3 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

The advantage of getting v4.6 instead of v5 is that we would not have to pay again. The disadvantage is that I can't see any potential v4.6 including anything that would make any appreciable difference to my P3D experience.

LM said about 6 months or so ago that P3D v4 still had a lot of life left in it, so it's not unlikey that we'll get a v4.6

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Just an observation from someone who has valued Rob’s posts over many years. He doesn’t rant. Poor choice of words.

Everyone has a rant now and again Ray. It's good to get things off your mind sometimes. Better out than in as people sometimes say.😣

The funny thing in all that useless conversation (I agree but boys will be boys, right ?) is that my initial post (names, names, names) was meant more as a compliment as anything else. What I basically said is that his beta videos were in the same spirit than the Asobo/MS campaign today, forward looking contrary to others 3PD. My mistake 😂.   I love it ! 

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by domkle

Yes when folk dive in and take sides, that's the issue here - that's wrong and that starts the shirt pulling and the buttons popping.

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by SteveW

double post, sorry

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by domkle

In any event, it will be interesting to see what P3D v5 has to offer at this point...

Reading this thread you can understand why we loose some members who have given some good incite into flight simulator over the years.  

1 minute ago, rjfry said:

Reading this thread you can understand why we loose some members who have given some good incite into flight simulator over the years.  

I honestly don't see why we would lose members with anything said in this thread, people can have disagreements without getting upset, never to return, were grown ups after all.

We're all die hards.

8 minutes ago, simmerhead said:

In any event, it will be interesting to see what P3D v5 has to offer at this point...

Seems your post was lost. So I uprated it.

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by SteveW

10 minutes ago, simmerhead said:

In any event, it will be interesting to see what P3D v5 has to offer at this point…

Which is the central point !

Lockheed Martin has enormous intellectual ressources as a defense contractor in the aerospace industry. We were glad to see them take over a dead FSX but they have to put  in line these ressources more than in the past instead on just having an incremental philosophy. Thats why I'd better have an innovative v5 than a v4.6.  Maybe what Asobo does, will kick them in the behind ?

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by domkle

I don't see MSFS giving LM a kicking they are not in the same market, to you they are but not to them if they want to make that sort of investment they could but unlikely.

2010, November: v1 - essentially an ESP service pack, and some minor scenery updates. 

2013, November: v2 - major improvement of the "DX9" rendering engine, and increased performance. 

2015, September: v3 - HDR lighting and avatar mode. Later VR support. 

2017, May: v4 - 64 bit architecture. 

And we've lost some default aircraft and gained some new ones along the way... 

It has been a slow and steady ride. Good for us with essentially no other alternative, and even better for the X-Plane fans who surely benefited from Laminar getting more competition. 

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by simmerhead

2 minutes ago, rjfry said:

I don't see MSFS giving LM a kicking they are not in the same market, to you they are but not to them if they want to make that sort of investment they could but unlikely.

This is really out of topic but if I don't think a New York second that MS will forsake the institutional market with their new baby. They would be crazy and they are not.

Where's the B58 gone and why?