9 minutes ago, bean_sprout said:

There is no problem with taking a break from something that you'll appreciate more when you get back to it.

bs

That's certainly what I would do, if MSFS was frustrating me as badly as some say. Time to catch up with some reading, go annoy some bass, or blow up alien scum in VR!

29 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Well gosh! I'm flattered somebody is keeping such close track of me! Besides my cat, that is.

Meanwhile I'm sure you know, more than one can play ye' olde forum search game, but since lives actually aren't at stake, why on earth would I spend the time?

Though I admit it is probably my fault that I do find it occasionally interesting, in a slowing down on the-highway to gawp at a car crash sort of way, to watch the repetitive goings-on.

In the meanwhile, one can only hope that the Asobo-ites are some exceedingly charitable people, and are in fact still paying attention to our daily dead-horse-beatings, despite our best efforts to make visiting here be about as attractive for them as a vigorous bout of self-flagellation.

Yeah, another coy deflective answer, I'm not surprised. 

46 minutes ago, Sethos said:

Yeah, another coy deflective answer, I'm not surprised. 

Yeah, another rude, dismissive answer. I'm not surprised.

See how easy (and useless) it is?

0.000001 percent of my brainpower used, elapsed time 0.01 seconds.

Edited December 3, 20214 yr by HiFlyer

1 minute ago, HiFlyer said:

0.000001 percent of my brainpower used, elapsed time 0.01 seconds.

So par for the course 😄

 

Just now, Sethos said:

So par for the course 😄

 

When replying to silliness, I would hate to think I was wasting my time using more than was necessary..

 Could you guys take this offline maybe 🤔 

41 minutes ago, neil0311 said:

I truly was the same way for a while, but my patience is wearing thin and the testers at Asobo are either incompetent or being told to let bugs ship. 

They were getting rushed by Microsoft because of the pre-determined release date, that's all. Same situation as Sim Update 5 and the Xbox release. Sim Update 4 & 6 were very stable, and I expect that Sim Update 8 will continue this trend.

I'll bet there's a psychiatry student lurking this forum writing a thesis about the effects of this SW on people's behavior...

1 hour ago, MDFlier said:

I'll bet there's a psychiatry student lurking this forum writing a thesis about the effects of this SW on people's behavior...

Slight digression.

Once upon a time, when I was a very avid player of the game called EverQuest, the developers released a plague into the game that could be passed from person to person.

Warcraft eventually had something similar occur.

A lot of very interesting social dynamics began to occur, and interestingly enough, actual doctors and psychiatrists who became aware of this event asked permission to study how people handled themselves

https://www.cbr.com/world-of-warcraft-taught-us-about-pandemics/

https://www.everquest2.com/news/imported-eq2-enus-448

A very interesting time, and I'm sure some fascinating things were learned. One of those things, I suspect, is how easy it is to become all too serious about something that's intended to be fun.

Edited December 3, 20214 yr by HiFlyer

6 hours ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

They were getting rushed by Microsoft because of the pre-determined release date, that's all. Same situation as Sim Update 5 and the Xbox release. Sim Update 4 & 6 were very stable, and I expect that Sim Update 8 will continue this trend.

Getting rushed is what I was meaning. The quality bar shouldn’t be sacrificed.

I understand the process of software development, and have been one of the folks not getting too up or down about bugs, but as I mentioned, the regressions for things like TrackIR are frustrating.

Appreciate you responding.

Great news for VR users like me. I also noticed a haze issue lately. At first I thought it was cool that lower visibilities due to haze were now implemented. But then I started seeing it way too much all over the USA, where it should have been visibility unlimited. Hopefully someone else noticed this.

On 12/3/2021 at 5:56 PM, HiFlyer said:

Slight digression.

Once upon a time, when I was a very avid player of the game called EverQuest, the developers released a plague into the game that could be passed from person to person.

Warcraft eventually had something similar occur.

A lot of very interesting social dynamics began to occur, and interestingly enough, actual doctors and psychiatrists who became aware of this event asked permission to study how people handled themselves

https://www.cbr.com/world-of-warcraft-taught-us-about-pandemics/

https://www.everquest2.com/news/imported-eq2-enus-448

A very interesting time, and I'm sure some fascinating things were learned. One of those things, I suspect, is how easy it is to become all too serious about something that's intended to be fun.

Some people take their fun very seriously lol.

It's still incredible to me that we get a flight simulation platform that blows everything out of the water, yet on AVSIM we still get people throwing jabs at Asobo developers for every small thing they apparently can't live without.

It's exactly the same here as it always was, and I've been using flight simulator since the 80s (!!!).

I've also been on AVSIM from the start, so it's just the same old thing around here.

We're getting weekly development updates.  Weekly!!

1 hour ago, Gulfstream said:

1 It's still incredible to me that we get a flight simulation platform that blows everything out of the water, yet on AVSIM we still get people throwing jabs at Asobo developers for every small thing they apparently can't live without.

2 It's exactly the same here as it always was, and I've been using flight simulator since the 80s (!!!).

3 I've also been on AVSIM from the start, so it's just the same old thing around here.

4 We're getting weekly development updates.  Weekly!!

1 - The Mouse in VR bug was no small thing, neither was TrackIR failing for those that use it, nor the Flaps issue, or the Terrain Spikes that took months to fix. For those of us without our heads buried in the sand we can see the flaws and schoolboy errors very clearly and have seen them since launch. Personally I just want (and I'll say it for the thousandth time....) *Better Quality Control* across the board, that's on both MS & Asobos watch and when stupid bugs & issues slip through when they shouldn't then I'll be the first to shout about it, I bought a Simulation that should Progressively move forwards without going backwards in areas it shouldn't.

2 - As have most of us, but in MSFSs case there is a lot of newbie love from the Xbox users who are just finding out about Flight Simulation for the first time, which of course is great (IMO)

3 - This place is very much like RaceDepartment (or RageDeparment as it's commonly known!) the Car Racing Sim Forum/News place, the way I see it is both are chock full of information and chats about all manner of areas associated with their particular Sim. When it comes to the forums specifically there's the same arguments (licensing, poor updates released, poor communication from devs, modders stealing other modders work etc!) alongside the same thoughtful conversations. Essentially Forums have been the same since the 1990s, generally lots of people shouting at one another and occasionally a polite conversation takes place - you either use them or don't.

4 - Weekly updates that are mostly severely lacking of any relevant information, rarely do they provide any useful info, I merely see them as Marketplace & Screenshot Blogs more than anything. They still have much to learn about proper communication, especially when things go wrong - two whole weeks before anything was mentioned regarding the SU7 Hotfix is a prime example of slack communication.

4a - Just to (edit) Add on; These weekly Blogs come from the Marketing Department at MS, a proper Development Blog would be better coming direct from Asobo themselves, something like a Monthly Roadmap that the Sim Racing guys pump out, but that idea always sinks like a lead balloon round here!

Edited December 6, 20214 yr by MarcG

On 12/3/2021 at 3:00 PM, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Turn off lens correction in the settings. Then that will fix that for now 

Wow thanks! Turning it off did fix that pita for sure!