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[mspencer 438]

Well... that's a bit desperate...

[EGLD 439]

April Fools is intensely irritating in the internet age 😄

[Paul K 1,365]

An April Fool's 'joke' that isn't a joke at all. Just an advert for something that isn't real.

[bobcat999 8,502]

1 hour ago, EGLD said:

April Fools is intensely irritating in the internet age 😄

Yes it is.  Childish to say the least. 

Still, at least PMDG managed to get their B777-300 out of the door today.  And the price is cheaper than I expected.  What a strange day to release it though!  

Edited April 1 by bobcat999

[SierraHotel 987]

4 hours ago, anden145 said:

I'm sorry but what do you mean by "calendar" ?
Could you perhaps explain it for the "slow kids" 😄

April 1st

[anden145 2,299]

Ah guess I'm not really awake today.

Thanks guys! 🙂

Edited April 1 by anden145

[anden145 2,299]

-Double post-

Please delete

Edited April 1 by anden145

[Reader 2,034]

1 hour ago, Paul K said:

An April Fool's 'joke' that isn't a joke at all. Just an advert for something that isn't real.

An April Fool is never meant to be side-splittingly funny, it is a "prank".
A prank is "a trick that is intended to be funny but not to cause harm or damage".
Humour never travels well and this topic is a perfect example of that.

[Paul K 1,365]

37 minutes ago, Reader said:

A prank is "a trick that is intended to be funny but not to cause harm or damage".

But it's not funny is it. It's just an advert for something that doesn't exist. It's like me saying there's a red van outside, and when you look, its a blue one. There's no wit or humour in it at all.

[737_800 434]

I first got happy but then saw the price and got suspicous. That was not funny at all, since now I am sad again to deal with the messy msfs camera system.

[edpatino 1,976]

When people need to get attention... not very funny to me.

[DuckZilla85 17]

My god some of the replies here. Just a bunch of old cranky men. 

[abrams_tank 7,470]

I did upvote the Chaseplane Wishlist item at https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/please-give-us-chaseplane/272780/27 as Paralell 42 suggested. I am surprised it only has 95 upvotes. To be honest, a wishlist item with 95 upvotes is not going to gain traction and the MSFS team (ie. Jorg), won't make it a priority.

Even though I upvoted that Wishlist item though, I really wonder if the MSFS team have revamped the camera system in MSFS 2024.  Is Chaseplane really a complicated piece of software? If Chaseplane is not a complicated piece of software, I would rather the MSFS team implement a camera system equal to, or better than Chaseplane in MSFS 2024.

Now if they did not make a much better camera system in MSFS 2024, then I really hope the MSFS team just makes a camera API, and let a 3rd party developer do it. This is my thinking on live weather and cloud variation in live weather too - if the MSFS team do a very good job for the cloud variation in live weather in MSFS 2024, there is no need to make a separate weather API for clouds. But if the MSFS team did not improve the cloud variation in live weather for MSFS 2024, then maybe it's about time that they let a 3rd party developer do it.

Edited April 1 by abrams_tank

[Ricardo41 5,959]

4 hours ago, Aglos77 said:

With these people every day is a joke since I bought skypark.

And their jokes are, IMHO, profoundly unfunny. 

[JYW 2,989]

I personally think April Fools pranks are funniest when they're something profoundly silly (Like Got Friend's paddle boat).  When it's something that a lot of people would actually like, it transcends from funny to profoundly irritating, in a heartbeat.  I think P42 may not have thought this through - or perhaps it was just to garner attention.    Either way, in the scheme of things, it's no biggle. 😄

Edited April 1 by JYW