I’m really looking forward to this. I’ve been using NeoFly off/on for a while now and I’d had tempered high hopes for 2024’s career mode. Looking at what is described in the marketing copy and what TwoToneMurphy shared on his intro to 2024, it looks significantly more detailed than I had hoped for…

They simply need to stop shoehorning aircraft and mission types together. We should be able to fly whatever aircraft we want for whatever type of mission. Give us the origin, destination, and cargo/pax and let us choose. If people need hand-holding, simply make “suggested aircraft” and/or give a war…

Have a look at my last two posts above at why I would love this and it would be terrible :rofl:

I’d think simplifying the parameters (and penalties, etc) would ultimately relieve workload:

It would relieve the workload on the devs and increase the frustrations by the users. There are already constant complaints about instances where you’re given that kind of freedom but they’re interpreted as bugs instead.

[image] Zadma: There are already constant complaints about instances where you’re given that kind of freedom but they’re interpreted as bugs instead. Like what? Just curious. Since the mission parameters follow strict cookie cutter templates and everything else about them is strict hand holdi…

[image] Zadma: See: complaints of missions that allow you to fly a CJ4 to a seaplane base, or a PC-24 to an airport with a 600ft runway. People already hate/complain about these things and chalk them up as bugs, when (from the perspective of player choice) they’re not. Listed a few here, but …

Yeah those are bugs in my opinion. Given how strictly the mission rules and parameters are enforced, it doesn’t make sense that they’d throw a seaplane base at you when seaplanes aren’t even allowed for that mission type. Likewise, for employee missions, where the company should be curating the miss…

But the exact same complaints would occur in a more unrestricted mode. Like I said, the best solution is variable difficulty/realism selectable by the user, but I don’t see that coming for quite a while if ever.

A lot of those are happening because of the parameterization, the shoehorning. It’s setup rigidly, as if you’re supposed to trust what it gives you, but then it gives you nonsense. At least if it were clearly up to the user, they’d perhaps take the planning seriously.

[image] CharlieFox00: they’d perhaps take the planning seriously. I think the part people miss is that not all users want to do this. Microsoft is not designing a Career mode exclusively for hardcore simmers, even if that’s what some desire.

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Zadma December 5, 2025, 8:27pm 3576

Listed a few here, but there are likely more instances.

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