Photo Credit: Rave Coasters

Say hello to Rave Coasters. We’ve just partnered up to further expand the RCT network of websites and continue to provide high quality content to all enthusiasts. The site features many favorites of the RCT boards, with games and competitions, but also a place to showcase the newest creations. The forum is on the rise, so head over to Rave Coasters, create an account, and show them what you’ve got.

Visit Rave Coasters

As many of you have read in the past weeks, I’ve been seeking some assistance with the website. Luckily I’ve had a few users respond to the posting, and I’d like to welcome RydersMulisha to the RCTDb family! We can now have 24 hour coverage of RCT since our geographic locations are opposite on the planet. Say hi, drop some comments, and lets give a warm welcome to a new permanent poster to ensure quality RCT content is delivered to our loyal readers / RCT enthusiasts.

If you’d still like to help out, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Keep building!
-T10

As some of you may have noticed, the site went down for about a day recently. This was due to too many queries being sent out from the backend. It shouldn’t happen again, as I’ve installed some plugins to combat the issue. Have no fear, it was not an attack, just a hiccup on my part. I apologize for any inconvenience. Glad to see were back on our feet shortly after the problem.

-T10

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Photo Credit: Mr. Zeepy

Let’s all welcome a new blog to the RCT family of websites. Mr. Zeepy’s RCT Blog (translated). Add it to your bookmarks, and subscribe to the feed.

Thanks,
-T10

Hey everyone, I’ve got a few updates for you. First off, a few of the dead links have been fixed – The Device and Saw Scenery have had link updates. None of Vodhin’s sets work, so don’t even try those – unless you’ve found another place they’re hosted. And X Enterprises‘ stuff has also had updates.

Added to the links bar are a few sites:

• RCT3 Bliss – Dkimber’s custom content for RCT2 and RCT3
• X Enterprises Homepage for custom RCT3 content and utilities
• Star Rides – brand new CFRs and CSOs (German site)

That’s all for now, so go check those sites out and download any sets you may have missed.

Thanks,
-T10

Hot off the press – you can now “Browse by Creator” right above the search field, for even greater access to your favorite custom creator. Maybe you’ll even find something new! Along with their names is a bracketed number of releases or projects they’re involved with. Click to see and the page automatically loads.

Thanks!
-T10

It has come to my attention that the feed was out of date. For those of you that read the feed via RSS – I’ve got some good news for you. It’s fixed! It’s been stuck on April 16th, 2010 for some unknown reason and I have now fixed the issue. It was pointing to an older URL and I never got a chance to update it. All is solved, and now you can receive up-to-date feeds via RSS. Subscribe now if you haven’t already!

Thanks!
T10

I’ve been lacking in the updating department this month, but then again it was a busy time of year. Moving out of college (to go back for one more year), taking the oh-so-wonderful final exams, settling down at home, and starting my summer internship, not to mention summer in general. I just haven’t quite had the time to publish as many updates as I would like to. Especially the YouTube Tuesday videos. I missed a few of those, and I’m sure you’re all greatly disappointed about that. Submissions to the the support email would greatly increase your chances of the video/set/park/track appearing here – no matter what level of work you posses. It’s getting pretty difficult to lurk all the forums to bring you guys quality updates, and with your help, we can promote all kinds of new work.

So bear with me this month, and June should bring some additional quality updates. I have 10 new(ish) sets to put up. Some have already seen them, but for our non-atari/sgw/lounge readers it will be a treat.

Send me your submissions!
I might even have a volunteer blog poster spot open to help spread quality roller coaster tycoon content on the site. *wink wink* (apply to be one). Just send an email to the support address telling why you’d be a great candidate for blog posting here, and what you would do to make a difference. It is unpaid, as I have a minimal income from the site, and bills to pay =p. This will not only help me, but greatly help the RCT community.

In other technical news:
-Wordpress 3.0 is coming out (yay!) and I’ve tinkered with the beta. Lots of new features in it. Maybe I’ll even create another theme for this site, to update it a bit. We’re a little over a year old!
-traffic has skyrocketed in the last few months ~40,000 visitors last month, and coming up to 50,000 this month
-on May 2nd we had 2,684 visitors. I don’t know what they feed you guys, but keep coming back!
-RCTDB has 404 posts, 6 pages, 20 categories, 157 tags, and 186 comments to date.

Thank you all for your continued support.
Email me if you’re interested in being an author as well.
-T10