Recently, I had been considering P3D as a future movement upgrade to FSX. I was asking around, and Daube had gotten me to re-visit my X-Plane 11 copy, which I'd disregarded early, as too different and not enough. After taking his advice, and digging in for a few days, I was and am blown away by it. However, as cool as it is, it is still missing some things that I use with ease in FSX. The initial 'this is awesome' shock has worn off, and I'm going to take his advice. Keep FSX and slowly, over a decent period of time, play with X-Plane until you really get it where you want it.
After much deliberation, I've decided to Keep FSX right where it is, and continue regularly flying that sim. There's just too much I've invested both years ago and just recently, in FSX, and too many of my beautiful ships, to let go of right now. Just got Active Sky Next, and Accu Sim, and those two addons really transform and breathe some serious life into the 12 year old sim. ASN really makes you feel like you're in the air, with the dynamic air and wind movement and effects on the aircraft. Very cool stuff.
I did scope the XP market out, and while it is impressive and growing, it is still fledgling compared to FSX's huge market. Our community and following around such an old sim speaks volumes, even though it was designed in a backwards direction (the direction they though PC hardware was going to go in those days). I'm happy to have re-joined and become a part of it again, and am happy I've jumped back on here. I do miss some of the older faces; Pointy and Gramps were my dudes, miss joking around with those guys. There's also many new faces and many of the older ones still here. Where is Huub?
Anyway, not that my sim life choices are super important to anyone else, just thought this would be a cool and affirming post about the validity and life still left in FSX. It is still a great sim, even with some of its harsh downfalls. The beauty of it is, I can post on XP forum here, too. xD
Here to stay.
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