Bit of free error checking for you:
Thank you! The reason I have all of the creds listed as 28th/29th September 2013 as my first ride on them was because that visit to Alton involved my first roller coasters as an enthusiast! Although despite this, Alton Towers is the 3rd park I visited by my logic of "since I became an enthusiast" because I did visit Chessington and Legoland Windsor in August 2013, but I couldn't ride any creds as I had a broken arm. So that's kind of where I've started the spreadsheet from.I love the fact that you have a specific DATE when your enthusiasm started. Not like, "sometime around 2013", or "after the summer 2013", but a specific date. Do you have a time too?
Good stuff though, you've done the right thing by setting a spreadsheet up early in your enthusiasm. Means you can add, modify and tweak it as your count grows, rather than facing the awful task of starting one from scratch when you're at like 300+ or something. Although as my first hour at "work" this morning proved, you'll never stop fiddling with it.
I personally won't be counting them because as I said above, I don't really remember my pre-enthusiast coaster experiences, and I personally feel that my coaster count is my way of comparing my coaster experiences with other enthusiasts and discussing rankings and milestones and whatnot. Besides, I would only gain 3 creds from Disneyland Paris, so I didn't really think it was worth including non-enthusiast experiences for 3 extra credits; not to mention it would also mess up my milestones!
Aye, good spot. I think that's a fallout of my re-jigging the formulas earlier. Managed to make the country counting more robust, but obviously didn't think to check the totals column!
Oh yeah, how did I miss that?!
Yeah, once you assign the parks (or coasters) their incremental, unique, identifier (in my case done in the empty cells in the inputs tabs), it becomes a simple vlookup (or index/match, 'cos it's more powerful). The wood and steel milestones work with array formulas, but the same lookup idea. If anyone cares...
Sadly not yet managed to automate this one due to simply not knowing the incremental stuff in the earlier days and not wanting to half-arse it. Took on a lot of the other ideas though.
Cheers. It's decent, but not spectacular. The hold before the drop is pretty special when combined with the amazingly exposed restraints.
Thanks for the review @HeartlineCoaster!
Congratulations on 300 @Chris Coasters! Hopefully this is the start of a prosperous new journey for you!
Great stuff! Thanks @Chris Coasters!
