Ok, this has to have been asked before, but I tried a few searches of this forum with no luck. In NL, is there a way to expand the size of the grid that you build on? It seems frozen at 440 meters by 440 meters, with no way to move the boundaries or to build beyond them. Is there a way around this, ...

I was at the park last month. I didn't have time to ride everything, but of what I could squeeze in, my list would run like this: Millenium Force Magnum Maverick Raptor Mean Streak Blue Streak Gemini Disaster Transport Corkscrew Let me start from the bottom up to explain. There's nothing wrong with ...

Well, think about it. If you had straight, level track and rolled into a bank while staying straight and level, you'd have some lateral gs. If you banked all the way over to 90 degrees, you'd have 1 lateral g and 0 gs "eyeballs down". So, to have 0 lateral gs in a turn, your banking has to just exac...

Originally posted by Randomman4 Or use S&S's Air powered launches, the military has been doing Air launches ( Aircraft cariers ) For 60+ years now. Uh, actually, that would be steam, not air. Think a 21-inch cylinder pressurized with 450 psi steam. Total force on the piston is about 78 tons, which ...

No, it's really about real life coasters. Maybe the thread should be moved. [shrug] My first coaster was the Clipper at Geauga Lake Park, later renamed the Big Dipper. And there's a story in that... It was the company picnic, and my parents allowed me to invite my then-best friend to come along with...

I'll discuss this from a real world standpoint. It's an intersting subject. Professional coaster designers use the CEN (Europe) or ASTM (US) standards for tolerable acceleration on the human body. I've been trying to get my hands on those standards, but I'm not sure my local university libray has a ...