Wabigbear

Yeah, I can understand why Steam won't help you after the fact. You already set up a new account, you already bought the game, so it's kind of too late now. They might have been able to help regain access to your old account. Anyways, make sure you have good anti-virus, and take steps to protect your accounts! Best of luck!

Nice touch of realism there!

I would still contact Steam support, explain what happened. Your old account, games and subscribed items still exist, you just don't have access to them. Steam Support should help you regain that, and they might even reverse the $64 you paid because you didn't let them help you.

Go to https://help.steampowered.com There will be a list of subjects, you can choose the one for My Account, follow the prompts. I think if none of their suggestions get you back on Steam you can then contact them with a Support Ticket.

Clever idea using the gas station as the loading area!

Your sketch of the cave interior reminds me of concept art for Disneyland that had Indiana Jones, the Jungle Cruise and the railroad all sharing different levels of the cave and each could be seen by the others. Nothing wrong with your sketches...I've had parks that actually look exactly like them!

Nice job working with the surrounding panorama, the view from that monorail station is gorgeous! Also nice job on that bridge...well done!

Yes, I said I wasn't going to make a bunch of TMTK stuff for OZ- just what is REALLY necessary... We're at nearly 100 pieces already. Thankfully Oz will likely be on just a couple benches, and 2/3rds is basically done, so it shouldn't reach DA's epic proportions...I hope.

Just a few random screens to wrap things up... The Disney America railroad lines on this bench is just one line that turns around and doubles back to give the illusion of their being two tracks to save peeps from riding around the other 3/4ths of the park that's been stripped down to nothing! The line turns around just past the Grizzly Lodge in the forested area on the right... We still provide something to look at...we circle around a pack of wolves calmly awaiting their duck dinner... Mt Rushmore looks much better at night... I forgot to include a screen showing the Grizzly Lodge's second floor Watering Hole... Backstage access to New Orleans as well as to Rushmore Station is by a service road that passes along the outskirts of the Bayou Bateaux swamp and Enterprise... It passes under the Disney America Railroads... To the backstage buildings serving this area located behind Mt Rushmore... Finally we'll end with Buff, Max and Melvin singing "Come Again"...and we hope you do!

Actually it was because I use the desktop version and it was set to the new version of the site, thus there was no "Direct Link" url available. I finally figured out how to change back to the old design, and the links now show. Strange! But now it works anyways...thanks for the help!

Nope, none of the links seem to work from Imgur. I'm assuming that I place the link in the box after clicking on 'Other Media" at lower right where you otherwise drag files to? I select 'Insert Image From URL', paste it, click enter, it turns red and does nothing else. I wasn't complaining about the file limits - they make perfect sense, just didn't see it specifically spelled out what the limits are, as I don't always read every post made, which is where it's likely been discussed before and I just missed it!

Having used up my allowance for posting images (I wasn't even aware there was such a limit...maybe should make that plainer?), I've tried uploading to Imgur, but it doesn't seem to work. I add the image url to the editor as the instructions say, but the box just turns red and it doesn't attach it to the post...

Great question! A 'bench' usually refers to a 'workbench', and in this instance it kind of means a section of a project, taken to the 'workbench' for closer, more detailed work to just that section of the project. Some people use 'bench' interchangeably with 'park' as well, but here it means a 'section or part of a project'. The limitations in Planet Coaster when parks exceed a certain size (mostly based on the overall piece count), sometimes make it easier to make a copy of the park file, then remove items except in the area you are going to focus on. That allows the piece count you have available to use to increase. In our case, the original park layout ended up being divided into five parts, because of all the crap we added. Each of those benches when combined make up the whole park which we can't create in one humongous park file. Each bench is released as a stand alone park file - the parts of the park we didn't focus on on that bench are left blank for the most part, and we usually fix peep spawn points and things like railroad tracks to fit with the smaller size. Gawd I hope that made a small bit of sense! LOL!

Yeah, those night shots are really cool! Even more of an inferno than during the day!

While I'm not much of a scenario player, the inventiveness shown here is top notch! I especially liked the "UFO"...that's really cool looking!

Mt Rushmore is actually a piece done by blackmanshadow from the Workshop! It's in multiple parts to get around the TMTK size restrictions, but he also shared a blueprint of the all the parts placed together.

Sincere thanks for the comments everyone! As we leave Bayou Bateaux we'll stop for a beignet and a café au lait at Mardi Gras Cakes... Now we'll access the back entrance to Enterprise... "Train crossing...look out for cars!" A little further on we leave Enterprise and come to our final destination... Rushmore Station, a salute to America's National Parks... Wildlife abounds here...raccoons and other 'critters'... A museum dedicated to National Parks... There's a second floor overlook... Our version of Mt Rushmore... Next door is a stop on the Disney America railroad... Restrooms on the left, and looming in the background is the areas main attraction... Great spot to fill up on Bison Burgers... Grizzly Lodge...home to the Famous Country Bear Jamboree... Here's the main entrance... Portraits of the Cast are displayed... The Grizzly Lodge Restaurant is located on the second floor, check in and the up the stairs or use the elevator... Past Fred, our friendly castmember, is a hall with more portraits of the stars of the show... There's a waiting area with seating... Finally it's SHOWTIME as we enter the Jamboree Theater. Liverlips is in the middle of his number... Always 'synergy' if it's a Disney Park...and that extends to the Ursine Community... There's the doors we came through originally... What a show! Still humming how 'all them guys who turn me on, turn me down"... The Lodge has seating and tables in it's lobby... And - of course - a gift shop and small cafe... You can load up on Country Bear items... The cafe sells do-it-yourself Smores kits, so after you exit the Lodge... Just head upstairs to the firepit and toast you up some tasy treats... Catch of glimpse of of Railroad cars heading past before heading out for the day... Next time we'll take a quick look at some backstage areas, and then that will FINALLY conclude our visit to Disney's America Theme Park...hope you enjoyed your time with us!

Great idea, and here 'mini park' certainly doesn't mean 'mini quality'...Tornado looks fantastic!

Next up, a ride on "Bayou Bateaux", which of course recently received a "Princess and the Frog" overlay becoming "Tianna's Bayou Adventure", 'cause synergy is everything! Looks like 'Princess" Tianna is there to see us off... We float by the Blue bayou Restaurant... Gators??? What do they mean GATORS??? And now there's "River Pirates"??? What sort of ride is this??? Fog seems to be rolling in...that's a funny looking green log there on the right... Looks like a junkyard...for boats... Avast, there be pirates...puny river ones, but pirates none the less! Passing under the train trestle... Look at the size of that firefly! Thankfully it's not a mosquito... The frogs are kinda funny-lookin' here as well... Well, this looks 'interesting'...Mama Odie's a lover of snakes and gators, but not people it seems... There's the old girl now on her front porch...charming... "Fresh" zombies? I suppose they hold together better than the one's past their pull-date...especially if you're just renting them for the weekend. Oh, this is one of those famous New Orleans cemeteries! Looks like a tour group is visiting... Hmmm, must be foreigners, they don't look like locals... Here comes another group of them...can't seem to find the exit. "Hey, tour buses load over there!" Looks like we're headed back towards the city... Local swimming hole...that's how "Slow-foot Joe" became "No-foot Joe" I hear... It's The Real Thing... Hey, Tianna's here to welcome us back! Time to unload and grab a beignet before we continue...

LOVE the station and the tunnel! And I'm also one who likes to build off of Workshop blueprints - they can be a excellent base for tweaking to make them your own - that one looks fantastic!

I wish the water particles worked better at night in this game...well, actually they work but they can't really be lit as they should be. Thankfully they still look great during the daylight hours.

Agreed 100%. Planet Coaster's design team seemed to function without a standardized system of scaling things...one door might be 15 feet tall while another built for Munchkins, same with windows and other building parts as well as foliage as you pointed out, many of the props too. I know they used the reasoning that scaling up items worked visually better in the game, but there was no consistency to that, they scaled some stuff up by varying degrees, other items seem scaled down. There was also no consistency to filling out building themes. One theme might have every wall and roof combination included (missing of course things like quarter-width walls and such...), while another theme would include only some of the items. Made mixing and matching for design work extremely frustrating at times. The same thing happened with things like signage. I recall someone (forgive me for forgetting their name!), actually went through and researched all the missing items from different themes, and shared it on the Planet Coaster website complete with screenshot, to no avail. While much of what Frontier designed was really well done, it's the lack of consistency and attention to details of what was missing that has always bothered me. It's like there were multiple teams working on different things without a standard Planet Coaster design style book being shared between them. Another thing I'd like to see are flat rides - and coaster stations - with a smaller footprint. Some attractions were themselves reasonably small, but surrounded by an unrealistically huge round plazas. I've sometimes skipped using a smaller attraction that would have worked perfectly in a spot but the unrealistic space requirement meant it wouldn't fit. Stations also sometimes were overly large and were forced to allow path connections only on certain sides, which caused them to take up even more space.

I'm not sure, but that looks like a blueprint by Ramses.sam... He made a number of run-down French-themed structures...

Obviously that first screen is of where the fire started...no doubt some gear got stuck and a pulley overheated or something or other. Or maybe it's that shifty looking character leaning against the front while an inferno rages around him? Someone should check him for matches!

It would be my guess...and only a guess...that using something like the Opaque Glass Wall 4m Lit that Frontier designed specifically for use at night would be a better choice than depending on something behind glass panels for a similar look - at least for large scale usage. For a building or two I think you are okay. Of course there are times when glass just is a better choice for what you are trying to do. Wonderful buildings!