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Nothing wrong with being deep now and then. The world needs more of it. 🙂 FWIW, I'm with you 100%. Everyone's entitled to their own emotions, always, but it really feels like there's some seriously missing perspective from certain folks here a lot of the time. If something as trivial as transient problems with pretend digital airplanes unhinges you enough to write multiple paragraphs ranting about it... maybe some time volunteering on a crisis line or something could put your troubles in perspective. There's a difference between caring deeply about something, and letting it dominate your emotions to an unhealthy degree. That's not necessarily directed at anyone in particular, just a general thought and observation.

Eh, not totally fair. 🙂 I did ask for someone to explain why they object so strenuously to installing the Xbox app, and that was at least an attempt at an answer. Granted, not a very satisfying one. I still don't understand how the Xbox app, an application that can be configured to start at run time, or not, and which is used to deliver and start games, is any different from Steam, an application that can be configured to start at run time or not, and which is used to deliver and start games -- but apparently it is, because Steam serves "some important purpose", while the Xbox app, apparently, does not. (The statement that Steam is better because it's "on demand" is meritless, because the Xbox app is too. Further, it appears to be possible to run the sim without the app running, while it's impossible to run anything in Steam without it running, even in offline mode, which seems to actually be a point in favor of the Xbox app. But what do I know?) I also don't understand what all that about Windows being a "friggin' blinkin' spammin' red light district" is about. The only time my Windows 10 system friggin' blinks at me is when I've configured it to. I must be using the super secret annoyance-free version without knowing it or something. Dunno, beats me. But an attempt was made!

Oh yeah, not saying it wasn't. 🙂 I had issues myself, and got rather frustrated. It's just the apparent determined intention to be outraged by something that some folks seem to have that I get some wry amusement from. This is what I don't get. In all seriousness, what might that agenda be? "Xbox" is just Microsoft's name for their gaming ecosystem -- this is why the subscription service is "Xbox Game Pass", for example, even though you use it on PC, too. Similarly, the Xbox App itself isn't anything insidious, it's just Microsoft's game downloader/launcher, akin to Steam, or the Epic Game Store. I saw some folks objecting to having "yet another app" eating system resources when their highly tuned systems are running the game, but even though I had to install it to update the game, it looks like I'm fully capable of running the game without it, so it seems like that's not a problem, either. And, it's also worth noting, that I personally haven't seen any conformation that it was meant for folks to have to install the app to update the game this time; my day's only just gotten started, but as far as I'm aware that's just a supposition by folks. So I'm at a loss, unless it's just a knee-jerk reaction to the word "Xbox" that people are finding troublesome about this. Can you help me out there?

The best thing about WU6? I think it might be that at first blush, with the exception of that lighting issue, it's been successful enough that the nattering nabobs of negativism have fallen back on complaining more about the update process than the update itself. 🙄😂

I love career mode addons. I've spent a lot of time in NeoFly, FSEconomy, and both versions of Air Hauler. Having something in-built eventually would be nice, but can you imagine the uproar there would be from certain quarters if Asobo started spending time working on that while people were still unsatisfied with the core simulation? 🙂 We already get ranting about the world updates from folks who don't seem to understand that the people who are making scenery aren't necessarily the ones building the game engine; in this case they well could be.

I would not encourage people to just copy and use another mod's manifest without modification. If nothing else, it will provide bogus information to the content manager and any intelligent add-ons that show mod details, such as the MSFS Addons Linker. Unlike layout.json, that's a small and fairly easy to understand file. If nothing else, one should open it in an editor and change the "title" field so that you don't have multiple mods with the same titles running.

By "console window", do you mean a Windows terminal, or the developer mode console within the game? Also, are you using a fast-start shortcut of some sort?

I've just had a look at the spec of the tile system for Bing Maps here. It's well documented, but I don't think the logic it uses would be supported by Marble, which is what drives LNM's map. It doesn't really keep with the concept of zoom levels with row and column addresses that other mapping services have. Instead, it divides the world up into a series of ever-smaller grids and "builds" the number of a grid tile iteratively. It actually seems more akin to the old Kriegsmarine grid system. Maybe I'm wrong and it can be done if you understand the underlying framework a bit more, perhaps @albar965 could comment on that quickly when he gets time. But I'm not optimistic.

ProATC-X also will gag if you try to start (and maybe end?) a flight at an airport that doesn't have any gates, so if you're planning on flying out of very small strips, you might want to wait and see if that is fixed in the upcoming release.

Unfortunately, as good an idea as that is. and as beneficial as it could be to our community, it would be a legal nightmare that it's unlikely anyone would want to manage. The application of the doctrine of first sale to digital matter is a messy world right now.

This is good to see. Please make sure to let your beta testers have plenty of time with it to avoid any more "oops, this bug made it through because none of our beta testers fly without copilots" boo-boos. If this were a solid product, it would become my #1 ATC solution. [Edited because my first pass sounded nastier than I meant it.]

Good grief, thank you for this! That must be an error in their installer, I didn't have that layer active. What a huge difference it makes. Looking southeast towards Midway and beyond from O'Hare: Before: http://i.imgur.com/HNiKBxr.jpg After: http://i.imgur.com/jRnFSXh.jpg

Yeah, that's vector with secondary and tertiary roads turned on (but without margins/etc for the minor roads)

It looks like fully installed on disk it's about 17GB. I wouldn't be quite so negative. It'll probably be a day or so until things go truly smoothly, yes, but I managed to download the full package in about 5 hours and get it installed with only minor difficulties waiting for FSS to actually allow me to register it. Initial impressions are very favorable. Here's a quick comparison from downstate a bit: http://imgur.com/a/kAsh3

Not a huge deal. I work in IT, it happens. Just sayin...