Simviation Forum - Okay, Microsoft, where is it?

Jul 19^th, 2003 at 11:15pm

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I've been looking for the statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, but for the life of me can't find it. ??? Does it exist in FS2002, or is it misplaced? What is the deal? If anyone knows the coords I would really appreciate it.

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Reply #1 - Jul 19^th, 2003 at 11:24pm

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......and I thought I had too much time on my hands!!

.....so I loaded up the plane and moved to Middle-EEEE..........OIL..that is......

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Reply #2 - Jul 20^th, 2003 at 2:06am

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I don't think it's modelled into FS2002

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Reply #3 - Jul 20^th, 2003 at 3:19am

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M$ missed it out!!! There is a payware Rio package now which adds loads of stuff around the city.
Mind you they also left the textures off the Leaning Tower, forgot to put Stonehenge in (even though the program looks for it! Doh Roll Eyes

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Its just another one of those if it isn't on the West Coast of America why should we give a monkeys mistakes.
Let us hope they've seen all the moans and groans about missing monuments and fixed them in ACOF.
Oh and M$ the Millenium Dome is IN THE WRONG PART OF LONDON!!!!!!!
I would here and now like to thank all the scenery designers who have fixed all the missing or incorrectly placed landmarks. You are wonderful people Kiss

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Reply #4 - Jul 20^th, 2003 at 3:56am

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Surely the fact that you can do something about it is one of the attractions of the M$ sims. I know it is for me. Roll Eyes

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Reply #5 - Jul 20^th, 2003 at 10:22am

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HI

Are you sure it hasn't been buried, Ive been flying a while now and noticed a few landing strips disappear under the greenry as I come in to land Undecided

We can only hope these glitches have been addressed in the next addition. Roll Eyes

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Reply #6 - Jul 20^th, 2003 at 10:02pm

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We can only hope these glitches have been addressed in the next addition.

In reading a review of CoF, the author (whose name I'm at a loss for right now...sorry!) brought up a good point.

We've still got issues with 2K2! Maybe when M$ addresses those (LMAO) then we'll be ready to upgrade to a new version. Wink

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Reply #7 - Jul 20^th, 2003 at 10:56pm

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When I bought M$FS2K2 at Wally World I wasn't looking for it to be 100% accurate.
When I opened the box I found FS2K2Pro disks inside the box! Yayyyy for me. Cheesy

I took my Garmin GPS outside and got the coordinates for my house in East Texas.
I loaded FS2K2Pro and slewed to my coordinates, and guess what? My house wasn't there. So sad.
But I did find out that there are 6 honest to goodnes airstrips within 6 miles of my house. I only knew of one operated by Raytheon.
Not every point of interest is programmed into the sim but the ones that are around my neck of the woods are very accurate location wise.

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Reply #8 - Jul 21^st, 2003 at 5:29am

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I don't think anything religious has been modeled in as I can't seem to find the grotto in Lourdes either.
The also don't have the London Eye

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Reply #9 - Jul 21^st, 2003 at 9:23am

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I took my Garmin GPS outside and got the coordinates for my house in East Texas. I loaded FS2K2Pro and slewed to my coordinates, and guess what? My house wasn't there.

I don't think that people are actually complaining that their houses aren't visible, but that well known points of interest aren't showing.

This is a completely understandable disappointment. Folks in Rio may want to see their local landmarks just as much as we want to see the Statue of Liberty or the Golden Gate Bridge. I don't think this to be an unreasonable request...

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Reply #10 - Jul 21^st, 2003 at 12:41pm

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Well, my view on it is that the world is a big place, so there are bound to be some errors. For example, maybe someone typed in the wrong coordinates for the Millenium Dome. Just one wrong number makes a big difference. And I think they should have the statue, since it's such a famous landmark, but they can't include every building in the world. Some of my local landmarks aren't on there either. Sad

But we always have the add-ons. Thank goodness for them! Grin

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When I bought M$FS2K2 at Wally World I wasn't looking for it to be 100% accurate.
When I opened the box I found FS2K2Pro disks inside the box! Yayyyy for me.

So you bought the standard FS2k2, but FS2k2Pro disks were in the box? Good deal! lol Grin

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Reply #11 - Jul 21^st, 2003 at 1:09pm

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Exactly my point...LOCAL points of interest aren't going to be on there, for obvious reasons.

However, I live in New York, and even I know the statue they're talking about. It's nearly as well-known as the Eiffel Tower. Something of that scale should have definitely been included.

However, since it wasn't, maybe someone with an aptitude for scenery design (ie, not ME) might be able to hook these guys up!

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Reply #12 - Jul 21^st, 2003 at 3:57pm

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I could take a shot at it after I'm done with the scenery I'm working on now, but I don't know how it will turn out. I've never modeled a statue before.

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However, I live in New York, and even I know the statue they're talking about. It's nearly as well-known as the Eiffel Tower. Something of that scale should have definitely been included.

I know, I was just trying to defend M$ a little. Wink

(uh oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that. I might be called a spy Lips Sealed

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This is just a little off subject, but does anyone remember from one of the old FS versions, the Statue of Liberty was flat with a slanted stick holding it up? lol Roll Eyes

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Reply #13 - Jul 21^st, 2003 at 9:53pm

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There are lots of little things wrong. Being from San Francisco, I notice that the city is the flattest thing I have ever seen, with many smaller hills missing, coit tower is on telegraph hill not on flat land, and as for religious markings, there is a large cross on top of Mt. Davidson and it is missing in this sim. -- and in Wash. DC, the capitol building is supposed to have a statue atop the dome (it is in fs2k) so let's hope they don't COF up another loser with "fs9."

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Reply #14 - Jul 21^st, 2003 at 10:16pm

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There are lots of little things wrong. Being from San Francisco, I notice that the city is the flattest thing I have ever seen, with many smaller hills missing, coit tower is on telegraph hill not on flat land,

I noticed that, too. And I'm not even from SFO Roll Eyes

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let's hope they don't COF up another loser with "fs9."

lol, I love your pun! Grin

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