Roller Coaster Tycoon 2

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Product Features

Strategy simulation game where players create and manage an amusement park
compilation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and expansion packs Time Twister and Wacky Worlds
More than 200 rides and attractions to choose from; includes 25 rides from 5 real-world Six Flags theme parks
Themes based on locations in 7 continents and various historical time periods
For 1 player

I am so fregin hooked on this game. I have had it for years, but just recently learned how to use the "shift" key to make buildings, etc.

yeah, that's right, played it all these years, and never knew that. Oh well.

I spend hours and hours making the park, it would not be overboard to say I'm addicted to it.

Aight, here is what a normal happy guest looks like. Happiness is way up there, good energy. Ain't hungry, aint thirsty.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/SCR22.jpg


This screen shows you what they got and/or bought in your stores or food shops.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/SCR10.jpg



This is a guest that is pretty hungry and needs to use the bathroom.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/SCR8.jpg



Here is a guest that is about to vomit, as they rode a ride too tough for them. Notice the nausea meter.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/SCR7.jpg



You can click and find out where and what your guest is doing, in this case, the guest is on a submarine ride. It shows you in real time.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/SCR9.jpg


This shows the rides that the guest have been on, and their favorites.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/SCR11.jpg


I built a castle and put a ferris wheel on it, made a couple of green glass church's.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/SCR5.jpg


Another screenshot, some glass buildings, the pathways, etc.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/SCR2.jpg

Damn, Dave... that looks great. Love those screen shots. I've never been into building up a "world" because, well, I just basically SUCK at them. But, I wish that I had the patience to learn, and really get the basics down, and then, become a pro at it.

Anyway... loved how you have us all as people in the park, and you named rides after all of us. Though, I LOVE yours. Should make me cringe, wouldn't you think, with my back problems and all?

Well, it's an inside joke I pull on myself, as I used to love roller coasters, the bigger and badder the better.

Then at age 26, I hurt my back, ruptured a disk, and had back surgery. Then again at 31 I ruptured another one and had the second back surgery. So any fun stuff is out of the picture for me. Snow ski-ing, roller coasters, etc.

Now, I'm normal, get around fine, etc, I don't feel handicapped, I just can't do the fun stuff I used to enjoy.

So, when I started making roller coasters, I was like man, if I went on that thing, it would put me in the hospital, so I started naming them how I would view them if I had to ride them.

I also enjoying naming them after people I know, with Roller Coaster Game One, I used to have a Larke2000 coaster. If I recall, it was Larke's Vertebrae Imploder.

Ohhhhhhhh, I like that name you used for Larke2000's coaster. You know that I share the back problems with you, and I am someone who can't go on them, ever again. But, having a spinal disease, one shouldn't expect to get to do such fun things in life, unless you want PAIN!!!!


So, on a scale of 1 - 10 (1 being easy and 10 being extremely difficult)... where would you place learning this game, completely? Learning to make and run the whole thing, without problems, etc...

It's very very easy, "if" you download a trainer, which is a cheat program, that allows you to have all the money you want.

The game itself wants you to build an economy, and make money, and then build. I found that silly and frustrating.

If you download the trainer, then it's very simple. It's only as hard as you make it. You just click on stuff to build roads, or build roller coasters.

All the rides are pre done, you just pick one and plop it where you want. You can build your own coasters, and I do sometimes, but it can get tricky.

It's like doing a puzzle, it's not something you just knock out in two hours. You spend a little time on it each day, building and building, putting a tree over here, a wall over there, until you are happy with the result and move on to something else.

Actually, if you are even halfway interested, I just got the 3 pack, the expansion deal with add ons and it had the game in it that I already had, so I have an extra copy of the main game itself that I'm not using. I could mail it to you.

That would be great, David. I think that I would like to try that. Just let me know where to get the "trainer" from, so that I can get that, and have a little, ummmmmmmmmmmmm, assistance to play this without too much hassle.

I will try to mail it out this week, the trainer I can just send you in an email, it's real small, under a 100 kilobytes.

That works, Dave... thank you, very much. I'm looking forward to trying this game out. Besides, it gives me something new to try and learn while I spend boring hours in this bed. Even if I were to have my surgery within the next few weeks... fusing of ones spine takes a long time to heal.

I'm going to the post office here in about 15 minutes, will mail it out.


My mom sent me a birfdey gift, two months late and I have to pick it up. I wonder what she sent? I hope it's not socks.

Two months late? Wow... she's been, ummmmmmmmmm, busy.






Or, she just forgot!

She is a procrastinator.


The post office did not go well. I got a small little package with bubbles, so it fit in your mailbox, I'm figuring you got an apartment mail box,

get it all good and go to the counter, and it's this new york accent lady who is a low talker high talker, I couldn't get into what she was saying,

and somehow, she said Priority mail, I was thinking first class or whatever, she whips out this huge 11x11 things starts cramming my small package in it, I have to put a new address on it, she starts saying, (oh how I wanted to kill this woman) that it will have to be signed for.

I put my foot down on that part, I was getting pissed off, she was turning my simple mail into something with forms and signiatures,

man I still want to slap her.

I said, no, no signing and stuff, so she magicly waved that part.


Anyhow, it's should be there tommorow at noon. I'm hoping your mailman knows to put it at your door or whatever so you don't have to go to the post office.


Then the fregin missing link brings out my moms box she sent, and there is this huge brown spider smashed on the side of it. One of those bugers that I moved away from Florida for.

What kind of postal service just leaves the dead spider smashed on the box the whole trip. They can't scape it off?!?!?


The BASTARDS!

That's funny dude. There is always that one ancient dude working at the Post Office. They've been there since mail was delivered on horseback.

-HECK!

I should have just shut her down, but I kept getting in deeper, signing more stuff, more stickers peeled off, new envelops. I got in over my head, couldn't backtrack.

The easiest deal at the post office is that flat rate envelope deal. $4.05 anywhere in the country and as much as you can fit in it. Perfect.

-HECK!

Dang Whidden... you didn't have to go through all of that for me. I would have just said... just REGULAR MAIL. Stop changing up my stuff lady, before I have to go Clint Eastwood on ya, and go postal. DAMN!!!!!!! Thanks though. I will be on the lookout for your package.



I can't believe that they left a nasty squished spider on your package. Lazy peeps that for the the USPS!!!

Or, assuming you have high speed, you could have FTP'd the CD somewhere so she could download it.

-HECK!

The postal service is run by weirdo's.

With guns. Kind of like the NRA.

-HECK!

Son of Beast trainer: You download this, to cheat in RCT2

http://sob.coastergrotto.com/



Once you get into that game and have a map started, you press the windows key on your keyboard so it will temporarily minimise the game, and you start up the trainer. Then you click on which cheat you want, which will most likely be to freeze the money.



That way, you can build at your leisure.

A few tips:

1. Just to start out, choose one of the premade scenerios it wants you to play. Experiment around with one of those.

Later, you can do the scenerio editor and make a map and choose what you want to put on it.


2. I would close the park, and experiment with the buttons and how to place rides, how to build roads, etc. Then open the park and let people in.


3. The people suck! They are fun to have, but to keep them happy, you have to do a few things, or they all get pissed.

a. you have to put bathrooms all over the damn place.

b. you can't double up your roads, that is make the road really wide by laying down a double track. It confuses them.

c. you have to build lots of places to eat and drink

d. you have to put lots of garbage cans around and places for them to sit down.


you do all that, and they stay pretty much happy.


4. you have to hire some people to clean up, mow the grass, etc.

you have to hire some to fix the rides.

you have to hire a few security gaurds.

you don't have to hire the entertainers, but they make the guests happy.


5. I would save the game often, while playing, say every ten minutes or so. When playing with the trainer, and getting the free money, it confuses the game somtimes and gives you a "trapper error", and shuts down the game. Any unsaved work is lost.

I spent two hours one time, and got a trapper error. I learned my lesson. I don't get them that often, they are very rare, but I still save my park from time to time, so if I have trouble, I can reload.

Thanks for the trainer, and for the advice. I think that this is going to make things go a bit smoother for me. I'm really looking forward to getting this game and trying it out.

Hey Dave... guess what I got in the mail today? Yeppers... the game.
Thank you!!! I will play it later, because my meds have me a little wonky right now.

Play it at yer leisure. Don't feel like you have to like it. If it sucks, use it as a Xena flying disc. You can fight evil with it. Just remember to do the yodel like yell she does.

Dats funny right der.

-HECK!

I don't think that I would do that, Whidden... but, like Heck! said, dats funny right der.

Looks like we can never play frisbee without me laughing...

-HECK!