Tapping out of my thoughts
I'm new to flight gear, and am rejoicing in the pleasure. However I do
have some serious reservations about the project towards global world
domination that need to be addressed.
For a start without my coders/web/brief hat on, what must be reorganized
is that FlightGear is a platform.
1) X multi platform- windows and a *nix with a mac ?beos? as exe's
(issues is daily deb and daily exe)
2) Aircraft - ie an enviroment one can fly and lots of them
international (these need to be updated asap)
3) its got Runways - taken from another project (legal problem)
4) roads and water lights and built in not yet is a tide (osg problem)
5) U can see yourself on the map with others with MP (bandwidth Mp
problem - mpserver05 is overloaded)
6) Terra Gear failed beacause of bandwidth
7) Laptop does not connect to internat.. simulation fail.. it was good
earlier.. what happened...
So in above we are comparible with the likes of x-pane and micro-box,
vatsim and ivao and ivoa.org!
++Changes hat to marketing hat==
With my marketing helmet on and trying and giving away Cd's and
recycling hardware to the community...
The FS system is there, and tools and stuff is there, but its all
dispirate and squeky in some area as a platform. MOST NOTABLE in
presentation.
So I think really is has to look like a platform, ie a logo and brand
we can all go along with. it also needs the clean line of communication.
ie whether a pilot, a child, an oder child.
or a developer
or scenery designer
or a school teacher,
or bus driver at the airport..
or a bug in various developer areas such as sound, animation and that
complicated stuff...
There will be a HUGE issue when FlightGear takes off.. big time, then
crashes.. Lets say we get reviwed by the BBC and one out of 10 million
try to download scenario ? have we prepared for that.? Whats the server
scenario. ??
A pilot user will then argue about why its NOT cool, cos it crashed.
And that is the area of concern for me at the moment.
So I forsee that problem pretty soon unless we can either
* have as LAN system for download and local server interop
* A live server on a farm
* a proxy forwarding system..
* VOIP is in?
* Can asterix help us ?
end of thoughts?
pete
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