Please show support for africa, middle east and latin america/carribbean on future world updates

[KawasakiHito]

Hello there,

Pretty Simple, it seems to be that Asobo and Microsoft are loving the southern hemisphere on the latest updates NZ and upcoming Oceania/Antartica. So I just wanted to know if anyone in here is willing to support this post so it goes to the feedback snapshot. Hopefully so they give us an input on whether they have plans on doing a World update for :

Africa (The great Maghreb region) Central, South Africa and The Middle East.
South America/Carribbean region (Jamaica, Cuba, All of the british islands and the southern continental region/ Brazil)

[N316TS]

Hi there,

I am not an employee, so I do not speak for the development team. But the developers have stated before that they intend to go around the world. So, everything should be covered eventually.

Again, I do not speak for the developers, but I see two major things that may affect their world update schedule:

1. Availability of data: Whenever they do a world update, they introduce new DEM [digital elevation model]. This data isn’t just sitting around. They have to go find it and usually work with governments in order to obtain it. I don’t think that this process is always easy. When they slot these releases, I imagine that priority will go to the countries whose data is more readily obtained while they work on getting data from other countries. I also have to assume that this data gathering process can probably take a long time.

2. Where people fly: The team has telemetry that tells them where people fly in the sim. People obviously fly all over the world, and I have been in some remote parts and seen other players in the skies, which is great. But I can tell you that unquestionably, there is a huge concentration of fliers in places like Europe and North America.

That being said, if you don’t live in one of those places, I know that it can feel like you are left out. As someone whose family comes from a developing nation, I can understand that. Just please know that it will happen.

With that said, I want to give you two quotes from previous developer streams:

@OlieTsubasa443

All the world updates to date have been for countries in the Northern Hemisphere. I know you can’t make any specific announcements yet, but are there plans for South America, Africa, and other under-appreciated regions?

Jorg – Our commitment is to update the entire planet. That is the goal! We are going to go there soon.

@N316TS

Africa will take us a little bit more time to actually get – it’s a big continent. It has 66 countries on it. You know, there’s a lot of data you need to find.

I hope that this helps!

[OracularTripod7]

Just one thing about telemetry; it has a chicken and egg problem. I tend to fly all over the world, but I actively avoid the areas with bad Bing data.

[RagingWombat839]

Would love to see Latin America and Africa, and more of Asia represented. I tend to avoid them because of the lower quality scenery, so for sure there’s some chicken and egg effect on the numbers here