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Why would anyone download and install it.....when they don't know what they've downloaded and installed?

You could also download their "definitive guide"..... http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/74345-the-definitive-guide-to-ftx-products-the-go-to-source-of-ftx-information/

Well, I too have also requested a refund. Clearly there is potential here. But it is not until you don't have things you take for granted, basically all the signs that you are part of a wider living world, that you realise how much they are an essential ingredient. My P3D is working extremely well (touch wood) so with limited simming time available the fact is I won't be using this. And I've also realised just why I ditched photo scenery from my old FSX install. But I will continue to follow developments and may come back when it has more to offer.

Downloaded and installed it a couple of days back but due to other commitments had less than an hours use so far. But certainly looks promising from what I've seen..... What impressed me immediately was the ease with which you can actually get flying. Within less than two minutes of launching it was all set and ready to fly. I've used P3D for long enough but recently thought I'd give the X Plane demo a try.....seriously, I cannot think of a more user unfriendly set up procedure. Do they actually want newcomers into their sim or is it an attempt to put me off forever? But I'm not ready to ditch my P3D install just yet.....

Well, I've decided to jump on board. Currently waiting for the thing to download which will take about three hours.....

Why do you need a different login? You set your account up on Steam and that's the account you use to make purchases.....and also raise queries/ make comments on forums. Don't see what the problem is.

.....and if you purchased it through Steam, as appears to be the case, have you raised a ticket with DTG or queried it on their official Steam forum?

I take it you've done the recent migration....did this throw up any errors or did everything migrate correctly?

But at least we'll know who to blame......

I think the reason for the "bug squashing" exercise is because they basically want to cease active support of FSX Steam. They don't see it as being much of an earner once the new sim comes out. Actually, JV's beta testing comment made me smile at the time I first read it. Having used Dovetail's Train Simulator for about three years it was news to me that they beta tested anything.

JV said in the thread which was subsequently deleted that the sim was to go into initial beta within the next week (or words to that effect) so why they would even be asking these questions at this late stage is beyond me. And no, existing simmers aren't the target audience. It's the millions of Steam account holders who have no flight sims whatsoever in their library....and who would much prefer to purchase their add-ons as Steam DLC than support the third-party community.

I did find it a little amusing to see JV open a thread on the Orbx forum linking to the survey....only to delete the thread a couple of days later after some less than complimentary remarks. It was even more amusing to see someone then start a thread asking where the previous thread had gone....only to see that promptly disappear as well!

I read the "I'm Done" thread at the time. Whether it was intended or not (and I'm sure it was not) Orbx clearly took the view that it was a sideswipe at them particularly in view of the comments being made by other members as a result of the migration process. I'm not surprised in the slightest that they pulled the thread; left to its own devices it would have degenerated into muck slinging as these sorts of threads inevitably do. Is the ban harsh? Difficult to say. But it is essentially a private forum so you have to play by their rules whether you like it or not.

Probably because the punctuation is non-existent.

The only times I've been tempted to increase the sim rate was when using FSX with Air Hauler and I was running close to a deadline. I would invariably find that if I tried to go above x8 it would crash. Never tried it in P3D so also cannot answer the question. Would sooner save a flight and run it again later than just speed up the rate.