DD_Arthur

It is? Since we really have no idea of what the new weather engine will be capable of it seems to me entirely unclear what will or will not be needed.

Okay! These are the first genuinely impressive images of Active Sky that I’ve seen so far.👌 Quick question about something I’m still confused about; in live weather, does it produce turbulence, updrafts, etc in thunderstorms, heavy weather…?

I agree. Nothing I’ve seen so far suggests this is a ‘must have’.

Exactly this.👍 I have it on all the time and when it works correctly it's fantastic, other times....approach into Heathrow, look down and yep, someone's taken a blowtorch to West London again....

Thank you for your opinion. All I can suggest is you either put me on ignore or write to my parents.

Damien that post contains one opinion saying Microsoft should keep things as they are. The rest of it basically regrets the options we users are currently stuck with and would welcome an opening up of the weather system by means of the very api you’ve been asking for! That thread was locked by a bot ten months after discussion ceased. That’s how their forum software works. At least the bot was polite enough to add a note!😆 For what it’s worth, I think you’re an obviously dedicated guy who is the master of his subject and given the opportunity could bring a great deal to this sim in areas where it has nowhere near reached its full potential. I agree with the suggestions that you should have been brought on board to deal with the weather in the same way that Working Title have been to enhance the avionics. Any reasonable person can see that it must be absolutely soul destroying to see a successful business built up over two decades go rapidly down the pan over the last couple of years and I wish you nothing but success with what you’re trying to do now. I think you are neither strange nor laughable but the idea that you and your company have been the subject of any sort of organised campaign by mysterious individuals to do you down - something of a continuous theme - really would seem laughable on the evidence presented and in my opinion you do yourself and possibly your product a disservice by - as you yourself put it - harping on about it.

Lol. Is this a beauty pageant? People are perfectly entitled to their opinions whether you like it or not. However, if you don’t like their opinions or mine I urge you to use the ignore function provided by these forums. As to ‘politeness’; I’m not the guy pushing the conspiracy theories here.

You certainly do like to keep harping on about this mysterious 'vocal minority'. I guess we'll never know how they've 'influenced things' but seeing how the user base is now enormous and diverse - unlike the cottage industry that was 3PD - it seems unlikely that anyone would be able to grab the attention of Microsoft/Asobo long enough to truly influence any of their contractual decisions. If they don't want to do it they simply won't. As to not being able to discuss it, there appears to be a discussion thread about Active Sky on the official forums right now; https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/new-activesky-weather-program-incoming/638086?u=ddarthur5357 No sign of any vocal minority though, just a bunch of simmers discussing the same pros and cons that have been talked about here....

There’s vocal ignorance everywhere about everything and everyone if you look for it. Plenty of people have expressed their opinions, it’s part of what these forums are about. Everyone is entitled to agree or disagree. Nonetheless I see no sign of some vocal minority here or elsewhere out to get Damian Clark and his products.

Here you go Ray; he seems to think a ‘vocal minority’ here have it in for him. He then seems to want to limit his product to a certain self-defined section of the potential customer base. A bit strange….

? Reading through these threads I don't see any 'vocal minority' or any actual criticism of this guy or his product. I see plenty of questions about what it can bring to a sim that already provides a live weather system and what exactly it can do that existing products can't. However, the idea that there's some sort of campaign to stop it or that Microsoft/Asobo would actually take any notice of this is laughable....

I rather think without direct access to a weather api it’s going to be a pretty hard sell anyway. Rex and Enviro have been out for a while now and this doesn’t really look like it’ll be doing anything fundamentally different just….better? It will no doubt sell to many of those people who used it in FSX/P3D but for the great many who already enjoy live weather? No sales on Xbox either? Hmm…

I didn’t realise this. I can imagine MSFS 2020 has pushed what can be done on Xbox to the limit. Since they’re obviously generating a decent income from Xbox on the Market Place, further optimisation in the 2024 version is going to be vital to keep that gravy train rolling.

Not sure. Seems to me the Hype train hasn’t left the depot yet?