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In case you're looking for some nice fonts, these might become handy:

• EAGLE BOLD

Used in the official Planet Coaster logo as well as some other places.

I am not 100% sure about the licensing, so I'm not going to link it just so I don't break any rules.

• OPTI EAGLE BOLD

Matches the logo a tiny bit better in some areas, however both are close enough for this application. I like the original Eagle more, you might feel otherwise :)

Download here.

• NOTO SANS

Both regular and bold versions are used throughout the game and the official website.

Download here (click the menu on the bottom saying "family selected" and use the download arrow)

Just to add here as well, I had a problem like this on a build in the past where I definitely had the gpu in the right slot but it was being throttled to x2 - never did figure out what was causing it but downloading gpu z from here https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ showed the problem as it shows the bus interface speed on the main screen, check that it's showing pci 3.0 x16 @ 16

Performance seems to be hit and miss for a lot of people. You'll have people with high powered systems with poor performance, but some that don't. It's kind of a gamble. I haven't been getting very good performance but still having fun.

Currently in the Alpha there isn't a ton that's implemented yet. You've got a small selection of rides, building pieces, and tools available. If you've been around this subreddit for a couple of days, you've probably seen every piece that's in the game. Don't get me wrong, you can still be super creative with it, but don't expect a huge amount yet.

There is currently only a sandbox mode available. Zero park management, no terrain tools, and a very early version of roller coasters. It's basically just an opportunity to try out the rudiments of the modular building system.

Is it worth the purchase? It's a steep price and that's really up to you to decide. Do you plan to do a lot of building and detailing? You'll probably get a lot of enjoyment out of this early alpha. Are you more excited for building coasters, sculpting the landscape and managing your park? It might be worth waiting at least until they get into Alpha phase 2, or waiting until release.

You can get a pretty good idea of what you're getting into if you tune into a Twitch stream and stick around for a bit. Here is a thread where Early Bird folks are advertising their Twitch streams. I've been watching Cleave and really enjoying it.

tl;dr - If you're on the fence, it might be worth waiting. If you're super excited, it might be worth your while.

If we're talking about color scheme generators we have to mention the mother of all online color scheme generators:

Adobe Color (previously known as Adobe Kuler)

The primary definition of game, per Merriam-Webster, is:

"activity engaged in for diversion or amusement" link

Is that not what PC is, regardless of the management or goals? Is it not something that people engage in for diversion or amusement? I don't know about you, but I typically don't do something that I don't have to if I don't like it. Any I certainly don't have to open up Planet Coaster every night unless I want to (okay, maybe I do because I love it so much, I'll play it even if it means getting a couple hours less sleep - but the point is, I'm not forced to!).

A video game to you might require challenges and rules, but that's not the definition of a video game nor what I would wager most people - but irrefutably at this point what not all people - consider to be a video game.

And just to be clear, the Merriam-Webster definition of video game is:

"an electronic game played by means of images on a video screen and often emphasizing fast action" link

So, basically, "an electronic [activity engaged in for diversion or amusement] played by means of images on a video screen and often emphasizing fast action".

Again, no mention of rules or goals of any kind.

Edit: And for the record, I have not downvoted any of your posts - those are coming from others, apparently (which I disagree with many of them - as long as you're civil about it, I hate people that downvote for disagreeing).

Only have a laptop and CanIRunIt says no :(

Intel Core i7-3537U CPU @ 2.00GHz

CPU Speed 2.5 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce 710M

8GB RAM

Hopefully that's enough info, I can add more if not. Don't need the game to look great either.

Diisneyland (Yes you can change it, I don't think adding an extra 'I' will actually get around copywrite :P)

Save file.

I don't have a Youtube or twitter account though :/

Pictures.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/roller-coasters-robert-coker/1111795744#

this one has pretty much every roller coaster thats popular back in 2006. the photos are amazingly good and the quality of writing is top notch.

good luck finding a copy though.

https://www.amazon.com/Roller-Coasters-Seekers-Ultimate-Machines/dp/1402713339?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Ummm. You may want to look at the cpu a little closer. That looks like a downgrade vs an upgrade. I could be wrong though but based on passmark scores.... http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=2586&cmp%5B%5D=2578

Also, I don't see you hitting 30 fps with any of this gear. I run an i5 3570k @4.7ghz, 16gb ram and a 290X overclocked to 1100/6000 and am around 22fps with 5000k guests.

Edited ... Should also mention that my passmark scores are in the mid to upper 9000s for my cpu and my gpu. Also FPS takes a hit with the amount of objects placed and not just the guests. In fact I think the objects do more damage to the FPS then guests but that's just my observation and not proven.

Why not just go to the Planet Coaster page and see who's live streams are on? https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Planet%20Coaster

Im new to this whole streaming of video games thing; I guess I dont see a point in people posting links to their live stream when 99.999999% of the time Im ready to watch, there's no one one -_-

My laptop is on the lower end of the specs, and I have found that using Razer Cortex, helps me to get a handful of extra frames.

Turning all ride music off seems to help a lot too.

Hopefully these could help you too?

For colouring I use Adobe Color CC or Coolors.co

Very handy tools if you are not that strong with colors.

Also a handy advice: Make moodboards! If you have Photoshop/Gimp/Paint, put some pictures of the things you want to have in the buildings/on the outside. You have a sense of general direction then.

Probably should run. But in the future if you ever have this question about any game there's a site you can go to called "Can you run it" that has the system requirments for most major games and it can scan your computer and tell you if it will run and if not it will tell you what specifically is the problem.

Here is Planet Coaster's requirements specifically

For reference, I used all the pictures I took in the early '90s, I have old park maps and brochures, I used Google Earth extensively, and I used greatamericaparks.com and the book about Six Flags Great America that the site owner put out. I spent a crazy amount of time on research.

I incorporated the large cartoonish park map into the build for the map/information signs spread throughout the park.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/rollercoaster-tycoon-3-complete-edition/home .

Here is the link. Might be worth just adding it to your library incase you have any issues in the future. Then you will own it forever.

Even at low settings the graphics never get too terrible... unfortunately however the graphics settings don't have a massive impact on FPS. The minimum requirements really are minimum for most people's definition of "playable".

That CPU you listed should be fine, significantly above minimum specs: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=2586&cmp%5B%5D=788

GPU wise would very much recommend not going under minimum specs. Also no intel built-in GPU's! Even though the devs have apparently been able to fix a lot of the bugs and issues related to intel graphics, officially they're still way under minimum spec. Your mileage may vary of course, but I wouldn't risk it. Much safer going for a (SLIGHTLY!) underspecced AMD or nVidia GPU if you really need to than a high spec intel one (if such a thing even exists - I'm not sure it does!).

Are they actual blue screens? There should be crash dumps in C:\Windows\Minidump

Use BlueScreenView to open those dumps so you can see what the actual crash was and what caused it. Also uploading them would help.

Thanks for the comments guys! I've been streaming this park on Twitch, so if you are interested to see it in action, feel free to follow me on my channel :) twitch.tv/antronoid

I will be live streaming tonight until I get too tired! I am a new live streamer but have done full lets play's for Life Is Strange, Firewatch and have 21ish episodes of Elite Dangerous: Horizons exploration on my YouTube page.

I will be live streaming with the intent of putting each hour of content on YouTube, so while I will be watching the chat and implementing ideas that I see and answering questions that pop up if I can I won't be directly talking to the chat in the sense of back and forth conversation.

If you are catching this comment later today I should already have some stuff uploaded to my YouTube channel here: Skia_AoP on YouTube!

And my Twitch channel will be live as soon as the game installs here: Skia_AoP on Twitch!

Specifically the specs you will want are: An intel i5 7200u or better processor (this includes i7 7500u, i7 7700HQ, i5 7200HQ.) 8 GB of RAM, and at least a GTX 1050. The game really runs like shit for everybody, but this should keep you at 30fps on medium for a couple thousand guests. For reference, the i7 7700HQ is the best processor that you can get in any laptop and Planet Coaster is very CPU heavy.

Something like this is about as low priced as you will find with these specs. (You could probably find one around £50 cheaper if you find one with an i5 7200u to replace the i7 7700HQ.

This one has a worse screen but replaces the 1 TB HDD with a 512GB SSD which is a very big performance improvement for general computing (but not for gaming specifically, other than loading times.)

If you plan on playing more than just Planet Coaster or you want to play on higher than medium graphics, you will want something with a GTX 1060 or 1070. A 1070 will be very hard to find under £1000, but a 1060 can be found easily with some searching but will push you much closer to £1000.

I believe multiplayer is a feature on OpenRCT2 if you're looking for a similar experience.

I agree with u/Omikronium though, if multiplayer is not possible it would be really cool to visit people's parks from a visitor perspective and go on the rides instead of the normal editing mode.

Nope. It's tickets * last customers. See below. This is on a ride with 48 seats mind you.

Customers Last month

Ticket Price & Potential Income

15*5=75

Well, the first thing to do is learn about what kind of G-forces the human body can take.

For example, the human body can't maintain negative-G for very long or they will experience nasty headaches, or potentially red-outs.

This element seems to be right around -4.8G, which definitely would not be fun or comfortable in the real world. It could potentially be fatal.

Learning what physical limitations is the first step. The next step is studying the various makes/models of roller coasters, and understanding what types of elements and stats are typically found on them. The model rollercoaster you chose is a replica of "Arrow" coasters, which are older and were often designed using rudimentary engineering tools, meaning that they aren't very curvy or fluid - they are quite well known for having weird banking in some spots (usually before a barrel roll), and having jerky transitions between elements.

How realistic you want to go depends on how much of a rollercoaster fanatic you are. Some of us are pretty overkill about ensuring every detail is realistic, while others just want to play the game and have a good time. Both are totally acceptable, but generally you won't get a ton of upvotes or compliments unless you build something that looks and feels real.

Rollercoaster track doesn't magically hover above the ground. large and often somewhat complex support structures are required to keep the ride from collapsing to the ground.

When you build a ride in Planet Coaster, the supports are generally made automatically for you, however somtimes the game's algorythm cannot create a support structure because that structure may interfere with something. Hence, you get a ride where large sections of the ride appear to be floating in mid-air without a support structure, which kills the realism and immersion.

this cobra roll for example doesn't have any supports that I can see. In the real world, such an element would have multiple supports

Not everybody who plays this game is focused on realism, but many of the more accomplished creators definitely are. Creating something realistic takes a lot of work to achieve, but is ultimately more fascinating to the rest of us.

You can get a fully working mouse for around $5: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Optical-Mouse-Accessibility-Compatible/dp/B00LPC3O3M/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=mouse&qid=1617751917&sr=8-10

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Coaster-Console-Edition-PS4/dp/B08FBTS3X8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Planet+Coaster%3A+Console+Edition&qid=1602786085&s=videogames&sr=1-1

I play it on a laptop that was around $700 and is about 3 years old now. I have a dedicated graphics card (nvidia 950M) and an i5-4600HQ processor, 8GB RAM and I can get about medium settings when playing normally. I'm also like you in that I don't try to have an overload of guests and I haven't gone super detailed in my parks which helps the frame rate, but the game still looks great and I love to play it! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BP9QG2J/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_NQfIBb5TRVMYZ Something like this should be able to run it better than I currently do.

Potentially the biggest problem would be the camera controls/movement with only one hand. I am constantly using the WASD keys and mouse simultaneously as well as the T key for the more advanced camera controls. The other shortcuts could be mapped relatively easily to a gaming mouse. Perhaps even something like this could work well... Granted, it's an investment but I am fairly sure this could be a 1 handed solution.

I don't know what this will show up for you in CAD, but this is my laptop and it runs the game very well: https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i7559-2512BLK-Generation-GeForce/dp/B015PYZ0J6/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1494194820&sr=1-1&keywords=dell+inspiron+15

It has a 15" screen instead of a 17", but the resolution is much better. The CPU and GPU are also a lot better (i7-6700 HQ vs the i7-7200U, GTX 960M vs 940MX). You get 4GB fewer RAM, but laptop RAM is relatively cheap and you could upgrade it to 16GB very easily (what I did).

I haven't had any problems with it in the past 5 months. It really is the best value "gaming" laptop out there, but is equally good with everything else (I use it for 3D work, photoshop, and rendering occasionally).

Heres a couple of books about John Wardley and Alton Towers which I enjoyed.

John Wardley - Creating my Nemesis https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creating-own-Nemesis-autobiography-designed/dp/1484049144/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465631526&sr=8-1&keywords=john+wardley

Tales from the Towers - Alton Towers https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Towers-Unofficial-Britains-Popular/dp/1492377163/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465631585&sr=8-1&keywords=alton+towers

https://www.amazon.com/American-Coasters-Thrilling-Photographic-Ride/dp/0764341588/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51f5U7rpmzL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=SVA1XPKFX0NNGD3AVX3M

Even if you are just slightly interested in roller coasters, I would highly recommend this book. It contains beautiful pictures of the best coasters (and parks) in the United States (it may not be as interesting if you are from outside the U.S.). Several coasters in the book even get a page all to themselves in which the author goes into detail about them. I got this about three years ago when I wanted to know more about coasters, and it really turned me into a full-fledged coaster enthusiast.