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Should I stop downloading?

jankees said:
downloading is not the problem I think, it's the fact that we do not delete enough!

(currently at 86Gb...)
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86 gig?? Holy mackerel, thats ten more gig than me.. I've been a slouch.. I better start buying more... Oh wait.. i deleted all the pmdg and lvlD and arianes, and a bunch more recently.. but i still think you got more than me ::LOL::...
Truth told, I dont try and buy a plane every month. Some months i buy a video game like Mass Effect, or Fable. But i know i'm going to retire some day and not be doing flight models any more and theres allllll these planes i want to fly, but cant right now.. So :) :) .. Besides, for me, its a business investment.. i can fly the planes and look into their flight models and see how the engineer created it and get a better understanding of the internal workings of flight models and the various inter-relationships in there.. :) its an educational expense .. :) yeahh,, dats it.. edjumacation :) :) dats my story and i'm stickin wid it :::LOL:::
 
Every time I get a new "Flightsim Computer," the old one gets "demoted" to be my main desk "development computer." This is the one on which I'm typing at the moment, while I have a GMax or Max project "in progress" and Photoshop loaded...

The "old" development computer gets further demoted to a more sedate "file server" on my LAN...

Anyway, I recently looked at some of the stuff on the oldest of my "file server" machines and found to my utter amazement some zipped files in my "FS Downloads" folder that date back to FS98!

For whatever reason, I'd d/l'ed a bunch of stuff and then simply forgot it was there, and never even installed it... :isadizzy:

I just peeked into my current "FS Downloads" folder and see some zipped files that I've never looked at, some of which I can't for the life of me remember downloading, and don't even know what they were for! :ernae:

Yeah, it's a sickness alright!
 
hmmm, i had the same er, "disease" in FS9 for years, yet FSX largely cured it. There's really a dearth of freeware available for X. That not to say "nothing", thanks to Piglet, Lionheart, Milton, Anti and others, but new freeware releases for FSX are comparitively few and far between. I suspect the bar has been raised so high that people making models just for fun have become an endangered species; and rightly so - you'd have to be a major enthusiast to spend hundreds of hours modelling, cutting code etc, just for fun (many thanks to those who persist) . So the alternative is payware and I've spent a small fortune on sceneries and models for X, but have decided to ban any further purchases because FSX gets started less and less frequently, and because with a limited capability system, many addons are unusable.
That said, the other issue with "downloaditus" as others have pointed out is that 99% of those treasures never stay in use long. Over years I've distilled my flying down to about 10-12 models and I rarely stray from them. For me all the fun in the world can be had with those few marvellous toys. My picks are mostly payware (but not entirely)
- Lionheart's Epic (FS9 & X)
- Carenado Mooney (FS9 & X)
- Realair Spitfire(s)(FS9 & X)
- Lotus L39 (FSX, Kryptust's version in FS9)
- Ant's Tecnam (FSX)
- Section F8 Sabre (FS9)
- Manfred Jahn's freeware Superconnie (FS9)
- FSD Avanti (FS9)
- Eaglesoft Citation X (FS9)
- Pilatus PC12 (FS9)
- Nemeth freeware Squirrell (FS9)
- Legendary C130 (FS9 & X)
- Iris Harrier - freeware (FS9)

LPXO
 
I guess a lot here, like me, used to (Or still do) collect model aircraft when we were young, paint them and then pretend we were flying them while making aircraft noises. These days we still collect aircraft, paint them and pretend we are flying, only there's no need to dust anymore and the sounds are more realistic.

I try to put a limit on buying aircraft these days, as I have too many already so I only look for good deals. Speaking of which, that Boomerang has a good price but that 'Turbine Toucan' from FSD looks tempting too.. :kilroy:

And remember Huub: You don't stop playing because you get older, but you get old when you stop playing!
 
PRB said:
I don't have that problem at all. Nope, not in the slightest. Ooooh, where did you get that RAAF paint for the Beaufighter? That's nice, I gotta have it! :icon_lol:
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Paul and Oleboy,

The Beaufighter is Dave Garwood's model and the repaint is done by Jeansy and can be found on Ozx (Aussiex.org).

It is comforting to see many of us have the same disease. I think I can live with it, but I think my hard-disk is rapidly reaching its end!

Cheers,
Huub

Another of my regular ones.......
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huub vink said:
It is comforting to see many of us have the same disease. I think I can live with it, but I think my hard-disk is rapidly reaching its end!

Cheers,
Huub
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That's why I did a clone of my 300 gig drive onto a bootable terabyte drive :)
 
255gb of aircraft and scenery on my external HD, I can honestly say I only use about 10% of aircraft I own but I'm just a collector and must as a habbit have them all lol! It's getting to be an obsession with me these days!
 
Yep...I'm guilty of the same compulsion. What I've started doing recently is to create a Storage Hangar folder in the FSX folder and I swap aircraft folders out back and forth from the SimObjects folder depending on what sort of flying I'm planning on doing.
 
Yeah I also keep the aircraft folder with all the addon paints in a separate file with the original installer so I don't loose any lol, it's crazy what flying does to you lol!
 
Try this

I noticed I have this affliction as well. So I decided I would limit myself to five (5) textures per aircraft. This works great for lets say a 737....but when I get down to my favorites...(WWII piston) HOLY CRAP!! try picking just five textures for warbirdsims P-51B/C, or the A2A B-17, or Vertigos P-36....I dare you to just pick just five of any texture by Jan Kees. or Epsillon, Bruce448, or Bomber12th...you get the picture...So at this time I'm stuck trying to make major decisions on textures I really love. However I know by trimming the files down I will help FSX run smoother...Dang this is hard....Oh by the way, When will your files for the new F8F be ready to download...I still have a couple slots left.....(sigh)..


Ol'Jarhead:wavey:
 
Same "problem" here :jump:

I agree with Jankees; "Downloading is not the problem, its the fact that we do not delete enough!"

Of course downloading is also the problem when I use up the family's bandwidth and have to explain why it went down to zero in 2 weeks....... :engel016: :bump:
 
I've decided that the only way to beat this is to download some more....I need a few new moon colors off Simviation.

Really....

I do....

No kidding....

I might even install it.
 
Like kids in a candy store, except the store is open 24/7, and so much is free!!!!!!!!!

I can think of worse things to be addicted to.

NC
 
I might add that most of mine is actually payware, with the exception of a few outstanding models from Tim, and others!
 
Hunter gatherers?

Couldn't it be that we are just flightsim "hunter-gatherers"?

I think I prefer that one to download junkie! (which I am BTW)

Cheers,

Ian
 
Clearly a natural primitive reaction to the daily stress of modern society.

A hoarding of electronic nuts if you willl

Need to protect your nuts.
 
LCBORDEN said:
So I decided I would limit myself to five (5) textures per aircraft.
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Tried that as well Ol'Jarhead, but once I have removed repaints, I suddenly want to fly a repaint I have just removed......
And I consider it not fair to my colleague repainters not to download their work!

Apart from just far too much items in my FSX and FS9 install, I also have the strange habit to sort everything and burn it on CDs. I got piles of them (from the CFS2 era until now) and when I want something I simply can't find it on my CDs and end up by re-downloading the file for the second, third or whatever time! :confused: :confused: :confused:

An even more puzzled,
Huub

Another regular ride.....
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AAHHHHH CD's

Huub, I have done that, and been there....a pile of CD's with "important" stuff. Stuff I just know I will re-install one day. Then "BAM" a new shiny even better aircraft comes along and the cd's just gather dust.. I admit I am having trouble with the "Five" texture limit...I being a big strong former Marine blame it all on Jan Kees. Yeah....that's who to blame...him and Bomber, and epsillon and EVEN YOU!!! all you talented skinners....Oh well as someone else stated above HardDrives are fairly cheap... Keep up all the good work you sim artists.

Ol'Jarhead:wavey:
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huub vink said:
Another regular ride.....
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Call me niave but, I'm not up to snuff on a lot of aircraft. ME-109?, modeler, where to find it?

Curious,. Why is there not a freeware topic in this forum as there is in the fs2004?
.....I feel left out!! Quick, someone do something :wavey:
 
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