…is for it it know how to sort numbers in the marketplace. (Apologies for the bad screenshotting skills).
Add your own “all I want” wishes to this thread! (intent is for this to be a lighthearted list of little things we’d like to see in MSFS 2024)
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Dynamic mission generation. There is a whole world to explore, not just famous scenery.
If the missions are like MSFS 2020 challenges, the new sim will get dull very fast. Plus downloading missions from users who create them won’t allow the simulation to be as cohesive.
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- Voice activated ATC.
- ATC that doesn’t vector me into mountains and isn’t so busy that you can’t get a word in.
- It would be neat if you could pick a profession then have missions selected from real-time operations. ie: fire boss, where are there forest fires now. Business Jet pilot: Maybe during Super Bowl or World Cup some fortunate souls might want to charter a NetJet. If you’re an airline pilot, what are Delta/American/British Airways routes? etc.
- Type Rating lessons so you can learn to fly each aircraft.
- Landing replay videos, grade each landing.
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- Passenger animations
- In game contrast
No more need for third party programs to bind all planes functions to your controllers.
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The UI in general is really bad. Fall out from having to run on a console I’m sure, but it’s not great when a flagship Windows title has a bad UI.
I hope they completely overhaul it. Maybe using an actual or native Windows interface instead of some clunky third party Direct3D GUI like they’re doing now.
That would be cool, but I hope folks don’t get their hopes up. But given what’s already been delivered, I’m expecting FSX type missions, which were a lot of fun once or twice, but then you went back to doing whatever kind of flying you always did in the sim. Anything more will be a pleasant surprise. A full track from student pilot to ATP would be ultimate, but probably vastly more work than they want to undertake.
I keep picturing an AI driven ‘mission’ or ‘job’ system that pays attention to what you fly and where you fly but it will offer ‘jobs’ that fit your chosen ‘pilot lifestyle’ Like if you want to be a cargo pilot and you fly small GA all the time, it will offer you small cargo loads and suggest flight routes based on your average length of flight. Like truck sim but it learns from your behavior.
Maybe Im reading too much into what was said by Jorg about the social learning AI thing.
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default regional and smaller airliners
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not make it just Boeing and Airbus airliners, get some classics in there like BAE, Fairchild-Dornier, Saab, and Fokker
You all are big dreamers my wishes are simple for a flight sim:
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AI that somewhat works. SimConnect and SimObject limitation don’t cause the planes to not show up on a return to an airport with heavy stutter. Just like it was working in FS2004!
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Clouds that have/create turbulence. This was not an issue before SU5 and we did have turbulence in clouds! Now the clouds are just for the looks (in the real weather/live weather mode) and they have absolutely no impact!
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Airport runway and taxi way lights that are not “On” all the time and they actually work based on the weather conditions and natural lighting (day, night, etc.) just like the old sims!
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ILS and PAPI lights that actually lead you to correct elevations on the runway (50 feet above the threshold)!
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Better optimized Sim (i.e. proper use of DX12, CPU cores, etc.)
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Proper ground contact/friction modeling! A large plane shouldn’t sway like a mini car on the runway and taxiways!
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Proper modeling of ground elevations and objects so that the objects don’t show up in the air when an airport is not flat!
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Resolved terraforming issues around the airports.
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This is a very grounded and well thought out list of items which i believe will have significant impact in terms of sim experience. And may I add a few more qol items on top of this:
- better ui in general (plus a control assignment to toggle it on or off) in flight
- per plane input device profiles
- better flight planner ( integrate with wt avionics )
- access to flight planner while loaded into the sim ( for turnaround legs or any change in flight plan after loading into the flight)
- better weight and balance widget for planes that depend on it ( sliders are not optimal for me, an optional keyboard text input will be better, show zero fuel weight )
- better plane and livery selection ui ( ability to mark favourites, both planes and liveries )
- initial short loading time, load addons on demand when starting flight, not sure how it’s done now, but if possible, optimize this path
- better content manager with ability to enable and disable addons including community addons without deleting them (already doable in PC via addons linker)
- less twitchy flight model (but i understand this is subjective and can vary plane to plane)
- proper weather radar api? (Not sure what’s going on in that front)
- working windshield wiper effect natively
- better marketplace
And i am sure i am missing a lot of other such small items. I think these thing will improve the foundation a lot. Then they can add all the bells and whistles they want on top of it like dynamic missions, careers and what not.
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Proper Model Matching.
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I specifically want proper model matching for AI and live traffic… I don’t know which of the jet airliners I see taking off from the short GA runway at KSNA are really Pipers with the wrong model displayed and which are real tubeliners being misdirected by the bad ATC implementation. 
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Bring in BAE and Dornier airliners for some good fun so it’s not just airbus and Boeing
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Stability/performance - especially loading times improvements where it doesn’t have to take 10 minutes to boot the sim up would be splendid. additionally VRAM usage improvements too but I think thats confirmed.
Model matching - goes without saying, would be nice to have the option to download just the 3d external model from any plane that is on the marketplace just so we can see them for group flights
Drone camera - it’s abit of a buggy mess, switching between targets during a group flight sometimes sends you to another continent. Being locked on to a target while stationary on the ground and the target does a flyby. The camera doesn’t auto tilt. etc
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A bunch of things
- Shared cockpit features
- flightschool/career mode
- Import data (like Navigraph does) to determine which runway(s) that are in use so that ATC can separate landing an departing traffic to separate runways for airports with parallel/multiple runways.
- Better default airports, atleast when it comes to parking positions and jetways,
- Better and more camera/drone controls + tower view
- Replay function
- Generally better AI.
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-cirrus clouds
-better looking runway and runway lights.
-Bigger LOD for runways and runway lights so we can see them sharper when on approach.
-wipers that function
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I want:
Improved ATC that : you can talk to without add-ons , doesnt vector you too low causing you to crash into terrain (has happened to me with terrain at 3000 feet) and you can get a word in without waiting 2 minutes
Better performance (however it is achieved)
Some missions to be airline jobs (example : united pilot flying the a320 in the east part of the us)
Also they need to update airport information ( example: lgts thesaloniki airport in greece a runway extension that ended in September 2020 but the runway is still not marked in the sim