Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rating System Redux (was Re:Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 12)

2011-06-01 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 03:02:09 PM Vivian Meazza wrote: Hal, I can't follow your logic - because there are some aircraft that need a lot of work, the system shouldn't recognize advanced features in other aircraft that do have them? I should have been clearer - Sorry. What I was trying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rating System Redux (was Re:Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 12)

2011-06-01 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 10:26:18 PM Robert wrote: I absolutely agree with Vivian. The users should know about planes that need much resources (CPU, RAM, VRAM). This value should not influence the total score. I think how much compute power is needed and how difficult a model is to use/fly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rating System Redux (was Re:Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 12)

2011-06-01 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Adding to Hal's comments: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Hal V. Engel wrote: On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 03:02:09 PM Vivian Meazza wrote: I also disagree with Stuart that such advanced features are nice-to-haves and add little to the simulation - why the hell are we including them then? Do the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rating System Redux (was Re:Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 12)

2011-05-31 Thread Vivian Meazza
...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 May 2011 23:45 To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rating System Redux (was Re:Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 12) On Monday, May 30, 2011 12:47:41 PM Stuart Buchanan wrote: I don't have a good answer for the other items

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rating System Redux (was Re:Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 12)

2011-05-31 Thread Robert
I absolutely agree with Vivian. The users should know about planes that need much resources (CPU, RAM, VRAM). This value should not influence the total score. Maybe using the total score is not a good idea at all, because some users prefer the eye candy and don't worry about frame rate too much,