9 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

This is the P3D forum. It is very relevant to those who prefer it. Would you say the same thing in the XP forum? Alternative simulators are allowed.

I'm more than well aware of where I'm posting. I bought P3D just for this plane. My post has very little to do with alternative simulators. It is merely noting that if you are going to release a niche plane (you can argue here if you want, and I'm saying this as a lover of Concorde), on a niche platform at this point (would be more difficult to argue here), I don't think that it is an unrealistic expectation that a fairly expensive add-on for a platform that has essentially been around for 16+ years at its core to work from the get go. And as to the later, probably not. I also own it as well. It has roughly double the market penetration per last year's Navigraph survey, obviously both significantly lag MSFS. I think most neutral observers have seen the writing on the wall so to speak that this is one of, if not the last, significant add-ons for P3D. Most of the major developers already left, and even FS Labs is strongly implying that they're going to move on now as well. For someone, much as you have, that has been waiting for this plane for years, I'm very disappointed.

Edited August 20, 20232 yr by MrNuke

1 hour ago, MrNuke said:

I'm more than well aware of where I'm posting. I bought P3D just for this plane. My post has very little to do with alternative simulators. It is merely noting that if you are going to release a niche plane (you can argue here if you want, and I'm saying this as a lover of Concorde), on a niche platform at this point (would be more difficult to argue here), I don't think that it is an unrealistic expectation that a fairly expensive add-on for a platform that has essentially been around for 16+ years at its core to work from the get go.

It was your “… on a platform that is also nearly as irrelevant…” that wasn’t appropriate. You may feel that way, plenty don’t.

Concorde does work out of the box for me. Not a single CTD. I haven’t been able to get airborne yet but that’s down to me following the tutorial. It’s a version different planning process to before and it’s going to take a while for me to understand it all.

 

I think you guys are taking the specifics of wording a little too seriously. P3D is relevant for those who still use it, sure, and I'm one of them (though I use all 3 regularly!) Though even as a long time fan of the platform, I can agree with MrNuke that this is a age seasoned platform upon which the developer has many years of experience, and have released an aircraft with which they are intimately familiar (Andrew having been releasing Concorde addons for around or over 20 years now!)

A significant number of us have been able to see a huge initial memory consumption at load-up, thankfully I have enough RAM to soak it up until it settles, many more do not. It's a shame that they didn't get that part right, is all.

All that said, while it's true that glaciers form, move and dissolve faster than FSL takes to release new features, they have always been quite quick at releasing patches to get the existing functionality working as well as it can.