No, don't drop the flight models. We don't need another game (speaking for the Win freaks here).
Though I run Nix myself, I use Windows too and 99% of my job is on Windows, both in the business & home user sectors. I guess over the past few years I have distributed several hundred FlightGear CDs - all to Windows users. For those interested, I preinstall it and set it up - scenery and all and test it - on the PCs I sell. When PCs are in the shop, again, I install it and make sure it runs for those interested. The feedback has almost always been phenominal. Users love it. But that is the sticking point - almost all of them are simply average Windows users, or to be more accurate, clusers. Windows users are used to - put the CD in, answer a few questions and POOF! its done. Just because a user is interested in flying or a good challenge does not mean they are even marginaly technically competent on a PC. They never have had to really think about it as it is pretty much done for them - so this is what we get, many clusers. What Windows user group are we trying to appeal to? The clusers? If so, you need more people who do what I do in promoting FlightGear - some one to hold their hand. Or we need to package it all up in a nice, neat MSI package and front end that takes care of the technical issues behind the scenes. The tech crowd? No problem - they can handle it just the way it is, but they are definitely the minority. I guess me point is, who do we want to appeal to? Do we want FlightGear to be a common program such as MS FS2004? That will determine what we need to do. Does making to program easy to install and manage (in the Windows sense here) somehow cheapen its worth? Rant off. -- Chris Ridley OnCall Solutions Onsite Technology Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. On 10/3/05, David Ginger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The truth is that Flightgear does run cross platform. > > As to getting a larger audience, then simply drop the sophisticated > flight models, and make it more like an X Box game.... > > Is that what the mailing list really wants ? _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
