This ride is a bit of a fustrating one to rate - for the plain and simple reason it just didn't feel like a wooden rollercoaster. I'll go thorugh the reasons I felt this:
1) Kicker wheels - wooden rollercoasters tend to use gravity to get the ride between stations and brake runs - you had a tonne of speed at the end of the ride I felt you could have easily slanted the entire section between final brake run and lift hill.
2) Heartline - this coaster was heartlined throughout which made it feel like a steel coaster - wooden coasters tend to use the heartline to force lateral G's and make the ride more exciting
3) Supportwork - there were no lateral supports and parts of the ride didn't even have footers. When you use the auto support tool you need to tweak and add to it to make the ride better.
On top of this I'd liked to have seen some crossovers and more lateral G's in the first half of the ride.
There were certainly good things about this ride though. i thought the pacing was excellent and the final twisty section was really fun - perhaps a tad too "whippy" but I enjoyed it nonetheless. You also did a good job of not only keeping the G's reasonable for a wooden rollercoaster but also varying the airtime so that there was a nice mix of floater and ejector airtime. I thought the layout was reasonably inventive and I liked the effort with the support scenery (although your handrails were too high!)
technique is good 8 adrenaline a good wooden coaster but not very special 7 realism is good you can build this in real life 8,75 rider value almoust perfect 8,5
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