Retiring from P3D .. my thoughts

[zmak 331]

1 hour ago, Holdit said:

(which they were praising as state-of-the-art only the day before yesterday).

You must be joking. What civilian sim was ever that? 

[simbol 5,767]

1 hour ago, TurboKen said:

I couldn't agree more, I just tried the free edition (AI lights) and wow this is a MUST HAVE. I will be buying the pro version this week. The only way you could see planes in the sky before was the text scrolling above the plane, and now I removed that as you can easily see the planes flying around. Great job simbol

Thanks for your kind words.. it means a lot to me, my family and all the people involved with the project.

Regards,
S.

[Nemo 1,303]

23 hours ago, regis9 said:

I’m rather surprised by the posts here that P3D is boring, or stagnant or whatever.

Sometimes it felt boring/stagnant for me too. But it was not the sim it was my simming behavior.

If I come now to this stage, I look for a new challenge. Currently I'm working at my navigation skills with smaller GA a/c. Very recently I was more busy with my PMDG airliners, learning and repeating the whole start-up procedure from Cold&Dark til Take-Off. Sometimes I dive into AI traffic, defining my own traffic files for airports which are barely populated by traffic. There are so much possibilities to learn something new or better.

[Holdit 551]

5 hours ago, zmak said:

You must be joking. What civilian sim was ever that? 

I'm referring to peoples' claims, not my own assessment.

[MDFlier 2,029]

On 11/3/2019 at 10:56 AM, Bobsk8 said:

Ridiculous comment.. Over the years I have spent a few hundred dollars, not including aircraft. For the thousands of hours of enjoyment, it is very cheap entertainment. 

I could not agree more. A little perspective. I took a date to a movie a couple of weeks ago. It cost me just about $80 for two people to watch 2 1/2 hours of a bad movie. In the last 2 weeks I bought LatinVFR KMIA and Flightbeam KPHX for a combined total of $50. I'll be using them for a lot longer than 2 1/2 hours.

The moral of the story: P3D addons are a better value than women and movies. 🙄 

 

Edited November 6, 2019 by MDFlier

[simbol 5,767]

6 minutes ago, MDFlier said:

The moral of the story: P3D addons are a better value than women and movies.

LOL..

What movie you went to see?

S.

[steve howlett 137]

On 11/4/2019 at 4:22 PM, simbol said:

Thanks for your kind words.. it means a lot to me, my family and all the people involved with the project.

Regards,
S.

just bought the pro version from you.glad to help you develop new addons.

thanks

    steve

[simbol 5,767]

1 minute ago, steve howlett said:

just bought the pro version from you.glad to help you develop new addons.

thanks

    steve

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for supporting my add-on's.. it means a lot! I hope you enjoy the product!.

I am very proud of my support services, so if you run into any trouble do not hesitate to post via my forums of send me a PM.

All the best,
simbol

[zmak 331]

1 hour ago, MDFlier said:

I could not agree more. A little perspective. I took a date to a movie a couple of weeks ago. It cost me just about $80 for two people to watch 2 1/2 hours of a bad movie. In the last 2 weeks I bought LatinVFR KMIA and Flightbeam KPHX for a combined total of $50. I'll be using them for a lot longer than 2 1/2 hours.

The moral of the story: P3D addons are a better value than women and movies. 🙄 

 

come to bangkok thailand I pay $5 usd in modern theaters plus $3 for popcorn 

[GSalden 4,650]

1 hour ago, steve howlett said:

just bought the pro version from you.glad to help you develop new addons.

thanks

    steve

You will enjoy the extra realism it adds. There are some addons that, imho, are a musthave and this is one of them...

I just landed at Rodos and the taxiing ac look so much more realistic with these lights . 

[steve howlett 137]

looking forward to getting it working.unfortunately i have Traffic Global .it's early access so not compatible just yet.

hopefully it will be within 2 weeks.

   steve

[KBUR 178]

On 10/30/2019 at 7:21 PM, hatata said:

Hello everyone first of all thanks for all the help and support over the years. P3D has been a blast and a huge source of frustration. I am just simply done with trying to keep my P3D installation in tip top form. Every time i rebuild my machine I have to chase down all my add-ons.. get reactivation reset for various products and no matter how hard I have tried to script the re-installation process with the tons of add-ons and tweaks I am just tired and done. Watching the possible revolution that Microsoft Flight simulator 2020 might be, removed any remaining desire I have left to invest in P3D for the time being. 

Its kind of like when I was younger and trying to learn the guitar. I spent so much time fiddling with my tone that I ended up not playing as much as I should. The reason for my post is not that I expect anyone to really care but I am curious to how many folks feel the same way ? With all of P3D's legacy code quirks and the add-on ecosystem that improves on basic features the sim does not have are you feeling discouraged to invest any longer now that we have some possible hope that plane add-ons might be the only thing we need to invest in?

Anyway .. regardless of what happens with FS2020 and P3D This forum has been a huge part of my reading daily for years and I am thankful for you all! I did not contribute much but again

Thank you. 

Well, I had played FSX and P3D extensively over many years; with all its singularities and quirks (e.g. someone still remember the infamous UIAutomationCore.dll and HIGHMEM tweaks, lol?) - yea, it was fun and hell at the same time.; some kind of tightrope act.

But by now more than one year ago something has changed, and I made a clear cut off regarding P3D (and FSX of course), and made the move towards other (civilian) sims.

Since then my life as a simmer and hobbyist has become significantly easier; and I'm spending more time with flying my simulators actually, than with tweaking or time consuming sim-administrations.

Got to go!  A wonderful Dreamfoil AS350 is already waiting for me at Courchevel Altiport 

Cheers and all the best.

Edited November 6, 2019 by KBUR

[OzWhitey 3,353]

21 hours ago, MDFlier said:

I could not agree more. A little perspective. I took a date to a movie a couple of weeks ago. It cost me just about $80 for two people to watch 2 1/2 hours of a bad movie. In the last 2 weeks I bought LatinVFR KMIA and Flightbeam KPHX for a combined total of $50. I'll be using them for a lot longer than 2 1/2 hours.

The moral of the story: P3D addons are a better value than women and movies. 🙄 

 

The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Pro tip: for your next date, invite the girl around to act as FO (or stew) for your KMIA to KPHX flight.

Cost $50, you get to sim AND you get the girl (probably..)

 

[MDFlier 2,029]

26 minutes ago, OzWhitey said:

The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Pro tip: for your next date, invite the girl around to act as FO (or stew) for your KMIA to KPHX flight.

Cost $50, you get to sim AND you get the girl (probably..)

 

I appreciate the effort, but I tried that once with the EX wife.

I guess she though it was a little weird when I mentioned that we could join the mile high club from my den.

From then on, if the female unit doesn't sim, I keep it out of the relationship...

Edited November 7, 2019 by MDFlier

[OzWhitey 3,353]

6 hours ago, MDFlier said:

I appreciate the effort, but I tried that once with the EX wife.

I guess she though it was a little weird when I mentioned that we could join the mile high club from my den.

From then on, if the female unit doesn't sim, I keep it out of the relationship...

Hmmm...I haven't dated in a while, but I'm 99% - make that 97% - certain that an average girl would be stoked at the thought of sitting in a sim cockpit while you fly KMIA-KPHX for the next 4 hours, 30 minutes, particularly as a first date.

Anyone here need more relationship/simming advice, just let me know.

P.S. Maybe spend the first date tweaking P3D, leave the long tubeliner flight for the second date.