Steel Looping Coaster

The Steel Looping Coaster is the type most players learn the editor on, because it can use almost every piece: chain lifts, steep slopes, banked turns, helixes, loops and corkscrews. The only things it can’t do are vertical drops, top hats and launches, which belong to the bigger steel types.

Each inversion adds excitement, but it also adds intensity and nausea, so a track with loop after loop quickly becomes a ride only thrill-seekers will queue for. Its own type bonus is the smallest of any coaster, so its rating depends almost entirely on the track you lay: speed, the size of its drops, airtime, length and inversions.

In Park Baron the Steel Looping Coaster can rise 84 m above the ground under its track. It can build steep slopes and loops and corkscrews, but not tight turns and vertical drops and top hats. Its trains run 5 cars of 4 seats, 20 riders a train, and its station is 5 to 9 tiles long. Track costs $90 a piece and the station $1,200; it costs $900 a month to run, and guests pay $4 a ride by default. The type adds 0.20 excitement to whatever the track earns, and its rolling friction is 0.010. Children are too short to ride it. It is free to build.

Its showpiece design, Grand Serpent, climbs 25 m, reaches 82 km/h and pulls 4.4 g, with 4 inversions over 473 m of track and a 43-second ride. It rates 9.98 excitement, 7.17 intensity and 7.87 nausea, costs $11,535 and fills 26 × 27 tiles.