I am all over the place, and will pretty much try anything. Yes flight sims are very relaxing, but put me in multiplayer in Microsoft flight for instance, and I am swooping under bridges and landing on boats just as silly as anyone.

 

Ten minutes later, I might be in Skyrim shouting Dragonrend, and a little later might be playing Rage or Call of Duty.

 

Later still my Sorceress might be casting spells from the rear of a group of people from all over the world in a dungeon somewhere. :-)

When I was in university I would start a long haul and then start my thesis research and keep an eye on the flight. :rolleyes:

 

I do this all of the time! Not thesis research hehe, but I enjoy creating a flight plan, using GSX, taxiing and TO, then I finally after years discovered once you're up in the air w/ that first ATC request to Tune & Contact, will just not respond to the Contact prompt and then when x miles away from arrival will start my decent and finally contact and ATC will continue to process the flight to landing and parking. My default flight length is maybe 500m. I found FSXFollow for Mac, and track my flight from wherever in the house, usually doing something relatively productive, sometimes doing a work project on my laptop, or a movie here and there in the evening in the living room, then will return to land from FL180. I've always done this model of not responding to the contact prompt to keep ATC alive while not being there to respond, but usually it was not until the plane was at altitude. This way I've shortened my time down to maybe 20-25m to start, and 20 min to end a sometimes long flight, keeping ATC intact. I would love to know how many people worldwide enjoy flight simulation. I think there are enough to exploit this theme (enjoying flight simulation above other computing entertainment) more when the next gen simulator arrives. I hope that turns out to be XPlane 64 as it appears to be the farthest along as a new potentially much better scaling simulator than FSX is now.

I had 4-AA battery powered hand-held games for Pac-Man and Space Invaders back in the early '80's. Both purchased at of all places, Eckert Drugs. My kids loved them, and I spent hours as we each attempted to best each other's scores. From the same era I still have a couple of old Atari cartridges, including Lode Runner and Frogger. But from the release of MSFS, and particularly with 2.0, those others were cast aside and my exclusive "gaming" has been flight simulators. Actually, since subLogic's Flight Assignment:ATP finally came to market after the legal wrangling with MicroSoft, I have not since then considered flight simulators as "gaming". Simulators have gone well past that.

 

What other game is realistically used as training for a real life activity?

I think so, at least nowadays very few other games really interest me for longer time.

What other game is realistically used as training for a real life activity?

 

Battlefield 3 in case the North Koreans ever invade. Wolverines!

 

Seriously, Euro Truck Simulator and Farming Simulator are said to be pretty good. There's also some Train Simulators.

 

I had a relative who was a qualified steam train driver. I asked him how realistic Microsoft Train was and he said it was all wrong. But that was a long time ago. Not sure if the new train sims are better.

Farming Simulator are said to be pretty good.

 

So as a former rep for a major farm equipment mfr, does this farming sim include for instance hay baling with a big round hay baler? If so does it require the weaving needed to feed the windrow evenly across the baler's pickup to make good large round bales that consistently tight for weather resistance and are not tapered from one end to the other? Does it require proper ground speed to accurately gauge seed spacing during planting with a row crop planter such as for corn or soybeans? Does it include tractor-undermounted radar guns and electronic seed monitors to verify ground speed and planting accuracy that is so critical for attaining the highest yields?

So as a former rep for a major farm equipment mfr, does this farming sim include for instance hay baling with a big round hay baler? If so does it require the weaving needed to feed the windrow evenly across the baler's pickup to make good large round bales that consistently tight for weather resistance and are not tapered from one end to the other? Does it require proper ground speed to accurately gauge seed spacing during planting with a row crop planter such as for corn or soybeans? Does it include tractor-undermounted radar guns and electronic seed monitors to verify ground speed and planting accuracy that is so critical for attaining the highest yields?

 

 

You'd need to ask them... I have no idea if they are that "technical".

 

http://www.farming-simulator.com/

Seriously, Euro Truck Simulator and Farming Simulator are said to be pretty good.

 

So then that is my question......... On what is that evaluation based? With our flight simulators we have to recognize just what we really have !!!!!

Same for me too. I love the relaxing feeling of taking off and flying peacefully instead of dying and getting stressed on other video games. I don't know if this comes with age but even combat sims bore me a lot these days. What a relaxing pleasure to fire up the sim late night with a hot cup of good coffee.

 

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There's nothing better than that. Especially waking up taking off and watching the Sun rise

one day I'll finish Diablo...

 

Finish? It's possible to finish?

 

I "solved" Diablo 1 when I finally had a sorcerer with +5 to all spells and two apocalypse staves, and all without cheating. If I managed to get myself killed, I could walk into the hardest level with the spare staff and retrieve my stuff. The only equipment I didn't find myself was the +1 to spell level armor, which was a gift from someone in our no-cheat clan.

 

Diablo 2, I gave up at level 84 in the hardest level, and wasn't quite to hell yet, when I ran across a monster with super speed, immunity to physical and several others, and resistance to whichever one was left. That beggar and his minions could move as fast as I could teleport. If they're gonna throw something like that at me, it's no longer a game.

 

Which Diablo are you playing? I haven't looked at D3 yet.

 

Normally, I'll play the same thing exclusively for months then change to something else. Right now, it's flight simming, for over a year.

 

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I really don't enjoy computer games very much at all. But then again I don't consider FSX to be a computer game. I consider it to be a simulator. With that said I will answer your question. Spoiled? Most definitely not! As all of you know this is not a program that you can simply drop the disc in, install and away we go. No, no, no. Rather it takes real effort and dedication (not to mention the ability to search, read and comprehend) to really get FSX "working". Spoiled no. Better for the experience? Absolutely!

Last game I played was GTA Vice City when it was brand new. Since then flight sim only. I really lost interest in games 20 years ago.

Every now and then, when I just want to play some video game to "relax"(if one can call it that way), I enjoy things like 18 Wheels of Steel, Battlefiled or Need for Speed, because it's fun to do and if I only got some 30 mins firing up the sim isn't really worth it then. However those games are only fun if I play them less than an hour a week, they simply become boring and stupid very quickly.

Only other game I spend as much time with as FS is Arma 2; I play co-op with a group online. I have Skyrim and some other games in Steam that I play sometimes, but not nearly as often.

I really don't enjoy computer games very much at all. But then again I don't consider FSX to be a computer game. I consider it to be a simulator. With that said I will answer your question. Spoiled? Most definitely not! As all of you know this is not a program that you can simply drop the disc in, install and away we go. No, no, no. Rather it takes real effort and dedication (not to mention the ability to search, read and comprehend) to really get FSX "working". Spoiled no. Better for the experience? Absolutely!

 

Ask your wife or girlfriend what she thinks it is and you will get the right answer. No matter what I tell my wife it is just a video game to her. But between us all... We know better! :lol: :wink2: