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10 hours ago, Doug47 said:

I've got a feeling they'll be better then my default FSX. 😉

Way better 🙂 I can vouch for that 🙂

Nope. Corrected the message.

6 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

But how much data would be stored for a flight from Manchester to London Heathrow for example?

I would guess around 700 MB.

On 6/29/2020 at 11:32 PM, eslader said:

but the guy with the Porsche got all that out of the box without having to fool around with anything else

Not to mention that in your scenario the Porsche is way cheaper than a modified Honda 🙂 

Got the same screen, Samsung CRG9. Love it, I might reinstall P3D just to see what to expect in MSF 🙂

6 hours ago, b737800 said:

 

P3D / FSX / XP active users: 3 million
% of those that have paid for any add-ons: 20% = 600,000
% of those that are interested in 1 specific airliner type: 20% = 120,000 (this is my target market)
% of those that I can expect to be made aware of and consider my product: 30% (total guess) = 36,000
% conversion rate: 10% = 3,600 units sold
Timescale to sell those units: 2 years
Price point $140

Gross income = 140 * 3,600 = $504,000, over 2 years, heavily weighted to 1st year,

 

And all that without taking piracy into consideration. I would reduce the conversion rate even further in order to take into account piracy. What PMDG/other devs could do to mitigate that is to offer the product at a reasonable price in order so that piracy would not be attractive anymore. 

So far we're not there yet. I payed for FS Passengers 30 EUR (a fair price would have been 10 EUR the most), the developer (a single person) is missing for quite a while, the product not updated to work with the latest P3D. Do I feel cheated? Yes, I do. Would I buy again from him or would I use pirated versions? I would certainly not buy from him again. 

So you can imagine, someone like me would not ever be moved by the support developers rhetoric, especially with the inflated add on prices. 

At 140 EUR/plane they will be pirated a lot. At 60 or less, a lot more people would buy and have a safer and a easier experience with their products. I am in the crowd that hopes MS will step in and regulate this market. It's not fair to take advantage of their platform to sell products that are 2x more expensive than the base sim (assuming the FS price will be 60 EUR per license). MS could simply just take a x% out of every sale (Steam model) and (x+50)/sale for addons that are over 60 EUR/license. Since most users will eventualy shift to MSFS 2020 the demand will be there so developers will eventually want a share of it.

My opinion is that airports addon will come in packs (like German Airports for FSX). SInce the difference will not be so huge as that with defaults from FSX/P3D most consumers will not be bothered to buy single airports since the default will look pretty nice. In the default airport case, I am only curious what will happen when you are parked at the gate and whether or not looking out the cockpit window we would see a blurry mess or high res texture of the terminal.

I would wait for game release and see what I need in order to get max performance. Since that moment is a bit further from now, I'd wait. 

Actually #1 is a must for MS if they are to stream texture and what else from Azure. Or at least capture external data from 3rd party Flight Planner (but if I was a manager in MS I wouldn't accept that for the world). 

1. ATC with voice recognition (Alexa or Siri type);

2. Major VR platforms support (Oculus, Vivre, etc). Major VR controllers support.

3. Addon management similar to the one Steam has for its games. Full compatibility and automated install and updates.

4. Max addon price to 30 EUR. No 100 EUR addon should be allowed. PMDG either adapt or disappears. They milked this community for far too long.

5. SID, STAR, flight planner. Btw, based on the filed flight plan the texture for that specific area can be preloaded in the FS.

6. Mission development tool.

7. Career mode with goals and aircraft certification progress.

Maybe is this one:

Here is the complete list of known issues with Insider Preview Build 11102:
 

I'd rollback to the previous build and see if it works. If it does, set your Win10 to slow update so you can get all bugs ironed out before it reaches you.

LROP Bucharest, Romania

So Rob, I assume that using your previous guide (for v2.3 and 2.4) it might work? I understand I'll do it on my own risk, I just want an opinion.

LM is building for long term, some structure changes are part of v2.5 to support that vision. So for v2.5 a clean install is required. Beyond that it would be wise for folks to not speculate what future versions will require in terms of updates until reliable information can be shared.

 

Cheers, Rob.

I wonder if its possible to add 2.4 installed add-on airports to the fresh 2.5 installation without reinstalling each one by one. Any thoughts on that?

I have both Win7 and P3d on Samsung SDDs (different disks). It matters a lot in terms of loading (P3D starts in 5-8 seconds) and it loads a flight in arround 5 seconds (I have like 40 addons -scenery and aircrafts). In terms of performance, I haven't noticed improvments (I get around 30fps at 3440x1400 with i7 4790k and 780gtx).

Yes I did. Pff, that info could have saved me 4 hours of various atempts to fix it :))

Thank you so much, I will rollback and post the results.

Later edit: Rollbacked the driver and its working fine now. Thank you again.

Hi guys,

I have a strange problem with my p3d as you can see in the screenshots. I have FTX installed and some airports addons. I always test the program after every addon installed and they worked fine. After like a week without opening p3d, i tried a flight this weekend and when it loaded the terrain was all messed up. I tried so far removing p3d config, terrain and scenery config and had no luck solving this.

Do you have any idea about a way to fix this without re installing (i have addons I don't want to re install allover again)?

What would you like to see or know in the November update? Who knows, maybe they will grant somebody's wish.