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Thank you for the early input. I'm just amazed still to this day the complete difference in community. FSX/P3D had this weird "stay in line with narrative" feeling too it where you had to walk on eggshells with every comment you made.

One thing that lacked in FSX was freeware. Any freeware that existed was extremely low effort. It's the main reason so many converted over to X-Plane. FSX not by design, but the community was extremely wall gardened and protected for the return on investment commercial developers got from it and freeware was almost rebelled against minus a few exceptions (SunSkyJet for example). X-Plane on the other hand, while it had many commercial addons, it was largely based on the pool of freeware. What was it about MSFS (2020) that opened the flood gates to, almost at warp speed bring the community of freeware developers to fast forward so fast to the X-Plane community? I'm happy it happened but my brain is a very introspective one and thoughts like this cross my mind and need input. FWIW: Not a my sim is better than yours thread. It's as simple as I presented the question

Not a bad idea.. Even low and slow flying. I don't need Carenado style recreation of trains. Just a general sensory sense of "Oh cool! Look a train!"... And I'm a rail fan who could nitpick a train simulator to death but this is a flight sim and know the boundaries. I'm interested in this.

What was that "subsidiary" of Carenado? It was plainly obvious it was the same team and think Carenado even admitted advertised it as such but they released the more quirkly niche aircraft instead.

I may be out of line here. It's with all due respect. AvSim was once an incredibly toxic place of "My sim is better than yours". I stopped posting here for years over the toxicity. The peak of toxicity was when MS Flight came out. It was unbearable here. Tom, god rest his soul didn't do a lot to quell it. Whether for heath reasons or personal agendas. Who knows. God bless him for without him these words would not be read. Regardless the modding was once out of hand and lopsided, agendas with mods were lopsided. It was literally a "LIVE FSX OR DIE" type atmosphere here. In light of that, the "new guard vs the old guard" over the years has become much more civil and finding common middle ground. It's nice. Ray is a good guy, and I'm sure he remembers those extremely toxic times here. He's adapated more than the others who simply decided to up and leave. Give Ray some grace. He's ok.

Why does Philadelphia never get any specific love? The one time they did the art museum was giveth and then taketh away from us later on. The Comcast Technology Center skyscraper still doesn't even exist despite the fact it was completed in 2018 and is the tallest building in Pennsylvania. Luckily 3rd party has me covered. Allentown? WHO CARES... FIX PHILADELPHIA! Seriously. Who's buying this sim because "Allentown PA" is as accurate as possible?

Nice to see a quality developer give something away for free in turn for bit a smidge of a hassle. Beggars can't be choosers. Also offsets the small influx of developers who seem to be throwing silly putty with dollar signs at the wall hoping anything sticks before MSFS 2024 comes out and defeats the purpose

This thread reminds me how much this "hoopla" came and went with live traffic injectors with real liveries. In the end the hype for both over shadowed reality. It was a good step forward but ultimately what both were projecting was a movie poster and the plot lost somewhere midway through. They never performed or did as advertised and the sheer amount of space and resources to accommodate them just wasn't worth the "payoff". It reminds me a bit of Ortho in X-Plane. Sure you had a NAS server worth of satellite images but Is it really helping you simulate flying?

Thank you for that. Flightsim.to is so hard to follow now a days now that it's so commercialized. I miss the days when it was straight forward no-nonsense quality freeware. It's so easy to get lost in the maze of commercialism and shovel freeware there

This thread comes down to Fact: There is no weather SDK Fact: REX or ActiveSky can't do much of anything different than one another because of such Fact: It's up to you to decide if you want to pay someone David Copperfield presets on steroids to be injected into your sim

User preference. Zinertek. They one were one of the rare early adapters of making a long lasting product for a new product. They just look better.

This is sort of sad. The early reviews are abysmal. Some of the the FSX/P3D developers seem to be trying to adapt ESP style techniques into a completely different platform and it's like oil and water

Yeah they've been that way for a number of versions now. I just use the standard as I'm not to concerned with temps and such

Been using these presets for quite awhile now and yep. They are that good

This is the MSFS 2020 forum. Are you still on Flight Simulator 95?