On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 07:19:31 +0000, John Doe wrote:

I really like scenery in flight simulators for site seeing and exploration
and have always wanted more, but FS9/FS2004's generated scenery is IMO the
definition of "eye candy" the way others use the word. I guess Microsoft
figured it was more efficient to include fake scenery than to increase the
realness. I wonder if that is the result of some research on user
preferences.

Just grumbling.

I don't know what you expect here. Do you think it's worth Microsoft
making accurate scenery for the entire world, vastly increasing the
development time and cost, requiring several DVDs to deliver it and taking
up 100 gigs worth of disk space just for you to fly around your local
airport all the time? My FS9 dir is now around 30 gigs worth and that is
just UK photgraphic scenery, airports and a few other add-ons.

If you want accurate scenery then you're going to have to pay extra for
it for the locations *you* want to see. Yes it would be nice to have it in
the sim to begin with but let's have a sense of realism here.

K