Ask the Experts / Roller Coaster Building help?

Hi everybody:)Awesome parks,the best on the web here!wow,are you all talented and creative! I'm new and just started playing RCT2 again.I just started building my own coasters and have made a few...no great shakes but they work.I have a few questions I hope you can help me with.
Corkscrew coasters are my current project and I am having problems with block brakes.I would like to space the trains out so they don't crash into each other...any tips would be appreciated.
I can do helixes like nobody's business,but I'd like to add loops and half loops.How do I get enough speed to make the trains go all the way around the loop?If I put them at the top of a lift hill they don't go all the way around.What am I doing wrong?
Most of the coasters I make are ultra extreme.While they look cool,I'd like to tone down the intensity so there is less vomit on my paths..any tips on how to do this?
I would love any tips on any roller coaster building any of you can add.I really want to make my own coasters and eventually have a park with just my coasters in it.
Thanks in advance!!

First of welcome to the forums, Simbacat.

-I can't really help you with the block brakes.

-Loops and half loops are fairly straightforward, put at the bottom of drops to make it go all the way through, but make sure the speed isn't too high. This will lower your intensity.

-Lowering intensity: banked turns always help, as I said lower the speed of inversions.

The biggest way to improve is to just experiment.

have a look at RCDB.com for some real life inspiration

Thanks:) I love RCDB.com.....I look at the pics and drool!good tips Dark.