How I sold 20,190,263 balloons per hour

[@MarcelVos]

It might be theoretically possible to stop the guests from wanting to leave the park in the toilet experiment by using the same method as we saw in the previous video, but exploring that possibility was a bit too much for now.

[@MakusinMeringue]

Well, if you do, give us a numerical update if you can.

[@zombieponcho]

Breaking games is fun, thank you for what you do.

[@bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689]

The guests: -Own nothing -Will be happy

[@way21337]

Is there anyway for guests to lose their map?

[@icLllliIIIIlILLilLlIjigel]

"butt exploring that possibility was a bit too loo"

[@daanwilmer]

"One balloon pleaAAARGHBBLLBLBLBLBL… Hey, I'm back! One balloon pleaAAARGHBBLLBLBLBLBL… Hey I'm back!"

[@jasmijnariel]

10 second Tom? 😂😁

[@jasmijnariel]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_Cc3eZgM2njc0si=ca0R5Y7NIwPpbpDr. 😂

[@logandunlap9156]

they’re trying to buy air so they can breathe bruh

[@TheOnlyJoshH]

lol I had to read this a few times. Very funny.

[@thecoolcongle5128]

Aaaand repeat

[@sebkuip]

Peeps still buying souvenirs even after being drowned hundreds of times per minute is peak RCT

[@MarcelVos]

Hey now I'm not that cruel, they only drowned 35 times a minute on average.

[@geelzwarteaardbij]

So waterboarding it is​@@MarcelVos

[@CptManboobs]

Marcel just casually coming up with bizarre torture techniques that would make the CIA blush.

[@averageskyfatherworshipper9342]

They’re guests! Get it right!

[@MarcelVos]

@@averageskyfatherworshipper9342 Technically any human in the game is a peep, but only customers are guests (so staff are peeps but not guests).

[@joelnormal4876]

Spare a prayer for the poor employee running the balloon stall, selling 20 million balloons a year, watching the same faces, each looking more haunted and yet more similar with every purchase.

[@ianmoore5502]

That's one balloon sold every single waking second for an entire year lol

[@mbgal7758]

Dripping wet from being repeatedly drowned, buying balloon after balloon.

[@bligabliga]

"Balloon vendor. Day 221. i do not know how i found the time to write this, but for sanity's sake i must. every day i sell balloons. every minute. every second. the contrast of the guests that i see today to when i first started working here. nothing will stop them, it seems. their world could crumble, their principles turned on their head. yet still i hear without a smile but a scowl: ""One balloon please"". Why? never did i think one summer job would have me question the very universe and its purpose. Why?"

[@Guiboard]

20 million balloons sold from April to October. I calculated 18.5 million seconds with a tool found on internet, so yeah about 1 balloon per second, 24/7 for 7 months!

[@ianmoore5502]

@Guiboard thank you so much for confirming; that's probably my favorite "instinctively knowing that's a good estimate without going and chrcking" I've experienced in life so far

[@cappantwan2978]

It’s 3 am and I’m watching a man from the Netherlands sell over 20 million balloons. I really should be asleep, lol

[@Alex918]

Hope you sleep well Meu Amigo

[@siiiiiiiiiimo]

Where are you? Pacific Islands? Its 10.20pm Tuesday here

[@TheGRZone]

Same, its 4:30 here in Mexico. Should also be very asleep Cheers!

[@tautochrone4968]

West Coaster spotted.

[@pixart_king]

Good. Watch the funny Dutch man sell bloons

[@Oler-yx7xj]

From being trapped in a park for centuries, to being trapped in a single tile with thousands of other people, to being trapped in a single tile and constantly almost drowning. The torture is getting more and more intense

[@gredangeo]

The worst thing an NPC could discover, is finding out they're on Marcel's computer. Lol.

[@dr.cheeze5382]

It's eternity in there...

[@bligabliga]

how will he top this one? oh, the anticipation

[@bakedbean6605]

@@bligabliga Well, now guests heads will explode for thinking any negative thoughts whatsoever. Bravo Marcel

[@mirrorsandstuff]

The toilet expulsion scam is honestly one of the most evil things you've ever contemplated.

[@Pyxis10]

Closed for cleaning sorry! It's ope- Closed for cleaning LOL!!!!

[@HawkmoonaMatata]

Alternate video title: "How I made Roller Coaster Tycoon use 50 Gigabytes of RAM"

[@davidverbeek4849]

I was hoping I miss heard it and that it was just 15GB, but 50GB is not a slight memory leak

[@pmnt_]

@@davidverbeek4849 if it's a "proper" memory leak than it doesnt really matter. 50GB will just take 3.3 times longer to fill up.

[@csunday95]

Having done some plugin development on this game, this is your brain on JavaScript

[@ambiarock590]

Sounds like a Let's Game It Out video

[@EllipticGeometry]

@@davidverbeek4849 “Just 15 GB” as if that isn’t already way too much for what’s going on.

[@CielMC]

"This plugin does have a memory leak and is using 50+G but that doesn't matter" Truely a C++ moment

[@LiliumOrientalis]

Even worse, plugins are apparently made with JavaScript

[@CielMC]

@@LiliumOrientalis Huh, it's hard to leak memory with JS though, it should just get GC-d.

[@stevelknievel4183]

'Making your guests lose their balloons' sounds like it should be a euphemism.

[@flextape467]

What would it be used for?

[@MaddoBatto]

​@@flextape467Going crazy, maybe? Like losing your marbles?

[@vamppanic]

@@MaddoBattoi think more like losing your ambition. “youve lost your balloon”

[@algorithmae]

11:23 The worst version of hell would be one that hires Marcel as a consultant. "This time, the sinners will have to use the bathroom and will be set in front of a toilet surrounded by an infinite plane of grass. They run into the toilet stall and as soon as they get their pants unzipped, they're teleported back outside. This repeats for eternity."

[@TehButterflyEffect]

I've had dreams like that lol.

[@Pyxis10]

Satan: I resign, you're the new king of hell now.

[@Alumit]

10:47 cracked me up, this army of peeps all marching into the same toilet stall one after the other as if it's a clown car

[@daffers2345]

Hey, when you've got to go, you've got to go

[@Pyxis10]

What are they doing in falling repeatedly?

[@HeyCambo]

Needs yakety sax

[@rohsek7298]

A game over 20 years old taking up 50gb of ram is hilarious to me omg

[@Merrinen]

Imagine you need to pee only every one and a half month or so. Such a great universe this game has.

[@MarcelVos]

In real time that's about every 10 minutes...

[@ianmoore5502]

Imagine if a month and a half passed in 10 minutes

[@DeetotheDubs]

Moclans on The Orville only go once a year and treat it like a special occasion.

[@Ravaxr]

Tycho Brahe be like:

[@RobsonLanaNarvy]

​@@ianmoore5502in Interstellar, this can pass within 1 minute and 3 seconds

[@LanthusV]

I will pretend those 20,190,263 balloons are a rather esoteric birthday gift.

[@jksmellie]

Ah yes, Marcel casually committing war crimes again

[@daffers2345]

Not to mention polluting the environment ... he's Evil Personified!

[@bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689]

Nat a war crime, not at war + not a military presence. Plus, the happiness meter clearly shows that the guest doesn’t even register the fraction of a second between wanting to buy a balloon and wanting to buy a balloon, or even that they just bought one and it magically disappeared, since they keep coming back and buying more. The memory isn’t even repressed, it’s just never processed, and their body is completely unaffected since it’s mostly just falling, and as such, the definitions of both physical and psychological torture fail to apply, and the fraction of a second of forgotten time is entirely negligible.

[@MarxismLilyism]

Not technically war crimes, just crimes against humanity

[@Jack-Barton]

I love how Marcel is so deep into this game he had a plugin made for one incredibly specific purpose, one that no mere mortal would come across in normal play.

[@SirPembertonS.Crevalius]

Never thought I'd see the day where we damn near need a NASA computer is needed to play RCT.

[@C.I...]

That's just openrct2. Absolutely no idea how they managed to make the a 2d game that works on a pentium 200 without lag delve into single digit frame rates on a computer hundreds of times more powerful just by zooming out slightly.

[@Brownd55]

@@C.I... easy, by removing vanilla limits

[@harryhopkinson162]

And plugins which use JavaScript which is a lot slower than C++ and assembly

[@bligabliga]

im no expert, but i think it took less memory to get to the moon than to run RCT. especially how Marcel plays it

[@SekritJay]

Somehow the toilet exploit is instinctively more diabolical then effectively waterboarding them

[@Ultimaximus]

They forever want to use the bathroom, desperately enough that they'll keep paying for it over and over again, but they're always ejected out right before they can release. They'll also never just wet themselves.

[@vamppanic]

@@Ultimaximusdante’s toilet line

[@posthistoricdino422]

you know it's a new marcel vos record when you see an incomprehensibly large number in the title and/or thumbnail

[@ThePensiveWalrus]

I tried to do this manually more efficiently by adding and removing the water to drown the guests, or adding and removing a path piece above water. Would be possible to do manually if it worked, but it didn't. A drowning guest will drown unless picked up by the player. It doesn't matter if they are drowning through a path, or the water is no longer there. Guests in a drowning state do not check if there's still water there and will drown on dry land just to spite you.

[@ctdaniels7049]

5:30 You could pause it and move a thousand guys individually, but only that maniac at Lets Game It Out has that kind of patience.

[@ONXshaman]

that one toilet had better monthly income than any park i ever built

[@fo-ef8qo]

jaded science teacher: "miles per ham sandwich?" student: (sigh) "guest per year"

[@kalskirata2012]

So this is why gas station toilets are so nasty. 2.5M shits taken per month - and none of them aimed at the toilet

[@MaxArceus]

Don't you hate it when you begin peeing, and suddenly the janitor's like "Cut it off, we're closing right this microssecond."?

[@LeeSpork]

How much helium would this stall be consuming...? I found a helium tank on the internet that could inflate 1250 nine inch balloons, which means your balloon stall would need 16,153 of these tanks per hour. The tank measured 230 mm in diameter, so if we assume a RCT2 tile is 4 meters long, then all these helium tanks would take up more than 7x7 tiles of space! If we generously assume that the balloon stall's entire 1x1 footprint is filled with helium tanks, then consequentially all of those tanks would need to be replaced more than 53 times over the hour, which means fully restocking the entire building of helium every 67 seconds!

[@velvetbutterfly]

Unless you made a typo. You said it would take ~5 million cubic feet, and the US used 59 million cubic meters, or ~ 2 billion cubic feet

[@wernerfels7584]

Second also Feet to meters ? Maybee include also Fahrenheit and therperatur to your Calculation to make it more Look Like real math

[@LeeSpork]

@@velvetbutterfly You are correct, when doing the unit conversion I for some reason didn't realize that one was million and the other was billion, whoops. I've edited my comment to remove the completely incorrect part

[@LeeSpork]

@@wernerfels7584 Yes, I converted feet to meters, since the sources I was using used different units (though I spared detailing the conversion calculations for brevity, but that's my bad if it made it confusing). I'm not an expert in balloons, so I don't know if/how temperature makes a difference?

[@DarkWarchieff]

Man single handedly doubled plastic pollution

[@Dupletor]

"Energized guests fall faster" Galileo be like:

[@KhanggiTanka]

I think you mean Isaac Newton? Or you're going to surprise me with a cool fact about Galileo

[@RobinWood1292]

@@KhanggiTanka It was Galileo who figured out that the acceleration due to gravity for falling objects is not dependent on their mass :) or: heavy and light objects fall at the same speed.

[@johnfoltz8183]

And tired guests drown slower than energetic ones

[@Ravaxr]

@@KhanggiTanka It was thought that a small cannonball would fall slower than a large one due to the difference in mass. Galileo asked what would happen if you chained them together, and then attached them. Would the smaller one hold the larger one back with the chain? Would the larger one drag the smaller one down faster than it would naturally fall? And if they are attached, would they fall at the rate of the smaller ball, the larger ball, or does their combined mass make them fall even faster? He concluded this is absurd. The only reliable answer to these questions is that in all cases the cannonballs fall at the same rate. Historians suggest that Galileo never actually did the experiment with the infamous tower of Pisa, instead writing about it as a thought experiment.

[@eitantal726]

@@Ravaxr He's not entirely right. At some point, mass starts to matter. Drop Jupiter instead of a cannon ball, and it will fall faster. If it's true for Jupiter, it's true for the heavier cannon ball

[@UnreliableAdvice4all]

50k guests going to the bathroom an hour and one traumatized custodian cleaning it

[@thylacocoalthy6228]

I could've sworn that clicking the balloons popped them, must be a different game.

[@MarcelVos]

That works only when they're let go of and in the air.

[@lynnesbian]

it's possible in RCT3

[@K-o-R]

I was sure you could pop a guest's balloon. Maybe that was Theme Park then?

[@Brickertown]

"small memory leak" [50 gigabytes]

[@the_last_ballad]

Memory leaks compound over time(as the program is requesting memory, using it, then not releasing it before requesting more) so even small leaks will eventually reach 50 gigabytes if left running long enough

[@Brickertown]

@@the_last_ballad true! I've made memory leaks myself in my own projects lol

[@blackvulture6818]

20 million red balloons is truly one of germany's greatest pop hits

[@heartysquid]

12:18 Souls trapped in Peegatory

[@toddoverholt4556]

'Top Gear Production Office' is the best toilet name ever

[@Davtwan]

From having guests enjoy the most extreme Free Balloon Day to torturing them by making them enter a restroom that constantly ejects them. Just another day in RCT.

[@Gin-toki]

"This Information Kiosk" I heard that as "Disinformation Kiosk" xD

[@Pystro]

That's how you get them to come back. If you tell them what they want to know, then they'll have no reason to come back and ask again, right?

[@iamthezach]

im glad to see that marcel has finally crossed the TAS event horizon, cant wait to see where we go from here

[@Rubbly]

I feel like this new use of stalls and especially plugins marks a new era for these videos! I'm enjoying it!

[@dustinmorrison6315]

Fitting 9,600 people in a small bathroom really is an attraction.

[@CL-hq4cf]

"Top Gear Production Office" - Nice! :D

[@K-o-R]

But it didn't get demolished by a Hilux.

[@austinschmuck7814]

There's even captain slow at 1:17

[@swanky2202]

It's like all the sims you threw into the void ended up at a balloon factory only to produce enough balloons for this nightmarish contraption. LMAO

[@davidromeroblaya7920]

Using past trauma to increase sales. That's Basic Marketing.

[@TubeCody]

I love this so much, I was dying laughing when the guests were drowning and then buying balloons nonstop

[@gideonmele1556]

Lmao, the bathroom is called “Top Gear Production Office”

[@gideonmele1556]

0:45

[@hausaffe100]

Every time i think that this game can't get anymore ridiculous, stuff like this happen, Marcel will never run out of content

[@DavidFrostbite]

_"Orgy Maze looks too intense for me"_

[@scndsky]

"I'm not going on your mum while it's raining."

[@hollowstarfire]

The absolute dreamscape nightmare of forever needing to use the toilet, paying for the toilet, almost getting to the stall, and then being outside of the toilet. All while like, 1000 other people do the exact same thing and fit in the same tiny space as you. … … I’m pretty sure I’ve been one of your park guests in my nightmares.

[@locutos8397]

Last time someone released millions of balloons in a city it wasn't a good time, 20M would cause the apocalypse lol

[@CyprusBeyblade]

15:04 of all crazy numbers this video had, this "sold 600x more" made me laugh the most

[@WackoMcGoose]

4:42 "HAMMOND, YOU IDIOT! YOU'VE REVERSED INTO THE SPORTS LORRY!"

[@colettekerr279]

Just sat down for lunch! Great timing

[@lawrencemercieca]

Does this man ever run out of fascinating roller coaster tycoon subjects? Love your work, from Aus 🇦🇺

[@Grdian]

Waterboarding customers to make them buy more balloons. Genius!

[@canal_do_murad]

2:54 "Sometimes my genius is almost frightening"

[@davidwever6451]

So is this purgatory? When we die do we get sent to Marcel's computer?

[@skipspik1571]

" I have a plan to sell 20 millions ballons" "I involve violently drowning the buyers" Yep, sound about right, about a game on rollercoasters.

[@zone6440]

4:05 of all the things to see in an rct2 video i cant say i was expecting a smosh reference to appear, but amanda is one of my favs so im here for it!

[@joyoustye2326]

These videos just keep getting crazier and crazier

[@Rylux]

"I made thousands of kids cry by nearly drowning them, so they let go of ballons and I can sell them a new one"

[@mronewheeler]

Over 20 years after release and Marcel is still finding new and creative ways of torturing guests

[@mattmular9111]

4:53 I could see this being an 'If video games were real' skit trapped in a writhing mob forced to buy balloons for eternity

[@YosherYoshi]

I love your dedication to putting this game to its limits no matter how ridiculous they are, some real absurd numbers. Beter 20 miljoen ballonnen in de lucht dan 1 per klant! Dan kunnen ze er nog eens 20 miljoen kopen.

[@OptimusSubPr1me]

I never knew ejecting peeps cut their happiness in half. It's amazing I am still learning new things about this game.

[@RemyNote]

This looks like it should be split between hands-on and hands-off throughput records. That way, older tricks will remain relevant in different ways.

[@MarcelVos]

For now it doesn't seem necessary though as the final record is without any plugins or anything. I guess I used the speedup to get the 9600 guests all in the park and through the three mazes, but that's all.

[@Scyne0101]

Hey @Marcel Vos, have you tried trapping the guests by having something at every adjacent tile, then doing the following... -remove the path piece -raise water level x1 on the same tile -lower water level on same time (removed) - replace path piece Does this work?

[@an_asp]

I misremembered a feature from RCT3 and expected that your strategy would involve popping guests' balloons in hand so they would buy new ones, both for this and last week's video! Imagine if you could just run an autoclicker to destroy all held balloons.

[@voodootrois]

If we assume that these are typical 12 inch party balloons, then one year of 20,200,000 balloons per hour is approximately 8.8 billion cubic feet of helium. This is close to double the global production of helium in 2020.

[@sirium344]

This is unironically one of the funniest videos I've ever watched

[@jasmijnariel]

20million balloons? That stall would go....UP 😏

[@Pyxis10]

The thought of 50,000 people an hour using 1 toilet stall is horrific. The smell, ugh....

[@louisathellama]

0:42 "Top Gear Production Office" I love all the easter eggs you hide in videos

[@oscargonzalez3599]

Normal player: Oh man this Rollercoaster that I just build look so cool! Marcel: Hello guys, today, I will teach how to become god...

[@MaxArceus]

Been looking forward to this one for a while, very fun to see it all happening! Cool idea with the toilets too!

[@masterchief8127]

Thanks to your videos I been having soo much fun playing again after many years, long live RCT!!!!!

[@fernbedek6302]

How many spare computers for deranged lag heavy experiments does Marcel have?

[@Tahngarthor]

"When a guest falls in water, they let go of their only flotation device" The way he said this is hilarious. It's almost as if they *want* to drown lol. Though in reality I don't think one helium baloon would help that much. You'd need dozens for them to provide any measurable resistance to gravity.

[@johnfoltz8183]

This balloon from Balloon Stall 1 is really good value!

[@austinpoznoski3083]

one day I'll make a compilation of Marcel's "Hello everyone!" progressively getting higher pitched over each video

[@anthropomorphicmonster9113]

So there's also this dutch guy named @Press Continue. Insane, crazy things and challenge runs in the Dark Souls variety. Could it be just coincidence that my two favorite games are both hosted by my two favorite KZbinrs who are both Dutch? I'll let the viewers decide.

[@Floxxoror]

Why is it mirrored at 14:19? Is it so that music labels cannot claim the video because of all the sh** that was shown that resembles their music? ;-)

[@Dirty_Glizzy]

It’s been a long while since I play the game so please bare with me, so what if you put a balloon stall with a ramp path above a water source, delete the path and allow them to fall. After they let go of the balloon you immediately fill in the water source with land. I can’t remember if they still drown or not. Thanks in advance for any input!

[@clairespivak2953]

Marcel vos beats a record using drowning. Who could have seen that coming?

[@logitfau252]

I love your videos, albeit never played RCT in the last 20 years :D always suprised me how much you can squeeze out of old game mechanics - i love that stuff - gives really cool vipes, that one can never explore the depth of "known" things enough.... cant explain it really in english, not even german or dutch what i mean - it just shows dedication and love, like falling in love with your partner everyday albeit already married for 50 years^^

[@b42thomas]

do you ever feel we are the guests trapped in a park being forced to drown just to buy more balloons?

[@yoshi6421]

baisc capitalism at its finest

[@VerityFraser]

No amount of money will hire a janitor where a restroom gets 30,000,000 guests per hour.

[@BanditFoxx]

10:47 Never noticed they added a Taco Bell stall.

[@justsomeperson1282]

One thing I got pretty confused with in this video was the type of time used, for example 1 month is about equal to 7 minutes, or the 8 months per year and slightly over 1 hour per year. I think it would've been very helpful to have the clarification of specifying IRL time/etc vs in-game time, or even assumed real time, true real time, and in-game time if the adjustment factor needed to be accounted for still. I found this video very funny and it's always interesting to see just how unethical an optimal solution can get, and whether eventually less ethical actually turns around from being more optimal to less.

[@MagnumForce51]

If you place fences around the path tile you can just drop the tile they are in and replace it with water? (If the path tile has to be removed, the fences are there to keep the guests in the tile. Just make sure the fences are placed on the edges of the adjacent tiles of coarse. ;) ) Then a second or two later raise the tile back up to get rid of the water and restore the path tile? The fences will prevent them from wondering outside the tile in the few seconds the path tile is gone. I think once you place water in the pit the guests will elevate to the top so once you raise the ground up they shouldn't fall into the void. At least I think that's how things will end up working. :P Would probably be faster then picking them up and moving them by hand. It won't be free though as ground modification usually cost money in the game but assuming your balloons aren't free the profits would greatly exceed that anyways. :P I imagine if this is viable automating it with a plugin would be easier as it would lag the game less I imagine. :P

[@Malao558]

They’d better be paying the staff of that balloon stand well. The helium tanks must be massive to pump out that many balloons per hour.

[@baystated]

Is the ticks-per-second discrepancy for simulation optimization on those original pc machines?

[@Rylux]

Could it be, that the ride time is measured from one start to the next start? So the ride getting "reloaded" with guests again is included in this?

[@glenneric1]

Can you imagine a toilet that serviced 50,000 people per hour. Roughly 14 guest per second. The mind boggles.

[@607]

That does seem frustrating! Although it's kind of cool to do it manually, I wonder why you didn't use a plugin for the toilet run.

[@bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689]

I know it probably won’t affect gameplay, but I like to think that putting water fountains on the closest available tiles makes guests need to go to the bathroom that much more. Bonus points if it’s a peeing statue, especially if it’s facing the guests.

[@rubenvanbelzen1217]

does this imply that botany breakers and the other ride ticket scenario's are now possible on just 4 tiles?

[@Aranimda]

Note to self: Before visiting a theme park, check if it is operated by Marcel Vos. If yes: RUN.

[@manveensingh3494]

14:20 why is this part of the video mirrored ??

[@jezzdawga]

Can't you use landscaping tools to remove the path and create a pool of water directly under the guests, and then fill it back in and add a path back once they are balloonless? Seems a lot easier than the claw and wouldn't need a plugin.

[@mihalydozsa2254]

Does the guest releases the ballon when falling? It would make this method more easy by removing a platform and replacing it.