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Has anyone tried off-line mode?

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just wondering if anyone here has tried it in Alpha or Beta and what it looks like and what settings you used.

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Excellent question, still the big unknown.

Another question would be how the cache exactly works : how it was announced a year ago or how it actually worked in the alpha.

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2 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

Excellent question, still the big unknown.

Another question would be how the cache exactly works : how it was announced a year ago or how it actually worked in the alpha.

Yes!  I dinked around with the cache, but still do not know how it works...very good point.

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I haven't messed with the cache, but I had to fly offline once.  I couldn't see a lot of difference, at least flying from Trinidad to the mouth of the Orinoco river and a little ways up the river to a small airstrip, which was more detailed than I would have expected.

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29 minutes ago, SmokeDiddy said:

Yes!  I dinked around with the cache, but still do not know how it works...very good point.

Like the offline mode, not an unimportant point for the bandwidth challenged folks. It is not clear whether one can  download a route/region without playing the game to use it at a later time as I understood it would be the case in Lionel's video. The alpha cache worked  only when flying, filling the cache FIFO-like  (hearsay, not a tester myself) meaning it was useless for me.

 

10 minutes ago, LHookins said:

I haven't messed with the cache, but I had to fly offline once.  I couldn't see a lot of difference, at least flying from Trinidad to the mouth of the Orinoco river and a little ways up the river to a small airstrip, which was more detailed than I would have expected.

Hook

They said  that autogen and vectors (roads, RR, rivers etc) would be the same, only the terrain sharpness would be degraded. If you fly over a densely forested area you shouldn't see the difference.

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I am not expert but for they said, if you not load online render image yo will see all ( mesh, autogen, etc) but cant see any image rendered form the server and of course less definition but you can fly in VFR at all.

During the alpha/beta testing, you needed a constant internet connection to be authorized to use the alpha/beta moment by moment. So no one outside Asobo has yet used offline mode.

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28 minutes ago, David Mills said:

During the alpha/beta testing, you needed a constant internet connection to be authorized to use the alpha/beta moment by moment. So no one outside Asobo has yet used offline mode.

BZZZT!  I was able to do offline earlier when my Internet was down.  I tried it later and wasn't allowed.  Tried just recently and at it started up, but I discovered my Internet which had been down came up about the same time.

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And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Will be interesting to see how this works. If I remember correctly offline mode is how you will be able to use historical weather. I remember hearing that somewhere lol, can't remember where though.

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It’s generic textures with the same buildings/tress and placement as online mode.

I don’t like it, but it’s not bad compared to other sims.

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3 hours ago, David Mills said:

So no one outside Asobo has yet used offline mode.

I have flown when both servers were not available, looked like offline quality to me.

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17 minutes ago, bonchie said:

It’s generic textures with the same buildings/tress and placement as online mode.

There is offline cached and non-cached.

 

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15 minutes ago, bonchie said:

It’s generic textures with the same buildings/tress and placement as online mode.

If that is true it's actually quite similar to what we recently talked about in that "how will Austin respond" thread about XP.

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5 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

Excellent question, still the big unknown.

Another question would be how the cache exactly works : how it was announced a year ago or how it actually worked in the alpha.

I fly all over the place so imagine my cache would fill up pretty quickly. Once it's full, do you need to buy another SSD or is there a way to clear it?

Sorry, I'm not very clued-up on computers...

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The cache is FIFO* and is limited to however much space you allocate for it. Once 'full' it will simply overwrite from the beginning of the cache space. 

You also have the option to "permanently" archive specific scenery for future use. One decent example of this would be the scenery around your personal choice of a "home airport".

*NB: First In First Out 

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