Just remember that this is a...

*clears throat*

"...A Big @55 Globe!"

Not even M$'s near-infinite money pool can fix every little scenery. Besides, if M$ did bother to include every detail like a "goat trail" then the price of the sim would skyrocket faster than the Apollo missions of the 1960's and M$ would have no choice but to push back the release date as well. Probably as far back as Windows Vista.

I remember I used to be like you. Always wanting to include M$ to fix this and that, here and there, but I later learned that no sim is perfect [not even X-Plane]. For example, even with X-Plane's Global Terrain installed you will still find a few isolated places in X-Plane with lonely runways and missing bits.

If MS were to make the whole world perfect (impossible on it's face) what would the folks who are into scenery design as a hobby do?

No to mention how many of us could afford the resultant $15K price tag!

It's a $50 program folks... 99% of the land surface area of the planet is going to be porrly modelled...

Get used to it or learn to fix it yourself.

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Don't forget the serious upgrade requirements if FS was made perfectly.

The nearest you ever get to "realistic" scenery is "VFR Photographic Scenery", but that is a total waste of time, (trust me!), because the scenery is just an aerial photograph, and therefore perfectly flat!, just covering the natural mesh contours... ...!

To include all the 3D buildings, etc, in the scenery required by a realistic representation of local areas would be a horrendous job for M$ to cover the whole World... ...!
Just adding additional 3D scenery, as I do, (EZ Scenery, Lago FSE, etc), to a small, particular area, significantly slows down the frame-rates... ...!

It would be fantastic to skim over my roof-top, clearing my chimney, and land next to my shed at the bottom of my garden, avoiding my clothes line on the way, but I don't think Uncle Bill and his crew aren't quite into that much detail....
..Buggar... ...!

The rest of Great Britain's scenery is bleak in the extreme, and is the reason why I have flown round California for the past 7/8 years because it is the best represented scenery I have found in all of M$ Flight simulators...FS '98 onwards... ...!

There's a long way to go before we reach caveman's scenery requirements, and a Mk XVIII version of the Cray Super-Computer... ...!

LOL... ...!

Paul...in bleak England... ...!

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Not gonna happen. Your idea is based on the assumption that everyone would have at least DSL or cable. But in real life, most are still stuck with good old dial-up.

On medium settings the fsX mesh resolution is 76metres. I know mesh resolution isn't land class, but I do expect with that vastly improved mesh there to be better towns and lakes

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This will be done for sure in the future, when the amount of data for scenery will become too large of a single box in a store.
You can also imagine that such access will be payware...

But as stated above, we still have some years before the average internet connection speed gets fast enough to allow such a process