Project LC

Most rides in the UK I find to be overrated. Nemesis for example, yeah it's good but it's not the best. Same with the smiler and Colossus. This is why I haven't visited Europa or porta aventura as I get the impression that they are also overrated. I doubt shambhala can be that much better than nitro or come close to millennium force. Correct me if I am wrong but at the moment I'm struggling to justify a trip there.

The thing with the car park is a very regular occurrence. Also towards the end of the day swarm and stealth are almost always walk on (or a very short queue) as people do those rides first. People who visit less often go with the mind set of get everything done regardless the wait time. This often means saw and Colossus have lengthy queues towards the end of the day as they are towards the back of the park. Also its important to remember that the queuetimes from about 4pm onwards are nearly always a lie. Time and time again ive seen swarm say 40 minutes with someone selling fastrack at the entrance when its been walk on. I'm not saying they are lying on purpose but it does seem that they forget to update the times.

Its 100 more people per hour than the park was managing last year. Then again I value this attraction at absolutely nothing. I wouldn't even wait if the queue was 0 minutes as it still takes away 5 minutes of my day I could have used else where. I can always find a breezy hill else where. The throughput on this is shocking and the amount it must cost to run must be quite high because of all the actors. I would have preferred the money to be spent on some paint around the park.

Its called no limits 2. Takes absolutely ages to get anything done on it and it isn't the most user friendly program in the world but it is fun if you have plenty of time. I do believe it is on steam if you are interested.

Universal is not paramount. Also even with that any competition leads to improvements as they need to find ways to be better than the other park.

I got bored so I decided to see if I could improve The Swarm

Great thanks, I was making an improved version of the swarm and wanted the dispatch time to be the same as the real thing to see if I improved the throughput or not.

Does anyone know the time it takes to dispatch a train to achieve the maximum throughput. It would be really useful to me if someone does know, so thanks in advance.

Sorry should have made it clear that I was referring to the UK as a place for a day trip.

On crowd calendar you have spelt Thursday "Tursday". Just something you may want to fix.

To me it implies a lack of competition in the market. You want to go to a theme park of medium thrill in the south east. Due to there being very little competition they have the choice of CWOA or pretty much nothing. The other competitors (of which there are not many in the first place) are too small and as a result cant advertise like COWA can. The same can be said for Thorpe apart from that literally has no competitors which offers a place of big thrills. What should be happening is Thorpe, CWOA and Legoland should all be competing against each other. But they are owned by the Merlin monopoly so the market doesn't work. As a result merlin can do almost anything they like and they will still get customers.

The main factor in battery life, which isn't down to how you use it, is how far away from a mast you are. The further away you are the more power the phone needs. So if you live in a place with bad signal your phones battery dies quicker. Most battery's only have around 1000 full recharges before it no longer works. The lithium ions no longer get moved back to the other half cell so what generates the power no longer works. So older the phone the quicker the battery dies. The most power consuming part of the phone is the CPU. Millions of transistors all being used to run a game drains power very fast. So if you want to maximise the time between charges avoid CPU heavy tasks. Closing background apps does help but for facebook, twitter, ect it doesn't do much. When not in use they use very little of the cpu and ram so have little effect. Just wait until super capacitors are ready and small enough for your phone. They claim it will be 5-20 years but they charge in seconds, last the same as a normal battery and will last pretty much forever. I'm sure the human race can find something wrong with those as well when they come out. Nothing is ever fast enough.

The park still opens at half 9 the annual pass building opens at 10. If you are lucky they may open earlier, but it wont be anything before 9:30.

Its fully constructed and just sitting there. No staff of any form were over by it so I can only assume they are waiting on a part.

It is impossible for the track not to move when the train passes over it. Providing the train has mass the track must move downwards otherwise the track would have infinite energy. (Physics lesson over) my point being all track moves when a train goes over it, its perfectly normal.

I gave Thorpe a hard time with the swarm being 1200 rather than what they needed of 1700. I'm glad I don't take much interest in chessington. If a park has problems with queues no new addition should even be considered if it has a throughput lower than 600pph. I know the skyway is old but it needs updating so it actually goes round the zoo, they may as well just get a completely new ride to replace it. Would solve the downtime, would improve the throughput and would allow them to install a proper fastrack queue.

10 til midnight in the summer on Saturdays. Its a dream which I feel I will never see become reality.

Now I may be one of the most merlin hating people out there but even I think that bashing merlin on that one is a little harsh.

A 50% allocation!? surely it's not that much.

Oh I assumed it was open as I kept seeing it go round. I don't normally ride it so I don't take notice of its existence much.

I would recommend Sunday as the better day. As for the 4th ride closed there wasn't one. A lot of rides suffered downtime (stealth, saw, rush, storm surge, tidal wave) but I don't believe there was a 4th closed all day.

Sunday will be a lot less busy. Last day of Easter holidays and its a Sunday. It will have queues but nothing on what Saturday will have. Unless the weather wants to come in and ruin my predictions.

3 of them are almost guaranteed to be closed on Saturday. So don't get your hopes up for vortex, detonator or slammer. It's also likely X and Colossus will still be on reduced capacity.

A crane as working on vortex today. Along with a load of scaffolding in the centre. No idea what it means but strikes me as a little more than restraint trouble.

Very busy. All coasters 60+ and flats around 40+.