SS4 - Eclipse - H3lix by H3lix

Welcome to Funland, located in [REDACTED], United Kingdom. After being recently purchased by some slightly questionable investors, a call to action has been put out to design a brand new standout roller coaster for this small park. The station is to be placed on some recently demolished houses (also mysteriously bought and removed by the same investors as the park), and the owners want to make a "statement" to the local population by making this new Roller Coaster one of a kind. Interacting around the brand new observation tower built on the old car park, and crossing over the nearby roundabout, this ride needs to be anything but subtle. They have taken the liberty of clearing out some old rides and stalls from the bottom half of the park and will be placing stalls and new rides on any of the leftover space

Zone Details:

Yellow wireframe outline - Build Area

Blue Zone - Station and Storage area

Red Zones - No Structure or Train Clearance allowed below this area at all

Green Zone - Coaster Track and Train Clearance must remain above this zone, however, supports are allowed in this space as long as they don't intersect with any structures

Yellow Zones - Base Frame Supports are required on the roof of this building if you choose to build a structure here

Purple Zone - Required build area, a section of coaster track must be built here

Unmarked - No Restrictions

Requirements:

The ride must cross over the roundabout to the required build area. Bonus points will be gained for good interaction going over the roads

The ride must interact with the observation tower. You do not need to circle around the tower, however, you will gain bonus points if you do

Minimum Capacity - 600pph

Max Height - 75m

Storage Capacity - Number of trains minus 1

Must be within the ASTM force limits (https://nolimitscentral.com/forum/topic/34?page=1#c436)

Any coaster style is permitted (even custom ones), but no modded coaster styles. Any layout with a custom train will be frozen to check the forces during judging

The ride must have a station building. This can either be the Nolimits 2 Default one, or a custom design. Please note that the quality of the 3D Model will not count towards your final score

You do not need to fill all of the available space, instead focus on making a great coaster that interacts well with the surroundings. The park can always add more flat rides and stalls in any of the leftover space

Wooden coaster supports are allowed, however, they must be on an elevated platform over the green zone as well as the red zone (https://i.gyazo.com/096024d1fab03e9f5b7135c4711e635b.jpg)

Any clearance failures with the ride or the zone restrictions will result in a major loss of points

All buildings/queue lines need to be accessible and cannot be blocked by footers or supports

The train clearance can leave the build area, as long as it does not intersect with any other objects

Catwalks can go over the build area line in the Blue Zone, but must not clip with any of the surrounding buildings or fences

Judging Criteria:

Forces - The coaster must be not only safe for riders but also comfortable. Very sudden changes in forces will result in points lost

Use Of Template - As with every Seaside Screamer contest, the main priority is to make a ride that utilises the template's restrictions and requirements to their advantage. While a safe, by the books coaster would score you an average set of points, its the ones that go above and beyond that would make it to the top of the tables

Supports - All support structures must be stable, and able to actually hold up the coaster track. You must take this into account when planning your layout, as you must make sure you can actually place enough stanchions down to support the coaster

Realism - We will be checking to make sure the ride car's dont intersect with themselves or the track, and also the ride clearance with the restricted zones and ride supports. Another check we will perform is the E-Stop test, where we bring the train to a complete stop on all blocks to make sure they can clear the layout after a stoppage. Things like setting the friction to an extremely unrealistic value and uses of invisible transport sections mid layout to boost the ride will also result in a loss of points

Submitting the ride:

All final submissions must be submitted on the full template with no scenery moved or deleted. A lite version of the template has been provided if your computer struggles to run the full version, but your final design must be imported into the full template for submission