Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-26 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Chris O'Neill wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:45 +0200, Csaba Halász wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: I wonder if it would be worth having a child-friendly MP Group (I think this term is easier to understand than usage

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-25 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Chris O'Neill wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 00:28 +0100, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Here's a first attempt at the dialog: http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/mp-display.png Looks pretty good to me. So, the user selects their MP group, and the groups they want to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-25 Thread HB-GRAL
Stuart Buchanan schrieb: Thanks for the feedback. If anyone else has any views, I'd be very interested to hear them. Hello Stuart Maybe the list should also contain a column group where you can see which user belongs to which group? Is this possible? Thanks -Y

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-25 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Peter Morgan wrote: Thats cool and will work imho. Means my kids can select newbie, whilst more experienced users can select skill levels or wanting levels. I wonder if it would be worth having a child-friendly MP Group (I think this term is easier to

[Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-25 Thread Jörg Emmerich
Hi Stuart sorry that I am that stubborn on this - but somehow I am afraid that this item could affect our ideas of a free and open community. And I am glad to see that Rob has similar concerns - and also Peters aspect of MPmap is making me worry even more - because which ATC does not also use the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-25 Thread Martin Spott
Jörg Emmerich wrote: [...] Also our Graphical-enthusiasts could develop nice certificates - even good enough to pinup at the working-place (and thus help us promote FlightGear!). There already is such thing. I just have a pile of printed copies which we've been handing out to our 'students'

[Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-24 Thread Jörg Emmerich
Thanks Stuart for the explanation - and I guess I understand now how it shall work in an event with a group of people having the same goals and settings (e.g. TGA). Although I still see the possibility that some (younger or older) kids try to show off by changing their grade and making as much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-24 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Jörg Emmerich wrote: Thanks Stuart for the explanation - and I guess I understand now how it shall  work in an event with a group of people having the same goals and settings (e.g. TGA). Although I still see the possibility that some (younger or older) kids

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-24 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Rob Shearman, Jr. wrote: I too have a few concerns about this proposal, partially due to the inherent invitation to segregate the community, but also due to the complexity of the various use-case scenarios, as illustrated by the example you valiantly attempted

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-24 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:56 PM, I wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Rob Shearman, Jr. wrote: I too have a few concerns about this proposal, partially due to the inherent invitation to segregate the community, but also due to the complexity of the various use-case scenarios, as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Morgan
Thats cool and will work imho. Means my kids can select newbie, whilst more experienced users can select skill levels or wanting levels. Also does this mean one can patch the mpmap to hide users aswell ? pete On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon,

[Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-23 Thread Jörg Emmerich
As someone doing ATC 4 days/week, I would like to bring in another point of view to this issue: Very definitely we need such a tool for the environment Stuart described as the main use-case are pilots wishing to practice .. ATC-controlled environment. And I agree, those (like e.g. the TGA-events)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-23 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Jörg Emmerich wrote: As someone doing ATC 4 days/week, I would like to bring in another point of view to this issue: snip So my take is: - yes, we need the ability to lock some people out, if it is getting too bad - but do not lock out people because they may