I have 1 question quickly first, how did I automatically make the final? I was never notified of a playoff and that I was in the final? lol
Firstly allow me to congratulate our worthy winner reddude333. Your entries have been consistently good, not only throughout this competition, but in all competitions in which you have submitted an entry that I have seen. Your RCT skills are of a highest level, you should be proud of you`re victory mate.
Now I shall do similar to what reddude has done and give you a review of our winning entry and a"making of my entry" guide.
So Reddude`s set.
Main Coaster - I love the originality and thought process behind this, I don`t know if there is even such thing as a Mobius steel coaster? If not then well done on a worlds first, whether you men`t it or not? Ha. The only criticism of this coaster is lack of custom supports, as we we`re allowed to use this feature. I would really like to see this coaster completely dressed with supports, station and theming. I think it would look truly awesome.
Small Coaster - pretty much the same as the first coaster, the ride itself is good, nice turns and I really like the post at the top of the lift hill, small I know, but areal nice touch. Again supports would have been nice, I cant stand the general wooden supports on RCT and you have highlighted this by painting them red, but that`s more my pet hate on the game then your coaster and I appreciate that placing wooden supports is a huge ballache.
Rock Area - Knowing that you had your trick (Thank you for divulging that by the way) I was really expecting this to be absolutely mind blowing, I was expecting something like the picture you entered in the play-off minus the coaster. Thats not to say your entry was bad, it was infact very good, I like the peacefulness of it, especially the night shot. I think I just anticipated a bit to much. But that`s a good thing, right?
Themed area - Absolutely nothing to say here other then really fantastic work.
Entrance - Sorry but I didnt really buy into this, I gotta give you good credit for the idea and it was executed well, the underwater scenery was fab, but the whole thing lacked realness I thought.
My Set
Main Coaster - I really really wanted to get away from the B&M`s I had been making throughout the rest of the comp, but I just couldn't do it, I toyed with the idea of the Intamin Hyper coaster, But I did one last round. Also the Stormrunner, but the track just is not flexible enough to make anything other then a Stealth like coaster. So I went with this coaster and Idea I had for a while and made this, this took forever because once I had finished the supports I decided I did not like them, They were originally green. Yes that point you mentioned is a bit dodgy but, that`s just what happens sometimes.
Small Coaster - Firstly sorry for breaking the rules mouse, I completely misread the rules, I just matter anyway because the supports are c**p anyway, Yes I looks cheap and a bit like a travelling coaster, but its meant to be. The only thing I like about this is the layout, I hate everything else, it was rushed and the supports I used weren't the best.
Rock Area - I too hate the stretched terrain, but I know what I wanted to do with the idea so it was something I just had to bite the bullet on, my main point was the waterfall, I was planning to add a second one, but I think it worked out best with the one, the trees at the top were put there to add to realism and to hide the fact that this is a heavily themed hole in the ground with a naked top area.
Themed area - Yeah I quite simply took the easy route on this, It took me ages to decide what to do with this without CS and although I nearly went with a suburbia n theme, I weren't sure how that would pan out so I took the easy route as I was running out of time and had wasted loads of time changing the colours of my supports on the main coaster. I would of liked to have been able to post more then 1 picture of this area as its hard to get a 25x25 area in 1 shot, from some areas though my main coaster can bee seen towering over it lol so probably best it was just one.
Entrance - This was the first part I made, nothing too special it is quite grey I must admit, I did the best with what I had. Nobody noticed I entered a toilet in there with a water feature outside which I think was a nice touch lol.
Anyway thanks for the nice comments and pointers guys, thanks to mouse for a really well run, diverse competition, hope to see another one soon. Thank you also to addy, The Kingin64 and Josh73 for being great contestants and congratulations once again to our victor, reddude333.