November 3, 20241 yr Lets look at cost, One plane 3 years of development, team of 3. Some only have one or 2 others more. Wage. $25 Hr 1 day $200 X 3 = $600 Pday 1 week 600 x 5 = $3000 not counting overtime etc 1 Year $3000 X52 = $156,000 Py 3 Years = $468,000 for 1 plane 3 years developing an airbus 330 is around $264 Mill new $18 Mil used, you just paid how much for a reverse engineered multimillion dollar plane and complain. They all have to eat, some do this as a hobby and have other jobs to help feed there families and keep roofs over there heads. This world has changed and not for the best. PS. How many planes do you think they would have to sell to recover there costs Edited November 3, 20241 yr by mjrhealth
November 3, 20241 yr So did you buy the A330? [Pc Intel i3-4160 3,6 GHz, 8 GB di RAM, GeForce RTX-3060 12 GB, Win10 Home 64 bit]
November 4, 20241 yr Author No,, No interest. I have enough. Im looking for Twin otter, and other turboprops. Not to much interest in flying computers. Also like some naval planes, but they pretty much dont fly themselves either so no one makes them. Too many planes too busy making airports. Have over 27 planes in my arsenal, including one airbus and 3 boeings, how many more do i need Edited November 4, 20241 yr by mjrhealth
November 4, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, mjrhealth said: No,, No interest. I have enough. Im looking for Twin otter, and other turboprops. Not to much interest in flying computers. Also like some naval planes, but they pretty much dont fly themselves either so no one makes them. Too many planes too busy making airports. Have over 27 planes in my arsenal, including one airbus and 3 boeings, how many more do i need as far as I am concerned right now, while the "new torque bug" doesn't get fixed I don't get any pleaure from flying any prop aircraft in X-Plane 😞 I know there's still the airliners, and I own the FF 757 and the Tolis 321 NEO, but I prefer to wait & see if they can fix that really irritating bug that has been plaguing XP12 for a while now and doen't get mentioned in any of the recent updates. Yes I guess they're too busy with the new scenery... And yes I think they also have to find slots to address the awful ATC... And yes, there are still problems with the weather too... but... above all I still think XP12 is [miles ahead of the competition in terms of flight dynamics](*), so, it's crucial for me that that "wrong rolling moment bug" get's finally adressed because otherwise I don't feel at ease saying (*) in public 😕 Edited November 4, 20241 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
November 4, 20241 yr Author 4 minutes ago, jcomm said: And yes I think they also have to find slots to address the awful ATC... I dont suppose you read the next beta is an ATC overhaul. including Ai bug fixes and improvements. Also believe there are some weather fixes in it to, including that sudden altitude change.
November 4, 20241 yr 58 minutes ago, mjrhealth said: What torque bug???? Right rolling moment in all dc-3/c47s I've used in xp12. - X-Plane 12 Technical Support - X-Plane.Org Forum I created a bug report back then, and it was acknowledged and said under analysis to find a fix... Edited November 4, 20241 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
November 4, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, jcomm said: I created a bug report back then, and it was acknowledged and said under analysis to find a fix... As a review, this is how Austin will analysis this if no one has ever seen this before. There is a lot of good information in there that I learned after watch all the way through. 🙂 https://stormbirds.blog/2022/11/26/austin-meyer-explains-flying-in-x-plane-12/
November 4, 20241 yr On 11/3/2024 at 5:16 AM, mjrhealth said: 3 Years = $468,000 for 1 plane 3 years developing That's just the human cost. Assume a further $32,000 for hardware, licensing (software, assets, storefront) and a 20% sales tax. At a $80 sale price, the developer nets $64 per copy (after tax), so to recoup the $500k project cost, 7,812 copies would need to be sold to break even. This does not sound too unreasonable to me if, and only if, the add-on is in great demand. If the developer is going for a niche add-on, it's going to be the first and last one from a purely commercial standpoint. 7950X3D + 7900 XT + 64 GB + Linux | 4800H + RTX2060 + 32 GB + Linux My add-ons from my FS9/FSX days
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