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Dovetail Flight School

rhumbaflappy said:
if Flight School is a foreshadowing of their direction, we're going to have a 64-bit FSX, with little actual improvement regarding scenery, aircraft, or file and folder structure.
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If that were to be the case, I'd wonder what they have to work on for the rest of this year since they've been at this more than a year to date. Martin has also hinted the SDK may not be available for DTG Flight Sim immediately on release, but I'm not going to speculate further: there's plenty of that around already.
 
If Dovetail isn't in the polishing stage for Flight Simulator, you have to wonder what they've been doing in the year up to now. But you're right about the speculation, we'll see the final product soon enough. I have some hope about scenery and aircraft being more of the same as FSX.

As far as hacking or adding content to Flight School, I would be surprised if that was a profitable activity for anyone. It doesn't appear you can just add scenery or aircraft, and anything more difficult may as well wait for Flight Simulator.

Dick
 
rhumbaflappy said:
If Dovetail isn't in the polishing stage for Flight Simulator, you have to wonder what they've been doing in the year up to now. But you're right about the speculation, we'll see the final product soon enough. I have some hope about scenery and aircraft being more of the same as FSX.

As far as hacking or adding content to Flight School, I would be surprised if that was a profitable activity for anyone. It doesn't appear you can just add scenery or aircraft, and anything more difficult may as well wait for Flight Simulator.

Dick
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Hi Dick,
Is it possible that Dovetail will put all the 3rd Party Add on (aircrafts and sceneries) under their download content?
I think I don't mind at all if we can only sell our add on through them. Their close system might be good for us as long as our copyright is protected.
 
jtanabodee said:
Hi Dick,
Is it possible that Dovetail will put all the 3rd Party Add on (aircrafts and sceneries) under their download content?
I think I don't mind at all if we can only sell our add on through them. Their close system might be good for us as long as our copyright is protected.
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Hi Tic.

I'm sure it's possible, but I doubt they'll go there for Flight Simulator. Too bad there isn't an open beta and SDK for developers to start work. FSX was pretty good in that regard. As Tom noted above, the SDK will be available, but most likely not at the game's release.

Flight School is intentionally a closed system for addons. I'm sure Dovetail will want you to spend $60 for Flight Simulator instead of letting addons in for the $15 Flight School. My interest was the file and folder system Dovetail's using. So far, it's pretty much the same as FSX.

Dick
 
Have they stated anything concrete regarding it being open for commercial 3rd party devs? Or will, it have to be through them through steam?
 
I do wish they would enlighten the development community as to their plans in that regard...
 
Just loaded it up for the first time. One of the two missions in the US is at KGEV, Ashe County Airport of ALL PLACES. that's very close to home...
 
It's strange... some airports, even really small ones, it seems they took special care to update. Not a whole lot of detail over FSX but you can tell it's updated data. Some, they completely ignored... ATL for example doesn't have it's south runway!
 
jtanabodee said:
Hi Dick,
Is it possible that Dovetail will put all the 3rd Party Add on (aircrafts and sceneries) under their download content?
I think I don't mind at all if we can only sell our add on through them. Their close system might be good for us as long as our copyright is protected.
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their closed system is not good for anybody either than dtg and steam.

they will take 30% each + tax man on top - if will go that way
you will be left with next to nothing for your hard work.
 
katina12 said:
their closed system is not good for anybody either than dtg and steam.

they will take 30% each + tax man on top - if will go that way
you will be left with next to nothing for your hard work.
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May be just like that or may be not.

It is just my thought. If you consider that our airports and airplanes are uploaded to many website and download as pirated files, you might think it worth doing that.
We get less, of course, but may boost up the sale. Since it will no available freely and offer hassle free installing, no need to get the verification code, etc. Just pay and DLC will get in the game.
It may be not a bad idea at all if it is closed system and they do not take too much.
If they do, no one would do the add on and the game itself will die like Flight.

Sorry Dick to hijack your thread. End of this discussion now.
 
jonmkj said:
It's strange... some airports, even really small ones, it seems they took special care to update. Not a whole lot of detail over FSX but you can tell it's updated data. Some, they completely ignored... ATL for example doesn't have it's south runway!
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Speaking for that.... PHNL is not listed in their database, but if you go to a nearby airport and fly to the PHNL location....... the airport is there; just not listed.
 
rhumbaflappy said:
My interest was the file and folder system Dovetail's using. So far, it's pretty much the same as FSX.
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I'm curious how they determine which aircraft are made available to the "Hanger" menu. I note that there are several other aircraft models that do not show up in the "Hanger" menu, but nonetheless have valid aircraft.cfg and xxx.air files.
 
Hi Bill.

I think the Hangar is programmed for just the 2 aircraft. We'll see what changes happen when the next aircraft is added.

In case anyone missed it, the "Y" key is slew...

uc


Dick
 
Hi Bill.

There some discussion at the Steam forums regarding adding FSX aircraft to the Flight School hangar.

Dick
 
Is that a Mercedes tractor? Wouldn't want it to look too real lest pilots forget they are simulating flight and not out sightseeing.
 
rhumbaflappy said:
Hi Bill.

There some discussion at the Steam forums regarding adding FSX aircraft to the Flight School hangar.

Dick
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I am strongly tempted to send Martin a copy of my two White Papers on virtual cockpit lighting! The current lighting is horrible!
 
Just a closed up game, I find the graphics really bad and the controls don't work right, the rudder flaps as well as the elevator. Anyway what can you expect for the price. A water down FSX its all.
 
You know........ with DTG Martin doing his community manager thing and talking so convincingly to the community, the whole hobby was lit up with anticipation about flight school. Now its been released, and things are just very, very quiet.
 
Maybe the "whole hobby" were hoping for something more than what DTG Martin clearly said Flight School would be. The real interest will presumably be when DTG Flight Simulator development details come out.
 
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