And it got me thinking - especially with the technology of switch tracks, turntables and innovations in the last decade or so - that we might indeed see a coaster that has randomised 'different routes' or elements - with each ride being different - and therefore multiple sequences and track sections.
Could be fun from an experience point of view, but a nightmare for the enthusiast who wants the cred - because how would you count a cred that has different parts? say the ride had 10 elements but each ride only ever did 6 of those - and you couldn't control which 6 - so it would take many many rides to achieve all elements!
would riding it once count as the whole cred? even it is was only 60% say of the total track length! would it count as multiple creds? would it be an extra 0.5 or 0.25 of a cred getting the other parts? (ps don't @ me from a maths engineering point of view I'm just using examples from the top of my head ).
