Exclamation mark against elevation data updates during startup

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Hi All

After the WU5 I have exclamation marks during startup on the info screens. All seems to be fine in the sim however … landing challenges, bush trips etc
I also did updates for everything that was updatable in the content manager
Anyone has any clue what this can be or how to sovle it? Other people that have the same issue?

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BTW I am very happy with this update. My fps almost doubled with my old 1080 ti card :slight_smile:

Regards
Kurt

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Exclamation were there since several update. It just a way to say “Hey have a look at this”. Period. You can switch to something more important :wink: Problem solved.

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Oooh really??? I didn’t even noticed that before … :joy
I thought there should be a number filled in …
Anyway thanks for your input!

Cheers
K.

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Whoever thought these exclamation marks make any sense was wrong.
I always wonder who came up with this idea and what the thought process behind this might have been, but in this case I just can’t find anything. It’s just pointless.

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Hi all,

I am now getting an exclamation mark against elevation data updates during startup. Can anyone tell me why?

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Regards,

Steve

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No one has an answer?

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Steve, the only thing I can suggest that when in the game check your general setting and make sure anything to do with data is turned on.
All I can think of mate.

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Thanks,

It only appears on game load though. All data is on.

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I have this i believe since a long time, wu3 or so, but i never bothered about it.
But why it has this exclamation mark i would not know.
If other simmers have it or not i would not know, youre the first i heard who experienced this also.
My elevations seems fine, do you experience problems with it?
Maybe it is a good question to bring this up in Q&A i vote +1, for now im curious to.
Thanks for bring it up

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Someone else has,

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The load screen just serves to let you know how many of each improvement type has been implemented in the latest World Update.

I’m guessing that the exclamation mark was just added as a placeholder, in the image file, for when the final number of elevation data updates was finalised and then nobody remembered to enter that number.

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Thanks,

I’ve logged a Zendesk request, so we’ll see what happens.

Regards,

Steve

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Zendesk advises it is a dispaly issue, nothing to worry about. However, I have asked them how to fix as it is an obvious bug.

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It’s not a bug, it’s an exclamation point for emphasis most likely. There were 100 airports updated and 6 cities updated, but you can’t really “count” the number of elevation data updates so there’s no number they can put there. It’s just being used to indicate there was an update.

Asking the dev team to spend any time at all trying to fix this is ridiculous. It has zero affect on playability and they need all the time they can get to work on actual problems

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Hi there, What do the Exclamations Marks Mean in the loading screen after the checking for updates Screen?

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Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA

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They are most likely an icon indicating something has changed.

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Hi there,

I don’t think that they mean anything. You’ll notice on the left side of the screenshot, it says “95”. The other two columns don’t have numbers associated with them, so my guess is that the designers felt that there should be something there for symmetry and put exclamation points.