Things that make you go "Hmmm"

[MadDog 353]

To begin, I want to stress that I have a lot of respect for Asobo and believe that they have truly worked miracles in many areas of the sim; but some of their design decisions (not really bugs) still leave me scratching my head.  Here's my top five (in no particular order):

1.  Let's provide some of the most beautiful default aircraft ever included with a sim; but the doors must remain welded shut.

2.  Let's make the noses on some of the AI aircraft extra pointy and chop off some of their tails... nobody will notice and it will increase performance by .0001%.

3.  Let's pop up a dialogue box to quit when the aircraft shuts down... who wants to bother with all those other switches anyway.

4.  Let's show a neat swirly icon in the corner every once in a while to remind the user that the sim is doing something.

5.  Let's create a 30 sec. pause when starting the program where absolutely nothing happens... it will match up well with the 30 sec. "checking for updates" screen.

 

So what are some of the non-bugs associated with Flight Simulator that make you go "hmmm"?  Again, I'm really not trying to smear or insult the developers in any way (I think they're doing a good job overall); I just thought this might be a fun and cathartic exercise.

Edited November 6, 2021 by MadDog

[Bert Pieke 7,592]

That is a pretty good list.. the only thing I might quibble with is the sequence... I would put number 5 at the top 🙂

Next one:

6. Lets show random "Bonanza like" airplanes in a multi-player session, instead of the real aircraft, and change the livery colour every once in a while to keep things interesting..

Edited November 6, 2021 by Bert Pieke

[MadDog 353]

2 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

I would put number 5 at the top 🙂

Yup...I really didn't put them in a particular order... fixed 🙂

[Fielder 3,750]

 

[Ron Attwood 3,518]

16 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

6. Lets show random "Bonanza like" airplanes in a multi-player session, instead of the real aircraft, and change the livery colour every once in a while to keep things interesting..

Oh so YES! In fact, double YES.

[Silicus 889]

7. Let's fork cliffs and other airport vehicle be on a mission to hit aircraft or drive on the runway just to make airports look busy.

 

[DylanM 1,069]

28 minutes ago, Silicus said:

7. Let's fork cliffs…

Hah with the mesh issues, this autocorrect gem actually makes sense…😆

[somiller 694]

Need to increase resource use in setup screens so MSFS uses 380% of available resources rather than the 150% it uses now!

[fppilot 4,407]

Hmmm!

[Captain Nuts 93]

1 hour ago, MadDog said:

2.  Let's make the noses on some of the AI aircraft extra pointy and chop off some of their tails... nobody will notice and it will increase performance by .0001%

2b. Let's fade the wheels (15 triangles total for all wheels) out at a distance of at most 30ft and the whole plane at 900ft to increase performance by another .0001%

298.  Let's have lightly dressed marshallers leading arriving planes into their parking spots even at the most remote airstrips in Alaska.

299. Place the only active parking position on airstrips without ground personnell 6ft in front of the only building around, and spawn the plane with the prop against the building, saving space. If there is no building, place at least 3 ground crew members somewhere in the prop circle, with one walking in a circle through the cockpit. Ah, that's why it's called "ground meat".

300. At night, turn the headlamp off when the user hits the master switch, because the panel lights switches would be too obvious.

301. Give all taxiways fantasy designators, then let ground control not use them and give the user useful taxi instructions like "N12345, taxi to parking via taxiway" in case he had planned to not use taxiway, instead plow through the meadows, milk a cow and then drive through the terminal to pick up a (ground meat) burger on the way to the GAT, which is to be placed at the diagonally opposed end of where the user expects it, or where the charts claim it would be.

Edited November 6, 2021 by Captain Nuts

[BIGSKY 317]

Its a 10 year project....

[ryanbatc 13,050]

25 minutes ago, BIGSKY said:

Its a 10 year project....

Hehe this is true.  I truly have magnificent moments and then I have double facepalm moments in the sim.

[vinodkk 12]

Let's make wipers that swing left and right vehemently but do not wipe a single drop of rain😄 ( I am writing this again and again as MS/ Asobo did not even take this glitch seriously as there were not enough complainers!!)

[Fielder 3,750]

Prizes for opening doors in flight !

Hooray you chose door #2, this allows you to see more of the pretty mountains!

Oh I'm sorry door #1 is a Zonk! (Flight terminates).

[WestAir 2,530]

Let's make a super realistic weather system but only use cumulus clouds! 🤣

(Don't worry, others are coming. Hopefully we'll get lenticular, corkscrew, and vortex phenomena too!)

Edited November 6, 2021 by WestAir