I am curious because tle last dev activity was three years ago.

Yes, the project is still alive, but FreeRCT suffers from a chronic shortage of developers so it's going on veeery slowly, and with long gaps between contributions.

I split my time between contributing to several FOSS projects of which FreeRCT is one, and I'm actually working on some stuff (currently, related to the UIs for coaster and other ride selection, construction, and management), but don't expect the changes to become visible anytime soon ☹️

what about the path building and terrain shaping

Hope this proyect gets enywhere sometime, I revisited this page from my last visit some months ago and this proyect keeps the same.

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Hope this proyect gets enywhere sometime, I revisited this page from my last visit some months ago and this proyect keeps the same.

Also my account is new besides my knowledge of this page.

Sadly, I don’t think there will be much development in the future

Sorry for taking so long, I couldn't reply because I was away, and yes, it's a shame how neglected this is.

Hi all, and I'm glad that this project still attracts some interest despite the lack of much ongoing development 🙂️

Sorry that I have been absent for so long, I'm very busy with work currently and after 8+ hours daily of focused coding I don't have the energy to code yet more for my open-source projects. However I expect that in the medium term things will go back to normal and then it's absolutely my intention to continue contributing to FreeRCT.

What would you say FreeRCT needs most urgently at this point?
My opinion is that the core gameplay is fairly stable now and that a large quantity of new rides ought to be added to make the game more fun to actually play for a prolonged time. For this I intend to first refactor the way multi-tile rides are rendered because the current tiled system is a horrid pain to graphics designers and discourages creativity. That once solved, I want to create a variety of new gentle and thrill rides, and later have a go at making an entire coaster.

Something that would be fantastic is the improvement of the roller coaster construction you actually can build just 8 track pieces in total. Bank turns, brakes, steep drops, and inversions would be impresive.
Also after several minutes of gameplay some sprites corrupt, for example the fountain suddenly appears to be a janitor or an entretainer but that is understandable because the game is in its early versions, games in these versions are very prone to having bugs.