Product page is now live!Linky: http://fullterrain.c...duct_us2W3.htmlAlso on the topic was this note:

Note: 2W3 was initially promised as a free airport for all customers who purchased all eight products in the 2010 xmas promotion. Due to the delays in completing 2W3 all 13 customers who qualified for the prize were emailed and offered a free copy of S43 Hervey Field instead. If you did not receive that email you did not qualify for the free offer.

Thank you Clem. It looks really good!

Would have thought that anyone having ordered all 8 xmas sceneries would have already got Hervey...or maybe not? :- Hervey (Harvey) Field/Hervey Bay.Note: 2W3 was initially promised as a free airport for all customers who purchased all eight products in the 2010 xmas promotion. Due to the delays in completing 2W3 all 13 customers who qualified for the prize were emailed and offered a free copy of S43 Hervey Field instead. If you did not receive that email you did not qualify for the free offerOK....GOT IT SUSSED.....DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, EVEN.....never was any good at Geography. :( or spelling come to that :( .

Looks very nice thanks!

This was under construction yonks ago and I thought they'd ditched it. :( I'm glad to see it emerge from the waste paper bin as it's perfectly placed for Bowermans, Walter Sutton's, Ranger Creek etc. I'm definitely having that one!

I won't be buying Swanson after all..... :angry:They're giving me a copy! :dance:Apparently I qualify because I bought a shedload of Orbx during a specific period (Me and JV. :( )

I think you're actually getting Harvey Airfield instead

Note: 2W3 was initially promised as a free airport for all customers who purchased all eight products in the 2010 xmas promotion. Due to the delays in completing 2W3 all 139 customers who qualified for the prize were emailed and offered a free copy of W16 Monroe instead. These customers will now be offered 2W3 as originally promised. If you did not receive that email you did not qualify for the free offer.

But if you're getting Swanson instead, congrats! I WANT IT :(

Copy of email received this morning:

You are receiving this email because we have re-checked our sales records at FSS again and discovered that in fact 139 customers qualified for the free copy of 2W3 because many had already purchased some of the 8 qualifying titles before our promo period began.I apologise for any confusion about your eligibility and hope this email cheers you up! :)Sometime in the next week we will be releasing 2W3 Swanson.Please do NOT purchase it from the FSS store. We will send you a download link and registration information on the day of release, so you simply can download your free copy and enjoy the airport.Thanks again for being such a loyal customer of Orbx and we hope you will enjoy your free gift!--Regards,John VenemaManaging DirectorOrbx Simulation Systems Pty. Ltd.

Already got Harvey Field.

Nice! I wiah I was eligable, but I didn't even know Orbx existed back in 2010 haha.

Got my freebie this morning. :( FYI, Orbx library 120327 is included with 2W3 so don't re-install your existing copy (120204)

This looks excellent, but again I have to wonder about the pricing policy here?Publishers can sell stuff at whatever price they like and we as customers will decide whether to buy or not. However with the Entire NZ South Island at Au$40.95 and this release at Au$32.95 that's 80.46% of the cost of an entire region for one regional airfield.At those prices folk will think longer and harder about purchasing the airfields? Similar airfields by other 3rd party developers are closer to half that price.Now this is NOT a debate about value for money. The work is excellent. The issue is would a lower price encourage more sales? Would more sales "grab" a wider audience, gain greater reputation for excellent value for money and encourage more sales of other similarly priced produccts? Put simply if ORBX lowered the price on the regional airfields would you buy more?Academic? of course! ORBX will decide their pricing policy but I'm interested to hear what you guys think?Geoff

Much is made of NZSI but in terms of content t5here's very little there, so relatively speaking, easier to produce. Swanson, on the other hand, is very detailed and covers all of the town and a good chunk of the surrounding countryside. So it's like 200 hectares of desert versus 5 hectares of fertile land.NB. I havent even flown 2W3 yet, I'm just firing from the hip. :D

Much is made of NZSI but in terms of content t5here's very little there, so relatively speaking, easier to produce. Swanson, on the other hand, is very detailed and covers all of the town and a good chunk of the surrounding countryside. So it's like 200 hectares of desert versus 5 hectares of fertile land.

As I said Ron the issue isn't really one of the quality or excellence of the product. Obviously airports are highly detailed in a concentrated area and most good add-ons from any 3rd party developer include some surrounding scenery. However the International Airports are the same price as the less complex regionals? I'm sure you'll soon have a load of irate Kiwi's protesting that you've described their land as a "desert" with "not much there" too?! :( ...but more seriously the task of populating a wider area with reasonable autogen must surely be as big, if not bigger task as densely populating a smaller area. I guess the release of the UK will tell how well this can be achieved as compared with the areas covered by ORBX so far a far greater number of folk will be informed "critics" with local knowledge. (Small country, Densely populated?)My real point was that if the regionals sold at prices nearer those of some of the competition would you buy more? Obviously if you bought the lot anyway that's hardly applicable ......but many sim fans have limited disposable income and are not able to do that. Geoff

I have now flown from 2W3 and....it is nice. To be honest, I no longer am surprised or amazed at Orbx stuff. It's what I now expect of it. As for pricing, it's the same with whatever you buy in this world. You pay or not pay. One man's cheap is another man's 'How much?!' As with any producer, they charge what they feel the market can bear. Prices are rarely pitched at people with limited disposable income are they? That's life I'm afraid. :unknw:Yeah, I know, I'm a miserable old git! :smile:Referring to NZ as a desert was unfair, but from what I could see there's not a lot going on. I've only seen rave reports on Milford sound.

Is it just me, or do others feel that many of the airports are beginning to look the same? Same grasses, grounds, same people in peopleflow, same sounds. What attracted to me originally to the addons was the individual character of each airport over the "stamp" look of default airports. But it seems the different developers are re-using the same libraries over and over. I look at 2W3 and I feel like I am looking art 7S3 or 2S1 (just throwing out numbers here). I'm not sure where i am, ha!