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archangel1

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FSX Wishlist
« on: April 04, 2011, 06:29:11 PM »
If you could talk to a designer who would produce any idea you might have for an aircraft, a scenery area or what have you, what would you like to see? Doesn't have to be bush related, either.

I've got a couple, just off the top of my head, in no particular order.

1 - An ORBX-quality rendering of my home province of Ontario.  Lots of bush and lakes to play in here!

2 - A nice payware package of the Noorduyn Norseman with all the bells and whistles.

3 - This one really surprises me by its nonexistance - a fully detailed payware Lockheed Electra.  One of the most famous aircraft in aviation history and a classic of the Golden Era and all we have are a couple of freeware versions, excellent though they may be.

Way back in 1998, Abacus released a package for FS5 called Around the World.  It gave you the iconic L-10E Electra, the sceneries for 30 different airports and flight plans to allow you to recreate Amelia Earhart's final flight, with hopefully a happier ending.  I would love to see a similar project done for FSX.  It sounds like something that would be right up Aerosoft's alley.

Over to you guys.  Anything you'd really like to have in sim form?
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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2011, 10:19:56 AM »
>>>  A nice payware package of the Noorduyn Norseman with all the bells and whistles.

That is on my wishlist for a long, long time!   :)

But I'm afraid we'll have to wait "until the cows come home/when the pigs fly"
Francois wrote somewhere, it's easier to sell 1000 heay iron aircraft than a small amount of bushplanes.
Nevertheless I really wonder, that backcountry pilots in FSX are only a "light-weight" for software producers, they cannot make enough money with.

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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2011, 11:36:57 AM »
It is weird what developers think will sell.  They're willing to release a U-2 or Valkyrie for a civilian sim but civilian icons like the Norseman or Electra aren't saleable?
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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2011, 09:04:30 PM »
I,d have em fix the dam planes in Multiplayer jumping around all the time, makes it hard to fly real close 8)

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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2011, 02:59:32 AM »
That's easy Wedge... all players involved in an MP session need FAST and SMOOTH connections. That's a function of your ISP and the telephone lines you're connected to the server through. There's a thing called "ping" that you can use to check the connection quality. The fewer milliseconds the better...

Even the speed of light will spoil formation flying if the link is via satellite. Geosynchronous orbit is around 36000 kilometers, so the signals have to travel at least 72000 to reach the other side of the planet and that is a quarter of a second already. Anything using wires along the ground also needs finite times. Even sharing between NY and LA will suffer a finite lag.



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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2011, 02:47:49 PM »
Right you are one eye, however this is a known issue in FSX being a literally half finished product that it is :'( Flying on the same server  in fs9 is smooth as silk , I read an articule someware about the way FSX tries to interpet the postion of mp planes in advance which causes the jerky movement...as you can see,  i have a real love hate relationship with FSX and if it wasent for Pac fjords scenery as well as the real air Duke and capt sim 727 for fsx i wouldent bother with it, but lets not discuss the pros and cons of these sims, i fly both depending on the mod.lol 8)

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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2011, 03:11:49 PM »
Wedge,
do your MP guys limit the FPS in MP?  With FSX it is not as important as in FS9 but with our VA we limit the A/C to 30FPS and do not have too much 'jumping around' and we have members from US, GB, Spain, Australia all flying at the same time.  I use the FPS limiter bat file by Marko Ludolph set to 30 FPS and in the sim itself they are at 'Unlimited'.
BTW tested out both FSHost and TeamSpeak today so I'll try and join in this evening.
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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2011, 03:22:49 PM »
I wish FSCargo X. In FS9 I have had much fun to deliver (heavy)  cargos on the short airstrips of Misty fjords on time. It gave me a trill and gave the whole simulation an extra dimention. I was not just flying around.
I still hope FSaddon will bring a kind off program on the market. Although the chances...?

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« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2011, 12:13:13 AM »
wow... where to start....

#1 I guess would be an ORBX quality rendition of the REAL Alaska Bush... I mean the Panhandle is pretty and all, but the real nuts an bolts of bush flying is in a Box from Cook Inlet to the Bering Sea, and Bristol Bay to the Brooks Range... in SE Alaska 20-60 min flights are the norm, with maybe a 2hr flight if you want to go a long way, but the real challenge is when you depart from Kenai or Kodiak, and by the time you have flown the 4+ hours to get to Dillingham, Bethel, or beyond the weather has completely changed and there is a good possibility that you have to turn around and go back.. I recall taking flights from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor (Unalaska) where we got all the way to Cold Bay, ponly to find out that Dutch was closed indefinitely due to weather... or go out on what should be a 3 day fly-in fishing trip that turns out to be six, only because they could count on a 4 hour window to pick us up... this is the part of Alaska that challenges not only your flying skills, but also your nerves.. little known to many is that although Juneau has one of the most technically difficult approaches in Alaska, more pilots and passengers have died going in and out of Bethel..

#2 would have to be for a someone to create an efficient tool for autogen and object placement on a broad scale.. this would enable many of us to flesh out photoscenery to be more than just a flat image draped over terrain mesh.. using the simple object placers works well for the local airfield, but is entirely impractical for large scale scenery areas.. Users have long been willing to take utilities such as this to enrich FS scenery (how many AFCADs have been made in the last 6 years??), and I'm sure that if anyone bothered with something like this, it would sell fairly well, provided that it was fairly intuitive to use, as there are enormous amounts of photoscenery available out there just begging to be brought to it's fullest potential...
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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2011, 06:28:57 PM »
A couple of interesting posts by Addy and MB.  I bought FSCargo for FS9 and thoroughly enjoyed using it.  I also bought FreightDogs - the scenery, which enhanced part of the MF/Tongass areas pretty well.  Did FSCargo have some sort of "points" scheme?  I think it did, but I found it to be not too realistic and took little notice of it - I could be thinking about another package though!  Does anyone remember the multitude of VA's that emerged when MF first appeared, I think even before the original Misty Moorings was conceived.  I was part of one of them and produced some reasonable mini-schedules for doing "round-robin" mail and freight runs around the various float-docks, cannery plants, cabins, etc., plus some "commuter" type schedules all base on PAKT but going to CYPR, PAWG, PASI, etc., and based on realistic scheduling profiles provided to me by my brother who had worked in the industry doing that exact job.  Then FS Cargo came along but by then that particular VA had folded.

I offered to do the same sort of thing for another VA "based" at PAMR but they operated in a slightly different way - they had more aircraft types than the RAF has aircraft!

So I guess that my wish list would be a combination of Addy's and MB's as far as scenery and "activity" goes.  The scenery "placement" utility mentioned by MB - he is exactly correct in requiring it to be logical and intuitive.  I work with some very specialist software applications, some with less than 35 company licenses, and probably not more than 350 total seats and some are almost impossible to use even though users have sat next to developers during development and testing!

As for aircraft - please do not laugh - in addition to a good C208 Amphib, a..... Jet Provost T5  :-[ :-[ :-[   I spent nearly four years working on them at a top secret training establishment in Lincolnshire, England.  A magic little aircraft to work on, and I was lucky enough to get more than a few hours flying in them.  A two seat side-by-side trainer, it was easy to fly but difficult to fly well, and would provide a nasty little reminder if mis-handled.  Most of my trips were in the right seat, usually occupied by the instructor, but on a couple of occasions got put in the left seat because the instructor I was flying with preferred sitting in the right seat.  He had less to do... ::)
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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2011, 11:16:32 PM »
No laughs from me.  The Jet Provost is one of those attractive little aircraft with great lines that the British pop out once in a while.  Looks great in the red and white scheme.  Always liked its military partner too, the Strikemaster.  Would make a good double pack.
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« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2011, 01:51:43 AM »
STOL UC-1 Twin Bee.
Twin engine conversion for the Republic SeaBee.

http://www.seabee.info/twinbee_index.htm



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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2011, 12:24:42 PM »
Right you are one eye, however this is a known issue in FSX being a literally half finished product that it is :'( Flying on the same server  in fs9 is smooth as silk , I read an articule someware about the way FSX tries to interpet the postion of mp planes in advance which causes the jerky movement...as you can see,  i have a real love hate relationship with FSX and if it wasent for Pac fjords scenery as well as the real air Duke and capt sim 727 for fsx i wouldent bother with it, but lets not discuss the pros and cons of these sims, i fly both depending on the mod.lol 8)

Wedge,
FSX is not half finished, it just takes a mini super computer to run it. 
( A small fact that MS forgot to tell us. )

Unlike most video games both FS9 and FSX are main processor driven instead of using a graphics processor to pick up the slack. 

If you love to fly, fly FS9.
If you love great, highly detailed scenery, fly FSX.

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Re: FSX Wishlist
« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2011, 12:29:58 PM »
My number one wish is that FSX would be re-coded to run in a 64 bit environment.
This would solve so many of our problems.
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« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2011, 01:42:20 PM »
I would also like to have more "wave-differentiation". The inland waters have the same wavesize as the sea. Sometimes that is disturbing the scene. It makes the simulation less realistic.