--- Gijs de Rooy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Tonight we've had kind of discussion on the in-game-chat about
> the idea to seperate playing and flying in different MP-servers.
Hi Gijs,
A very interesting point, and I am pleasantly surprised that you were able to
use
the MP chat facility for the discussion, if only because I didn't think it was
robust enough :)
Personally, I feel that one of the major strengths of the FG MP implementation
has been the fact that everyone on MP is in the single environment/airspace.
Forcing people to choose between different servers would lose some of this, as
well as making things more challenging to configure.
Additionally I think it might segment what is currently quite a cohesive online
community. I haven't used MSFS for a couple of years, but I get the impression
that there are separate server environments there. Perhaps someone with
experience of this might care to comment?
For me personally, part of the fun of MP is that there are beginners there who
are learning. If we split off a "serious" server port, I think this will
discourage people from trying to learn how ATC etc. works.
You mentioned the alternative of going to a different airport. I think this is
possibly the easiest way to separate the "players" from the "simulators". We now
have a number of detailed airports, so there is little need to hang around KSFO.
However, there is a general issue that the current approach only allows one to
switch off all aircraft or MP-chat. In the long term, this isn't really
sustainable, as a small number of obnoxious people could make the environment
un-bearable.
One option I have though off would be to add a function to ignore specific
call-signs, so they don't appear and their messages are ignored. Such a function
could also be used to ignore those not "playing by the rules",
Till Busch has been working on a very nice table which shows all the MP aircraft
in range, their aircraft type, heading and distance. I think would be fairly
straightforward to enhance this with a check-box which would toggle the display
of specific aircraft. People could then choose to ignore/display new aircraft,
and save off a list of ignored/displayed aircraft.
I think this would achieve what you want without splitting the MP servers
completely.
Of course, nothing is stopping anyone from setting up their own MP server and
only inviting their serious friends :)
Gijs - you might want to put this to the -user list as well, as I think this is
as much an issue for users and developers.
-Stuart
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