The future of SimV

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Re: The future of SimV

Postby multiprops » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:24 pm

[quote]If flight does not support third party add-ons, like it seems it will not, most dedicated sim pilots will continue using FSX, FS9, and any other sim that does.
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby Wing Nut » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:36 am

As I mentioned before; when you fly, you need someplace to fly TO.
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby machineman9 » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:02 am

So long as Paul keeps cooking, there will always be topics created and life in SimV  ;D
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby pirate21213 » Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:16 pm

I get the feeling Pete will be the one to turn off the lights on the way out...

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Re: The future of SimV

Postby ftldave » Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:57 pm

[quote]How do you know that Flight will have third party? From what I've heard there won
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby JeeS » Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:07 pm

The question is: Is there a demand for Computer Flight Simulation?

If so - SimV will exist until that demand dries up.


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Re: The future of SimV

Postby Keep It Simple » Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:34 pm

I would imagine that with the failure and disapointment with flight, there will be a renewed interest and some further private developement of FSX enhancements.

Personally, I wiil admiit that I have lost some interest with FSX due the the developement of flight.
However, now, FSX looks pretty damn good! :)
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby JBaymore » Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:45 pm

However, now, FSX looks pretty damn good! :)


Heck.... fs2004 looks pretty darn good.
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby andy190 » Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:57 pm

Raoul, to answer your first question, Flight won't support third-party & you can't even make repaints of the default aircraft because it's all in binary code.

But, the more I see of Flight the brighter the future of Simv seems, because Flight isn
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby expat » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:05 am

I must say, I have a lot of sympathy for the actual programmers of "Flight" when they read the various forums with the disparaging remarks regarding their best efforts at producing a new flight simulator.
It must be very disappointing.
I suspect that they are working under strict instructions regarding the overall specification, and have little choice in the end result.

The Boss is in charge!... ;)..!

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Excellent point, Paul.

I would imagine that the main decisions on Flight were made by the Vice President of Profits.
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby Fozzer » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:05 am

Well... ;)...

From my present observation of; "Flight" so far, I don't think any of our favourite Flight Sim sites have anything to worry about... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!

The previous (and present) MS Flight Sims are, and will be, as popular now as they ever were!

I think the introduction of; "Flight", will give a new lease of life to our ever-popular Flight Sims;...FS '98, FS 2000, FS 2002, FS2004, CFS 2/3, and FSX!

Having been introduced to; "Flight", I suspect that many/most of the new Pilots will be interested in their new experience, and decide to migrate over to the "proper" MS Flight Simulators, and therefore boost our numbers!

So......It may be to our advantage!

Paul...FS 2004... 8-)...!

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Re: The future of SimV

Postby yancovitch » Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:24 pm

now there's a non-corrosive positive perspective....
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby hyperpep111 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:09 pm

And we also have to remember there are also other flight sims out there that are still developing and open source like fly!Horizon and the much better known flightgear. Xplane is also there :)
My point being that there are others that are also developing and that have so much potential. fsx is also being developed by us 3rd party developers who every year bring an improvement to the simulations.
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Re: The future of SimV

Postby andy190 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:24 pm

Yes hyperpep is right; there are some great free alternatives one of which I had never heard of.

But FSX is still being developed, IRIS are working on their F-22, Carenado are working on a 182 & will release their King Air at some point & All the freeware developers are still full steam ahead.
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