No expert parks?

[Wuzzy2]

Currently, no scenario is classified as Expert level. There is only Beginner and Intermediate and Other. Is this intended? Or are the expert parks still WIP?

I'm asking because I wonder if the lack of expert parks might be an oversight.

[Wuzzy2]

I have not played the scenarios yet, so maybe (maybe!) I can give feedback about the perceived difficulty later.

[Gymnasiast]

We are dependent on what kind of parks people send in. The lack of expert parks and real parks is certainly not intentional, it's just that no one has sent one in yet.

[Wuzzy2]

OK, I was just wondering if the current classification is correct or not.

[Krutonium]

Worth noting the obvious licensing issues with recreations of real parks - in that it's kinda super grey.

[Wuzzy2]

It's not a grey area. If you didn't just blatanly copy a RCT park and maybe just changed a few tiles. It's much safer if you started building from scratch, and only took loose inspirations from RCT.

But IANAL.

[Krutonium]

I mean like, you can't make a scenario called Canada's Wonderland and call it Canada's Wonderland, because that would be copyright infringing. Real parks is a category that'll be tricky.

[Gymnasiast]

I'm not sure if that would be copyright infringing. After all, you're perfectly allowed to write books criticising companies, for example, even if you mentioned them explicitly in the title.

But if you want to stay on the safe side, you could create one called "Kenton's Dreamland" - Chris Sawyer did the same in RCT1. He made a park that was a recreation of Lightwater Valley and called it "Katie's Dreamland".

Or perhaps just asking the park directly: “Hey, I'd like to recreate your park in a game. Is it okay if I call it "Canada's Wonderland"?”

[IntelOrca]

Now I think there should be a scenario called "Kenton's Dreamland".

[Krutonium]

We're going to need Foxes and Extremely Large computer hardware. Lots of both.

Wonders if we could get computer companies to sponsor a computer hardware item set

On topic though, If you make a Park, try to make it accurate to an IRL park, Call it the same name without permission, that could lead to issues, imho, for the same reason that Bethesda sued Mojang over their game called "Scrolls".

(Elder Scrolls & Scrolls were both videogames).