Hello On-Line Chums......!

It seems like the bottom has dropped out of our usual Multiplayer flights.

All of our regular Flyers have disappeared, not only from the Multiplayer fraternity, but also from Simviation in general!.... ....!

We used to have a regular group we could depend upon at one time, but they no longer appear in the list... ...!

Maybe the old FS 2004 Members are slowly fading away to do "other things", to be replaced by new Members with the usual FSX Multiplayer, etc, problems that prevent them from joining us?

I pop in and out of Multiplayer every day, at different times, and rarely ever spot anyone else on, now!

It's almost as though its popularity has waned over the recent years!

I've been regularly chuffing around on Multiplayer since the days of FS 2000, and recently less and less Members seem to be joining in!

The regular Week-end Tours, Fly-ins, and Aircraft Shows seem to have lost their popularity of late!

....what do you reckon?

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...and a lone Cessna 150... ...!

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http://cockpit.netfrag.org:81/

Fozzer,

For me it is real life getting in the way.  I am terribly busy.

And for the recent scheduled flights...... I really don't fly small prop planes much anymore, so there is no real "enticement" to try to find the time....which likely I can't anyway.

Soon I'll be back in Japan for the summer.... so no sim flying for a couple of months.

I think a factor in the multiplayer situation not "expanding" much is also the complexity of actually DOING it.  For a lot of folks all the port setting and stuff is just too complicated. 

And it sounds like FSX is even worse than fs2004 for getting it working.

The folks that seem to be willing to get "technical" about multiplayer seem to all be on IVAO and VATSIM.  Those places are really crowded.

Yeah... it is a real blast flying with real people........ hopefully it will catch on more.

best,

.................john

I've been busy but now it is summer so you will probably see more of me now!

Sigh... I am still in sim-limbo- my temp setup is dismantled, and the 'pit is hung up with technical problems, etc...

I sort of have it working enough to do a little flying, so maybe when the glider project is done (and I don't happen to be flying it) I will try joining a flight online.

Jet Black1 wrote on Jun 8^th, 2009 at 11:47pm:


That IS part ofthe issue....... all it takes is one person logged in without the ports set correctly....... and it can screw it up for everyone else trying to get in.  And THAT person goes on blithely flyinag abouit no knowing he/she is messing everything up.  What makes it worse....is that it does not ALWAYS cause that issue for others.  Which makes it harder for a person to realize that they are causing the problems.

best,

................john

PS: I wish FSHost could detect ports automatically and "kick" anyone with por problems.

Paul if you want to play online just let me know and i'll join you 

Fozzer wrote on Jun 9^th, 2009 at 11:56am:


I'll only pop in if someone else is there

I love going on Multiplayer at various times during the day...

...but sometimes when I fire up the Sim to go on-line I suddenly realise how much I miss corresponding with Air Traffic Control during the flight in a Multiplayer session!

so....I'm there...flying around....but you just don't see me!... ...!

Paul...spent most of today chatting with, (and annoying), FS 2004 ATC!... ...!

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Today's Flight of Fancy...>>>>

Me and my Cosmos at Petaluma.....