"quilljar" wrote

Sorry John Doe,
But I think that Microsoft, although obscenely rich, is too easy a
target, rather like 'The Government'.

It is like government.

If there was more money to be made by producing a sim which had
everybody's underpants and tooth fillings show up as well as each
brick in the Taj Mahal,

There is an interstate highway around my big city which is barely
recognizable/followable in FS9/FS2004. It looks like a dirt road at best.
The rest is desolation, except for a few low detail buildings.

You must have some very big tooth fillings.

I am sure they would produce it.
At the moment, outside the military, there aren't the computers around
that can handle FS9 even at its present state.

I remember when my monitor displayed 16 colors and I complained about games
requiring 256. In fact, my system was way substandard. After a few
upgrades, I ran Multi-Player Battletech online at about 2 frames per
second. It's really tough trying to hit a target when you cannot tell its
heading. But it was fun anyway.

By about the time you are being slid into the crematorium I
daresay something approaching your desires will be on the workbench in
Seattle :-)

But making scenery much more detailed isn't my argument. I wrote "Seattle
looks much better than most other cities I have seen in FS9/FS2004". My
frame rates are about 15 FPS over Seattle with all scenery sliders maxed,
except no fake scenery generated.

My system:
....K7T Turbo2 mainboard
....Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz) CPU, thanks to BIOS upgrade from MSI
....512 MB, 133 MHz RAM
....NVIDIA GeForce3 video card, faster than low end GeForce4
....Windows Millennium