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I live in a country where the right to repair is more the necessity to repair. The average salary here is pretty low for most people. To that end, there is a very healthy, repair it and keep it going culture here. There are many third party repair centres that specialise in repairing certain named brands and they do a very good job at tiny prices compared to the OEMs. I had to repair a Nikon lens, Nikon quoted me the best part of $800 for the repair, here I got it done to a very high standard for $125. I have also repaired a Krupps coffee machine three times (for three different problems) before eventually binning it as completely useless. Like the other poster, Krupps head office did not even acknowledge my emails. 
The moral is, the right to repair needs to be culturally driven, enterprising entrepreneurs need to set up repair shops with trained technicians and consumers need to stop accepting a manufacturers "built in" working life as gospel. 

I never quite get the issue with entering email and password, be it every two weeks or every six months. Surely every time you switch your computer on you have to enter your login name and password. If you don't have a secure login on your own computer then you are not really in a position to complain about developers trying to protect their own products. If you do have a secure login, then you are typing in those details more than once every two weeks, I would wager. 

29 minutes ago, GoranM said:

Some (I think 2...maybe 3) of the LR staff are already on the new M1 powered Mac's.  Not sure to what extent they are "testing", but their workflow appears to be going unhindered.

I have not tried X-Plane 11 yet on my Mac Mini M1 but games such as Cities Skylines are running unbelievably well even through Rosetta. As for video and stills photography, my Mac's primary purpose, it is silky smooth. It will be very interesting to see what the higher end M1X Macs are like as gaming machines. I suspect they are going to be amazing

I am quite interested in the direction they will take with the Mac. The M1 chips are running X-Plane at medium/high settings at around 30-35fps and that's through Rosetta translation. With the more powerful M1X chips on the way and the possibility that XP11 or 12 will be Arm native as well as X86 native, it could be exciting times. Let's not forget that the mobile version is already running on Arm chips so they have the experience to port it to desktop. 

7 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

There is already another thread if someone wants to state their opinion: 

 

 

Then perhaps you could have pointed him in that direction in the first place? 

39 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

And the point is? 

The point is that he is stating his opinion, as can be determined in the first two words "for me", Why do people get so personally offended by opinions that may not suit their own view?

Just now, ajaybala said:

Don't have the skills or the inclination to break any DRM. Just want to fly in the aim without hitches.

You don't need skills to break the DRM, just the inclination. Thats why the DRM locks you out. 

Honestly I cannot see how having to put your email and password into a pop up box every once in a while is a major problem. Presumably you do something very similar when logging into your computer in the morning. I have multiple X-Aviation products and have never had an issue other than relicensing. I am constantly installing and removing Skymaxx to compare with other weather products and it's never been an issue. X-A allow you three machines, which is generous. They even allow you to unlicense a machine and transfer to another without issues. If you have broken that DRM, them there really must be a whole lot more to the story that what is being given. 

55 minutes ago, mtaxp said:

Sorry mods, this can't go on.

One thing to express opinion, this has nothing to do with opinion, this guy is by purpose spreading a 100% false info and trying to sabotage help for other users, even if the user himself found the culprit already.

So obvious, yet keep going, and he is still here hurting other users chances to solve there problems.

 

 

I totally agree with this. It's getting ridiculous now, every genuine technical post in this forum is trolled incessantly by this guy. It becomes impossible for the OP to sort out the many genuine replies from the trolling and the replies to the trolling. I don't particulalrly like MSFS for a number of reasons, but I don't go there everyday and express my opinions on it let alone spread false information. Time for the moderators to step up to the plate, in my opinion.

10 minutes ago, pinlifter said:

Maybe these guys will jump on board...

https://www.thresholdx.net/news/lvlup1

Nope, this is another extension of the Zibo mod by X-Plane developers, again the assets come from Laminar. Reading the full article would have that revealed that

""Working with Zibo and his excellent 737-800X as a starting platform, we began deconstructing the plane down to it’s core, to produce the most vanilla and clean outcome possible. We’ve also been working directly with Laminar Research and using their developer copy to redevelop the visuals and optimise the entire package."
 

All the Zibo graphical assets and much of the code belong to Laminar. Zibo modified to code to make it a more rounded plane. There is no way Laminar will allow those assets to be used on a competitors sim which means Zibo would need to start from scratch by building his own model. That assumes that 1. he has model building skills and 2. he even wants to develop for MSFS. It's much more likely a freeware developer from the FSX/P3D world would take up the mantle and even then it would probably take a lot longer than the Zibo did because there is no model to work with. In conclusion, if you want to fly a decent quality free 737, use X-Plane

1 hour ago, Murmur said:

It's clear than anyone asking to end XP glo-mo (supposedly because "it steals resources from desktop development") is either a troll or has the IQ of a turnip.

Make your call!

In this case I think it's both. In all reality the guy is a huge troll and constantly negging on X-Plane. Best just ignored. Starve him of the oxygen of publicity and let him talk to himself. Which he may be doing anyway

I cannot list them all, and indeed I have almost certainly forgotten some but it's in the region of 140-150 countries on every continent. By every continent I include Antarctica. Seeing as I was working at sea, I pretty much got paid to visit all of them. 

45 minutes ago, G-RFRY said:

Major airport`s are not important in a VFR sim.

Nor are A320's, B747and 787s. Makes you wonder why they included them in a VFR sim. And spend many man hours building bespoke airports like Paris CDG. Or maybe it's not just a VFR sim... there's a thought.

You could literally cut and paste this for any AAA game on the market. 

2 hours ago, CJ1045 said:

Half a dozen airports IN THE WORLD are not in the sim. How can this possibly be the case. What sort of word not allowed released a sim without those airports.

Some people.......

Microsoft's marketing claim to have modelled "over 2 million cities and expansive environments" .It's disappointing but not surprising to see major airports missing and as someone else said, an entire major Spanish city. Imagine the uproar from Americans if they had left out Miami International and Miami city. 

Whilst it's great to bush fly out of obscure Indonesian Highland strips, it's not so much fun flying VFR along the Spanish coast to find LEMG completely missing. 

5 minutes ago, Slides said:

Sometimes you strike gold and get people who are both passionate but can also deliver profits (Asobo). 

As passionate as Asobo are, they are not pulling the purse strings on this. The money comes from Microsoft and if it doesn’t start coming back, they may well pull the plug. They have history in that

Simple fact, Austin has never given up on X-Plane. Microsoft have given up twice on Flight Simulator, more if you include combat flight simulator. Its the difference between passion and profit. 

I have been tech alpha on MSFS for several months. I spent the entire weekend flying it trying to decide whether I wanted to buy it or not. In the end my money went to Inibuilds and their amazing A300. Zero buyer regret. MSFS has immense potential but for me,  at this moment, it's visually stunning and simultaneously very boring. It just does not push my buttons just yet. I will keep an eye on it and wait to see what high quality third party planes bring to the immersion. 

There's a lot of room for improvement in the default airports. And regardless of which package you buy, there are a lot of default airports.

Interesting that one of the upgrades is London Landmarks. Would suggest that cities without photogammetry will look very generic 

50 minutes ago, Martin Byrde said:

i have a feeling the fs2020 launch will be exactly like the FSX launch...too many problems and no computer hardware able to play/run it well with all settings maxed out.  Xp11 and p3dv4.5 and 5 will remain with me for a long time.  I have a new $4000 2020 gaming laptop but a few days ago i canceled my fs2020 pre-order....i will wait for reviews and maybe 1-2years before buying it again.  Plus PMDG not lowering their prices back to Entertainment Pricing made me angry and sad😡😪

I have a feeling you are right. It seems to me that Microsoft are rushing Asobo into an early release that they are not ready for. Three week beta is not going to iron out the problems that seem to exist and the "ongoing project" is clearly a euphemism for early access.

As for PMDG, I totally agree. There was uproar when the P3D price was $139 not $89. They spent months defending the concept that P3D was a commercial level sim not aimed as an entertainment product. Now they have established $139 as the norm they don't even seem to be trying to justify the price on what is clearly an entertainment product. I wonder if they will even try to sell it to Xbox users for the same price

I have bought a few PMDG products and they are clearly the pinnacle to the sim world. However whilst I fly as realistically as possible under normal flight conditions, the huge amount of bells and whistles and non normal procedure that their products have, are not really needed in my sim world. The Zibo mod does just fine for me on X-Plane and dare I say it, just feels more immersive despite not being as high a standard as the PMDG. XP11 will remain on my drive all the way up to XP12 which I am equally excited for. 

They have been relaxed for major Youtube streamers and flight sim websites but not for the majority to the testers. I suspect the Youtubers are still under some restrictions as to what they can and cannot say. Nearly all have been highly complimentary about the simulation which would strongly suggest they are limited to what they can comment on

Alpha/Beta testers are still under a strict NDA. A rigorous commentary on the flight model would certainly break the NDA,

I believe its coming to the new X-Box X series which is not scheduled to release until the end of 2020. I believe it will be one of the launch products for the new X-Box, that's why they are waiting