Mistakes in FS2004

[GWSimulations]

They want to acheive the best profit margin.

Maybe MS should stop thinking with their wallets. :-/

[Straferr]

If the same problem is brought up to MS customer relations for six years running and is ignored; then I must agree, they are thinking only with their wallet and not responding positively to customer input.

[Katahu]

Guys, we're here to discuss the mistakes in FS9. Not the dollar signs that cover Bill Gate's eyes.

You're starting to stray off topic.

The one important thing they need to fix right now is simply three things:

Sat images: They have to start using up-to-date satellite images. Not those 90's-style images.

AI: The AI should be allowed to move from one parking spot to another without having to fly off a runway first. This will have many benefits for future AI projects.

Water: They have to fix those bleeding surface textures of the clouds and sun. They should also darken the ocean a bit. It's too bright.

Other than that, FS9 is great and worth the $49 I spent.

[Gus_2004]

With a rebate, I was able to get my FS2004 for only $9.95. Read that as 10 bucks.

Perhaps it is "as real as it gets" and it's a fantastic piece of software, one fact remains: FS2004 is not a professional software product by any means. At $60 (USD) which was the original priece give or take there was and is at the time now professional softare available for that price. What has been stated here about Microsoft having to make these changes is not something we will ever see for a software product in this price range. For that you would have to spend around $500 and up. Autocad, for example, is a professional CAD software that retails for around $3,000.

If you are interested in hearing how Microsoft develops its products you can go to this link:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=33353

Later,

Gus

Microsoft rules! More or less.  ;D

[beefhole]

I've said so many times to stop b****ing about minor scenery placement that I'm just not going to anymore. The only scenery mistakes would be if something like New York is missing. A mistake is not "a road that runs by my airfield isn't there." Oh nevermind.

And don't waste your time emailing ms about the scenery oversights, if I were them I'd trash that email the second I saw it too. Put yourself in their shoes.

[Nexus]

Beefhole, please just give it a rest. This is what - the tenth time you flame people about scenery glitches? (which are rightfully classified as mistakes)

Read the subject line, why are you so keen on blasting other posters?  ???

I agree, it's impossible to re-create the whole world with all it's differences and airports. MS has done a great job with most parts, but there are some great errors and why not commenting on them right here?

So let people express their thoughts  :)

[commoner]

The only scenery mistakes would be if something like New York is missing.

.....lol..that would be a MISTAKE?..commoner..

[Katahu]

Not being able to see NYC is not a mistake, it's a Catastrophe!!!!

Seeing the sun's reflection being stretched thousands of miles across the FS waters is a mistake.

PS: Glitches are not mistakes, they are things like cloud objects sliced in half, flickering textures, things of that sort.

[Nexus]

PS: Glitches are not mistakes, they are things like cloud objects sliced in half, flickering textures, things of that sort.

ahh..okay  ::)

[GWSimulations]

If you watch an AI 737 from about 5 miles away, in your VC, you can see the far engine through the fuselage!

[GWSimulations]

I'm going to repaint the AI aircraft, and bring out the update for download.

PS: I've realised another bug with AI, no matter where you are, EVERYTHING has a US regestation.

PPS: This topic is now 100 posts old!

[commoner]

If you watch an AI 737 from about 5 miles away, in your VC, you can see the far engine through the fuselage!

lol...wow..is that with or without a telescope...I couldn't see the PLANE from 5 miles..commoner

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

PPS: This topic is now 100 posts old!

Not any more.

But yes, MS has made quite a few mistakes. But we must offer our compliments on how much they have progressed through the years. Starting with FS95, they have made a big progress with FS2004.

Cheers,
Ashar

[GWSimulations]

Not any more.

But yes, MS has made quite a few mistakes. But we must offer our compliments on how much they have progressed through the years. Starting with FS95, they have made a big progress with FS2004.

Cheers,
Ashar

Yes, I went straight from FS95 to FS2002.
Big difference, unlike the difference between FS2002 & FS2004.

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Yes, I went straight from FS95 to FS2002.
Big difference, unlike the difference between FS2002 & FS2004.

But back than MS Sims were not that complicated. The graphics were way too bad and the game could be run easily on almost any PC. Now with the imporved graphics, we get poor frames but better graphics, and the PC's have to be alittle more advanced. I doubt whether they had holes or spires in FS98 or FS95...

Cheers,
Ashar