Micro Madness / Micro Madness - Round 1 Results

Looks good zodiac...
Impressive to see two custom rides on map this size.

This one seems pretty clear to me.
Yin Yang [Zodiac]
Bad news first. The patriotic roundel things were not used well here, the waterfalls were a little squarey, and the building forms were too simplified. the coaster layout looked a little awkward at the helix part. A few support issues, and the entrance and exit visibility kind of ruin what was a pretty good looking station building. Foliage was inconsistent. Also.. windows on dirt? :' />
good news: Foliage looked good anyway, Buildings mostly looked good anyway (the water ride station building just looks awkward), coaster looked good anyway, support issues were not a large detriment, the double drop looks great, waterfalls look good anyway, two major.. well.. 'major' ..rides squeezed on and they don't look half-bad together, landscaping was good, liked the colors and building details, and loved the bridge and water-ride rail things.
Diamond Quest [Fr3ak]
A little underwhelming. The landscaping on the outside portion wasn't terribly good looking, and the contents of the cave portion were barely worth rotating the view for- not to say it was bad, just not really very much to look at there. A quick glance and everything you need to see has been seen. Ride layout was pretty cool, and the wooden coaster track is a nice touch, but it's still miserably short. Supports seemed to be spot-on, but didn't add much of anything. Foliage was kind of 'good enough'-ish.. overall i'd just say this was lacking in substance. Not sure what the tiger was about... the sunken theatre just didn't do it for me. the station building was very nicely done, though.

to sum up: fr3ak's was lacking in substance. Zodiac's had a lot of substance, even if a bit rougher around the edges. I think what was there of fr3aks architecture was better, but there isn't much. Zodiac's dive machine was a tad awkward, but the double drop was a well-done total park element. For me it's not a very hard choice.
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Wow, Zodiac, that's pretty nice.

But fr3ak, were you rushed or something? That's what it seems like.

i have to agree with rapipo

for me it's a tie.
zodiac definately had more going on. the idea was nice, though not very new.
in detail this micro was quite nice (double waterfall and the bridge over it, foliage..), archy was acceptable. My main problem was that the overall composition (heh, that sounds very eloquent) didn't really work, it didn't flow. I think thats really important especially for micros.
freak on the other hand had a well working "overall composition", but in close up it looked, as others said, rushed. The idea was very lovely (imo better than zodiacs), but not so well executed.

I know that Zodiac would win, because he had a deal wit the judges ....
I mean .. it's okay for me


No, seriously.
Nice entry you've got there =) Maybe it's the right the decission, that you've won that ... NOW come on and beat RRP for me!

Maybe I should have choosen another entry I was building at ... but okay, now it's too late.
Thank you guys, for the critism

I loved zodiac's entry, tho as I told him it looks like J K made it for him

For real tho the twin drops on the watercoaster were fantastic and he also had a pretty good vertical coaster that helped cap it all off.

I think Fr3ak was far to passive with his entry, I mean on the outside it was about 80% grass and trees when people should really use much more map then that for this contest. However, I did quite like the mine coasters layout, good work on that.

In other news my entry is about 97% done and whenever RaPiPo sends his in we can have our match-up

both nice entrys and congrats to zodiac .
I think I've told you both already how I like your entry so I dont need to do it again .

1 win for majesty Kumba .

I'm just making more and more. I'm almost finished with my third one, and then I'll start another. I'm going to need to pick out which one to use...

Match-Up #3: Ride6 vs. bug33558

#3 Ride6 with his entry:
Autumn Grove



#14 bug33558 with his entry:
Mt Narthex



After 3 votes by the judges, the winner, by a score of 3 to 0, is... Ride6

Ride6 advances to round two, where we will take on the winner of the disneylhand vs. Lloyd match-up.

Nice and quaint entry, ride6. The coaster looks lovely, too bad it was slow as hell.

As a general note: please, people. Take your time and learn to see that you can put some really nice coasters into a small space!

The speed is appropriate for it's size I think... Though I really did want to make it faster...

Sorry bug...

Ride6

Nice try, bugsomenumbers...

I will look at yours in a second and comment then, Ride6.

EDIT: Nice atmosphere, I think the buildings were a bit lacking but still nice. However, I did not like the go kart track. Maybe it should have been a custom one or something.

Edited by RaPiPo, 18 November 2007 - 12:42 PM.

if you guys wouldnt mind would you give some CONSTRUCTIVE critiscism

OK.
Station too big. Architecture too simple, blocky, unorganized, and bad colors. Bad foliage. OK landscaping. Bad layout of both coaster and park/camp/weather station thing.

Happy?

thanks i guess

OK. I sent mine.

I'm all nervous and the quicker you beat me, Kumba, the happier I'll be...

Match-Up #3: Ride6 vs. bug33558

#3 Ride6 with his entry:
Autumn Grove



#14 bug33558 with his entry:
Mt Narthex



After 3 votes by the judges, the winner, by a score of 3 to 0, is... Ride6

Ride6 advances to round two, where we will take on the winner of the disneylhand vs. Lloyd match-up.

Just thought to move this to the new page. RaPiPo, don't be a dick about it, jeez. And what's wrong with my buildings and go kart track?

bug33558, don't take this too hard: your park shows your lack of experience in a rather graphic way. The coater layout is paced very slowly, accomplishes very little in terms of maneuvers, and lacks some basic necessities like a brake run. The architecture, while a valid attempt for a beginner, conformed to the shapes of what it was trying to cover, resulting in boxes of various sizes and shape, but without any real form for the eye... I'm really not sure how to better put that... As far as theming, you tried in spots (the "Weather Station" was a good idea, but it was pulled off rather poorly, hell the dome looks more like a radar cover than the box you enclosed it in, maybe just building around/over the base of it would've served you better) but then it seems you forgot to name the majority of you stalls. Also why is there so much snow at the base of the mountain? Is it winter because even Everest doesn't have snow at it's base year around... The trees were also overkill because if we're supposed to be a high altitude there aren't many of those to be had.

But don't loose heart, we all started somewhere and for most of us that 'somewhere' was just as bad, if not worse, than what you've shown here. Try not to rip others off, but try to develope your abilities and experiment until you have a style that helps you get out the pictures in your head. Imagine what you want to build then try to build it as beautifully as you imagined it; if you succeed you'll likely land among the greatest to ever play the game.

Ride6

thanks ride6

Yah, sorry.

You're go karts just don't really appeal to me.