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On 8/13/2023 at 1:23 PM, RALF9636 said:

I agree pause and time acceleration are very useful features of a sim. I often use them.

But I am fine with APL giving a penalty for using pause. Pause can be used as a way of cheating in a high workload situation. So it should be penalized. And it is not that APL prohibits using pause, there is only a 2% penalty. It doesn't really make a significant difference for your career in APL even if you get that penalty on every flight.

 

That works for you perhaps but for starters I never use Pause as a way of cheating in a high workload situation.  In fact, w/ your stated example of why pause should be penalized these are the two periods with by far the biggest workloads:  TO to 10K feet and 10K feet to landing, and yet no problem can pause there.  So that argument is bogus from the get go.  And this is more important:  I could care less about the "career" piece, even though it would appear to be APL's raison d'être.  I use it for one reason only:  to aim for a perfect score on each flight I start.  I could simply just wait until I know I'll hopefully be uninterrupted but that means I'll do far fewer flights in a week, and I like doing flights whenever I can squeeze them in.

My point is make this optional for those like myself who care.  Under Settings, simply add a checkbox/slider to enable/disable the Pause penalty.  If you're fanatical about it, be my guest.  Tell me, if the checkbox to disable the penalty was there, would you use it?

Noel

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5 hours ago, Noel said:

 In fact, w/ your stated example of why pause should be penalized these are the two periods with by far the biggest workloads:  TO to 10K feet and 10K feet to landing, and yet no problem can pause there.  

So there is no penalty when pausing below 10000 ft? I didn't know that. I agree that wouldn't make any sense. It should be the other way round.

5 hours ago, Noel said:

I could care less about the "career" piece, even though it would appear to be APL's raison d'être.  I use it for one reason only:  to aim for a perfect score on each flight I start.

Though I personally probably would keep it as is, of course I would be fine with an option to deactivate the pause penalty.

But why bother? Just consider 98% your perfect score and enjoy.

Fair enough Ralf, I just need to change my attitude...at least until they put the checkbox in!

 

Noel

System:  9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL  64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync.

Aircraft used in MSFS 2024:  Fenix A320,  Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.

 

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