Originally Posted by bomath
One of the BIG problems with this kind of simulation: while it doesn't significantly add to the „realism” (short of hiking into a cockpit and putting someone fire .45 rounds at you), it's a hindrance to the people that don't want to memorize some stupid button presses. I mean... When I take off, my sequence is F2-mousepan-L-I-F8-mousepan vertical-PgDown-V-V.
Explanation: in German planes (which I'm flying the most) the pilot is supposed to be a midget, and the cockpit is exageratedly obstructing the view so... F2, to check if there's anyone else taxiing on the runway brackets; the mousepan/TrackIRpan would serve the same purpose, but here I'm explaining why I have to press F2.
Next: L for lights, because (even with the lights on) some other people don't bother to check if I'm already taxiing, and at least my navlights should tell them something.
And so on, and so forth; everybody here knows that right after you press Refly, we're starting an already too long list of keypresses, even before the plane moves a single inch.
My point: complex engine management is just something for the MS FlightSim guys, obsessed to cheat themselves into believing that they really can fly a plane, if faced with a situation. Yeah right... The bad part? Because of the CEM somebody that casually flies a Bf109-G6 A/S can be chased and hunted down by a *theoretically* slower plane, like LaGG, because the LaGG player learned the quirks of the game. So then I ask you, gentlemen: is this really simulation, or just adds to the fact that it's only a game and you can "win" by robotically typing some predefined keysets, memorized by heart and not really calculated?
It's as useless as the separate engine start... It might be realistic, but it just substracts from the fun. Do remember, it's a game and nobody pays you to memorize sequences.
Finally, the last thing that hurts everyone here, lurking to find out sooner some info about the next upcoming patch or the potential Korea sim: each and every "feature" takes time to research and program. Does anybody benefit from this delay? Maybe only the MS guys, programing the CFS4...
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