Well speaking about fences etc killing cpus and gpus that is not true. The engine only loads a very small fraction of the world at takeoff. Maybe fully loads about 50 -100 square miles in say KLAX. This is a very detailed area with big airport. In a rural area all you have is small city and airport, even with a lot of detail it would still not excede the use of a major airport. If I start at KLAX im sitting still, the computer has not even begun to think about 200 miles away yet its "space."

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That's another thing that M$ always has to consider when making such a sim. No two computers are alike. Even if two identical computers were bought stock and fresh from [for example] Dell, one might not be well maintained or updated regulaly by the user as oppose to the other one by another user who does maintain it. Not to mention the fact that one user probably has other junk programs installed while the other user is HD space-friendly.

I feel glad seen responses to  the post  and above all I hope MS consider the point at least a little.But let me
state that my critics are perhaps putting me where I am not.Certainly katahu and bazza has stressed displaying
problems and user preferences which ARE RELEVANT.But if  we wish a certain democracy to give satisfaction to very different flysimmers so I suggest  consider same serious imbalances in the general approach in wich cities are much more important than rural areas and aircraft are privileged over geography.
Of course profesional  pilots have different taste than bush pilots and following bazza perhaps in the future
ther will be 2 types of FS (an idea which I support)But in the next future I just say listen to us the humble fans of
these kind of visual experience  or virtual tourism that MSF gives for those poor people who can not because of many regreatable reasons take a real plane and fly
over those green seas of rural plains... pd If cleobis came to Argentina I suggest to make a little  travel to San Antonio de Areco or Pergamino where maizes grows at full power and track roads looks very different than the standard fs .And again pehaps the wonderfull
community of developers may consider these observations.

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Well, I remember flying in real life many years ago on a Cessna @ no higher than 1,200ft. And let me tell you, it was hard enough for me to find the powerlines. Hell, a powerline is barely 5 inches in diameter and finding them is like looking for a piece of string in a haystack.

If you're talking about those HUGE metal-framed towers that can hold bigger powerlines, I get your point. We should be able to see some. But if you're talking about those smaller wooden poles with the smaller powerlines on them, then you're system's performance will be hammered because there are lots of them.

And don't forget, M$ is modeling the whole world.

You know what, I wouldn't be surprised if [years from now] we all enjoy FSX and all of a sudden people want to see their own homes put in, or want to see mailboxes for every home. We've been through this arguement before last year, the year before that, and then the year before that year, etc.

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Yes M$ models the whole world. But it only generates detail in the area you're flying. It would not be difficult to have autogen powercables or fences in rural areas.

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Hmm... that sounds like an idea for Ozzy.