Keep It Simple wrote on Oct 16^th, 2011 at 1:35pm:


Who.

FSX was in ST Marteen. FS9 Was in Seattle. FS2002 and predecessors around Chicago (before the American mafia closed Meigs)...

Who is SO familiar with Hawaii in FS? Beside Hawaiian people, mind?


Keep It Simple wrote on Oct 16^th, 2011 at 1:35pm:


Right you are. Who can ever being interested about those small, insignificant places lost in the sticks like New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Rome and so on...

Its just the shots for marketing.

Who cares where they put it.

BrandonF wrote on Oct 17^th, 2011 at 10:04pm:


I swear, some people are looking for things to complain about.

Flight Simulator always has areas more detailed than others. In FSX it was Las Vegas, Rio, St. Maarten and Oshkosh. And more with Acceleration. In Flight, one of the locations is probably Hawaii. It makes sense they would advertise using this area. Not saying it's right or wrong that they advertise using this area even though 99.99% of the world doesn't look as good... the rest of the world might not even be finished. Why choose Hawaii? 8 million people visit each year.


I look at these screenshots for engine improvements. Not things I could just add by downloading mods from simv like better landclass, mesh and so forth. There are soft shadows, slightly better clouds, slightly better autogen, internal cockpit soft shadows. Nothing huge. I'm hoping that better weather and flight dynamics will be revealed as time goes on. But I have my doubts.

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Rome and Paris have MORE yearly visits, and so do London, Jerusalem and Mecca too, AFAIK. That's not an explanation nor a likely excuse.

Flight Simulator has always shown a predilection in having the USA territory more completed end detailed than the rest of the world. That's not, though, the only reason why choose one of the States. Think about it. FSX on St Marteen... a small island on which the severely impaired engine of this sim version managed to thread water (only to sink catastrophically in any other part of the world) on the hardware of the time... and before that, be it only because at the time Internet was not as mainstream or maybe fast as today... FS2004 did not have a Demo, that I remember (though I could be wrong... at the time internet hereabout was still mainly a misspelled Italian soccer team), so didn't FS2002 nor other FS before...

So, why choose a SMALL ISLAND for a demo?

AGAIN!!!

Call me Mr Suspicious, if you want, but since they have gone through this very same process once already and managed to obtain less than adequate end results... better be cautious next time.

Fr. Bill wrote on Oct 19^th, 2011 at 1:27pm:


+1