Hi All,

 

A few weeks ago when I build my new PC and had to reinstall MSFS and all its addons, I became acquainted with the new Contrail App (yep - I'm slow to the party here). One of the things that has always frustrated me about the third party addon market is that whilst I try and buy from a single store to keep my purchases in the one place, this is often not possible and over the years my purchases have become spread accross multiple online stores. So I was intersted to learn that Contrail allows me to link accounts at various stores to this single app. Unfortunately, of the stores Contrail has direct links with I only have a FlightBeam acccount and most of my purchases have been via Orbx or Simmarket.

 

No,  I understand ORBX are their own entity and have their own installer/app to manage updates etc - no issues with that. But the SimMarket  app is far more of a shop than an installer and whilst it will give me a notificaiton if there is an update, it doesn't handle the installation - I have to download, extract etc etc. 

My question, such that it is, does anybody know of a way, or perhaps somebody from Contrail or Simmarket might be able to comment on any future plans to allow the import of simmarket addons into Contrail or alternatively, any planned updates to the Simmarket App to act more as an installer/updated rather than just a shop. I know I can activate SOME simmarket products via Contrail but  I have to manually enter the activation keys etc.

Anyway, its an odd question that I haven't framed very well...but just thought I'd throw it out there in case anybody from Simmarket or Contrail sees it.

Cheers

 

Thanks for taking the time to prepare this post... read with interest, didn't know about linking accounts. Hopefully, someone will be along soon with an answer to your question