This week, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 aficionado Marcel Vos revealed an impressively daunting creation: a rollercoaster ride that would take 45 real-life years to complete. The record-breaking RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 ride is appropriately named '45 Years In Hell,' and somewhat unsurprisingly it doesn't sport a very high in-game thrill rating.

So, how does one create a ride that would take half an optimistic lifetime to ride from start to finish? The first step is to make something a little less than half as bad.

Vos had previously made a ride that took a staggering 12 years in real-time to complete, and fairly thought he reached the limit of what could be done in OpenRCT2. As it turns out, he was wrong: he previously believed that rides couldn't reverse through large swaths of the map because the game would slowly return each cart to a forward speed over time, but this ended up simply being a bug in OpenRCT2. Rides could maintain a minimum speed forever in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, so Vos submitted a bug fix request to the OpenRCT2 developers, who happy obliged. Suddenly, the world in which Marcel's subjects lived was ready to get worse again.

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With a new tool for slowing down rides now in his arsenal, Vos produced a gigantic, slow, and mostly flat ride with a minimal incline near the end that forced riders to reverse all the way back to the start, but at at the absolute minimum reverse speed. As Vos explains, a coaster that returns to its loading dock backwards will inadvertently do one extra lap than it was told to do, allowing for an in-game exploit to make the slow trek just a little more agonizing for park patrons. All told, the riders would need to complete eight full circuits before being allowed off again.

As Marcel explains in the video below, that's not the only trick the designer has in store implemented for his unfortunate park patrons, though:

As he explains, the real shocker is that the gigantic rollercoaster that takes up the lion's share of the map isn't the ride that takes 45 years to complete: It's the tiny, unassuming ride tucked into the corner. With 31 tiny mouse carts packed on the 32-section track, Vos takes advantage of a docking station glitch that only allows one cart to depart for every eight laps that the larger coaster completes. In effect, this means that only one cart can depart every 3,597,056 in-game days, which is the time it takes to complete 8 laps of the large coaster. Since it takes 30 departures to complete a full circuit on the small ride, that means it takes 107,911,680 in-game days for someone to complete the circuit. That equals 295,648 in-game years, so we suggest making sure riders go to the washroom before boarding.

If one plays Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 at normal speed, that equates to a total runtime of 45 years and 72 days before the brave soul who first boarded a ride called 45 Years In Hell gets to stretch their legs back at the docking station. With such a ludicrous timeline, it wouldn't be surprising to see Marcel's dastardly invention wind up as a Twitch Plays title at some point.

It'll be interesting to see if Vos manages to one-up himself once more, but for the time being he's certainly the de facto champion of painfully slow virtual rollercoaster rides.

Source: YouTube

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