Mike Singer

Hi Peter,First off, I'm a big fan of GEPro. Amazing work you do!As for your multiplayer issues, I asked one of the more techy guys on the team to look into it.I agree that the Free Flight lobby is a zoo. It's interesting to me that nobody is using any of the other lobbies. I wonder if people even notice they exist?Stay tuned and I'll try to get you some answers to improve your multiplayer experience.Mike

Hi Mike,Glad to see you get it! The idea was not to replace Vatsim, but to give ALL users the tools they need to set up and join their own small multiplayer sessions to do whatever they want in. That part, I think we succeeded with.The missing ingredient is the social networking component to let like-minded people find each other. The lobbies only work for matchmaking when a session is active, and as as Peter Wilding says in his post, it's sort of like the wild west in the Free Flight lobby at the moment.Part of the reason I asked Tom from Avsim to open this forum is to give folks a place to gather to talk about what's going on in the world of multiplayer, to find like-minded people, schedule sessions, etc.Ideally, this would all be handled in the sim itself, and if we find that people are using multiplayer a lot, then we'll certainly explore ways of integrating this sort of functionality in the future. For now, the community needs to find its own ways to get together.This forum is a start. There are existing and new multiplayer sites/organizations out there. I hope people will share their knowledge of these as they come across them. And, I'll be hosting a "Missions and Multiplayer" section of FSInsider which we'll roll out with a site update in a month or two.Agreed, it's early in the game. FSX just hit the shelves in Japan on Friday. So, let's see what happens. And if you have ideas, I encourage you to write about them here and help make things happen!Best,Mike