/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5457602]

what happened to the rct/citybuilder threads we used to have?

[Anonymous No.5457630]

they got aids and died

[Anonymous No.5458143]

>>5457630
That's fucking cheating and you know it.

[Anonymous No.5458156]

i liked rct 1 and 2 a lot, what what truly sucked is you had to play on for another two years after finishing the goal at the end of year 1

[Anonymous No.5458159]

>>5457602
The JRPG posters won

[Anonymous No.5458527]

I was looking for that thread too, I think they had a DL link for RCT2...didn't they?

[Anonymous No.5458551]

Essentially on topic since they are spamming railroads. /pol/ would dig it

[Anonymous No.5458653]

[Anonymous No.5458674]

>>5457602
VR Tycoon was good times. I wonder if that resource page still exists?

[Anonymous No.5458834]

>>5458653
>Those flat turns
The G force is killing the visitors, right?

[Anonymous No.5459049]

>>5458527
>>5458674
Discord: https://discord.gg/AzHd2XP

Downloads:
>Open RCT2
https://openrct2.org/
>Open Locomotion
https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenLoco
>Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
https://www.openttd.org/en/
>CorsixTH (Open Theme Hospital)
http://corsixth.com/
>Simutrans
https://www.simutrans.com/en/

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Helpful Resources (Newfags go here for more info):
>>>RCT<<<
https://pastebin.com/R32Q4Lu6

>>>OTTD/Locomotion<<<
https://pastebin.com/5gagGwu7

>>>Sim City<<<
https://pastebin.com/JcjJjvTx
pastebin under construction, feel free to contribute!

[Anonymous No.5459545]

bump

[Anonymous No.5461405]

>>5457602
i am playing caesar 3 right now. do you want to talk about caesar 3?

[Anonymous No.5462774]

>>5457602
Mods put a 2 week limit on /vr/ threads, which killed any and all slow moving generals on /vr/. They have been asked to remove this, but they still haven't for some reason. No other board was given this limit, which makes it even more retarded.

[Anonymous No.5462907]

Blessed revival thread.

[Anonymous No.5463520]

I've missed these threads... RCT was such a big part of my gaming childhood

[Anonymous No.5463552]

>>5461405
Caesar 3 gave me autism. Caesar 2 cured it.

[Anonymous No.5464448]

>>5457630

[Anonymous No.5464465]

>>5462774
>putting an age limit to kill off old threads
>on /vr/ of all places

[Anonymous No.5464737]

>>5459049
I guess we can start a new general here.

[Anonymous No.5464738]

>>5462774
What?! But the longer lasting threads are usually the best!

[Anonymous No.5465448]

>>5458653
Thanks Doc

[Anonymous No.5465450]

>>5461405
I loved playing it as a kid. However I was totally worthless and almost never managed to build more than tents that usually burnt down fairly quickly.

[Anonymous No.5465456]

>>5458143
at least its not motion simulators

[Narc No.5465635]

>>5457602
They died. Not enough new content and almost no discussion.

By the way, in 4 days (the 31st) the RCT franchise celebrate 20 years since the release of the first game. Hurray!

[Anonymous No.5466089]

post parks

[Anonymous No.5466663]

>>5466089
What is this, a park for ants? OpenRCT2 lets you take giant screenshots that capture the whole park at standard res.

[Anonymous No.5466675]

>>5466663
The pic was taken a year or two ago, cut me some slack

[Anonymous No.5466687]

>>5466089

[Anonymous No.5466847]

I fucking suck at RCT. I can't get enough guests in my part, and always sit short on money. Anyone have any tips? I don't like cheating, but sometimes I feel like I have no choice.

[Anonymous No.5466850]

>>5466847
You seldom (read never) have to build XBOX HUEG coasters during scenario play, keep them economical. Start scenarios small, build a couple of flatrides and a smaller coaster like a shuttle loop or a kiddie coaster. Also, it's easier to help if you post images of your parks.

[Anonymous No.5466857]

>>5457602
It appears that Mr. Bones Wild Ride finally ended.

[Anonymous No.5466859]

>>5466850
This one has 800 guests in year 4.

[Anonymous No.5466867]

>>5466859
You have removed access to the walkways which is good, leaving them is the most common noob mistake. Your problem is the lack of rides which I assume stem from a lack of money. Start out compact (block of parts of the park without rides), build 4-5 flat rides (I'd probably pick Merry-Go-Round, Twister, Observation Tower, Pirate Ship and Magic Carpet) and a small coaster (for Crazy Castle anything researched except the Woodie). Don't be afraid to increase the prize, for coasters you can charge at least equal to excitement rating. Don't forget to build some stalls (info, drink, food and toilet) and hire staff. Assign patrol areas to staff, a mechanic can handle around 4-5 rides, more if they're close to each other.

[Anonymous No.5467050]

>>5458156
OpenRCT2 lets you finish scenarios early

[Anonymous No.5467053]

I mean you can only meme Mr Bones Wild Ride for so long lest the meme becomes the wild ride and we never get off.

[Anonymous No.5467139]

>>5466859
Where are the rides? I assume you're charging too little for rides and aren't using cash machines that the place probably has. I recommend going into the Coaster Designer, building a nice small compact coaster, and placing it down when you start a scenario.
The one in my pic, i charge $6 a ride for, and it makes its money back very quickly and gives my parks an instant draw for guests.

Charge according to excitement, though rides like the Launched Freefall can go as high as $9 for a 11 second ride and seem based off intensity. Don't think "What would be a good value" think "How can i squeeze more money out of these plebs?"

[Anonymous No.5467156]

>>5466859
Also while the "open" boat layouts might be cheaper, the amount of guests per hour it'll take in is lower because they're stupid and like to bundle together and never come into the station.

[Anonymous No.5467507]

building what neo nazi think what Auschwitz was(minus the part where pools are for drowning people) get old after a while.

[Narc No.5467772]

>decide to participate in a contest over at NED since the thread is dead
>everyone predict that I will come dead last out of 60 or so participants
Wew

[Anonymous No.5468553]

>>5467507
I don't remember anyone doing that here.

[Anonymous No.5469420]

Thoughts on Park Value as a goal? Is it a good idea that encourages building many rides? Or a bad idea that only encourages Launched Freefall spam?

[Anonymous No.5469456]

>>5465450
I was retarded but in the exact opposite way where I mapped out autismo blocks on spreadsheets then got immediately sick of it and never played it again.
Time to try that Julius source port.

[Anonymous No.5470335]

the placing of all these ride entrances was far past fucked

[Anonymous No.5470339]

>>5461405
redpill me on caesar games

[Anonymous No.5470528]

Is it me, or do peeps behave differently in RCT 1 scenarios than RCT 2 scenarios?
I am playing both through OpenRCT2, but when I plop down the same coaster in both scenarios, the peeps in RCT 1 are prepared to pay far less than peeps in RCT 2.

[Anonymous No.5470702]

semi-brainlet here
never played a tycoon game except theme park world, even then I just cheated to unlock everything, made rides that I would enjoy in 1st person and for some reason put loads of salt on fries
any good places to start?
someone mentioned Caesar 3 which I have on GOG and the RCT games look cool

[Anonymous No.5470786]

>>5469420
Both really. Most scenario goals can be completed by playing in ways not intended so Freefall spam isn't really a problem with Park Value.

[Anonymous No.5470791]

>>5470702
>any good places to start?
Roller Coasters: OpenRCT2
Animals: Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection
Trains: OpenTTD
Caesar 3 is also a great game.

[Anonymous No.5470816]

>>5470702
C3 is great, but it's also finicky and barely explains how you're supposed to play it. If you bounce off it try Pharoah, it's the most similar of the Impressions games but has tutorials and a less useless manual.

[Anonymous No.5471674]

>>5467139
>Nascar, the coaster

[Anonymous No.5471697]

>>5471674
they turn left in nascar you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.5471709]

>>5462774
This and the discord. Everyone who regularly posted in the thread can now just chat in the discord, so the threads died from a lack of posting.

[Anonymous No.5471882]

>>5471709
Some of them will get tired of the bullshit that comes with namefagging and come right back.

[Anonymous No.5471970]

>>5458551

[Anonymous No.5472149]

>>5470339
Making efficient city blocks is fairly easy. The challenge is properly supplying them. Each level of the campaign has maps where you have to mix things up, due to building space, resources, trade, available buildings, environment, and invaders. One of the few city builders where I had to stop and have a think about how to unfuck my shit. Weirdly enough, the lack of QoL improvements later games in the series have actually make the game more interesting. Not being able to control how much space a warehouse assigns to a particular item can be an interesting problem and the lack of road blocks gives you a reason to get clever with design. After playing it I suddenly got a lot better at Pharoah and Zeus.

I really like it a lot.

[Anonymous No.5472325]

>>5458143
Mad

[Anonymous No.5472352]

Did anybody ever play Enemy Nations? It was a RTS City Builder mix released in 1997.

It's abandonware / free now, I'd love to try and setup a multiplayer game :)

[Anonymous No.5472987]

Happy birthday RCT. 20 years old today.

[Anonymous No.5473002]

Tfw I bought this a few years back in the Google play store

Rct doesn't have perfect controls on Android but it works pretty damn good

[Anonymous No.5473038]

>>5472987
I feel blessed to be touched by the joy that is RCT

[Anonymous No.5473307]

>play through first couple of missions, everything running smoothly
>suddenly game smacks you with a map that has double the previous population req, a previously unseen hazardous biome, enemies that constantly attack you (on a 'peaceful' map), a totally new food resource, weirdly shaped terrain so you have to space everything out creating big logistical problems, and the most basic resources needed to upgrade houses can only be acquired through trade

That was a tricky one. Somehow managed to hit the population req with only 1/3 of the required culture and ended up having to spam cultural shit on every available inch of the map.

[Anonymous No.5473321]

>>5459049
nice

[Anonymous No.5473348]

>>5472987
Fuck, should have bought cake.

[Anonymous No.5473519]

So do you guys remember the OpenRCT GL lighting showcase? How long until that would be in OpenRCT?

[Anonymous No.5473531]

>>5473519

Is OpenRCT even being worked anymore? A year ago there was supposed to be the new save file to redefine asset limits and that never happened.

[Anonymous No.5473704]

>>5473531
OpenRCT seems to be in the same place as Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead and Dwarf Fortress: development hell.
Can't wait for OpenRCT to progressively get worse while the dev goes "I AM THE LAW!"

[Anonymous No.5473841]

Is there a trick to bob sled rides? I swear to Christ even after I thoroughly test them to make sure they don't wreck they just end up crashing and killing everyone in the end

[Anonymous No.5473848]

>>5473841
They're pretty shit, i made a compact one and when i placed it later it lost a full 3 points of excitement

[Anonymous No.5474256]

*sips*
Schwarzkopf? That's my favorite ride manufacturer.

[Anonymous No.5474263]

I give you all a green pinky, friends!

[Anonymous No.5474348]

>>5473519
The enthusiast working on developing the lightning quit, unfortunately.

>>5473531
>Is OpenRCT even being worked anymore?
Absolutely, 0.2.2 was released about a month ago and there's still several new builds every day.

[Anonymous No.5474356]

>>5470335
>enter queue
>2 hour hike to station

[Anonymous No.5474359]

>>5471697
Auscar

[Anonymous No.5474369]

>>5474356
That's just how Volcania is. Doesn't help that most of the entrances are underground, which is absolute hell to work with in the best cases

[Anonymous No.5474373]

>>5473841
You need to take into account that the trains are heavier when filled with peeps and will travel slightly faster than when empty. Just don't build hills, it's better both for safety and for realism.

[Anonymous No.5475196]

>>5474373
Might have to start building these again. I stopped bothering years ago, I never thought they were worth it.

[Anonymous No.5475316]

>>5473841
>when you build a bobsled ride and put a CHEEKY LITTLE BUMP at the end of a drop

[Anonymous No.5476378]

>>5473841
Avoid building upward inclines at all unless it's for a chain lift under slow speeds when entering. If you want to build upwards use helixes only.