It's kind of like good cookies....just one more..

 

I just keep browsing and finding interesting looking scenery or planes all the time.

 

Guess I like to tweak more than fly it seems.

 

Is there a cure to just stop piling on stuff into FSX?

 

 

Is there a cure to just stop piling on stuff into FSX?

 

Not that I know of. :lol:

Wel... Just recently I started all over again. And for now I limit myself to installing only the addon I am actually going to use. I had hundreds of addons installed (payware and freeware) making FSX terribly slow and very prone to OOMs. And the truth is that the majority of installed addons were never or very rarely used.

It also caused me to spend much more time in solving compatibility issues and stuff rather than just enjoying a flight.

For now I'm happy with this approach as I enjoy flight again and have a reasonably fast FSX.

 

 

I feel the same - it's worst when there are some good looking sceneries on sale: I really have to set myself a limit, or I can spend a lot of money on addons I hardly ever fly to.

 

My "cure" is to only buy airports that are within no more than 1.5hrs of flight away from each other (still hard enough for European airports), and I ask myself if that one is something really special. The other thing I do is to get me a new scenery only after achieving the goals I set for certain exams - but it seems I am too successful sometimes B)

Yeah I'm quite materialistic when it comes to FSX and addons...  

 

It's a shame, really.  I know I've spent at least a 1000 dollars on addons I never touch anymore.  I try to be better lately but I still wasted money on things like Alabeo D17S and Aerosoft Twotter..

I've been there too. For years I found myself tweaking and reinstalling more than flying.

 

Once I tasted FSX at its best, with REX, ORBX, and the L39 I wanted more addons and the tweaking continued.

 

I wanted to give up, but instead I bought FTXG and installed the regions and only my essential airports and I'm glad I never gave up.

 

 

Is there a cure to just stop piling on stuff into FSX?

 

Sure.  when you run out of money, you have to stop. Simple, that. :lol:

With FS9 I was this way, bought every great addon that came out, Mainly because in the back of my mind I thought it would change my sim experience. After a few plays with the addon, I then realized it didn't and it was on to the next addon. Now that I know it will not change my sim experience I don't "rely" on addons for my enjoyment and have been very selective with what I buy.

 

I can change most scenery aspects of the sim and even make my own aircraft, so this has really changed my sim experience more than anything and saved me a ton of money..

This might change your mind:

 

http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/64695-welcome-to-big-sky-country-introducing-bozeman-yellowstone-international-airport/

I can change most scenery aspects of the sim and even make my own aircraft, so this has really changed my sim experience more than anything and saved me a ton of money..

 

Yes, yes, yes!

 

 

The thing is though...once you develop, you can't stop. So much to do, so little time.

I used to as well before my cocktail of addons turned against me and crashed FSX. Now I keep things simple and get more pleassure from getting to know an area really well and my aircraft inside out. Also, devs keep raising the bar, so if you only want the best options are limited.

I have the same problem. I want every scenery, wx, engine and great new procedural aircraft that comes out. I wonder if we don't need a flight sim anon for us addicts to our hobby. I remind myself real pilots don't get to fly every aircraft ,only work for one company usually and fly the same routes for a period of time.

I try to rationalize my thoughts on this subject by reminding myself that we've never had platform stability like this before. Who would have thought that FSX would have this kind of amazing lifespan, with absolutely no sign that it's running out of steam. I much prefer spending money on add ons in this situation compared with the "out with the old in with the new" mentality when Microsoft were pumping out new versions of FS every couple of years. That was when I wasted money.

I'm a scenery addict since I can't stand flying into or out of default FSX airports, although I don't buy a lot of planes. I own all the PMDG birds, the LDS767, some CaptSim that I got on sale, a few g/a and a few choppers, but when I built my latest rig the only a/c that got installed are the PMDG birds. I used to buy more a/c but found that I rarely flew any of them more than a few hours and then went back to my PMDG airliners.

Scenery, namely airports on the other hand I cant resist, except I dont own many g/a fields, mostly all larger hubs by FSDT, FB, Imaginesim, LatinVFR, and Aerosoft. 

I've had to force myself to stop buying planes. There were a stack in the hanger with only a small handful of hours on them (granted, some had a lot of hours on the last logbook before the new PC, and muggins must have deleted the old one). So no more buying until all of them have a minimum of five, and the worthy ones a minimum of 10. In some planes, that's easy especially if they have legs and an autopilot. Others, not so much. That means no T7, no C172, no F1 King Air, no AXE, no An-2, no Tomahawk, no... I will allow myself the Twin Otter because I had the last version, so might as well log the hours on the new one... I am enjoying some of the back to basics type flying I'm now doing, no AP, map reading, VOR to VOR.

 

Airports are still a bit of a drain. I find them a catch-22. I want to get the 500 airport award (not far now), and the 1,000 one as well, so I tend not to fly backwards and forwards. But it's nice to fly into more than a strip of grass in a larger rectangle of grass... And in the last few weeks Orbx has not been kind on that front. But I'm resisting, sort of, from a certain point of view.

 

Nice to know we're not alone I guess...

 

Mike