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The common pattern we get to see is that people want '''their''' particular idea to be implemented immediately, expecting others to drop pretty much anything else and provide first-class support to them. | The common pattern we get to see is that people want '''their''' particular idea to be implemented immediately, expecting others to drop pretty much anything else and provide first-class support to them. | ||
Obviously, this is not how things work - just imagine for a second, somebody were to ask you to drop your own ideas and projects in favor of some random new idea, in a volunteer project. | Obviously, this is not how things work - just imagine for a second, somebody were to ask you to drop your own ideas and projects in favor of some random new idea, in a volunteer project. | ||
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|<nowiki>the main problem seems to be "tunnel vision", things have to be done in a certain way or they're considered inferior inevitably, which also isn't helping - but technically, we have more building blocks in FG to create a dogfighting WW2 environment than we have building blocks for any modern airliner simulation. If you don't believe me look up any well-developed airliner, and check those todo lists - the majority is about FG issues, i.e. things that cannot be worked around easily. </nowiki><br/><nowiki> | |||
In fact, in the pre-Canvas days we had clever guys like omega95 who used massively complicated XML animations to come up with a navigation display, despite lacking a 2D drawing API. But that was basically a dead-end. </nowiki><br/><nowiki> | |||
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And even in the Canvas days, there's a ton of stuff that isn't currently supported easily. A WW2 simulation would not encounter many real showstoppers, there's a ton of stuff that can be accomplished even without any explicit support, as can be seen in flug's bombable addon - he never got any support from core developers to pull all that off, it's all his own work, representing probably hundreds of hours of testing, designing and coding.</nowiki> | |||
|{{cite web |url=http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=207692#p207692 | |||
|title=<nowiki>Re: Trouble at EDDF-Triangle</nowiki> | |||
|author=<nowiki>Hooray</nowiki> | |||
|date=<nowiki>Thu May 01</nowiki> | |||
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However, there '''is''' a way to have your cake and still it eat, by going more slowly, and by sharing. | However, there '''is''' a way to have your cake and still it eat, by going more slowly, and by sharing. | ||