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You'll Starve To Death Riding This Rollercoaster Tycoon Track
Much of Rollercoaster Tycoon's fun is derived from constructing intentionally shoddy or mean-spirited rides, and one sadistic player has taken that philosophy to new heights. While roller coasters provide fleeting thrills, here's one that tortures its riders with a trip so slow, they'll perish long before seeing the end of it.
Kairos - The Slow is just that: an absurdly slow-moving coaster that takes 3,000 in-game years to complete. That's the equivalent of 210 real-life days.
The anonymous designer based the idea around a rule of physics that dictates coasters traveling at a constant height constantly lose speed but will never stop completely. The ride is constructed on Rollercoaster Tycoon's largest map, with a consistently level track that wraps from the edges of the area and spirals towards the center (though the perspective gives the false illusion of spiraling into the Earth).
Kairos' train exits the station, then immediately brakes to decrease its speed to 4 mph where it travels non-stop until it reaches the middle. After that, it cycles back around and returns to the station where new passengers are likely greeted by a train filled with the withered remains of what were once happy park goers.
The only footage of Kairos - The Slow in action can be viewed in this tumblr post. Fingers crossed we'll see creations equally as cruel in next year's Rollercoaster Tycoon World.
[Source: Tumblr via Motherboard]
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