I think it is obvious that FS2020 as a concept and as a piece of programming is absolutely huge, in fact larger than a lot of projects, including some in the business world.

I think it is also obvious that there are so many variations in settings and options that trying to keep pace with all of them must be hugely frustrating to the people working on it and trying to replicate bugs and issues.

I also think that many problems with MSFS are, to some extent, almost self inflicted.  (A good example here is the person ranting on the official forums for 2 days solid about his A320 was uncontrollable, and when he calmed down enough to answer some basic questions, it was found that because of another forum post, he had set the flight model to legacy  and switching it back to default modern, all his problems went away)

It surprises me that from day 1, there hasn't been a tool with MSFS that is used by a Zendesk report automatically that is similar to the DxDiag report that lists your current settings / community folder addons / changes in files / computer settings such as Overclock or hyperthreading use / computer specs etc etc that is auto-attatched to your Zendesk report so that MS / Asobo can look at these and sort and search to find commonalities and other issues.

The last time I worked in business on such a huge project, we had a similar tool and it was a game changer in finding and fixing bugs in the system as we could readilly identify not only the bug, but also what circumstances the bug was happening in.

Just feel that this is something that might really help, especially in a project this large.

Graham

 

It seems that Asobo is copying a lot from X-Plane, from the  "Did you know" tips at startup, to the flight-model options. Even the loading screen has echo's of X-Plane.

 

21 minutes ago, Jude Bradley said:

It seems that Asobo is copying a lot from X-Plane, from the  "Did you know" tips at startup, to the flight-model options. Even the loading screen has echo's of X-Plane.

 

You'll find tips at startup in many programs, flight model options is the consequence if you want use of existent planes possible.

The startup screen isn't anything like x-plane's.

2 hours ago, Moria15 said:

I also think that many problems with MSFS are, to some extent, almost self inflicted.  (A good example here is the person ranting on the official forums
 

This to me is the main problem. Folks ranting without providing any kind of useful information like dxdiag or the Windows Event Viewer. I was able to troubleshoot and fix a major CTD problem I had with MSFS 2020 simply by examining the relevant Event Viewer log, then copying and pasting the relevant info into Google. Got my solution in 2 seconds.

8 hours ago, StoneDoor said:

You'll find tips at startup in many programs, flight model options is the consequence if you want use of existent planes possible.

The startup screen isn't anything like x-plane's.

Err, yes it is. 

 

9 hours ago, StoneDoor said:

 

The startup screen isn't anything like x-plane's.

The startup screen is missing!

10 hours ago, Jude Bradley said:

It seems that Asobo is copying a lot from X-Plane

Good! I used XP and p3d. Each sim had its particular strengths, and also its weaknesses that were often done better by the other sim. I often found myself wishing that one of them would steal ideas from the other. If we're seeing that kinda happen in MSFS, that's great.

 

Edited October 1, 20205 yr by eslader

10 hours ago, Moria15 said:

I think it is obvious that FS2020 as a concept and as a piece of programming is absolutely huge, in fact larger than a lot of projects, including some in the business world.

I think it is also obvious that there are so many variations in settings and options that trying to keep pace with all of them must be hugely frustrating to the people working on it and trying to replicate bugs and issues.

I also think that many problems with MSFS are, to some extent, almost self inflicted.  (A good example here is the person ranting on the official forums for 2 days solid about his A320 was uncontrollable, and when he calmed down enough to answer some basic questions, it was found that because of another forum post, he had set the flight model to legacy  and switching it back to default modern, all his problems went away)

It surprises me that from day 1, there hasn't been a tool with MSFS that is used by a Zendesk report automatically that is similar to the DxDiag report that lists your current settings / community folder addons / changes in files / computer settings such as Overclock or hyperthreading use / computer specs etc etc that is auto-attatched to your Zendesk report so that MS / Asobo can look at these and sort and search to find commonalities and other issues.

The last time I worked in business on such a huge project, we had a similar tool and it was a game changer in finding and fixing bugs in the system as we could readilly identify not only the bug, but also what circumstances the bug was happening in.

Just feel that this is something that might really help, especially in a project this large.

Graham

 

Such practice would be useful, smart, quick, elegant and classy.