{NL2} What's Been Going On Around the Village? 4/28

With a height of a 185ft. tall and reaching speeds of up to 74MPH, ENIGMA, at its release, will be the one of world's tallest and fastest full circuit inverted roller coasters... ENIGMA will feature an 170ft drop, fly through seven inversions, including the first ever on an inverted roller coaster, Zero-G Stall! Among other stomach-turning elements, ENIGMA will complete its circuit of nearly 5720 feet of track in just under 3 minutes... giving this ride the record of the longest inverted roller coaster in the world!

**Photos of construction**

Trains are in.

**Full ride and track layout plans have already been completed. I will post more updates/photos as progress is made and user interest is shown**

[Turbo]

I'm really loving the construction photos! keep 'em coming!

@Turbo - Thanks, will do!

[mkingy]

Looks good man, hard to guess the layout properly but yeah, construction photos are nice!

This looks really nice! I like the colour scheme and (from looking at the supports) layout

^^ Thanks for the feedback guys, its much appreciated!

Support work for the entire coaster has been completed... Some more track has also been installed.

Oh yea, Ive also put up some fencing.

View from the park's observation tower You can see that more concrete is needed in some spots.

Don't underestimate this drop!

How do the supports on this turn around look? Should I do a sort of "A" beam, instead of the vertical beam?

Unfortunately, problems came with the trains... So they're being removed and re-examined

**As usual, feedback is always welcomed and appreciated**

[Oscar]

This is looking very clean and good!

[TTD03]

Looks very nice!

I do like the inclined M shaped turn! It's just caught my heart!

^^@lol240 Thanks, Im glad you like it!

***UPDATE***

The previous update showed the completed support work along with some newly installed track pieces... This update is no different (minus the support work)

ENJOY

The flatspin is in place!

More NEW track... the Zero-G Stall is coming in as well!

View from inside the Observation Tower.

The trains have been repaired and are starting to be put back on line

[mkingy]

Repaired? Did they fall off the back of a a lorry or something?

Looks good, one picture was misleading I thought you had a A-Frame supporting the wingover at first glace xD

@mkingy - No lol ... The trains werent work with the layout... it had to many cars and it was just throwing things off a bit.

It looks great! Love how you're showing the ride like if it was being built in real life. Also, nice scenery, simple but effective.

[TTD03]

This is looking like it will be a fantastic park/ride!

I volunteer as tribute.

Just kidding I was just there and have blisters all over my feet.

@GerstlCrazy Im confused on this reference? lol

[TTD03]

^ I am also confused as well

***UPDATE***

The final pieces of track have been installed! While ENIGMA is NOT 100% structurally complete, 2 out the 3 trains have returned to the line and test cycling has begun.

Remaining Checklist
-Paths/Walkways (Fencing, Guard Railings, Lights)
-Flat Rides (Queues, Railings, etc.)
-Station Exterior
-Scenery
- Light TerraPainting

ENIGMA will be completed into an actual "park" featuring at least 5 more major coasters, a couple of family/kiddie coasters and more flat rides. Each addition to the park will be released as an update to ENIGMA.

Enjoy the photos

Trains in the storage

View of the first train cresting the lift... lets hope it comes back

T E S T I N G S H O T S !!!

"Just hold on we're going home"

**As usual, feedback is always welcomed and appreciated**

[TTD03]

Looks great, and can't wait to see this turned into a park!

[mkingy]

Are the supports final?

^^ Yes, supports are final... Why you ask?

Aright so, I've hit a milestone... My laptop is out of commission (has been for the past week) and is in the repair shop. Rest assured, none of my data or programs will be lost and I will resume work on 'ENIGMA' as soon I get my laptop back (I'm being told this coming Monday). Even though I'm unable to work in NL, I've been occupying some spare time by doing some "sketches" of track layouts and ideas that I've had. As I've previously stated, ENIGMA will turned into a park with each new ride released as an update; and I've already began brainstorming and planning on what's going in next. Without giving away too much, I figured I'd show some of my ideas to maintain your guy's interest in this thread...

Model B

Model A

*Photos taken from iPad*

My apologies guys... Just know that this project IS NOT dead!

[TTD03]

Why do all the good projects get plagued!
Glad to know nothing will be lost!

[mkingy]

Looking at it now the screenshot appears to be stretched - but I was concerned on the '0g that doesn't appear to spin all the way round' had a large distance between the two supports and might've needed a one on the invert - but now I'm not so sure!

I'm also not sure you need the brace on the dive loop - having the support a bit higher and less inclined (again the screen stretch is putting me off a bit here) would be better in my opinion (and certainly more like B&M)!

Are both your sketches of the same ride? The first looks like an awesome shambhala esque hyper with a stengal dive!

@mkingy The photos are a tad bit stretched but for the most part, they are an accurate depiction. While the ride was in its early stage of development and even through the first part of construction, I wondered if I'd need to add a support right at the center of the 0-g Stall but after some testing, I concluded that it wasn't necessary since the train coasts through the element, instead of flying through it.

No, they're not of the same ride... they're just layouts that come from the same idea (think, Dive Coaster @ ChimelongParadise vs SheiKra) they share an extremely similar layout, with even the same element order but they're not quite replicas. Model A has a little bit more compact layout (think Goliath @ SFGA) and Model B has kind of a more elongated layout... Both layouts have the same lift height, angle of descent and drop length.

Let's start a poll, Model A or Model B?

Alright everyone, so after a LONG inactive month, I AM BACK! My apologies for the prolonged delay

Expect an update later on today!!!