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News from from Sonic Stadium: Don't pack your bags quite yet, but it looks like SEGA finally wants a meatspace presence in the U.S.. In an interview with Attractions Magazine, Roberta Perry, president of a "themed entertainment" company, stated that she's currently working with SEGA for their first efforts in bringing "location-based entertainment" to the U.S.. Now, what this means could be anything. "Location-based entertainment" and "themed entertainment" cover a very broad range of possible things, from full-on theme parks, to specialty immersive theaters, to high-end VR rides, to pop-up meet-and-greets. In fact, Perry cites a mascot meet-and-greet at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions expo to highlight Sonic's all-ages appeal. Though most readers will readily cite amusement centers like Alton Towers, Joyopolis, and the recent dedicated brand store, but whatever this(these) project(s) is(are), it wouldn't technically be the first in the U.S.. SEGA has previously facilitated several pop-up Sonic cafes around other events, and even a Fearless Year of [Shadow] Motorcycle Tours. Though with Sonic's popularity on the rise in recent years, one hopes for something a little grander, and perhaps a bit more permanent. What you think?

Ah, well... I got the notification right after replying. Anyways here's a seventy-four

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When you enter in the forums you get the following message MyBB has experienced an internal SQL error and cannot continue. SQL Error: 1040 - Too many connections Query: [READ] Unable to connect to MySQL server I'm thinking about the AI web crawlers, A persistent problem that surged some months ago, might be at play. Eventually too many connections will make the site unaccessible. Can't say I'm 100% certain it's the cause. It's just a guess. But why would an AI be interested in a gaming website to begin with?

Oh, what a night Late December, back in '63 What a very special time for me As I remember, what a night

Why not, I could create something in Open RCT2 this time, (if school allows me as I have finals around that date)

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It seems that adding a classic emoticon adds a blank space instead

It seems that now we have three kind of emojis 🙂 (Regular) (Classic) (B/W Fontawesome) actually there is also outline

I get you, I'm not that disciplined as well and I'm having some trouble making progress on the projects, maybe I have said it here, maybe not, but my Palmcove Museum entry for the RCT3 20th anniversary contest, at least the last part of it, was somehow rushed. I lost so much time overthinking which art pieces should go in the museum wing and I lost a day or two of time. It did not help that I had college at the same time. But in the end, everything went just fine, not without stress, of course, but I managed to pull things off. In fact, I'm supposed to be doing homework right now, so well procrastination sucks. The problem with me is that, besides college, I not only have RCT3 but many other projects as well, so I'll advice a 'slow and steady' approach. A tiny bit is better than zero progress. Regarding strategies, one thing that has helped me in that aspect is not trying to reinvent the wheel trying to create a new strategy, perhaps looking up to 'external' things and adapting them to your needs would help. For example. And this is perhaps heavily influenced by how RCT2 modders and OpenRCT2 devs work, they create a workflow and then "automate" it. Recently, a video by Marcel Vos explained how they add new track pieces to built-in roller coasters. They add them first to their custom build coaster types (ex: Single rail coaster, not present in vanilla RCT2) and try to streamline and debug it and then "translate" the elements from the single rail coaster to built-in coasters. Under the hood, there is a lot automation in designing tracks to offset work loads and just focusing on designing and debugging the new track pieces. (Or that is what I want to think, I do not know the nitty-gritty, but that's the general picture) Perhaps we could attempt to create something similar in RCT3, an automated workflow that helps creating RCT3 Custom Objects. Previous attempts to this approach were tried back then in early 2006 and in SGW Forums, but I suspect they never got off the ground due to not having a solid open-sourced, technological infrastructure, we have such infrastructure now and that is exactly what made Open RCT2 achieve massive progress in updating the game. Making updates or expansions to the RCT3 Vanilla Scenery has always been in my bucket list, akin to the Atlantis, Glass and I think, Egypt CSO expansion sets. Honestly, some of the vanilla scenery is just unfit (I'm looking at you Curved Slate Wall from the Color Wall Set) and needs a solid update.

I love how the site looks, congratulations on this new era of parkcrafting!

My goal this year is to contribute more to this site. I have several projects in the works. Including a "best practices" guide to design and build theme parks in RCT3, and for that I'm building a PKM of the most important concepts of theme park design. Other idea I have is to build a list of "core" RCT3 CSO. As for parks, I'd like to revisit Palmcove Museum, this time using CSO. I also have in mind creating in the future a park of a popular videogame franchise. (But the franchise in question wants to build it's own theme park so I'll just have to wait) In the meantime, I've been toying with the idea of making a park around Supernatural Collaborative Publications i've seen around the internet.

Well, It was my cousin (may she rest in peace) who introduced me to RCT1. I still have a very warm and happy memory of her playing Crumbly Woods in her PC. I do not remember very well the transiton between RCT1 and RCT3, however I remember being infautated by Alloria's videos on their indoor pools and the such back in 2009/2010. It was really something I strived to emulate, but my poor planning skills got the best of me and never actually participated in a contest until now. (And i still somewhat poor planning skills as the park I made was honestly rushed to some extent, I actually wanted to put a "astronomy" section but there was no time left for that) Anyways it were some good times despite all that. It's nice to se RCT3 (somewhat) stood the test of time. Happy Anniversary RCT3!