You may assume you’re a talented Curler Coaster Tycoon participant. Maybe you’ve constructed dozens and even lots of of completely worthwhile parks. Or possibly you’ve beat each built-in state of affairs a dozen occasions. However your expertise received’t allow you to with a brand new map designed to take tens of millions of years to finish.
Launched in 2002, Curler Coaster Tycoon 2 is a well-liked PC theme park builder that’s nonetheless actively performed and modded by many gamers as we speak. A kind of gamers is well-liked YouTuber Marcel Vos, who enjoys experimenting with the unique 20-year-old model of the sport and its fashionable, open-source ports. Earlier this 12 months, Vos created a digital theme park journey that may outlast the complete universe. Now his latest creation is an RCT2 problem that may take you 100 million years to complete.
“100,000 Millenniums Mines Park” is the title of Vos’ new RCT2 state of affairs that, on the floor, appears fairly easy. You begin out with a number of rides and an easy goal: Make a park value $1,000 and pay again your financial institution mortgage. That’s an easy mission that principally anybody, even individuals who’ve by no means performed RCT2, may full in an hour or much less. Nevertheless, this artful customized state of affairs—which makes use of no mods—is hiding some secrets and techniques.
Why this Curler Coaster Tycoon 2 map takes so lengthy to complete
The primary nasty secret is that you just begin the map massively in debt, owing over 214 million to the financial institution. Not solely is that this some huge cash to pay again, but it surely additionally means you may’t construct something within the park as you don’t have any cash to construct with. Even in case you promote every part that’s there, you’ll nonetheless have lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} of debt to repay.
The subsequent devious hidden element entails the 2 rides that appear to be bringing in cash from park guests. This can be a lie. These rides should not truly related to the proper walkways, that means no person within the park can attain the rides.
The final and largest secret is the place the third journey on this park, a curler coaster, truly goes as soon as the observe enters the cliffs. That is the place Vos reveals a huge spiral of curler coaster observe, nearly all of which is flat, too. So passengers within the one and solely coaster automotive transfer very, very slowly via this large maze.
And as soon as they attain the top, the curler coaster doesn’t have sufficient velocity to get again to the journey’s begin the place extra company are ready. As an alternative, the empty cart rolls backward 8X slower than it moved ahead. The full journey takes almost 1,820 in-game years to finish, which equals about 70 real-world days. And since this journey is terrible, you may solely cost .40 cents per journey. Bear in mind it’s a must to pay again over 200 million {dollars}. You’ll be able to in all probability see how that is going to take a protracted, very long time.
Finishing this state of affairs—assuming you don’t cheat or use mods to hurry issues up—will take over 960 trillion in-game years, which interprets to an astounding 100,117,219 real-life years. It must also be famous that this state of affairs can solely be performed in OpenRCT2, a contemporary port of the sport that fixes among the glitches discovered within the authentic model that may occur when numbers like cash owed and years handed bought too massive.
And even in case you use OpenRCT2’s speed-up instruments and mods to advance time 1,000X sooner than regular, you’ll nonetheless want almost 100,000 years to finish this nightmarish state of affairs. If you wish to tinker with it, Vos has shared 100,000 Millenniums Mines Park on-line for anybody to obtain and play. In different information, I’m completely satisfied Marcel Vos isn’t an precise God with superpowers as a result of we might all be screwed.
