I find rural scenery in fs9 absolutly poor.No rural wired
fences no rural track roads no rural objects  as wind mills.
It is incredible considering the history and geography of USA.For me also is deceptive as I live in a mainly agicultural country as Argentina.I hope the urban people of MS give us more than merely a few cows and  horses(A `gaucho´-argentine cowboy -plea)

There's a fine line to be drawn here............

Do you want to appreciate the aircraft you have selected to fly, or do you want to gaze at the scenery.............?

Perhaps MS should bring out a program that will dispense with the planes and you can travel the world getting into raptures about the quality of the fence posts.

Personally I think the level obtainable at the moment with mesh scenery et al is about right - remember it's a Flight Simulator, not a nature lesson.

Just my humble thoughts...

One thing that SHOULD be addressable in SOME manner is to make the various countries look a bit more like themselves....... rural OR urban.

Asia is not "America East" and South America is not "America South" and Europe is not "America West".  

Maybe the programmers locked in their cubicles at Microsoft need to get out more.  


best,

.......john

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That is the problem with computer geeks, they tend not to.......oops better be careful, own foot and shot comes to mind

Matt

I agree that rural areas should look more like rural areas!! But, I agree even more that the rest of the world is not USA!!!
Microsoft, should get diferent texures at least for every continent...I mean, deserts in africa are not the same as deserts in USA!

Also, after seing the suburban screens of FSX, they do look great, but they look 100% America!! European suburbvan areas are nothing like USA suburbia!!

I hope they change that, and cities in europe are not drawn with a ruller!

Since most of them are older than the USA itself, their roads are much more irregular, and not like perfect 90º roads in USA!

Well, Let's wait and see..

cheers



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My mum is from argentina. Buenos Aires, Barrio Palermo:)
I would love to go there. I hope I can go soon

cheers

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I hope that when Bill Gates over flew Europe during the modelling stage for FSX scenery, he noticed my house has a flat roof.......I would hate to me misrepresented with a pointy one.


Matt

look at the screenshots on fs2004.com. it shows that microsoft has already taken care of the problem. 

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lol, yea, that is a nice improvement, especially for those that like to drive around in fs. that way their vehicles wont suddenly drop off a 50ft cliff that doesnt appear in real life. 

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.