Usable Amusement Ride, Giants Slides or "Roller Coasters"

eurillian

Hello -

I'm relatively new to housing though not to the game itself. I just never had a lot of interest until recently, as in the last few months. While building my first house at Lunar Hall, I stumbled on an idea after playing with one of the structural pieces that had an interesting characteristic. I ended up building 2 large and 1 small slides there. I just finished my second house at Stillwater and built a couple of big slides there, and I'm working on a third experimental slide. My guilds love it and it's not unusual for me to be standing in my house crafting and then seeing a guildie zoom by on the slide.

I was looking around and had not seen any mention of this before so I'm just wondering if anyone built anything like a usable amusement ride, whether its a slide or otherwise.Here are some pictures of my rides, including me actually sliding down. I would love to hear back from anyone else that has done something like this and what their idea was!

Sorry if the pictures are out of order, new to the forums too and (admittedly) too lazy to rearrange










~Eurillian (pronounced You're Really Ian")~

P.S.
Special shout out to Elara Northwind and Purple Rosa, as their videos inspired me to build my first and now second house!

Edited: for spelling and clarification, need more coffee!

ZOS_Adrikoth

This is awesome! We're curious to see if others have built something like this.

airie

looks like tonnes of fun thanks for sharing ♡

Lariana

I built a similar medium-sized slide in my Hunding's. You could run up a custom staircase in the backyard and up to a really high platform, which had a slide that dropped you right into the water.

It was fairly common to see several guildies just running up the stairs and whooshing down the slide into the water over and over again

Mix

I have a slide, built out of khajiit tents - their roofs have the slide-y collision.

I don't know about how you would make other rides functional, i have seen someone build a roller coaster track and a ferris wheel but they are stationary of course.

Lariana

Oh, and I also built a sort of hedge-based "rollercoaster" in my Daggerfall Overlook maze/parkour. It's not something you can ride in a sense, you can only walk on it... but you need to navigate it properly else you'll fall into slaughterfish-infested waters below

Here's an old screenshot with a couple of guildies trying to complete the parkour:

(There's a loop in there somewhere...)

Sir Tanks a lot

This thread reminded me of something @ZOS_Cardinal did with EHT a while ago.
https://youtu.be/iQrlHvmFJa0

StabbityDoom

yes, I have a giant water slide. 20 waterfalls, 20 tents.

volkeswagon

Slots, slots, slots

eurillian

Thanks for the tent ideas, will have to look into it with my next home

I made a "water" slide to by dropping people down into the waterfall using the slide to keep them going through the water.

Would be great if we could get a structural piece that was actually flat, then I could make a workable skating rink

Thank you all for the comments!

StabbityDoom

The flat structural item wouldn't work for a skating rink. When the slippery items are laid flat, you just sort of hover in a weird position and dont move one way or another. No matter what, it needs to be on an incline

TheOriginalMrT

Hey eurillian this is epic! Tested out your slide when i visited your house the other day, OMG!!! I'm trying to collect heartwood to build more roof thingies but heartwood has skyrocketed in price currently. Anyways coming from "guild wars 2" as a beetle track builder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knhBVJ8uQdM
the slide idea looks so much like my kinda design/playstyle! Trying to think of new ways to add twists and turns since you can only slide down.

I put together a "test track" in the [Antiquarian's Alpine Gallery] new house we all got
https://youtu.be/h7V2EA3x1Zw
but am curious if there are [classic homes] that have a similarly high ceiling like yours the [Stillwater Retreat] or if anyone knows of other homes with high ceilings that i can buy with gold. My roller coaster ideas need some height and the ideas are flooding in, but i don't currently have the room for them.

newtinmpls

Wow these are all incredible!!

Gotta work on getting qualified to get that Summerset water feature

StabbityDoom

newtinmpls wrote: »

Wow these are all incredible!!

Gotta work on getting qualified to get that Summerset water feature

that's just extra for looks, but if you want to do it without it, there's some mushrooms too that have slippery. Could be fun to see what you do with it

eurillian

TheOriginalMrT wrote: »

Hey eurillian this is epic! Tested out your slide when i visited your house the other day, OMG!!! I'm trying to collect heartwood to build more roof thingies but heartwood has skyrocketed in price currently. Anyways coming from "guild wars 2" as a beetle track builder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knhBVJ8uQdM
the slide idea looks so much like my kinda design/playstyle! Trying to think of new ways to add twists and turns since you can only slide down.

I put together a "test track" in the [Antiquarian's Alpine Gallery] new house we all got
https://youtu.be/h7V2EA3x1Zw
but am curious if there are [classic homes] that have a similarly high ceiling like yours the [Stillwater Retreat] or if anyone knows of other homes with high ceilings that i can buy with gold. My roller coaster ideas need some height and the ideas are flooding in, but i don't currently have the room for them.

Hey Bro -

Nice, I actually had something in mind like the GW2 track. The hard part is the curves, you can control it to an extent but if someone goes to fast or makes a running start, they end up sliding off the slides. Putting rails up can work if you angle it just right, otherwise you just bounce them back to the beginning lol. I'm still working on a nice circular slide, or at least one that can make sharp turns reliably (without dead guildies on the ground beneath haha). If you figure it out, share brother share

Also I discovered with my first slide, if you hit an obstacle just right, it bounces you backwards all the way to the top, and you end up coming down again. Once I was bounced up twice! Still working on making it happen reliably. The giant slide I built in Lunar, if you stand in the middle and face left, you can almost reliably bounce back up.

@Stabittydoom, you can put the pieces "horizontallly". The slide in Stillwater has a part that is like a bowling lane that you can slide across 4 structural pieces (and you can make it as long as you want), and you can make it so you can slide in both directions.



The problem comes in when they come perpendicular across the piece, the side rails end up knocking people backwards. I'll update once I figure it out, maybe the tent idea will work better. Or maybe someone else will come up with an idea that works!

Edit: @StabbityDoom , I didn't know that about mushrooms, I'll have to experiment with shrooms, errrr, you know what i mean, thanks!