I also hate how it's a game and  not a sim...  But the only good thing is the crash effects! I love crashing my aircraft! 

alrot wrote on Mar 26^th, 2012 at 11:01pm:

Glad we can entertain you all.

I will say I was hoping Alex would join the conversation regarding the ratio of complaints to complements. Having released quite a bit of freeware I am sure he has received a lot of feedback.

regards,
Joe

Cusance wrote on Mar 27^th, 2012 at 3:12pm:

Let me clarify.

FSX grew out of FS9 which grew out of FS2k2 which grew out of FS2k...

This has led to a sim that is bogged down in old technology and does not take advantage of the hardware available today. FSX has some really good points but the FSX forum is full of people dealing with crashes, tweaking, upgrading hardware, etc. all in search of better performance.

It's time for a new start which means no backwards compatibility. For your FSX planes to work in FSNext ties us to that old technology.

It's not that I think Flight will turn in to FSNext, just that the technology for FSNext needs to come from Flight, or something else, and not FSX.

Cusance wrote on Mar 27^th, 2012 at 3:12pm:


A lot of things. I will start by saying that I am a low and slow, GA flyer. I acknowledge a lot of what I will describe won't matter to some, but you asked what I like.

I am able to use autogen (trees and buildings) levels in Flight that would bring FSX to it's knees.

Unlike the highly inaccurate coastlines in FSX, what you see in Flight is almost identical to what you see in Google Earth.

There are not any animated waves crashing on the beach in Flight, but I never liked the rectangular animated waves in MSFS anyway.

There seems to be great advances in how Flight renders lighting and shadows. As an example, you taxi up to a building in FSX at night with your taxi/landing lights on and not only does the light not illuminate the building, you can see the light splash on the ground on the other side of the building. In Flight your landing light show up on the buildings and trees just like when you pull up to your house at night with your car lights on.

While some of the clouds in Flight are not good the fog is head and shoulders above anything I have seen in MSFS.

Multi-player in Flight is amazingly simple. With the requirement of being hooked up to Live you are always in multi-player. There are 3 setting...Private, if you want to fly alone, not in multi-player, or you can invite people to join you...Friends, you create a Friends list and only they are allowed in your session,..and Public, you are the host and the Live servers will send people to your session. The host controls weather and time of day, and  has the ability to boot people that don't "play nice".

Or you can do a "Quick Match" and the Live servers will send you to random sessions and you stay if you want, or move to another one.

In MSFS the wind blows, ...period. In Flight the wind is affected by the terrain.

The biggest thing about Flight that I like is hard to quantify, but in all the previous versions of MSFS I have always felt like I was sitting still and the scenery was moving around me. Flight gives me more of the sensations I have experienced while flying in real planes.

My second biggest like of Flight is the possibilities for the future. Unlike previous versions of MSFS which were finished, printed on CDs, and sold, then patched and sometimes patched again Flight's development is ongoing and when a fix is needed it will be installed automatically without any action needed by the end-user. There is no way for us to screw it up. If they do add something like ATC I suspect you will simply start Flight one day and it will be there, simple.

I could go on but I have other things that I need to do, so until tomorrow...

cheers,
Joe

JoBee wrote on Mar 27^th, 2012 at 7:53pm:


As Camel_Moe said there is a difference between saying someone speaks like a true politician & directly calling them a politician.

Also you only seem to care about official posts from MS & not emails that people like Cusance received.

I also like Flight but I like it as a game to relax for 5 minutes rather than for FS purposes.

And lastly you seem incapable of understanding that people will have different views to you.

You also seem to believe that everyone should like Flight as much as you do & you seem to think that if they don’t like Flight they are of a lower intelligence & should be treated as such.

This is just the way I am interpreting how you are acting.

For the emails:

Quote:

you are very mature for your age ! Im so proud of you 

Wow, this is definitely a great discussion about stall characteristics in Flight... 

Just Sayin...