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>>8290383
>Are helixes worthless?
Depends on your definition of worthless.
The 2 main benefits of helixes is horizontal space conversion and an additional excitement boost.
For the former, you can descend much more easily in tight (length-wise) spaces.
For the latter, helix excitement bonuses stack up to 9 helixes, which is translated into
(9 * 254862) bit-shifted to the right by 16 = 34 = 0.34 excitement.
The biggest disadvantage of the helix is the cost. The excitement bonus is somewhat negligible, so it will take a while to make your money, even with optimal pricing.

>so no coaster using just helixes to descend meets normal coaster requirements.
That sucks, yeah. Does your coaster have inversions? There is a small list of coasters that will ignore all drop-related requirements when an inversion is present.
Just from memory, the Corkscrew coaster, Twister coaster and Giga coaster do this.

>>8290457
Not true, not all coasters with access to inversions drop their drop requirements just because they have access to inversions.