Re: Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Project 2018
Hey, guys, be nice to ATI. While the community nowadays seems to be mostly composed of established members, we were all new once, and I've seen far stupider posts on here before - some of which by yours truly. We can't expect everybody to come on CF with a complete understanding of the inner workings of the coaster industry or theme park operations - heck, when I were new, there were maybe a handful of members here having much of a clue about that at all. Those who stuck around for some ten years have built up a lot of knowledge, but newly registered members are still at the beginner stage, where everything coasters is awesome, parks are believed to be operated more or less like RCT, and manufacturers can be cleanly divided into "always awesome" or "So crap I can't believe their rides are still standing".
Just be patient. Go lightly on new members, like older members went lightly on you. Had CF always been this hostile to inexperienced and eager newbies, half of us probably wouldn't have stuck around. ATI is clearly opinionated, creative and enthusiastic, he just needs experience. And if all the experience we want to give him is "you are so dumb", how can he ever improve?
There's far too little wishlisting on the forums nowadays. We can afford that. We used to do that all the time, but now everybody has drunk too deep of the realism bottle and fall into "never gonna happen, and here's why" every time. Come on a little! Suggest dumb things, approach other people's dumb suggestions in a respectful manner, discuss back and forth, everybody learns something. Personally, I think BPB could do with an RMC, a conversion or a total rebuild of one of its woodies. Wood is what BPB is known for, some of their rides are old enough to be granted retirement (although woodies are functionally immortal as long as the worn pieces are replaced, but the design rarely changes much), and woodie technology has progressed so much since BPB built their previous one in 1935 (not counting the Wild Mouse from 1958). It'd be OK to knock down a near-centenarian (they have several), and give Blackpool an iconic woodie representing the current century.
