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You may find this statement by George from Flytampa interesting: "The prices were initially set low by other devs believing sales would be FAR greater than fsx/p3d/xplane. It didn't turn out that way but the prices sort of stuck." The whole post is here: https://www.flytampa.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14660

Would you please stop quoting the whole posts with images to add a sentence of your comment? This way you make the thread hardly readable for others.

LOL, so true! 🤭

A lot of wisdom has been written in this thread. So, I wouldn't like to rewrite anything with my own words. But I find this question to be a good opportunity to touch one aspect which seems not to have been stressed enough. There is an old saying 'Gentlemen do not talk about money'. Let me break this rule here in a short reply. The fact that I am really happy with my Prepar3Dv5 now is certainly due to the many years of experience I have in the sim and its current stability. But also, if not first of all, because of the world I have built in it: texture packs, sceneries, airports, traffic, ground services, FSUIPC, weather software and of course the aircraft (in the plural sense). I don't use freeware (except for AI traffic). I have paid A LOT for all those. I am aware there are people with very different financial abilities, some of whom may afford to buy anything anytime. But many of us, including myself, have some kind of budget they can/want to spend on flightsimming. As vast majority of P3D addons cannot be installed in MSFS, you get the picture. I am currently not able to start reinvesting in my hobby, when already spending too much (sorry, wife).

Since you ask, Ray, no, you don't have to stay in your armchair non stop. You can make a mug of coffee, use the toilet, or let the above mentioned (doorbell ringing) mistress into your house. I would compare it to fying in a real cockpit. We want to recreate realism in our sims, and we decide on how much is too much. Even RW pilots use the toilet. You can ask a controller to leave the sim for a moment or even half an hour if necessary and usually it is not a problem. If the problem turns out to be more serious, you can disconnect, but that seems obvious anyway. I don't fly VATSIM any more (still hope to return) but I only once ever had a problem, however it was 100% my fault as I was doing an overnight long haul and... fell asleep (yes, I was disconnected from the network)! 🤭

The Holy Grail of flight simulation. Discussing it further will always lead to VATSIM (I loved it when I used it). After all these years I am 90% positive there will never be a good artificial ATC for home simming.

Funny you write it! One of the (many) reasons I haven't so far been convinced to invest in MFSF is the clouds. Many people talk about awesome looking clouds in MSFS and I always think they look like volcanic ash instead. Well, maybe a bit of a mixture of the above and bath foam. 🤭

I hope for the first, but predict the latter.

If you can't even load P3D, try removing the prepar3d.cfg file (make a backup just in case) and let it rebuild itself while launching the sim. Might help, won't hurt.

But only a bit of it. Just go slightly forward and it should be okay.

Try Enviro! You can import as many ATC recordings as you wish and listen to them throughout your flight. Last but not least, it is freeware.

Of course it is a kind of addiction. Many symptoms are typical for one. Try to stop flying, browsing AVSIM and checking addon shops/news portals for a month (!) and see how you react.

All you US/Canada/Oz/Kiwi simmers. Just imagine from today on you have to pay 20-25% more for your addons. That's exactly what we have to do in Europe. It is called VAT (Value Added Tax) and it is so high in the EU. And that is even though the minimum wages happen to be much lower. For instance in my country it is just 2.45 USD (and the 23% VAT!). Talking about bad economy? :smile:

Yes, you do, George. Additionally anytime you log into your simMarket account, you will be able to see your serial numer and other data.

I am with Dan. Consider PFPX too, Cliff. Check some videos and reviews. I have used it since it's out and wouldn't look back.