Thankful I searched the site before posting as a new thread. But I was thinking about this same thing today as 2024 is approaching and people are excited to walk around. This is what I was about to post.
“While this could be difficult to concept up, it might be good think tank discussion. And it’s not completely impossible given that something like it has been done FS historically. I get that there might be limitations with the game(s).
The TLDR - As GA (general aviation) in the US has a lot of smaller airports that have a community aspect to them, would it be ever possible to recreate the idea of the FBO? Users can log in to servers/rooms and have a social interaction with others players in the FBO….or even the Ops area if at certain airports with airline services. Being able to fly out or even in.
Thoughts-
Running prefabbed rooms or as host/client, the user spawns into the airport with the FBO or another airport in the game. That’s probably where spawning should be at the core airport, or maybe limiting radius around the core airport. Could prevent people spawning halfway across the globe and just sitting eating up space. My thoughts are that also the airports might have to be dedicated to this unless every airport had a make shift default building as the meeting room.
The User selects the aircraft spawn point and character spans near the aircraft. The user then can either hop in the plane and leave or walk into the FBO to interact with friends or randoms.
I understand that this is probably more of a US thing where people fly to other airports for coffee or chat with friends, but it might be fun to add.
As for the airline aspect, this I feel would be more complicated scenery wise. But spawning an ops area and walking to the plane from there. While going from a hotel to the gate could be more odd. Starting at ops is something more stand it seems around the world. And not just for airline ops.
But it’s the concept of being able to take the chat room further and bringing the aviation community closer to reality.”