On Bush flights I have occasionally noticed players/simmers parked at an airport for an extended time. For example, this morning I fly a bush flight leg and see a motionless gamer tag with plane type and altitude displayed sitting at a distant point. As I reach my destination, there he was, sitting at the airport. Later in the afternoon I go back to fly another leg and there he is still sitting where I start my next leg. This evening, I go back to fly another leg and in the distance I see that same tag/plane and altitude.
Could this be an error or someone who just walked away from their PC or XBox program and not turning it off?
The way this sim runs, if itâs someone leaving it running while they do something else, theyâre wasting CPU/GPU chip life, not to mention money wasted on the electric bill.
(Yes, heavy usage uses more electricity - where do you think all that heat comes from?)
One way to find out is to take the drone camera out or slew to the location and find out. More than likely, theyâre sitting at an airport motionless somewhere (hopefully not on a runway!).
Do you have Live Players selected, or All Players?
I suspect the server keeps your last positioned logged when you exit a session and your âghostâ remains there for anyone flying with All Players selected.
I think people do spawn on runways and walk away and leave the sim up.
It drives me nuts. The sim should send the person back to the main menu after 5 minutes. I hate when after doing a long flight someone is sitting on the runway I want to land. I sometimes even circle and they are still there.
Kind of distracting and a pet peeve for me. I donât care about the CPU time they are burning, but besides being annoying, it a waste of server resources when we all know that the servers many time are struggling to keep up.
After five minutes, they should be sent back to the main menu! No check list should take more than five minutes on a runway.
At least youâre making progress - adding to your logbook and/or earning awards. Just sitting for hours does neither.
Nah, thatâs the people with crypto miners. I know a guy that does that - his mining rig actually doubles as a space heater in winter. In warm weather, he runs it in his garage. He once told me that it runs about $100 in electricity every month.
Sitting on runways, multiple spawning on top of each other, landing and taking off in opposite directions, F18âs and Concords everywhereâŠâŠ Gatwick was bedlam yesterday, did make me smile tho
That may happen at times, but Iâm more inclined to believe that itâs just people just sitting on the runway. Maybe just walked away or donât know how use use showcase camera and think that it is a good vantage point to watch others take off and land.
If they just want to watch people take off and land, they should park somewhere out of the way and bring their Drone/Showcase camera to the runway, where no one else sees it and they arenât a nuisance.
I still say, that after five minutes of sitting on a runway, the software should automatically take them back to the main menu.
There are some folks that are 3rd party devs that will sit at an airport for hours with dev mode on while they work on their stuff. I do it all the time when building Air Manager instruments.
Another pro tip is disable the nameplates from displaying altogether. You still see traffic moving about and theyâre a mixed of both multiplayer and AI traffic depending on your setting. But since the tags are hidden, they wonât bother you because you wouldnât know what type of traffic they are, and itâs cleaner on your screen as well. Iâve hidden my nameplates for months now, so I donât get bothered by things like this.
well just like Any appliance they Do use more under a load, its not hard to figure out how much either, there are plenty of pc power calculators out there
mine has an 800watt psu, it probably only uses 600 at max so 10x 60watt light bulbs - more then every led bulb in my house currently
sure that may be less than an air conditioner but it can add up, and then thats not counting the 2 monitors i always have going that would equal 2 tvâs on top of the pc
The annual cost of using the average LED bulb, assuming the light is on 5 hours per day, is under $2 USD. So I think youâre actually kind of making my point for me.
If youâre running a serious cryptocurrency mining operation with a phalanx of GPUâs running 24/7, thatâs one thing, but you are not going to see major fluctuations on your electricity bill just from using a gaming PC. Weâre talking $100 to use a gaming PC for a year tops and for most people significantly less. People get hung up on this stuff with the efficiency ratings of PC power supplies too, âOh do I need 80+ Platinum instead of just 80+ Gold?â when the difference is literally pennies.
I tried multiplayer for a few minutes. Aircraft going the wrong way, sitting on runways, flying through me. I fixed all that by switching multiplayer off.
uhhh No ledâs are 60watts each either (the led reference was to Prove Just That, ledâs run in the neighborhood of 8-12watt each), so i was talking about 10x 60-watt incandescent (old inefficient) light bulbs Plus 2 Televisions
so lets see at say 10watt per bulb we are now looking at 60 bulbs in led - @ $2 each per year is 10 bucks a month, and we Still have to add what the Television (monitor) or 2 runs us
again pcâs arent expensive but they do have a cost
