MAIW packages, some criticism

[-foxtail-]

First of all many thanks for packages MAIW. It is great work.
But as it seems to me flight plans are too active. Daily huge number of planes flies from base on base. By quantity of daily starts it is possible to think that there is a third world war.
It leads to realism distortion. If to look EGNO Bae Test Center Warton that it looks not as the test centre, and as the large air base with tens fighters - Saudi AF, RAF, Bae, etc. When I looked Google that have counted only four planes.
Certainly the traffic in MSFS in many respects the compromise but to reduce quantity of daily starts not a problem.

[f4nutter]

foxtail, when google took that sat picture all the plane's were out on exercise, and four went tech. that sort's that one out for ya.
but if you dont like to many aircraft movments in your sim turn down your traffic percentage, and that sort's that one for ya.

have fun though.

[nickblack423]

Your comments here are always appreciated, but if we did it the other way we would get people coming here and saying, the traffic never moves. We are also stuck in that we cannot put aircraft in hangers that would have doors closed as it would look silly seeing them taxy through hanger doors.
We have to balance realism with giving the users some traffic to interact with while they fly in and out of various bases. If you are using FS to sit at the end of a runway spotting traffic and wanting it to look exactly the same as in the real world, then you are in the wrong place and the wrong hobby. Our traffic is designed to be eye-cany first and foremost, for users to interact with. We have pushed the limits so far now that our packages are incredibly complex and detailed now, but it is still just designed primarily to be in the background. Don't try to use it as something it is not and you won't be dissaponited.

Nick

[MIKE JG]

The other problem is with the limit of how the flightplans are written. We can either write them in a daily or weekly format. Either way it's a repeating cycle that DOES NOT match the real world in any way shape or form. There is absolutely nothing we can do to change that.

We do not have the luxury of say a World of AI where they can simply copy an airline's schedule exactly to reflect the real world. We have to make up all of our flightplans since military AI does not operate on a schedule. Since we have to make up their flight schedules, there is a lot of variablity in the flightplans.

The beautiful thing though is that you are free to go in and edit the flightplans to your liking. Then you can make them exactly like you want.

As the others have said, the traffic "%" slider is about the only thing you can do to tune down the numbers of aircraft.

Either way like Nick said, we can either have them sitting around most of the time and people will be unhappy about that, or we can have them flying most of the time and people will be unhappy about that. We simply can't win either way we decide to do it.

Since they are aircraft models, we like to see them flying.