The joys of this Beta launch…
I now have a bunch of charter VIP missions on my globe, just finished a medium cargo mission while waiting. Yay! 
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I just got a tier 2 mission in Europe after buying King Air
Only had to log in, no missions done. Zoom in close, wait for missions to load. It might take a few moments for VIPs to show up.
But be aware this is a single mission, I didn’t see any other tier 2s in the unlocked world…
FYI:
What I am missing:
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Transparent scoring for missions.
Cargo, Passengers, Aircraft respect so on is clearly missing dings when something is wrong. I’d like to know what is wrong exactly from the game perspective. -
VFR vs IFR and “Real” Weather. I’d like to have current daytime (night certification exam should be for something, right?) and current Live weather, not the generated or “historical” weather. Also VFR means the other rules of flying. Game may have IFR and current weather/day time as an additional level of complexity (or two). Also many times VFR conditions with strong winds and gusts and turbulence are not counted in “weather bonus”. Simply because you have not been in a cloud.
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Proper airports for missions. Short runways should be rewarded more. Not all are with proper gear to land at short runways. Also many aircraft are not suitable for short runways. I’m ok landing-wise. Not sure about the need to takeoff for 208 or pilatus-12 from the short runway. Basically after you’re in “somebody” has to fly from that location, no?
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This is gonna be hated: Fuel calculations and routing. Leave that to player please, but disallow “refuelling” when in the air. Reward more those who respect long flights without the need to “refuel” magic way mid-air. Also game should not have missions that require either full fuelling and mixture play (esp. with the winds provided) or basically kind of cheating. Please give the EXPLICIT choice of real time and weather to be used for the mission to calculate route with winds. I have skipped certain cross-atlantic flights because was not sure about my fuel caluclations despite effective 8:20 flight for 737 BBJ. And do not punish for landing “almost dry”. This may happen.
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Oh I know how many people shall hate this but fail mission if player aircraft is not moving at the departure or arrival airport for some sane amount of time. Like let’s say 30 minutes for B737+ may be ok for all the procedures before pushback.
All of the charter “private” missions returned however the charter “VIP” missions are still non existent in freelance mode. the ones that you run with the CJ4
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Private charter missions are back.
What I am noticing and reflecting on from the outage and return and would like to know more about from the vendors is that it feels like there are problems with the mission servers.
This is simplified and guessing but it makes sense that there would be several server types delivering the game.
A server for the in flight physics and telemetry
A serve for the photogrammetry
Etc etc
And a server that delivers the mission selection/discovery map.
Obviously something went weird with that mission server but I think it still has issues compared to the others,
Where I live in Australia we have ok internet bandwidth but not as great as other western countries and my provider can be flakey sometimes
. When there is an issue on my end I can notice it on all aspects of the game.
However I am noticing the when my bandwidth is good for flights / imagery etc with smooth/no lag sim performance the mission map’s zoom in and out, globe transversal and then that final zoom in to mission animation when you select one will be all kinds of slow and janky.
Also the private charter missions are back now but I am still noticing that in areas wheee I know there will be some of the charter missions I have to zoom in and out or maybe just not move or zoom the region at all before the charter missions appear. They always seem to be last and the parachute missions always seem to be first which is interesting as that was all that was available at the start of the outage
So it makes me think the mission servers and/or how they interface with the sim need to be improved
You think there’s a 100,000 daily active users? I highly doubt it.
More like 10,000, if that (of 2024).
You may be right - do you have any data to back-in to that number? I was ball-parking based on copies sold but I wasn’t able to find any specifics publicly available.
Only a google search which indicates less than 10,000 concurrent players, plus an all-time peak of 24863 concurrent players on 19 November 2024 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam Charts · SteamDB This is all Steam, so would need to extrapolate to GamePass and Windows Store installs, but it doesn’t seem likely that this would hit the 100,000 mark.
I am really happy about the outage.
Made me stop playing, and watch some streams instead.
Where i first time saw NeoFly being used.
I knew there where external programs available for MSFS, but i thought they where mainly for virt. airline stuff.
Tried NeoFly and had a lot of fun the last few days.
Sure it is not perfect, but for what it is, i am amazed about how many things it does so much better than MSFS Career Mode.
(by just running in background during Free Flight)
- FILTERS for missions.
- You can take loans.
- You can rent planes.
- You can fly at any time you want, day AND NIGHT.
- You can adjust weather to whatever you prefer (and date/time of year)
- There are about 500x more missions available, so you can actually go where you want to go.
- No fog of war/spent eternity or fortune to unlock BS, can see everything and go everywhere from beginning.
- You instantly see if a destination is viable, as it shows you longest rwy, rwy type and available facilities.
- You can buy goods at all airports, which you can then sell on another for profit. (can combine that with mission, if some space left in plane)
- It lets you load cargo in to a passenger plane.
- It does not care which runway you land on (or even change it on you last second) or where exactly you park.
- Has random events happening during missions to keep it exciting.
- You can take a mission, fly somewhere, take another, fyl somewher else… in one go, no constant reloading.
- There is a log that tells you exactl for what you got extr XP/$ or what you did wrong to get less XP/$.
- Passengers/crew do not repaet the same 10 sentences in every single mission agaqin and again and again in same 2000 era bad text to speech.
After using NeoFly for a few days, i undertand even less how MS/Asobo dared to deliver MSFS2024 Career Mode as it is.
And i was truly stunned before, by that collection of bugs, bad design/gameplay and bad UI.
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Of course they took a holiday, they needed to spend the millions of bucks they pocketed. It takes time to break in your new yacht.
The ones doing the actual programing aren’t the ones with the yachts 
The ones that get paid enough for yachts are the ones that bring the least to the table when games are created.
I was talking about the management, not the programmers.*
Yeah I know. But honestly it’s always the management that is at faul for pushing faulty products. No dev or engineer would look at something so broken and say yes that’s a good product. It’s always the bean counters that don’t care about anything else but the numbers at the end of the month. Who cares if the comsumers get something broken. We made our money and now lets hide.
Look at Kunos how they are releasing AC Evo. That’s how a good company does it. The admited it will be early access since it’s not fineshed. Because of that the game will be at a lower price until they get our of early acces which they are targeting in 10months. And everything added during early access will be free.
Well apparently some people are all fixed and groovy but I’m still without a single Medium Cargo mission on Freelancer. Only Light cargo show up for my 172 (which I have like 60 missions for) but I feel dumb flying 25k C172 missions with my 208 parked idle right next to it. I really hope they fix the Medium Cargo missions for those of us who still don’t have them.
Kind of wild the bug got closed as fixed and through the entire situation we received 0 actual communications from MS / Asobo on the issue and to this day, 0 messages of understanding, apology, or trying to make it right.
Let’s just all act like it never happened.
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Since the hotfix, I am getting CTD every time I attempt to start a Charter Freelancer flight. Tired three times in a row. I have not tried other mission types.