Captain Midnight wrote:FS2004 .... simply now for repaints and AI developers?
Your opinion please.
As for me and my house ....... FS2004-only till you pry my old, dead hands from the yoke.
An interesting question, very incorrect though!!
There are still a lot of new stuff coming out for our favourite sim.
For example, have a look at
http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/There are loads of scenery, planes & textures there.. As a sim should be, all full of fact, fiction & especially fun.
Oh, also with sloping runways & ramps.. can FSX do that?? Not!
Have a look at Milton Shup & team's stuff that is constantly being released.
I have 4 installs of FS2004, a 'Golden Wings' version, a Ford Tri-Motor version, a 'normal' version & yet another (I forget what), as well as P3D.
Will FS2004 die? No reason why.. Any new operating system that comes out what will disallow games/sims such as FS2004, will obviously impact 99% (at least) of ALL software. So, the obvious answer is No, it will live, as long as there are guys/gals who love to fly, more than they like to tweak!
The two companies that are supposedly developing new sims..
Well, Dovetail will eventually bring out a new sim, 64bit based on FSX, then there is iFly as well.
As for NGFS! What can one say... talk is very cheap, there & last I heard was that they were trying to sell caps for fund raising.
It seems to be a croud of flight sim enthusiasts that want to build a sim. Pretty obvious that it is very hard to compete against existing & established developers.
Remember, we have developers developing for: FS9, FSX, FSX:SE, P3D, X-Plane, IFly FlightGear, the list goes on.. Do not forget that a 64bit sim has it's own issues, as not much will be compatible.
So, I think that your thoughts that FS2004 is for repainters & AI 'flies'out the window..