spearmint_flyer

At this point this is more a thread of whether you should ignore others or not vs the original topic. So how about them 10,000,000 users?

Why do people not see the positivity of this? 1st - There hasn’t been any other iteration of Flight Simulator by Microsoft (Gamepass, Digital Download, Steam) that has brought anything close to 10,000,000 in 2 years. None of them have. People who never have been part of the what i would call Flight Simulator scene would come up to me and start a conversation about it, telling me “wow have you seen that new simulator! I want to try it”. That is a success, to have that Rea h that organically people who would in the past honestly question my choice of career that started as a hobby actually get enthused to explore the simulator and get a taste of flight will only open the doors to a whole new generation. That is happening all over the world, and that’s a big deal for us. I see it every day, in VATSIM I hear more accents than ever before. The other night flying out of Austin, for the first time in 15 years I had a female voice over the radio. So, it’s reaching s new audience that is a very big deal. 2nd- That new fresh market share will bring creativity into the platform, new ways of interacting , new developers, new modes that will attract new individuals, a new dynamic world. For a long time I’ve wondered what would happen if Microsoft would create flight simulator as a platform for them to build a whole simulation world around it. For example, we already know that it could be a prime candidate for a Ship simulator, or a train simulator, or even a third person avatar simulator. They already have the entire planet built into it. Imagine if they combine multiple functions into the platform, then allow cross platform multiplayer modes. Where you can see people actually controlling their ships, vehicles, avatars in a multiplayer environment. That would bring our hobby into an interactive world where we could interact with different elements we previously simply did not have. 3rd- Say what you want, the other simulator in development is already feeling the pressure to evolve. You’ve already seen that our good friend Austin is picking up his advertising campaign to explain things in detail, copying from the discovery series. He is doing it in his quirky way, it’s his style, i would have approached in a different manner but okay. MSFS is forcing competitors to be more communicative, to push the envelope, to build platforms that work with the technology of today. Tell me, when did you ever thing your could have and simulator in the high 100 FPS? Yet out of the box MSFS worked with the newest GPUs taking advantage of that technology. That’s something that will push other platforms to get the best technology into the platform, brining their simulators to new standards, or they die. I clearly remember the last 10 years of my life where we were stuck in this 2004 graphics world as the rest of the interactive gaming world got new technology. I personally paid thousands of dollars just to get better scenery, clouds. I spent my time tinkering for hours and days. Neither one of the platforms did anything to improve it other than small bandaid fixes. Now MSFS has lit the fire for platforms to evolve or die. So, sure criticize the 10,000,000 but I’d argue that you’re missing the picture. It’s not the 10,000,000 that matters, it’s that we are in the highest growth period of this platform that we have ever seen. Thanks to the efforts of Jorg, Asobo Team. Like it or not everyone else is playing catch-up.

Melting buildings is not a BlackShark AI, it’s the photogrammetry. When I use the other simulator and leave photogrammetry off it’s nice genéreles 3D models overlayed the data lite data with OSM data, Blackshark AI basically then uses its algorithms to accurately match the color, type and placement of the building, ensuring that all of the roads, forest are not randomly populated with houses like we had in FS9/FSX/P3D.

That A350 has to be the most deiced plane in the world.

Only thing that was missing was for it be covered in American cheese and then it would be full American galore.

So you lock your FPS after running and sim manually every time? @Noel

I remember paying full price for the TFDI 717 when it was released. Only to find that it was incomplete. It didn’t follow the route. Had issues with VNAV, and I had to wait several weeks to use it properly. So I’m good. I’ll wait until it’s released and keep my five dollars.

Well. This could make things interesting for me. Go on. 🤔

I have a LG Nanocell 50. It has Freeesync capability but it flickers constantly when I turn it on with my RTX3090

I have issues with DX12 when AI traffic is involved. There is a significant drop in performance with DX12 compared to DX11. That's on a RTX3090, I7 11000K at 4.5 GHZ, with 64GB of RAM on Windows 11.

There are two free airports in flight sim. for MDST and MDSD in the Dominican Republic. These are my favorite two airports, mostly because I lived there. However, many flights are from North/Central/South America and Europe. You can find a flight there from almost anywhere. Also, MDPP by Dreamflight has the same deal with the availability of flights. MDPP is a resort city, so you have great views and a challenging RNAV approach into 08. All of those airports have great landing distances for length. One of the Antonovs landed there when the Haiti Earthquake happened as a refueling point before proceeding to Port Au Prince.

I mean, okay I guess. I would have thought seeing what “the best and more attention to detail they put in” would be a good comparison. From my perspective the Gibraltar at XP12 looks pretty bad imo compared to MSFS. But, I got ya.

Meanwhile. Where is MSP by Flightbeam? Then my Delta heaven will be complete!

There are a couple if you do a Google Search. Here is one from Gibraltar.

Microsoft sets the dream for many and because of their initiative we saw competition born which has given us the most amazing collection of flight simulators. That to me is worth celebrating. Without the birth of MSFS someone may have not started DCS, XPlane, Aerofly, Fly!, third party developers and definelty P3D would not be here. It all started 40 years ago, we finally are at a place where the dream of flight to those who can’t access it can be shared with all of us. That’s worth celebrating. Pick your poison, pick your whiskey, it doesn’t matter. I will enjoy this momentous day with all of you. Regardless if you byob or share the bottle of Chivas with me. So, yes there is call for celebration. Because whether you decided to stay in FS9, FSX, XPlane, or now MSFS 2020, we still have so much thanks to when it all started back 40 years ago.

I must declare. Seeing the journey. Where we are today, one cannot help but to find emotions of joy seeping through.

You kiss your mother with that mouth? 😅

Did they get rid of those hideous beach coast lines all over the place? This is the only way I'd consider giving it a shot again.

When P3D got released they updated the terrain and all of the wind mills, antennas and anything else that wasn’t a building got autogenerated as an antenna. I don’t believe there’s a way to remove them.

Ah even better. It had been years since I read up on it.

You’re asking and answering the correct questions. You genius you.

Starts peeking in glider.

Holy Howard Hughes! The Hercules is coming! Fun fact, my name "Alcides" is the Latin translation of "Hercules," so I've had a very secret crush on Hughes's Hercules since I saw the Aviator as a teen.

Mathis V Magnus. The closest thing simmers will get to a prime-time fight on HBO.🥴

I’m not going to get anything that doesn’t use a seamless weather transition like MSFS does. The fact that xEnviro, basically nearly omitted this in their launch. Then admitted to what can only be described as a desperate attempt to sell something that was not as “unique” as they claim, just to get money out of it is enough to tell me everything. Everything they are selling we can already get for free or superior. The shader enhancement for example looks ni different to me then what I am using Free Style for. The weather? Tell me MSFS doesn’t have it nailed down with smooth transitions and now combining METAR data to the forecast model. HIFI is the only one I’d consider, even then I do not want a weather engine that does not show me an improvement with a seamless transition.