World Hub Discussion

Yeah, they completely rewrote my edits for KSMF, specifically reverted back the taxiway W extension I corrected, which is 8 years old now. I’m guessing they let the AI overwrite it, probably based on an ancient aerial, the use of which is utterly ridiculous. Funny thing is you can still see where I manually placed the taxiway light strings to conform with reality, but they now lead to nowhere (they actually block taxiway Y at D in the sim, which no longer exists in reality). Also, the drainage ditches and gravel access roads surrounding the airport had very noticeable polygons written over the aerial and it looks awful.

If this kind of heavy-handed nonsense is going to be the norm, I’d rather just not put in the days and days of volunteer work. But I will complain loudly because this kind of stuff - taxiways, lighting, errant trees, even parking spots, is all very important in an operational sense. Errors in these will literally interfere with realistic flying, causing us to work around them in unrealistic “dangerous” ways. Fixing these items is literally the raison d’être of the World Hub and letting AI screw it back up at the expense of volunteer effort… I’m not having it.