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  1. I was just on an MSFS post, where we X-Plane users, apparently, only stick with it, because we are so invested in addons. A bizarre blinkered comment that if true would mean I am also still flying, FS9, FS2000, FS2004, FSX and P3D. I am not, I own both MSFS and X-Plane 11 (soon 12), the simple fact is, that for me, personally (keyword) I prefer X-Plane 11. Others differ but to continually denigrate other's choices says more about the posters own insecurities than it does the intended targets. 

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  2. As an X-Plane DC6 owner, I feel your pain. When I bought the DC6 for X-Plane 10, I made the stupid assumption that it would be updated for XP11, either for free or for a small cost. When XP11 came out, every other developer quickly updated their product. From PMDG, crickets. Completely abandoned the project leaving XP11 users having to fumble around with hacks just to make the plane useable. Never again will they get my money. 

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  3. Be interesting to see if XP12 will be optimised for Apple Silicon. I will be traveling a lot over this year and am getting one of the new M1 Pro Macs to take with me. XP11, unoptimised ran surprisingly well on the original M1 chip through Rosetta 2. Given the more powerful CPU/GPU combinations and being optimised for Apple Silicon, XP12 could be very decent on a Macbook Pro 

     


  4. 6 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

    Blocking people is a waste of time because all the new users get to view there drivel. I have never blocked anyone, it is childish, no matter how irritating they are. I though that was the MODs job.

    So did I. However the sad fact is that at the moment, pretty much every decent X-Plane post is getting derailed by these trolls and eventually closed down. It's not a one off, its a constant trend. We all know who the perpetrators are, the mods know who the perpetrators are and yet they are still allowed to continue. I get a little trolling some of the time in any group, it happens. But here, it's constant, unimaginative, repetitive and downright annoying. 
    As for childish blocking people, that's your opinion, I would rather not see these trolls comments, and would definitely not want them to see my comments. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, mjrhealth said:

    Thats why I hardly venture here, just the same people spewing the same garbage. Its enough to make anyone puke, And as Goran pointed out and I have many time, MS have investors wonder what will happen when they want there returns. And honestly, if the moderators want any one to come here and get some new life in this forum, they just need to exclude a few posters from this forum, it pretty much like trying to keep a dead body alive,

    I 100% agree. I have blocked several of these people but sadly I still see their comments when they are quoted. Because they are trolls they are invariably quoted and seeing the same rubbish spouted time and time again makes visiting  this forum a depressing chore. It’s really time for admin to stem the flow of people leaving by forcing one or two to leave. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, rka said:

    Well, I think he points out obvious flaws of XP and it's good he does it. So?

    He points out the obviously flaws of XP in virtually every post in the forum, regardless of whether the his comments have any relevance to the post. Most of us that have been around XP for a long time are very aware of the flaws as well as it's many excellent points. Banging on about the flaws in every single post, is not good, it's trolling. His only upside is that his arguments are consistent, not well thought out but certainly consistent. Which I might add, is one of the indicators of a troll.   

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  7. 10 minutes ago, rka said:

    I like how freedom of speech ends when it's not YOUR opinion 😉

    I am very open to opinions on all sides of the argument. I am also acutely aware of when an "opinion" is a deliberate troll" and not a well thought out counter argument. Greasy constantly falls into the latter, to the point where it almost seems he cuts and pastes his trolling comments from a troll playbook. 

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  8. 22 minutes ago, GoranM said:

    That's what he wants.  He wants people to hate X-Plane, and he'll do whatever he can to provoke a reaction.  

    There's a saying in my country.  "Blowing out one candle doesn't make the other one appear brighter".

    Greazer, somehow, thinks the opposite is true.

    I know that's what he wants, the real question is, why is he allowed to carry on with it. As far as I am concerned it's way beyond free speech and very definitely in the realms of trolling. Quite honestly I rarely visit this forum, purely because of him. I know how to add people to the ignore list, but there will be some that don't. They may well stay away from the forum because of people like him. Had he been a member of my Facebook group he would have been gone a very long time ago. 

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  9. 16 hours ago, G-RFRY said:

    I read the forum less now as i get the impression that MSFS users want too see the demise of all other sims. 

    I agree, there seems to be an endless stream of people predicting the demise of both X-Plane and Prepar3d. Most of these comments are not backed up with any facts or knowledge of the sims they are denigrating. Prepar3d isn't going anywhere because we desktop simmers are not the target market, we are a convenient extra cash flow for Lockheed. X-Plane isn't going anywhere, because Austin, rightly or wrongly doesn't see other sims as competition. X-Plane is his baby, a personal passion project that has grown into a top simulator. He is not going to abandon it.
    Having been stung before, I tend to not keep all my eggs in one basket. I run MSFS, X-Plane and P3D. However, when you look at that list, there is only one company there that has abandoned it's user base, not once, but twice. 


  10. 3 hours ago, hangar said:

    Having one soul owner of both the official forum of a game AND it's official store is a clear conflict of interest and a horrible idea as far as consumer rights is concerned but I never said it was illegal, did I?

    If a person can't see why this poses such an obvious conflict then there is no point of discussion with that person. 

    X-Plane.org is neither the official forum or the official store of Laminar, it's site owned by a third party individual that has absolutely no affiliation to Austin or Laminar. Which is pretty much exactly what Janov said. Laminar's own site is X-plane.com and only sells X-Plane and provides support. It does not even have a forum. 

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  11. 6 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

    That's possibly because MSFS seems to be fairly efficient and runs well for most people with DX11. DX12 is not a necessity. XP isn't so desperately needed Vulkan and even with it is not as fast as MSFS with equivalent settings and effects. From what I have read DX12 is not about performance but the ability to add special effects such as ray tracing.

    I have become a big fan of P3D since it went to DX12. There clearly is a very significant improvement in performance and smoothness, something very much missing in MSFS in its current incarnation. That a new Windows based sim would be brought to the table and not even be optimised for DX12 shows clearly that a lot of the underlying code is still ESP based. 

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  12. 1 hour ago, filou said:

    You put the same weather engine as MSFS2020 in XP and nothing else is needed.For the rest we already know how to do it!. With Ortho or orbx TrueEarth with this MSFS clouds would be magic!

    Yesterday I did two flights with  Carenado CT182T .

     

    -The first flight with the one for XP and it was an incredible pleasure in the piloting sensations.

    -The second with the one for MSFS and it was an incredible pleasure visual

    I hear you can make MSFS feel as good as X-Plane. Oh wait, maybe that was just a dream. 

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