Re: [Flightgear-devel] McDonnell Douglas MD-11 in FGAddon

[jasin <ja...@co...>]

Hi Edward,

I missed this reply sorry. But again, what value does a craft have to an 
end user when it is not finished?

As stated in a subsequent reply, this for me is about end user 
experience. The attic is exactly what FG needs to clean up around the 
place. IE. My kids have tons of toys, but when someone new stops by I 
want to present myself and my kids as cleanly as possible. By doing so, 
my new company is more likely to stay or even come back, surely not 
offended at the state of my appearance.

One of the largest turn off's for any genre of game/sim/etc. is the lack 
of an unfinished product. You certainly don't invest time into something 
that is unfinished.

With the attic, it allows FG to clean up. It certainly does not remove 
any hard work done by past users, just the opposite.
No craft DELETED, still usable from attic and No cruft for END USERS 
that don't care.
how is that not a win/win?

Jasin

As for the Orinthopter, does it deserve a rating? Great add the rating 
toss it back in FGAddon and let's have it *present* itself like a usable 
craft in the state it is in. The B1300d in fgaddon, I fixed a plethora 
of issues. I fly my version, the one in FGAddon isn't worth it. Case in 
point, send it to the attic!

At the end of the day you guys will do what you want. But as developers, 
the end user is the most important criteria, otherwise what is the 
point???

------ Original Message ------
From: "Edward d'Auvergne" <tru...@gm...>
To: "jasin" <ja...@co...>; "FlightGear developers discussions" 
<fli...@li...>
Sent: 9/9/2016 8:57:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] McDonnell Douglas MD-11 in FGAddon

>On 9 September 2016 at 14:02, jasin <ja...@co...> wrote:
>>  What's to disagree with exactly Edward?
>
>Let me give an example, the Ornithopter:
>
>     http://wiki.flightgear.org/UTIAS_Ornithopter_No.1
>
>It's flight model implementation using the UIUC FDM is exceptional,
>being written by a now professor in aerospace engineering, Michael
>Selig [1].  This is a show piece for the FlightGear project - no other
>flight sim can come close to correctly simulating this beast.
>
>By Thorsten's critera, we would not only remove this aircraft from the
>download pages, but we would knock out a huge proportion of the
>contents of FGAddon.  The majority of the UIUC aircraft with high
>quality FDMs would be gone.  What purpose would it serve to have the
>FlightGear aircraft collection massively reduced?
>
>Regards,
>
>Edward
>
>
>[1]  http://www.ae.illinois.edu/directory/profile/m-selig