The divide widens
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Not sure what this graph shows. What do the various âkâ values denote - download speeds?
Kilo. Thousands of users, I believe
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Got it. Thanks. I guess thatâs just Steam users, then?
Most likely.
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Personally, I wish it was more of an open sandbox career mode, such as starting off with a used C172, and having many types of jobs available at every airport, and picking and choosing the jobs, setting weights/fuel etc, and having the ability to get better jobs based on experience/performance. So you would start off being able to carry 600 pounds, in a 500 NM range, at 125 knots, and work your way up, similar to Neofly.
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All this could mean that there are users that have both sims and use them for different purposes.
Flying tubeliners in 2020; VFR in 2024, for instance.
Or, users that have both and are just waiting for 2024 to mature or simmers that have not bought 2024 because of the current issues but will once itâs in better shape.
So, without more context the data may not mean much.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Fewer people playing 2024 than 2020 is what it is and reflects the playability of one over the other
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OrâŠit may mean that FS24 usage is declining while FS20 is increasing. I think it is about the trend. Make of it what you wish, as I will.
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B737 max; Asobo; running on PC, panel to the left of the course knob on Captainâs side has buttons that are not functionalâŠthey are:
- RST
- CTR
- TFC
- STD
- No landing or taxi lights, switches were on, on the last landing just a few minutes ago.
Come on guysâŠfor a realistic experience you have to make these buttons functional. âGotta be better!â
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Ranting is so productive.
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Streaming works fine for me and others I fly with. It certainly is related to your bandwidth and local server.
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I was having trouble and couldnât blame low bandwidth. So what I did was reinstall 2024 after saving Community folder content. (Control settings and Career achievements were not lost but graphics needed resetting.) Then I decided to be content with default aircraft and only returned those aircraft and sceneries to Community that specifically said they were 2024 compatible. It drives me nuts not to have some that I was using before the problems but doing this I havenât experienced my reported issues except for one time the sim freezing up on exit requiring me to force exit using Task Manager. (Patience sucks.) Looking forward to the Marketplace opening - perhaps finally I will be able to use my 2020 purchases with confidence.
From the nature of many of the reported bugs, I doubt that even the highest-spec PCs are able to consistently achieve stutter-less performance.
If you go back all the way since release, there were more people playing FS2024 compared to FS2020, it has been steadily declining eversince and FS2024 users are now far below FS2020 users. It is only Steam users admittedly, but still an interesting trend.
It is not what you expect to see after a big new release, I assume a lot are waiting for bug fixes and marketplace content to be ported over. In any case it is clear that the product wasnât and isnât ready for release.
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I have an 11 year old 8 core Dell PC with 24gb ram and a Nvidia GTX 1660 Super card with 6Gb and everything runs smoothly in both free and career flight on medium settings.
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Regarding Credits in career mode.
Surely a good way to encourage simmers would be to give everyone Credits for what they have achieved in Free Flight mode, i.e outside of the career mode?
This way, simmers could do the flights they enjoy outside of Career, knowing this will actually help them bypass the more apparently boring parts of the standard career path, and also free fliers would be more encouraged to take up a career once they have clocked a few hundred hours practising. Ideally the Credits given from Free Flight would be those relevant to the desired career (e.g. the number of hours spent in airliners).
I would think this is silmilar to what happens in real life - if youâre an experienced private pilot, youâre more likely to get a job in an airline than a raw recruit for example.
I must admit Iâve not touched Career mode myself, partially because of the comments on the forum, so I donât know how âCareerâ pilots would react to this suggestion, but it seems to me a good way to combine the two paths in the sim.
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MSFS 2024 has a memory leak. Game crashes after a while. Happens to many people.
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