I'm getting ready to reinstall on my computer after a rebuild.  P3D is my main simulator still, as I'm flying almost entirely the study level airliner sims.  It does seem clear that MSFS is the future.  As I'm preparing to endure the pain of reinstalling P3D, I'm wondering if MSFS is going to ease this in the future.  I had been hoping this was going to be as easy as purchasing everything in the marketplace and just let the sim install everything.  But it seems that's not going to work, as at least some add-ons aren't going to show up in the marketplace.

So far, the only non-marketplace add-on I have is the FBW A32NX.  So I don't have any real knowledge of how copyright protected from add-ons like FlyTampa and FSDreamTeam are going to work.  Is this going to be as simple as keep a copy of the community folder backed up, and if necessary just copying the files back over?  Is there a good practice to get in now with my installation to make this easier in the future?  Something akin to the P3D .xml instlal method that has been pretty patchy in adoption by add-on manufacturers? 

Hopefully it'll be years before I'm reinstalling again, but one of my large hopes for MSFS is that I end up doing less tweaking and fixing.  

Get used to using the MSFS addons linker.. it will simplify your task tremendously.

https://flightsim.to/file/1572/msfs-addons-linker

You keep your "non Marketplace" addons in a dedicated folder, and only links will be placed in the Community folder.

DD Designs does not play by these rules, however,.. 😉  It does its own thing.

Edited December 28, 20205 yr by Bert Pieke