2 minutes ago, LHookins said:

Too much is never enough. 😄

I think we've heard about pretty much everything else, but these three items have not been confirmed anywhere yet.  I'm definitely interested in seasons, somewhat interested in float planes, and slightly curious about ATC. 🙂 

Hook

it's nonsense for it to come without ATC considering the busy airport shown in the E3 trailer. And it's nonsense to think that with such an immersive visual there won't be to some extent a convincing float plane water physics.

So the only really doubtful thing is seasons. But we know from the interviews they also have available imagines of the same zones in different times, and we also know how weather can be done partially via shaders like xEnviro does in XP11 with the snow coverage.

A lot of stuff got confirmed.  Rain shafts, real world weather with options to use historical weather up to several years old.  Lots of good info on the atmosphere model which is incredible.  The ability to fly offline if necessary.  The actual delivery mechanism of the data (data can be streamed but the sim is what assembles it into a world).  VR eventually if they can do it right and not just slap something together that would put new users off.  The fact that they're emulating ray tracing but no one could tell the difference from the real thing.

Not much left to ask about. 🙂

Hook

3 minutes ago, france89 said:

it's nonsense for it to come without ATC considering the busy airport shown in the E3 trailer. And it's nonsense to think that with such an immersive visual there won't be to some extent a convincing float plane water physics.

Pretty much the same thing I said above.

Hook

Just now, LHookins said:

A lot of stuff got confirmed.  Rain shafts, real world weather with options to use historical weather up to several years old.  Lots of good info on the atmosphere model which is incredible.  The ability to fly offline if necessary.  The actual delivery mechanism of the data (data can be streamed but the sim is what assembles it into a world).  VR eventually if they can do it right and not just slap something together that would put new users off.  The fact that they're emulating ray tracing but no one could tell the difference from the real thing.

Not much left to ask about. 🙂

Hook

AI, ATC, seasons, water dynamics with floatplanes, bandwidth requirements, cost structures, further info about 3PD involvement, freeware content, SDK...

nope, nothing left to ask about 😉

At worst they can just port over the ATC and AI systems from Flight Simulator X for the initial release, and it will still be better than competing simulators. They seem to be committed to avoiding any feature regressions.

2 hours ago, kevinfirth said:

bandwidth requirements, further info about 3PD involvement, freeware content, SDK...

nope, nothing left to ask about 😉

They said they were on around 25 Mbps connection for the preview session, the level of detail you see is adjusted based on your connection speed, but you can manually select where you want cached at all times if slow connectivity is an issue, creating an offline mode. They've said Simconnect will be there, and SDK from day one and that whilst there will be some kind of "addon store" within it there will be no requirement to use it.

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by ckyliu

2 minutes ago, ckyliu said:

They said they were on around 25 Mbps connection for the preview session and that it will cache data and you can manually select where you want cached at all times. They've said Simconnect will be there, and SDK from day one and that whilst there will be some kind of "addon store" within it there will be no requirement to use it.

I guess that leaves AI to be confirmed and discussed. 😄

Hook

Re : Seasons .Deeming something logical and therefore certain to come because I want it, is a temptation I will not fall into 😁. 

AI and ATC will be there for sure, but they're really things that just sit "atop" the core of world, weather, aerodynamics and cockpits. So it's no big deal that such items are deferred until later.

4 hours ago, domkle said:

... ATC, seasons and water physics for the floatplanes. Hopefully we’ll get some insights in October.

and 3rd party Payware/SDK goodies👍

17 minutes ago, ckyliu said:

They said they were on around 25 Mbps connection for the preview session, the level of detail you see is adjusted based on your connection speed, but you can manually select where you want cached at all times if slow connectivity is an issue. They've said Simconnect will be there, and SDK from day one and that whilst there will be some kind of "addon store" within it there will be no requirement to use it.

i have a 940mb/s connection😁

At this point I am *very* interested in what the "base sim" will look like with no downloading of content.  My bandwidth is so limited at this point that I can't even watch videos outside of the late night free zone, midnight to 5 AM.  

For an example, the family uses about 1.2 gig per day, and with a 25 gig per month that allows about 800 meg per day average.  When I hit my cap my bandwidth goes down to dialup speeds, or at best I get the "bits and pieces" of bandwidth left over after the priority users get theirs.  Of course, I could buy additional bandwidth, at about $10 per gig.  No thanks.

Hook

The Moon with phases !!!!

I'm sold !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

What about realistic stars and constellations? Oh, and not being able to see stars at all when the Sun is above the horizon

From what I am seeing so far, I'd have a sick feeling in my stomach if I was a 3rd party developer that does textures/weather/clouds/night lights, etc.  It appears there will be zero need for any of this.  My guess is there will still be a huge market for 3rd party aircraft and maybe detailed airports.  

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by Flic1