Hi, Developers --
I had a thought about what I think would be a fairly easy patch for someone,
which would improve the replay system with respect to Multiplayer.
This improvement would basically NOT send position information through
Multiplayer when the replay is being shown. Instead, the airplane's "current"
(i.e. "suspended") position, the position that the aircraft was in when the
replay started and where the user's local FG resumes from when the replay is
over, should be sent.
This will eliminate two (admittedly minor) problems: (1) When I make an
approach and landing and then taxi off the runway and park, I sometimes like to
re-watch my landing from an external view to critique it. However, when I do
this in Multiplayer mode, my "replay phantom" may end up in conflicting
airspace with the player who was following me on approach, or with some other
player who enters that area. (2) When the replay info is sent to the
Multiplayer server, it causes some oddities in FlightTracker, such as an
extraordinarily high calculated groundspeed when the plane's position
instantaneously changes from the "current" to the beginning of the replay.
I know most of you are scrambling to tweak and refine features for the next
release, and maybe this can wait until after that process. But it seems to me
that it shouldn't be too hard and maybe someone can tackle it in a few hours'
time.
Cheers,
-R. (aka MD-Terp)
Robert M. Shearman, Jr.
Transit Operations Supervisor,
University of Maryland Department of Transportation
also known as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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