jetprop wrote on Aug 4^th, 2012 at 3:54pm:


It's a matter of freedom of choice and freedom of being able of naming what you know as rubbish as such.

I don't keep you from yours. Please, return the favor.


jetprop wrote on Aug 4^th, 2012 at 3:54pm:


If you have a CONCRETE argument against my naming it rubbish, bring it forward. And yes, we are off topic, but this part of the forum is destined to an early demise and sloooow traffic, so I don't think we'd be scolded too harshly.

Mind you, a CONCRETE argument is not one that bases itself on personal tastes or impressions. It has to be objectively verifiable.


jetprop wrote on Aug 4^th, 2012 at 3:54pm:


You sir have a scale of values that is something else.

If you pass me this metaphor; I don't buy a car to fiddle with the engine, the steering, the suspension and all the other mechanical and/or electrical parts when I want it to go. If I buy a car, this MUST allow me to do a school run with my kids or to go in vacations in these days without me having to stop every 10Km to rewire something, or use duct tape (which is shockingly expensive here in Italy, by the way) on the bumper right after any time we hit a bit of rough road.

The same, in kind, applies to any end-user software I use.

Of course, I believe that each and any of you MUST BE FREE to buy a LADA, or a NSU Prinz, or whatever, and pass the rest of your automotive days on the hard shoulder of a road in wait to find a way to make your car move again. I am NOT denying ANYONE this freedom, if it makes you happy.

I prefer my car to bring me where I want and back with as little as possible to no fuss, though, spending as little fuel as possible and cuddling me with warmed air from the heater when outside is too cold and air conditioned when outside is too hot. And in the name of the same above exposed beliefs of freedom of choice, I will make my choices accordingly.

Be this clear, it was a metaphor. Not starting to speak about cars now.


jetprop wrote on Aug 4^th, 2012 at 3:54pm:


FS9 was looking default FSX good with the support of freeware AND payware add-ons already by he time FSX came around...


jetprop wrote on Aug 4^th, 2012 at 3:54pm:


Fair enough.


jetprop wrote on Aug 4^th, 2012 at 3:54pm:


Good. Should it happen, remember to wear boots, better if with reinforced tip for maximum damage, army boots are good too if you don't have those. Wellingtons are the minimum requirement, should you don't have any of the two other and preferred kind of boots.


wahubna wrote on Aug 4^th, 2012 at 4:19pm:


Cease and desist any hoping in the matter, friend. M$ had chosen a way with Flight. That way was WRONG, anyone with a brain could see it, but what Flight was, was not a simulator or a game. It was merely a way for M$ to squeeze easy money out of their chosen cash cows (us), had it worked.

We didn't give them the hoped for easy money. We didn't make their scam work (I'm using for it the name I feel appropriate in describing what Flight was, if you don't like it... tough).

We sank their dear Flight with absolute prejudice, and I'm still celebrating.

I don't think they will be so gracious to give us the software we'd like in exchange.

As I said,I am not going to say anything.

But what I am going to say is:
My FSX runs on medium-low(for some) FPS but it looks great,and I have an acer PC.

That is all I am going to say in this topic because otherwise this will go on for ages.

Steve M wrote on Aug 4^th, 2012 at 5:44pm:


No! Anything BUT that!

Ode to Flight's demise:

Flight, oh Flight...

May your wretched soul NEVER find any kind of rest nor peace, you ill-conceived, inbred, bloated, plagued, piece of organic waste in form of a PC software...

May you be reborn in the form of a pig, Flight, only to be slaughtered as one. And then may your flesh be found being infected by mad cow plague and immediately incinerated in a blast furnace...

May then you be reborn as a beetle, Flight, and may the thing you want to do BEFORE reproducing and as soon you finally learn to fly, in your first flight in fact, is to cross a motorway on which someone comes by barreling on a nicked, full throttle Bugatti Veyron SS... the impact with its windscreen hurts and harms you A LOT, but you're still alive and fully cognizant that the force of the impact makes you ricochet into the path of a landing airplane... and especially of one of its hungry, hungry turbines that sucks you into its high pressure stages where you are introduced to a new definition of pain before being incinerated...

May you then and for the last time ever be reborn a dolphin, Flight, and end up, last of that species before a worldwide ban is put into act, as SUSHI...

...and together with you, the idiots that wanted to create you. FLIGHT.

...

It does transpire just a little my unbound, visceral hatred for Flight, in the words above, doesn't it?

Keep It Simple wrote on Aug 16^th, 2012 at 3:56pm:


Agree with nothing you say.

Interest in aviation is huge globally.
FS was the longest running PC entertainment in history and with no drop in following.

The problem is that MS was the holder of the license. They think short term (year end figures)

It doesn't by ANY means mean that the interest in simulated flight on a computer devise has gone away. It is here and it is big. It just isn't being met properly by any company right now. Lockheed Martin own the license now. They are not a softare company but at least they have the bucks to follow it for fun without being anal about a mil here and there.

Let's just see what happens. .......... & as a side point we are busier than we have ever been. More downloads and page views per day than ever. I suspect the rest of the FS world is the same. I look at it every day and think 'WOW!!'

Keep It Simple wrote on Aug 16^th, 2012 at 6:48pm:

I think he means that there is still interest so new sims will still be made,by who,noone knows,X-plane maybe?

Keep It Simple wrote on Aug 25^th, 2012 at 2:17pm:


Well, there's always FlightGear, to say.

It has suffered greatly for the inattention of the mainstream users up until now, and if it MUST become the anti-X-plane, to generate competition and keep everyone on their toes, better someone begins to understand its working and get some add-on for it out.

Keep It Simple wrote on Aug 25^th, 2012 at 2:17pm:


The issue has EVERYTHING to do with the public's interest in BUYING flight simulations.  MONEY.   That is what drives the production of such new software (unless it is a government military kind of program).

To invest in this, an investor/company has to see the PAYBACK.  If the R.O.I. is not there........ why do it?

We are involved for the "love" of the hobby.  Programmers write code for their paychecks.  Programmers are hired by companys and given a paychek to make money for the company that hired them.  Which projects the programmers get to wrk on is decided by the marketing people by which offering will make the most money for the given paychecks given out.

Simple.

best,

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