I perfectly accept and understand Virtuali's point of view because I appreciate and respect his work for many years and I know he is honest when he speaks about the time spent to make a good scenery.ArtieLange, Thanks for the good advise my friend, I will begin very soon!!And probably will I learn a lot from you when I'll see your contribution to FS because I assume, according to the tone of your message, that you are a scenery designer yourself, right? ;-)

>I perfectly accept and understand Virtuali's point of view>because I appreciate and respect his work for many years and I>know he is honest when he speaks about the time spent to make>a good scenery.>>ArtieLange, Thanks for the good advise my friend, I will begin>very soon!!>And probably will I learn a lot from you when I'll see your>contribution to FS because I assume, according to the tone of>your message, that you are a scenery designer yourself, right?>;-) Way to much work involved, I'll stick to buying scenery.

Well back to scenery pricing. I go by megabyte. I am happy paying for scenery thats a $ dollar per megabyte and more. Under a megabyte, my money stays in the CC.

Dave,The problem of apparently high-priced scenery is not because of developer greed but of the US Dollar weakness. When it's approaching 2 USD for 1 UKP any Europe or UK scenery package is bound to be more expensive for Americans.Remind me how much FSX was in the US. About 60 USD? That equates to around 31UKP but we had to pay 50UKP!! That equates to nearly 100USD!Ask yourself who is really being ripped off! The answer is we both are depending where the product is sourced x( Cheers,

Ray - I believe you are probably right. I have yet to understand whyyou guys in the UK were charged more for the same product(FSX). I was underthe impression that it was a good time to be outside the US and buyingproducts from the US (due to the exchange rate - weak dollar).I'll have to wait until the dollar gets stronger, I guess.It could be a while :-roll

>Ray - I believe you are probably right. I have yet to >understand why>you guys in the UK were charged more for the same product(FSX).I think it's called Ripping Off the Brits! Something very popular with many companies over here. Microsoft (UK) would have decided what they could get away with rather than basing the UK price on the current US Dollar exchange rate.GoFlight products are also very expensive over here. What costs 160USD amazingly turns out as 160UKP or as near as makes no difference. Blinkin' annoying! :-(>I'll have to wait until the dollar gets stronger, I guess. It could be a while :-roll It's all under the control of your Govt. Once they decide it's better for the US economy to have a stronger dollar it will happen. In the meantime we Brits (and Euro zone simmers) have the advantage but not for ever ;-)Cheers,

Hmmm....I was in a hotel in London recently and asked the nice gift shop lady for two packages of Marlboro Lights cigarettes.She then asked me for $26 US dollars.I then asked her if she wouldn't mind calling me an ambulance.

LOL! That would be $0.10 for the cigarettes and $25.90 duty (tax). I exaggerate ever so slightly but the smoker and drinker in the UK is seen as a soft touch!But if all the drinkers and smokers suddenly stopped where would we get the money to run the National Health Service? :-erks Hope the ambulance arrived in time ;-)