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Blithering Lodge: The new topic. (VERY picture heavy)

I don't have anything more to show you just yet (well I do, but I want to wait for it all to be finished), but I thought I'd pick some brains, if I may...

Firstly, I've subconciously been planning ahead, and right now I probably have enough ideas to take the park up to 2017. But I don't want to skip ahead in time incase some amazing new ride comes out and "his Lordship's" plans change. Without giving too much away, let's just say one of the older rides takes up far too much space for what it is, and there are better things out there now. Also, the hotel seems to be very full...
Would it be wrong to start moving ahead in time?

Secondly, I could use some help with finding suitable scenery... Spoilered incase it ruins the surprise for you when it eventually happens:
Without giving too much away, does anyone know of a CSO pack that would include some Stonehenge style standing stones? Or anything similar? Anything neolithic without being caveman-y? I'm basically thinking "druids" here. (I have an Easter Island head, but that doesn't really fit the theme I'm aiming for).
 
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"Shuyguy's Rocks" has those kind of pieces! I've used them before for nelithic stuff, don't you already have that set though? o_O
 
My. Word...

I remember why I loved this park so much, Im really glad to see it's still kicking about! I remember that this is what hooked me to "That other site" all that time ago, and made me appreciate RCT for something much more than a game to mess about with. To see it in this state now makes me happy that somebody like yourself can put so much time into it all. I'm going to jump on that bandwagon of wanting to see Gruntpuddle return too, I remember that was much darker in some aspects ;)

Long live Blithering Lodge! :D
 
I regret to report that the current state of this park is once again "non-functional". That's not to say it might not suddenly decide to work again one day, but I wouldn't want you getting too excited. :/
 
Urgh, I always come in too late to the party... :p

I'm honestly not going to live in hope. It's current state is more than anyone could imagine to be possible in the game, any more would be mindblowing!

I wish it does come back to life, but Im not hanging on it.
 
Now is a particularly odd time for RCT3 projects. I'm currently working on something new, partly because I never actually posted anything on TS. However every time I boot the game up it becomes more obvious how old it's getting, especially now we finally have replacements on the horizon. RCT World might be looking awful but there are others like Parkitect (already looking to be mechanically superior) and eventually Coaster Park Tycoon. It's hard to invest time in something when its time looks to finally be running out.
 
I can see your point Tim.

With all the newer games already out, and the eventual games that you have mentioned, RCT3 is really showing it's age these days. It's a shame, but even CS creators are losing interest, as most things that can be made have been already, and with the limitations and the fact that there are graphically superior titles out/coming soon, I can't help but think that RCT3 has gone way past it's prime days.
 
Yet at the same time people are still going out of their way to ultimately improve RCT3 too. PEP are doing a fab job at making RCT3 even more versatile, and whilst I myself have reluctantly reduced the amount of play time I do on it (due to exams and Cities:skylines) its still great fun and one of the best, easy sandbox RC sims out there.
 
Unfortunately the park is corrupted beoynd fixing. Otherwise there would have been an update long ago. Typical RCT3: nothing ever works. :cry:
 
Even if you could fix it like you did before the trouble is RCT3 is finally on its way out.

I've been working on a new mega park since 2012 but after the announcement of Planet Coaster my enthusiasm to battle on with RCT3 dried up. On top of that my old computer died taking with it my ability to create Custem Content (the software I used simply isn't compatible with Windows 8 onwards). I did start downloading the old favourites again but it just became too time consuming... especialy when slotted around a job that sometimes feels like I'm playing the ultimate version of RCT!

So I can completely sympathise with you Diogo.
 
Another problem I have is that my games PC is now almost exclusively a flight sim set up, that's impractical for normal gaming. Ever since I switched from having the 3 main monitors on seperate outputs, to all being one display as far as Windows is concerned (using a "triplehead2go" box) RCT3 has a rather major glitch: for some reason the sky is just a solid white sheet! Kinda puts me off playing. :(
 
I bet you're the only one to find that issue :p shame really, I bet POV's would look amazing!
 
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Yeah, it's got to be a unique problem! I was rather upset not to be able to ride my creations in a wrap-around 48:10 aspect ratio. With any luck, this new generation of coaster games will support such crazyness!
 
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