Project LC

Is the only way to ride Colossus today via RnR? It's closed on queue times but open on RnR with a lengthy 1hr 40min queue.

Swarms fire has been working for a long time. Throughput for a ride is irrelevant? If people wait 2 hours for saw because it looks good they get off and its a let down then the person will be quite dissatisfied. If saw had a throughput of 1700pph then the ride would struggle to ever reach a 2 hour queue so only waiting an hour for a let down the customer wouldn't be as disappointed so would be happier and more willing to spend money in shops. If all rides had a higher throughput then all queues would be shorter people would be happier and again people spend more.

The energy to evaporate that much water would be incredible. They would treat it some other way. Just think how much energy a kettle uses to boil about 1 litre of water then think how much water they would have.

Shame no one will ever hear the samurai 2007 theme with the ride being closed all the time.

I think all the aging rides with not the same level of up keep as the bigger places may have something to do with it as well. Long term maintenance issues and now budget cuts to the engineering team is causing more issues than it otherwise should have. Then of course you have the problem of throughput with the rides in the first place. When a ride is left on 1 train the rest of the park does not have the capacity to deal with it. When Colossus was on 1 train presumably saw got most of those people. A ride which can barely deal with the number of people it normally gets anyway. If the coasters could deal with 1300-1100 people per hour I'm sure queues would be much more bearable. Instead most coasters are in the 1100-900 area. If they all just had 100pph more then that's like a whole new flat ride. So as a result when a ride was stuck on 1 train the park would have queues on the same level as a normal day now.

Well done Merlin, you have impressed me with the handling of the situation and reopening saw far quicker than expected. Give your self a shiny.

When I was there last time I rode slammer multiple times. The first 2 times the ride was being batched by a staff member while the ride was in motion so loading and offloading was done very quickly. However in the afternoon the batcher was gone and was left to the standard set up I saw last year. I do believe in the morning the ride had 4 people working on it, the 2 operators one on the exit side and one batcher however later in the day it seemed there was only 3 people. The 2 operators and person on exit side. So when the ride had stopped the person on the exit side would come over and batch people. This makes me think the slow loading could just be down to not enough staff. However saying that slow loading isn't a problem as the queue never really exceeds 1 or 2 cycles anyway.

I have a feeling it would go down a bit like the Sky news interview with Nick Varney but with a bit more aggression.

It always closes just before 3pm for its daily inspection.

It was working fine all day Sunday. Bit slow on loading as usual but was running fine.

Perhaps you could invest in some glasses straps so you can tie them to your head so you don't have to take them off.

Nice to see the horrible tacky lanyards have gotten an update to be even more tacky and horrible. I am so glad they addressed the issues of the VIP's thinking they are better than everyone else. Oh wait...

Sorry I'm a bit confused, what do you mean by that?

Hope it is the beginning of the end for Ripsaw. It may encourage them to invest in some sort of flat ride, something the park needs.

You say that but then the smiler's station turned out to be a massive concrete lump with some yellow pipes on it. Nothing compared to the plans and I would regard that as an eye sore. I understand that they will have the trees ready but because it is an eye sore I don't believe is their justification.

I am aware of that, I just hope they get them in as quickly as they possibly can. That could be quite the eye sore for a while.

It may hide X but my god does that side of the building ruin it. Why go to all the trouble to theme half of the outside of the building. I had concerns about the fact it wasn't covered but now with the renderings. I hope they get some plants to hide at least some of it as soon as possible.

So they are keeping the back of the park closed until 11. Cost cutting, again...

Most likely forever. It was added after the cable snap and they have had a lot of time to add a more permanent solution. I think the scaffolding is here to stay.

Maybe a little off topic but most bleaches kill 100% of bacteria its just that it's impossible to prove it kills everything. So as a result to avoid false advertisement claims they say 99.9%

Ah yes but the queue time of the smiler fell from 80 minutes which it had been around for 2 hours to 40 minutes just an hour before. Also the evidence they added a train is based of a few witnesses. Your justification is invalid as it disproves yours as well. The accounts of people on the train are going to be a little more accurate I think.

I'd be more than happy to provide the server with support in appearance.

Well yes that is one major thing, but its also the fact that spawn is just so plain and doesn't let you know anything about the server. Its very non user-friendly and as a result is confusing to new players. I suspect the server as a result experiences a lot of new people joining then leaving shortly after never to return.

CoasterDude do you know the owner well? Just from a few seconds of trying to join I could tell you a few things to get more players.

What evidence was there that they added a new train? The queue times suggest a train was added about an hour before. Also the story from the people on the train said they got on and off the train 3 times before they were finally sent. Doesn't sound like a train being added to me.