The MSFS 2024 trailer shows activities/challenges that I can’t load anywhere. For example, firefighting, helicopter rescue, banner towing and many more that were also heavily advertised by MS. In the marketplace I can only find the “challenges” option, which is marked as “streamed”. Does “streamed” mean that these options are loaded from the server? But when? Without these options I wouldn’t have bought MSFS 2024 and now they’re missing? Really?
Maybe look at one of the many videos of people doing those things? They might show how to do it. I only do free flight.
I think you have to do the career to get to those.
Those activities are inside career mode.
Everything is streamed. Challenges, career, all aircraft, scenery and so on. But that doesn’t have any influence on your original question.
To do the activities you have to start a career and work your way through the different licenses. You can’t start with firefighting unfortunately but instead have to go through different stages. First you only do flightseeing and slowly work your way towards other missions
Thank you for your explanation. So I have to start a career, hmmm, ironically I am a PPL-A pilot with about 900 h logged IRL. Should I start the flight school from the first lesson? With the explanation of what the yoke and pedals do? Nope, I will get MSFS 2024 reimbursed.
You don’t have to do the trainings. You can just do the checkrides which are mostly a couple of minutes each. However the beginning is a bit tedious because you won’t earn a lot of money right away and each certificate costs more and more money. Maybe in the future they will open up the missions and decouple them from the career but there is no info on this right now.
They took the approach of most games with a progression system with the carrer. You start small and build your way up from there. Personally I like this approach and it still simulates real life where you also start small. Of course opinions differ and it isn’t for everyone. Right now for you it’s probably best to refund an come back in a couple of months when the biggest bugs are resolved (it can be really frustrating right now) and just give it a try then. Approach it with an open mind and mabye you’ll enjoy it
Thank you very much for your helpful explanations. I’ll see if the checkrides are a solution to get further. Again, ironically I’m a para drop pilot IRL and have to do a check flight every year. Can I get that credited? LOL - Seriously, it’s not just this crazy career thing. There are other things that annoy me about the FS 2024, I don’t even know which to name first, e.g. the 2024 Twin Otter. Textures outside are poor (not to say others) and so is the sound. Have a look on the famous Aerosoft version with sound upgrade, that’s what I’m missing, that disappointed me.
It’s not about the money for me. When I first saw the price, I was hoping to get something really new and truly better than with the FS 2020. Only when I see the FS 2024 will I know what I have with the 2020.
I have now passed the Sim PPL, my second exam 30 years after passing my first real PPL-A. Fortunately, you may get through the requirements pretty quickly and you can skip boring sections. And it’s even a bit of fun. Maybe I’ll keep it 2024 after all. Last question: What money are “cr”? Do I have to pay with true money? Stupid question, certainly, as I know MS. How much is 1 cr?
Cr is as far as I know just Credits. It is worth what it is, and that’s determined by what you want to buy. Finishing missions will get ypu credits, new lesson, airplanes, and crashes will cost you.
Tip: don’t sell your plane too soon, you’ll be locked, because the first plane is on a discount, the second: verry expensive.
The credits in career mode is the money you earn in career missions, not real world money you have to spend. The early flightseeing missions don’t pay well.
The trick seems to be get a new certification, then go do the special gold diamond mission that it offers you for that cert (even if it’s not in your local career area). That will unlock that category of missions everywhere. Those will pay more, allowing you to earn enough for the next exam quicker. I had several certs but only the basic flightseeing trips until I realized you don’t get things like ferry, skydiving, and other trips unless you do the special one offered for it. This isn’t explained in the game, and there are a ton of bugs riddled throughout career mode that will frustrate you unless you are willing to figure them out to work around or take a deviation.
One tip for the skydiving ones is not too follow the marked path after the drop. Once you radio that all jumpers are out, take your plane for a dive and race the jumpers back to the ground. If you follow the marked path, you’ll be dinged for taking to long.
What happens if I crash my only plane ? Is it needed to reset whole career then? Or do I still have some very basic default plane ? Just wondering…
For anyone who just wants to do the activities, you can opt to skip the Company thing and never own your own plane. You can just stick to “employee” missions.
With bugs outside player control frequently crashing planes, plus the insurance payouts not currently working, starting a company and buying planes is a gamble, only for people who really love the company management part or the aircraft maintenance simulation.
Although one trick you can do if you know you don’t want to do company stuff any time soon, is to (1) go ahead and start a company, which costs 1k + 24k or so for the one-time discounted airplane, (2) immediately sell the airplane, which will give you 170k or so (3) ignore the company you just made and go back to doing employee missions, using the 170k to pay for certifications for whatever activity you want to get to quicker.
(Normally people will say not to do this because you can only get the cheap 23k plane one time, but if you don’t care about the company part…)
Depends on your insurance. It will cost you always. I haven’t crashed yet, so I’m not sure, but what I’ve read is that you can earn your credits again to buy a new plane by flying missions.
This can take a few hours though. I think I read 30 hrs with 80% insurance. But don’t pin me on this.
Better be well prepared before starting your career missions. i mean: this is a sim man, not a game
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