I couldn't think of a better place to put this thread...

Anyway, the title says it all.

My recommendation would be having a quite simple aircraft-modelling utility attached - like they do with X-Plane - which would help me, and many others, in starting to do aircraft creating for the FS series.

What do YOU think we should get in FS2008 (as I'll call it for now)?

5.  Crash dummies.  To fly all over the world.  Don`t be in a dead end job, come and fly with us.  As long as you can take off thats all you need, don`t worry about landing.  Name your own wages, if you live we`ll gladly pay.      

Reider

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A new graphics engine and sloping runways would be alright for me.

Im not talking about multiplayer Virtual Airlines you play online...

Im talking about single player generated random missions based on the career mode you chose in the single player element of the game.

You choose a career path, the game generates missions that you fly for your job.

This has been done with great success in the multiplayer world, and FS has done a great job of improving the excitement and variability of their "missions" but the problem is in single player "missions" like the rescue chopper missions - you only get ONE.

In the career mode im talking about you would be presented with a whole series of missions to fly in single player mode. one day you might be flying hunters to a remote camp site in wyoming, the next day your flying fishermen to a cabin in washinton state. One day you're rescuing survivors from a capsized yacht, the next day your evacuating an injured man from an oil rig. Or delivering a used airplane to its new owner on the other side of the country. the list is practically without end.

to get hired for certain jobs you would have to earn a number of flight hours and gain certificates on the simulator's check rides. etc

checked it out but it said virtual airline - a assumed in the traditional sense.

It looks great, but can you develop bush pilot missions where you go and pick up physical passengers and carry them to a cabin in the mountains? are you able to fly a rescue chopper out to the scene of an oil rig accident, or  sinking boat and pick up survivors? if that is something you can do thats great!!

i would love to see something like that build in to FS11 though 

wow - there seems to be some bitter resentment of FSX and microsoft... i cant seem to understand why though 

you want to see how crappy a game and a game developer can be? run down to the store and buy "Silent Hunter: Wolves of the Pacific" tons of eye candy and NO good game play material at all. plus there are over 250 known bugs with the game.

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I've explained my points in the past and I'm not going to repeat them.

But... reading your last sentence... you have no idea of the amount of unwitting irony there's in your statement, don't you?

As for bugs... every piece of software has them. Or do you delude yourself thinking that FS (anynumber) is bug free?

Instead of only offering a hand full of aircraft perhaps the developers of FS11 could offer up at least a few popular models from every major manufacturer.

Cessna 150 152172 182 210 310 caravan Citation V Citation X Citation Mustang
Piper Cherokee and warrior, Seminole, Navajo, Apache
Grumman goose, cheetah, traveler, tiger
Beech King air 350, C90 Baron
Boeing 727 737 747 757 767 777 787 and any of the airbus series

just to name a few...

throughout FS history the selection has been a little limited IMHO

hmm - guess the object ofthe game is to not crash - MSFS has always lacked in this area... i suppose to prevent people from just crashing oer and over again  thats pretty dumb.

the best crash effects i have seen were in janes ww2 fighters back in 98... awesome

3D water swells, and waves.
More 3D trees and houses, which look better close up, rather than cardboard cut-out style.
Runways which 'cling' to the landscape, so they're not always completely flat.
An option to increase the number of iterations on runway lines and taxiways, so they don't look like polygons.
More aircraft, from many more companies.
More missions, and maybe a career mode.
Voice recognition for ATC, and more realistic pilot and tower voices (and not always american accented people).
Grass (it may seem that grass will come in the DX10 patch, but that remains to be seen).
Better AIRCRAFT PHYSICS.
An option where the SDK for aircraft creation, can make a .cfg file by looking at the actual geometry of the aircraft model.
Better traffic, boats, and animals.
Textures which have roads depicted actually have 'real' roads generated along them.
Traffic which can stop at traffics lights, turn left down one way, and do stuff like real traffic.
Dynamic work areas, such as docks which have ships come in, and have their cargo unloaded by the huge cranes.
Actual people running around the airport, servicing the planes.
Hangars which open and close to let people do maintenance, and house planes.
Helicopter air traffic, instead of all fixed wing aircraft.
VTOL aircraft of different types, propeller (V-22 Osprey) or jet (AV-8B Harrier).
Carrier operations, like catapult aircraft launches, and arrestor cable landings.
Blimp physics.
Mid-air refueling with military or other aircraft.
Being able to see actual people walking around in an airport terminal.
People parking cars, and walking into an airport terminal, to board a plane.
Opening aircraft doors during flight actually effects the handling of the aircraft.
Dynamic breakage, or aircraft problems which can occur randomly without the user having any clue about it happening.
Higher quality autogen objects.
Better lighting on roads and airports (dark lightmaps are used on aircraft under airport lights, and the aircraft looks black).
Self-shadowing without the use of 'imitation' methods.  This way, no SDK work would have to be done to have self-shadowing.
Helicopter rotor blade flexing.
Real motion-blur.
Real depth-of-field.
Better cloud lighting, and blending.  E.G. Thick clouds are dark when covering the sun, but thin ones are light.
Better aircraft sounds.
Better particle effects.  E.G. Soft particles, and smaller, but larger in number particles.
Better lens effects.
Better, less FPS killing, HDR on the sun.
SLI and/or Crossfire support.
Contact points replaced by actual mesh collision checking.
Helicopter blades rotation are controlled by the sim, rather than pre-animated.
Better forcefeedback physics.
Default virtual-cockpits which have every single polygon visible from any angle view using TrackIR, so you don't get missing polys.
Better flight recording functions.  E.G. Faster record speed, more recording options..

Anything else I can think of later...

Fozzer wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2007 at 6:28am:


CD?, CD 1 out of 10 or something

Some old millitary planes. EG. P-51, Spitfire and other war birds. Military AI traffic, flying sorties and doing touch and goes at bases.

I want an auto-installer that allows dimbulbs like me to simply drag and drop the extracted file (which is on the Desktop) into some kind of an "active area" having to do with the sim (also on the Desktop), click once and it's installed into the sim, all hunky-dory and ready for liftoff. How wonderful that would be...








Ya don't want much, do ya, Str1ker?

Actually car companies DON'T care if their cars are modeled for damage, so long as the damage is what occurs in real life, Has anyone looked up dirt? Maybe even NFS Pro Street... I think if the damage was 100% realistic that the Aircraft companies wouldn't mind if their aircraft could be destroyed in a game, The problem is, it would take too much time to model the destruction of an aircraft in the event of a failure, and the graphics processing power needed would be beyond anything we will have for a long time I'd imagine. I would love to see aircraft fall apart when I screw up a landing, have my gear fall off, my engines burst into flame in mid flight etc, But I doubt we will see it any time soon or at all. Something I would like to see, Waves on the water, a new graphics engine (Totally revamped basically) but its really too soon to care really, and as RitterKruez said, FSX has no major issues as far as I can tell, it just needs some good hardware is all!

Gunny

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PsychoDiablo wrote on Jun 12^th, 2007 at 3:10am:


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Str1ker, that is exactly what i want in FS11. However, It would take Microsoft a long time and a lot of money to build a sim with all of those particular features, and if they included all of those features, the retail price of the game would be extremely high, and besides, finding a system that will run all of that at a reasonable FPS and quality won't be easy.