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Capt Sim releasing B52H Exterior only this month

On my planes, the VC and gauges often take as long to build as the ext. model, due to extreme detail all crammed into a small space, of which a good chunk is right in front of your viewpoint!
And no, I will never release an unfinished project. Even tho with my prices, it wouldn't matter, but still I release whole planes.
 
Piglet said:
I will never release an unfinished project. Even tho with my prices, it wouldn't matter, but still I release whole planes.
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I think this is were you become the 'Legend' , to prove the payware companies have really got to learn how to step up to your mark .

Quite frankly , you seem to outdo so many in such a short time , and with a personal quality worth .

Im just pleased you pick the oddities most dont touch , the Grizz :icon_lol:



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To be honest the only CaptainSim product I have is the C-130. However when I installed it, the product was a complete aircraft. None of this buy in installments business. Ok you can buy expansions for it, but they are simply different variations. The base pack, though, already has it all: model, panel, VC, sounds and systems.

I agree with the earlier statement that anyone who buys this latest release from CaptainSim is a fool. What are they going to sell next, wireframe models.

The problem is that some people are just too impatient, and they will go out and make a purchase. This only encourages developers like CS to pursue their policy of selling by blocks. Most likely an over simplification of the matter; but if NO ONE bought highly incomplete products then developers simply wouldn't try it on.

One solution would be for the likes of AlphaSim or CS to offer a guarantee that their product would be fully completed within a certain time frame, eg a, reasonably bug-free, VC within three months time or offer a FULL refund. However we all know that this is never going to happen.
 
Gotta love people getting so annoyed about this. If you don't want it, then don't buy it until it is finished. Hardly difficult to understand.

And as for people who do decide to buy it as just an exterior model, why, in the eyes of some people, does this make them fools? Believe it or not, around 90% of my flying is done from an external view and I'm sure I'm not alone in this. If, say, they charged 50% for the external and then the rest for the VC later, if anything, I, personally, would be getting a lot more value for money than if I bought the 'complete' thing.

However, if they charge full price with the aim of added the rest later, as AlphaSim did, then I'll be steering well clear.
 
Tweek said:
Gotta love people getting so annoyed about this. If you don't want it, then don't buy it until it is finished. Hardly difficult to understand.

However, if they charge full price with the aim of added the rest later, as AlphaSim did, then I'll be steering well clear.
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That's the beauty of a message forum such as this, we can hopefully give some constructive feedback to the developers, many of whom visit here frequently. If everyone stays quiet about it, then how will they ever know what we do or do not like?

Darrell
 
I'll wait until the VC and sound pack is available.

Just like I did for their 727......

FSX ain't going anywhere.

-G-
 
I have to agree with Tweek here. My only problem comes when someone is actually not telling the truth about what you are getting, or tries to charge you full price for it.

I wouldn't buy this, because I have no use for a B-52 exterior, but say, for example, that someone offered an external model only of something I wanted primarily for use as AI and offered it at an appropriate price for an external model only, I'd get it. As others have said, though, I will never buy a partial product at full price with a "promise" of the rest of the model that I've already paid for at a later date. I seem to remember a 737 pack that was sold exterior only, with a promise that the VC would be out within a month. Years later, still no sign of the VC. I passed on that, as I will any other product sold in that way.
 
IanP said:
I have to agree with Tweek here. My only problem comes when someone is actually not telling the truth about what you are getting, or tries to charge you full price for it.

I wouldn't buy this, because I have no use for a B-52 exterior, but say, for example, that someone offered an external model only of something I wanted primarily for use as AI and offered it at an appropriate price for an external model only, I'd get it. As others have said, though, I will never buy a partial product at full price with a "promise" of the rest of the model that I've already paid for at a later date. I seem to remember a 737 pack that was sold exterior only, with a promise that the VC would be out within a month. Years later, still no sign of the VC. I passed on that, as I will any other product sold in that way.
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that about sums it up for me also
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BTW I wonder if it would be possible for a (Freeware) designer to make his own B-52 cockpit and use it to replace the default B747 cockpit in the CS model....?
I don't think CS would agree with another payware designer selling VC's for their product, but if it remains freeware? :engel016:
 
Ferry_vO said:
BTW I wonder if it would be possible for a (Freeware) designer to make his own B-52 cockpit and use it to replace the default B747 cockpit in the CS model....?
I don't think CS would agree with another payware designer selling VC's for their product, but if it remains freeware? :engel016:
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I don't think CS could do anything about it if another dev made a Buff VC.

There's nothing to stop anyone making a VC for it.

This is the same old argument as before. :icon_lol:
 
centuryseries said:
I don't think CS could do anything about it if another dev made a Buff VC.

There's nothing to stop anyone making a VC for it.

This is the same old argument as before. :icon_lol:
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to make a VC wouldnt you have to have the original source file
now a 2d no problem
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Henry said:
to make a VC wouldnt you have to have the original source file
now a 2d no problem
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Not necessarily. One could easily get a 3 view drawing and just model the nose of the B-52 so to speak, then model all the internal parts in the cockpit and export that as the interior model.

Darrell
 
I would be tempted if the price was right-I like to look at the plane from the outside as I fly,and this is a lovely looking plane,and am not that good a pilot to do ALL the right checks etc,I just point & go! But I understand the appeal of doing all systems correctly,so hope CS bring out the VC ASAP for those that want it.
 
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Very nice - indeed, I will wait, I purchased the 727 earlier before the VC came out, and ended up buying the 2.0 all over again -

Very nice though - Major Drooling - :ernae:

Cheers -:icon29:
 
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