Lucky38i

I already answered that, did you read my entire comment or just decide to acknowledge one portion? Why does ini, FBW, WT, FlightFX, FsReborn (Just to name a few) use MSFS navdata? Just to clarify I'm not claiming ini exclusively uses msfs navdata, I know they offer the option to use navigraph

That's just not true at all. For example the FBW supports all of these with the exception of RNP vertical guidance, which ini aircraft and WT aircraft have been shown to be capable of entirely driven by the inbuilt navdata. This is a fair clause but mostly has to do with scenery developers no adhering to the rules of not modifying navdata (which they are able to). This results in the navdata sdk essentially returning nothing, if any of the approaches/arrivals/departures are not properly configured by a scenery that modifies them. While I agree with @jcomm 's request, it adds alot of operational complexity unless you build an abstraction layer that support both msfs and navigraph to work with your own set of systems. One of the major benefits of Navigraph is that they often conform data to developers needs rather than the other way around. Using the Navdata API constraints you to their API requirements

No, according to cloudflare it's down but I did check it out yesterday Yeah I have no problems with that, I love some competition but people should temper their expectations about this website.

In order to be free, as it grows they'll have to start doing the same things fsto are. CDNs costs are going to grow and I doubt donations will be able to sustain it.

I still don't see how this is linked to gamification. Visually the game looks great but that's just my opinion. I don't see how you can directly link career mode to added bugs. No Improvement in 5 years is a WILD statement. I agree live weather woefully needs to be more comprehensive, but I don't look at career mode and think that this was traded in favour of live weather. That's quite a stretch that's not really based on anything, just an old headed mentality that hobbyists like to spew because their hobby is becoming mainstream and thus certain things are being done to cater that. Asobo has released a number of SUs fixing a plethora of things and adding a number of things. While not everything is fixed and not everything we wanted is here now, I can pretty clearly see that the work is being put in.

You haven't answered the question. You said what has been affected but it hasn't been demonstrated how gamification directly affected live weather.

Oh no, a business is going to, try and garner sales on their storefront as opposed to others? How dare they? As far as I'm concerned developers fully free to sell aircraft however they see fit, whether that be on MP or not or even both. This isn't DCS which requires that you do so. No not really, I can still freely press it and use it to my whims. I see no issue with a company attempting to put their gamification at the forefront because it's what will garner the most sales, so long as I can still use free flight which Asobo hasn't given me any reason to believe that that would be removed. So first there was a problem that asobo was promoting gamification, now you've moved the goalposts to which aircraft they allow on career aspect. While I won't discount your point and I agree that all aircraft should be allowed in the career, I'm worried how often you plan to move the goal posts until you're vindicated in your pursuit. The point still stands because P3D still made a significant portion of the home market. Whether LM valued that or not is of no value to the point that MSFS has unilaterally knocked P3D out of the market. You have a problem with a button you're not required to press? Can you demonstrate to us what simulation aspects have directly been affected by the gamification of MSFS?

pushing and offering are two different things. Asobo offers a gamified experience no different to all the career apps that have existed since FS9 days (perhaps earlier). Why is it fine for career apps to have existed for decades without complaint but a problem for Asobo to now offer? At the end of the day, there's nothing stopping me from starting the sim and pressing "Free Flight". I am not forced to use any form of this gamification. Nor does MSFS prevent me in any way or form from accessing it's fully open world in the way that I desire. Maybe I'm not understanding this question properly but most civil sims offer the same crash options as MSFS currently does. If you want comprehensive crash mechanics then there's options like DCS. Oh come on, don't be disingenuous now, because you know despite what the license states on usage, everyone used it for home simming. Everyone who wasn't using Xplane was using P3D. You're side-stepping to avoid acknowledging all of @UrgentSiesta 's points.

How is this the fault of the teenagers? How is the fault of anyone hyping up a product that the developers then released a buggy product? Are people seriously not allowed to get excited about stuff now?

Because it’s a GaaS, it’s always connected unlike P3D. For a multitude of reasons this works out better for everyone involved. This is the case with any MMO-esque game.

Yes it does, it reads the camera views in the camera.cfg of an aircraft. Every aircraft I've flown Chaseplane has a default set of views until I go about and modify them which I end up doing.

With the exception of the F70/F100 all my airliner purchases from JustFlight have been without issue. They're pretty much the only developer right now that I would day 1 purchase from.

JustFlight implemented a failure system for their 146 line. It saw very little reception and thus so decided not to continue implementing this system for their other airliners. They may be looking at it for the F100/F70 line as there's been some demand for it. Though to clarify JustFlight has never retroactively removed failures from an aircraft after it's been implemented. As to answer the question, the only failure system I use is the one on the Leonnardo Maddog, as it all occurs relatively naturally. Aircraft with trigger based failures or fixed time based failures don't appeal to me.

It's situation like this where I felt Claude kinda saved my interest. Recently I learned of the BOAC Speedbird route map I then asked Claude to build me a route starting from London and ending in Sydney using this route map. There was a few adjustments, for example Bowen is just a grass strip haha. Anyway I used this route to fly the Fokker with (since there was a British Airways livery), it was an absolutely fantastic way to get familiar with the aircraft and essentially travel half the world and see so many new places. It took me 2 weeks doing about 1 flight a day but I did it and was extremely gratifying but I feel really familiar with the F100 now. It might not be accurate but it seemed reasonably faithful and gave me a mission of sorts. Now I'm doing the same thing with TWA and the Maddog to finally take time and learn the marconi unit.

Release date is announced for next week