would you ....

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stiz

Charter Member 2011
.... so with all the talk of developers selling ext models only ..... lets spin it around ... would you buy an interior VC only model? :running::engel016:
 
No way. Let me revise that - I might be willing to buy a VC only if I could pair it with a great external model. It's not a plane to me unless it's got good innards and, uh, "outtards".
 
Thats a very interesting question Stiz...

If I had a vintage exterior I loved, and could add a super high detail VC and it wasnt too expensive, I would. Sure..

Some planes we buy may not have the best interiors in them. A chance to upgrade one might be pretty interesting.

For instance, there are some cool AI planes out there, no VC's in them. This would totally open things up to a new level.


Thats my own opion. (You have to remember, I am a sim addict first, and a developer second).



Bill
 
Yes. I'll take an accurate, working VC with good FDE, and okay exterior over an accurate exterior, good FDE, and crummy VC any time.

Outside could look like a cardboard box for all I care. :icon_lol:
 
Half-Baked is Half-Baked. The half you get does not matter to me!
I find the recent phenomena of releasing what is essentially incomplete work to be pretty disappointing. Even more disappointing is knowing that there will be enough people that buy into it that it will continue.

What a joke!
 
well, IMHO, i was really thinking of this myself..but it really can´t be that expensive..than we hit a catch 22, VC´s (IMHO) in order to be payware must be not just visually accurate, but also functional, sure you see great exteriors with not so functional cockpits(albeit very good looking)but both words blend together to create a good/bad/great product (and always the VC is the key factor to judge payware these days), if you create VC´s only, you got to also include functionality since that´s the whole product..and we all know that´s the real expensive part (or time consuming...)...i need coffee

Best regards
Prowler
 
BTW..it´s not half baked if the whole product IS the virtual cockpit, not the promise (in this case) of a matching exterior model..
Prowler
 
N2056 said:
Half-Baked is Half-Baked. The half you get does not matter to me!
I find the recent phenomena of releasing what is essentially incomplete work to be pretty disappointing. Even more disappointing is knowing that there will be enough people that buy into it that it will continue.

What a joke!
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+1

Couldn't have said it better. :salute:
 
Prowler I think the original post pertains to the other thread regarding the B-52 exterior only.

I read the original post as 'if a payware developer released a VC with the future promise of an external model, would you buy it?' Of course I may be wrong.

Anyway, in regards to payware developers selling (not even) half finished models, I think it's disgraceful.

When people like piglet (one man show who turns around quality aircraft faster than any developer), Roland Laborie (who put together one of the most stunning and advanced freeware packages ever created) and Lotus (albeit payware but still a one man show who produces exceptional results) can release products which exceed the standards of many huge developing companies, selling 'half' a product is criminal.
 
'Huge developing companies'..... ???? That's an interesting notion, didn't know we had any (well, not for FS that is). Maybe I live on another planet (would be preferable actually these days) :icon_lol:
 
I wouldn't buy an exterior model only aircraft, however spinning it around as you suggested, I could see buying an upgraded vc for an existing aircraft, expecially if it's a significant improvement over the original.

Just my opinion, of course.
-George
 
Francois said:
'Huge developing companies'..... ???? That's an interesting notion, didn't know we had any (well, not for FS that is). Maybe I live on another planet (would be preferable actually these days) :icon_lol:
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Same here..

(arrgh.. now to find out what planet Im from.. )


Curtis P40 said:
I spend minutes looking at the aircraft from the outside, but I spend hours in the VC.
Curt:kilroy:
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This is very true. I do as well.



Bill



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I probably wouldn't in this case - unless it was a complete VC adding a lot more detail into a model - e.g turning the default airliners into complex ones with full system depth. But if you're going to do that much work, getting/making a better model would probably be a better idea anyway.

I can't see the market here being very big as there really aren't many FSX-compiled (required for the separate VC) aircraft around that don't already have VCs. Most of the models that could most do with having a VC added are FS9 freeware, not FSX models.

The primary reasons I'd want an external model - I can use it for AI or it's a big gaping hole in my hangar that I need to fill for some other reason - wouldn't apply to a VC. If I'm going to use the VC often enough to warrant paying for one, I'm going to want an aircraft for it to sit inside.
 
I somehow understand how it would work for somebody, but for me the simming is all about immersion. I too spend most of the flying time in VC, but as soon as I would step outside and there was no exterior model, the feel of you sitting on a plane would quickly vanish.
 
Currently, all I have of the warbirdsim P-51B is the VC..
and it is not enough....

so no, I'd never buy just a VC
 
Wait, lol......

In FSX, you can have seperate models for your plane. Exterior is one model, and you have a diff model for your VC.

Thus, you could have a P-51 exterior model and a Cessna 172 for your VC model, lol...

So, if you have a really nice exterior plane, but not VC for it, or a rough VC, and someone offered a VC for it, then, if you purchased it and slipped it into the folder structure and started up FSX, you have have a totally new interior.


But...............!

It must (must) be a pure FSX model with two models in the model folder, interior and exterior.


Must.......



Bill
 
I guess I'm a poor example of a pilot.

I do most of my flying from outside. while I do enjoy the 3d pit environment, I only spend maybe 35 percent of my time there.

I would prefer both models.
 
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