Poll results
Results from the recent survey that appeared on the blog, What do you like to fly the most?
Heavy Iron = 30%
Light Aircraft = 27%
Combat = 26%
Helicopters = 14%
Retro = 3%
Thanks to everyone who took part – we will be posting another survey this weekend, so please take part
I really love the features in MS Flight Simulator. The realism is terrific. But there is so much more potential.
I believe that it’s a real shame that some studio has not yet created a good looking, hi-tech, space combat add-on, for pilots — not for button pressers. We are in space now and I bet we will be in space, in large numbers, within a generation – Today’s kids understand.
In fact, surveys have shown that the younger crowd is better than the older crowd in using a joystick to drive a car. Flying will likely be second nature to most youngsters as they grow up. Flying a capital ship is not anything like piloting and maneuvering in 3D,,,, in a combat ship, or any small, fast ship. If it turns out that there really are extra-terrestrial aliens, you can bet there will be fights, maybe outright war. (Forbid)
The point is to make a game add-on that is build with and uses, present technology – not some out-dated looking, low resolution ships and GUI. Flying is not anything like driving a vehicle, as much as, flying in space is similar to combat flight in air.
For instance: Mining: to mine, you gotta maneuver close as only a pilot can do. And Docking: Just as much as one can practice landing in an airplane, one could practice landing at launch/docking-bays and mating with small stations and/or landing on larger asteroids and facilities.
But producers seem to just have no interest in GOOD space games – they are so sight-limited – look what was done with Star Trek Online. Gamers want GOOD games, just the thing producers are afraid to finance.
Gamers will buy a good game but will not spend a buck on a chump game like STO turned out to be (selling for less than ten bucks and occasionally for two bucks (not worth the shipping).. Because they scammed us, we will not buy any game associated with Cryptic Studios.
Give us a nice space flight add-on for FlightSim, maybe an add-on that can be modded,,,, please.
Thank you,
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