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Flytampa, Flightbeam, FSDT and 29Palms future products to be P3D4 only
virtuali:
--- Quote from: FLYFROMUTAH on September 18, 2017, 05:19:01 pm ---But what really disturbs me is that Flightbeam came out with KPDX at least a month before V4 was released, and will not be an FSX product. Is it really going to take a year for them to do an airport of that size?
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It should be no secret that most major scenery developers all had access to P3D V4 several months in advance, how else would be possible to have compatible installers (like we had, including those we made for Flightbeam..) on day one ?
This means, we all looked at the SDK and, if you are a scenery developer and look at the SDK, it would be obvious why FSX is dead. There are some things in it that could be game changers, both in quality and performance.
This is not so obvious for users, because there's not a single scenery out there that use any of that (not even those that boast P3D V4 "native" compatibility, just because they recompiled some .BGLs with the V4 SDK, that's a joke), so you might have the impression P3D V4 it's just an FSX with no OOMs. It's way more than that, but it will take some time before "real" product using the new features will come out and those can ONLY be made with NO FSX backward compatibility at all, because some things will alter the way a scenery is designed, right from the start.
FLYERFROMOREGON:
I understand your technical reasons for doing what you are doing. Maybe we should have known that you had a copy of V4 before everybody else, though it was a secret and we were not privy to this information.
Question still is Flightbeam announced KPDX on June 1st, will this still fit into the time frame of one year from the time you had the version of P3V4 and when KPDX will be finished? Let's say by April of 2018.
Otherwise I will have to beg another developer to do this for FSX, which I would say they would be reluctant to go near it. Just to understand where I'm coming from is that KPDX will now be my home airport, since I'm moving to that location next month, and this would complete for me my airports for where I have live(d).
Otherwise just disappointed, but what you do if you desire is just charge more the FSX version, I would be willing to live with that in this case, hopefully still being somewhat reasonable. It would also be good marketing for you.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: FLYFROMUTAH on September 19, 2017, 10:05:10 pm ---I understand your technical reasons for doing what you are doing. Maybe we should have known that you had a copy of V4 before everybody else, though it was a secret and we were not privy to this information.
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All 3rd party developers weren't allowed to discuss the very existence of the sim, before LM announced it officially. This is standard practice for every pre-release software which is not tested in public.
--- Quote ---Question still is Flightbeam announced KPDX on June 1st, will this still fit into the time frame of one year from the time you had the version of P3V4 and when KPDX will be finished? Let's say by April of 2018.
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I don't think this would be the right place to ask.
--- Quote ---Otherwise just disappointed, but what you do if you desire is just charge more the FSX version, I would be willing to live with that in this case, hopefully still being somewhat reasonable. It would also be good marketing for you.
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We won't do any new FSX scenery anymore, and you WILL update to P3D V4 sooner or later, just like you probably moved away from FS9.
If you won't go to P3D V4, you will go either to FSW or X-Plane 11, and I'd say it's more likely we'll support one of them, rather than going back to a dying 32 bit platform.
juniormafia27:
You couldn't of said that any better. FSX has been dying for a long time(do not need to be a developer to know that much)......the defibrillator had been in use for a long time. Now the defibrillator has ran it's battery dead and time to move on to another serogate. The community was wanting a 64 bit platform for a very long time.....Now the heavy hitters are P3Dv4 and X-Plane 11. If this guy wants to stand on the ledge and convince himself he can fly with no wings let him......he will eventually figure out what the rest of us already have known. At this point it is best for some to take a seat and let the adults handle adult business.....let them drink the Kool-Aid while we sip wine.....FSX is the kool aid....no ice. lol
--- Quote from: virtuali on September 20, 2017, 03:43:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: FLYFROMUTAH on September 19, 2017, 10:05:10 pm ---I understand your technical reasons for doing what you are doing. Maybe we should have known that you had a copy of V4 before everybody else, though it was a secret and we were not privy to this information.
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All 3rd party developers weren't allowed to discuss the very existence of the sim, before LM announced it officially. This is standard practice for every pre-release software which is not tested in public.
--- Quote ---Question still is Flightbeam announced KPDX on June 1st, will this still fit into the time frame of one year from the time you had the version of P3V4 and when KPDX will be finished? Let's say by April of 2018.
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I don't think this would be the right place to ask.
--- Quote ---Otherwise just disappointed, but what you do if you desire is just charge more the FSX version, I would be willing to live with that in this case, hopefully still being somewhat reasonable. It would also be good marketing for you.
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We won't do any new FSX scenery anymore, and you WILL update to P3D V4 sooner or later, just like you probably moved away from FS9.
If you won't go to P3D V4, you will go either to FSW or X-Plane 11, and I'd say it's more likely we'll support one of them, rather than going back to a dying 32 bit platform.
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juniormafia27:
17 years?!?!?(hahahahah with my Power Ranger villain laugh) I can't tell, lol.....you don't need me to make you look like a jerk.....apparently you are doing a great job on your own(judging by some of the comments)
--- Quote from: FLYFROMUTAH on September 18, 2017, 03:12:48 am ---You assume quite wrong, I have been doing this for about 17 years. Next time don't assume you make yourself look like a jerk. :P
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