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https://steamcommunity.com/games/389280/announcements/detail/1669022841800147034

http://store.steampowered.com/app/728032/Flight_Sim_World_The_Spanish_Job_Mission_Pack/

DTG CRYSS: "Our development team have been working on something a little extra from your current Flight Sim World experience and we’d love to hear what you think! Today, the beginnings of a career mode have been released onto a beta branch which is freely accessible for everyone who owns Flight Sim World. This isn’t a fully-fledged feature just yet, but we are laying the foundations for future work as part of getting IFR functionality and our first jet into the sim." http://steamcommunity.com/games/389280/announcements/detail/1671272740015319595

2 days ago: From 13:00 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/238722242

Join Jordan King on Twitch on the 28th of February where he'll be taking to the skies in Flight Sim World. https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/flight-sim-world/articles/article/live-stream-jordan-king-28th-february

I have now flown some missions from "The Last Frontier". I enjoyed the atmosphere in nice surroundings. Varying missions without getting too long. I liked the landing queue. Good work.

Do not forget the production model. It is much more important. "There are lots of things we would like to do but we also want to get the new sim out some time before 2050", says Dovetail. Alternative 1: The company is developing the product for 5 years. Then the finished "dead" product is sold and provides support for 5 years. Alternative 2: The company develops a "sim-platform" (modular system) for 1 year. The fully functional "sim-platform" is sold cheaply to those who want to influence development over the next 4 years. The next 4 to 10 years, the company is continuously developing new modules for the living "sim-platform". Dovetail previously explained to us: I prefer Alternative 2. I want to fly a new simulator now. And I do not understand those who will rather wait for 5 years. But good luck.

Great. Many thanks to the FSW team.

Interesting info from Steve Hood, Dovetail: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/what-is-dynamic-weather-anyway.3257/

Hope you get your application approved. We need someone who can quality control.

No. As you say, this is still under development. DTG_Cryss (Dovetail) has recently commented on this issue, quote: "That is an issue that needs to be fixed,..."

It is a realistic hope that this will be fixed. But they must first put in place the entire foundation (updated trueSKY, lighting, PBR, etc.). Dovetail recently stated, quote: I think - "improving the look of the world" - will be a big step forward.

FSW does not contain Carenado Baron yet. But I hope that this airplane will be available sometime in the future.

No, that's not good enough. Then nobody would be interested in FSW. We need a new direction. I hope the FSW-team will be successful in their endeavors.

This is really good news.

A big thank you for this great update!

FSW is definitely on the right track now and into the future. Really well done!

If I was a 3rd party developer and believed that FSW would be the future "go to" sim, I guess I had focused on producing my product for FSX / P3D while they are still popular. When the market (P3D / FSX) was saturated with my products, I would turn production into a new market: FSW. (This depends on what competitors are doing). Perhaps this is one of the reasons why 3rd party developers apparently sit on the fence? (FSW = the 3rd party developers future sales, revenue and earnings). Agree. That's also a good reason.

Maybe Dovetail is going to remove something?

Again I do not share your interpretation of history. I get the impression that you think Dovetail is completely without knowledge. That they have not done thorough market research etc. Back in the past, Dovetail said, quote: "The sim will not be all things to all people to start with and in many cases there may be no immediate advantage to you to give it a try. That is okay. All we ask is don't write it off, continue enjoying what you are currently doing and keep an eye on it." In other words, Dovetail wishes you and the rest (a million +/- others) good luck with what you are using today. And I could not agree more. If P3D is perfect for you, be happy. It's not for me. Dovetail is obviously aware of this, and previously said, quote: "Since we decided, almost four years ago, that we wanted to develop a flight simulator our focus has been on making one which meets the needs and desires of simmers. Not one that that competes with any other sim." "We don't really see ourselves as being in direct competition with anyone hadoken. We are not very big on keeping up with the Jones as they say. To this end we don't drive motivation from what everyone else is currently doing. Instead we have spent the last two years listening to both existing and would-be simmers alike. We have been intent on discovering what keeps you all simming, and what stops those who would like to get into flight simulation from doing so. It is aim to make a new true next gen flight simulation platform that you all want. That is what drives us, that is what motivates us to do what we are doing." Is it rational to expect that PMDG is ready with "a study level airliner" before FSW is out of the Early Access? For a little reality check, I will again quote Dovetail: "Something we have said time and time again is that we are committed to this for the long run. We are realists, by that I mean we know it will take years to build up this new platform and the infrastructure around it to match the current landscape of flight simulation. However, with the help of the flight sim community and developers alike that is exactly what we plan to do. It will all just take time and a lot of hard work." Do not be so negative. After all, you have P3D.

There is a good reason for this. They are now working with a massive update of the environment (trueSKY, lighting, PBR, etc.). It is rational to work after a succession so they do not waste resources on something they need to redo again.

I do not share your interpretation of history. Back in the past, Dovetail said, quote: "DTG Flight School and DTG Flight Sim use the same core game engine as FSX. We have heavily modified and updated that game engine to make these titles." "In 2014, we acquired the rights to develop and publish new flight products based on Microsoft’s genre-defining flight technology. Flight School is the first of these." "To be blunt, if you already play flight sims then DTG Flight School is not for you." They consistently talked about 2 titles. So there was none "reaction to the rejection of Flight School". I can also mention a couple of other statements from Dovetail, quote: "The key word here is "platform". We have said this many times before, DTG Flight Sim is not going to be all things to all people at day one of launch." "For us, releasing DTG Flight Simulator is just the beginning. All of the really hard works comes afterwards once you and developers get your hands on it." Not even Dovetail believes that FSW will be the "go to sim" from day one (when out of EA). Notice also the statement from rsrandazzo (PMDG), quote: "We are very excited to see Dovetail's work beginning to bear fruit and we look forward to learning more. At PMDG our money is firmly on Dovetail Games for the simming side and Prepar3D for the enterprise side of our business." I am convinced that the large customer base will focus on "Games" before "the enterprise side". Time will tell.

As a manufacturer: How many stores would you prefer to deliver your goods to? 1 or 2?

When has Steven Hood said FSW will be the "go to" sim before it gets out of early access? It sounds strange.

Do you suggest that we should buy old technology for FSW - or that FSW should be adapted to old technology?