SirDrexl

The Buttkicker just responds to bass frequencies, doesn't it? It may be that often you would feel vibration when there happens to be low bass, but real FF would be independent of sound and allow you to hear low bass sound with no vibration, or feel vibration with no low bass sound. Although, I've heard good things about the Buttkicker and I'm sure it would add to immersion.

Why not? The Apple example has already been mentioned, and MS sells clothes for avatars on Xbox Live for as little as the equivalent of $1. Sony sells avatar icons (including from third parties) on PSN for as little as 49 cents.I think you're underestimating how prevalent microtransactions are these days. :)

I guess it would just be too expensive to sell well enough. A FF version of the Saitek or CH yoke would probably cost about $250. And of course that doesn't include rudder pedals. So, the newcomers would be more likely to opt for the non-FF yokes.You already have a niche in the flight sim genre, and then the yoke is a niche within that because some people will buy a joystick instead. And with a yoke, you can't sell to the more casual market that plays the more arcade-like games such as HAWX. The FF wheels like the G27 can sell to console gamers too, which again is something you can't do with the yoke because there's no suitable console software for it.

Forza is pretty much "Microsoft Race."

Sounds good. Hopefully the add-on installer is able to work with the protection of the Program Files folders this time. They should also put any config files under the Users folder so they wouldn't be blocked from direct modification (plenty of games do this already). It would probably still be better to put it on a separate drive for performance reasons, but at least we wouldn't get all those topics about issues with it installed to the default folder.I wasn't expecting this until the fall of 2012, so it's a nice surprise (for me anyway) to hear it's coming sooner.

That's not how the math works. If there are 10,000 pirated downloads, 3% would be 300. But they likely weren't going to sell anywhere close to 10,000 legitimate copies. They could end up selling 700 copies, which when added to 300 would make 1,000. Then it's 30% of their sales lost.

If you REALLY wanted to get back to basics, the A2A Piper Cub with Accu-sim is great.

Yeah, just adding another keyboard will work. In fact, there are a few mechanical keyboards that register themselves as multiple virtual keyboards, to get around the 6-key rollover limitation of USB.However, I'm not sure if you can actually get them to send different commands from the same keys (like, say, C on one keyboard sending a command, and C on the other sending something different).

Choose an aircraft and select the airport you want as the default, and reset the time in that other screen. Then save that as the default flight by checking the box. When you restart FSX, it will load that airport and your local time.When it loads the default Friday Harbor flight, it applies your local time to that location. Then, when you switch to an airport in another time zone, the time is adjusted relative to the time that was just applied to Friday Harbor (Pacific Time). For example, if it's 6AM on your system, it will set 6AM as the time in FH. Then if you choose an airport in New York, the time will change to 9AM because that is the time it would be in NY when it is 6AM in FH.

Yeah, don't the flight dynamics require more horsepower than something like HAWX? HAWX is essentially an arcade game with simplified flight.

I'm not quite sure I understand the question, especially about the hardware, but I never do an "upgrade installation." I always do a clean installation of the new OS.Could you explain what you mean about the hardware? Everything is going to need a driver for Windows 7, which may or may not be included with Windows itself. As long as the network card has a driver, you can always download whatever drivers you need after the installation. Although, I always find the drivers I need beforehand and have them ready on another drive.

In Vista and later, that folder (which includes folders within it) is protected by Windows and won't allow modification without administrator privileges. You won't be able to edit the CFG files as easily, and some add-ons will not install because they don't request the required privileges. That also goes for Program Files (x86) in a 64-bit version, of course.

Please give us a standard window that can be resized and manipulated. What I want is something like Explorer, where the window can be maximized, and you can resize the columns. The higher the resolution, the more info that can be displayed. I'd like to have less scrolling, and not have some of the airport names get cut off. Perhaps we could even have the ability to turn the thumbnails on or off like someone else mentioned.I'd like to see some sort of "hangar" where we could look at the aircraft without starting a flight. I know they show them spinning, but I want something with the ability to move the camera closer and really explore the models. This could also be a place where third parties could incorporate maintenance, like overhauling the engine in A2A planes with Accu-sim.I don't know if this falls under UI, but let us map mouse buttons, including the side (thumb) buttons.

I'm interpreting that realistically to mean that you can enjoy it on an average computer, but not necessarily at max settings and with very high framerates. Anyone interpreting that to mean more is going to be disappointed.Most games are targeted to run acceptably on average computers, with the detail settings at around medium, and with decent but not great framerates. Those who have more powerful systems can turn up the settings and/or get better framerates. Why would Flight be any different? Would you want the max detail levels to be limited to 512MB of video RAM to ensure that average computers are able to use max settings?

No. They were saying that FSX was so bad in the performance department, that if the settings were maxed, even a powerful PC couldn't run it. Making it so that the average PC could run it with settings maxed would be holding back too much detail. Flight just won't bring a system to its knees like FSX did.