January 24, 201214 yr Imagine this in a few years:"Flight" online is a single realtime MMO. To participate in this MMO, you are a virtual pilot who collects skill from the flights, training and testing you have completed. In this environment can either fly personal or fly commercial. Flying personal is pretty much "free fly": you set up a GA flight plan and go. But the real action is flying commercial: you select an available flight which matches your current experience level. These flights range from bush hopping to international airline flights, as well as ground control duties, and are set up dynamically to get the most out of the current state of MMO activity. For completing commercial flights you get 'paid' and added skill, and the more skill a flight requires means you get paid that much more. To obtain skills, there are training flights (er..missions) that you complete which culminate in testing missions which prove your skill mastery. The testing missions are also available without going through the training if you don't need the training. Now the rub here is that training, testing and the flights will cost you something, but those commercial flights will eventually pay you back and give you 'profit' which can be expended for additional training, testing or some sort of DLC. Of course, MS will tune this ecomony so they will profit by maintaining this environment. And the best for last: included with all of this will be a forum sig url that displays the current state of your "Flight" virtual pilot so you can gloat even when you are off-line (which BTW will also promote their Flight MMO to the envious masses).My gut tells me that if MS can do this right (and get enough buy in, literally) it'll put that desired "gaming experience" into Flight while adding a viable layer of immersion to the FS experience, i.e. a 'sim' of a commercial flight economy.Or then again, maybe I'm smokin' too much stuff... :( Edited January 24, 201214 yr by TheFamilyMan CPU: AMD 9800X3D PBO MB +200 CO -25| Motherboard: MSI MAG X870e Tomahawk WiFi | GPU: MSI RTX 5090 Ventus 3X OC | RAM: G.Skill 2x32GB DDR5 6000 cas 30 | M.2 SSDs: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2T, WD Black SN750 M.2 1T | Hard Drive: WD Black HDD 6T 7200 | Optical Drive: LG Bluray writer, internal | Cooling: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO | Case: Fractal Design Focus G | PSU: NZXT C1200 1200W Win 11 Pro 64|HP Reverb G2 revised VR HMD|Asus 25" IPS 2K 60Hz monitor|Saitek X52 Pro & Peddles|TIR 5 (now retired)
January 25, 201214 yr Moderator That sounds idyllic. Imagine Online Sessions that're limited to 16 players maximum, and only a random Session appears when you desire to fly one... Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
January 25, 201214 yr That sounds idyllic. Imagine Online Sessions that're limited to 16 players maximum, and only a random Session appears when you desire to fly one...Still here !! :( Imagine that !!
January 28, 201214 yr That sounds idyllic. Imagine Online Sessions that're limited to 16 players maximum, and only a random Session appears when you desire to fly one...Yeah, but then imagine as well, that this limitation would only be there to test a current state of something...
January 29, 201214 yr It does sound idyllic in theory, but as one who has played a variety of MMO games, and has become all too familiar with the mentality that a large portion of MMO players have, we're likely to see more along the lines of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor re-enactments at the expense of others' enjoyment than people playing nice together. Pessimistic, perhaps, but I wouldn't put it past the kiddies who will be able to do this free of charge. "No matter how eloquent you are or how solidly and firm you've built your case, you will never win in an argument with an idiot, for he is too stupid to recognize his own defeat." ~Anonymous.
January 30, 201214 yr I wondered about this utopia when the nay-sayers were venting three weeks ago, and thought it would be great. Sadly a I can imagine a number of bug-smashers being ingested by CFMs & Trents at take-off power because the virtual GA driver doesn't know about, or more likely doesn't care about controlled airspace (unlike most real ones). Would be cool though.Mike Mike Dryden
January 30, 201214 yr Having re-read that... I don't mean all virtual GA drivers! I generally am one. Only the (hopefully) few that don't care to comprehend that cutting in front of a Triple on finals in their Stearman at JFK is just not the done thing. Mike Dryden
January 30, 201214 yr I found a non moderated on line environment lacked :( discipline :( . If it is moderated, and the brats can be booted, B) fun B) may be had, and the village rejoices :( Edited January 30, 201214 yr by drumsonly2002
January 31, 201214 yr Author I stumbled across this post at the REX forum: http://www.realenvir...dpost__p__93711Seem the makers of REX will realize my pipe dream soon enough, for FSX that is....(BTW, I did think of the OP completely on my own)Edit: Don't know if that "SimAir" will include any training stuff though... :( Edited January 31, 201214 yr by TheFamilyMan CPU: AMD 9800X3D PBO MB +200 CO -25| Motherboard: MSI MAG X870e Tomahawk WiFi | GPU: MSI RTX 5090 Ventus 3X OC | RAM: G.Skill 2x32GB DDR5 6000 cas 30 | M.2 SSDs: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2T, WD Black SN750 M.2 1T | Hard Drive: WD Black HDD 6T 7200 | Optical Drive: LG Bluray writer, internal | Cooling: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO | Case: Fractal Design Focus G | PSU: NZXT C1200 1200W Win 11 Pro 64|HP Reverb G2 revised VR HMD|Asus 25" IPS 2K 60Hz monitor|Saitek X52 Pro & Peddles|TIR 5 (now retired)
January 31, 201214 yr I remember that, I got 2nd place cause I did not give my entry fast enough, I waited to long......miss out on $500.00... :(
