Microsoft Flight Simulator Deluxe Or Premium

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Gabelo Camphire

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Aug 5, 2024, 5:21:41 AM8/5/24

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SinceI got all the other flight sims anyway I plan to buy the FS just to find out. Question is: Standard, Premium or Deluxe.

What is the difference: money. And 5 planes and 5 airports each. Thats it. So lets have a look.

I dont care about airports.

I dont care about jet airliners.

I dont care about ultralights.

I dont care about aerobatic.

So I strike them out to show my attitude (only in premium and deluxe).

The Premium Deluxe Edition includes everything from the Microsoft Flight Simulator Deluxe edition plus 5 additional highly accurate planes with unique flight models and 5 additional handcrafted international airports.

@GepardenK are you including the absolutely awesome airports available for free (or included in the Gateway) for XP? Don't bother to count them. No contest. All of this "apples and oranges" stuff is really getting old.

@GepardenK Not a knock on your post. Just an observation. XP is a mature offering with a huge community many of whom are expert at crafting scenery for this sim. There is so much out there that is absolutely knock out beautiful that comparing MSFS versions to what XP has to offer is just not fair (to MSFS).

One very interesting point that we will have to find out about is: how open will FS2020 be to developers? Here at XP I just have to ask about a utility or scenery and if not already somebody made it then a few days later someone will come up with it. Change the color of the sky or shape of the clouds - no problem. Freeware aircraft - there are really good ones. Add a display of fuel consumption - piece of cake. Paint the runways yellow - I just did because I can.

what's annoying though is how many GA baby planes are included in the sim and not many airliners nor any military. c'cmon guy, we don't need 15 different prop planes. I want a fighter jet, a 757 and erj.

Again it is interesting to see how different peoples preferences are. I wouldnt miss airliners at all and prefer different GA, others insist on great airports while I dont, and I absolutely couldt care less about jet fighters.

I went for the Basic version and will buy a GA aircraft if all the stock ones really suck.

If I want to fly a tubeliner, I will use X-Plane as I have the FF A320 and the ToLiss A319.

There's no point flying at over 300 knots when the scenery is only coming it at 10megabits/sec.

40mbit+ was listed as the ideal. One way to look at it might be that if you are doing 300kts, you are likely over 10,000ft, so maybe you could simply lower the quality as you won't notice it as much as someone flying much lower. Or aren't observing that kind of thing, and scaring the passengers. ?

There's no point in doing that. I have another tool for flying tubeliners with a couple of decent payware aircraft, it's called X-Plane. MFS will be fine for flying GA below 3,000ft AGL and it looks to be quite easy to set up multiplayer. The way I see it is that we now have at least two sims to use for flying and it's a matter of selecting the best one for the experience we want. I also like flying helicopters, but I suck big time at flying them.

Just to add, I have ortho scenery for all the areas that I currently fly over using X-Plane, so I don't need to drop the quality of the scenery, as it's not being streamed. MSF will be mostly used for parts of the world where I don't have ortho, and when I want to use multiplayer. I currently have about eight terabytes of ortho for X-Plane.

I'll be getting the sim in about a year or two (current ancient PC wont run it) and will be getting the Deluxe one with all those extra planes. I was gonna get the boxed DVD set which looks sweet but then (fortunately) came across a thread on Aerosoft where they said that DVD1 had to be in the drive to play. That ruined it for me and now I've decided to go with Steam.

Since I got all the other flight sims anyway I plan to buy the FS just to find out. Question is: Standard, Premium or Deluxe.

What is the difference: money. And 5 planes and 5 airports each. Thats it. So lets have a look.

I dont care about airports.

I dont care about jet airliners.

I dont care about ultralights.

I dont care about aerobatic.

So I strike them out to show my attitude (only in premium and deluxe).

Well you might not like them, but other people actually do... each simulator is a preference to each user, what you don't care about maybe important to other pilots, for the record it is airliners and airports to recreate real world services, obviously not your type of breakfast cereal, so I don't actually care about your preferences either and not a good lead on the discussion were as what users actually want out of a simulator.

I will most likely go for the basic version. However one thing I didnt find out yet is if it will be possible to "upgrade" to premium or premium deluxe later on, or even better buy aircrafts individually as (microtransactions) since I am only interested in very few ones such as the 787 and sr22. It would be a shame if people who get the basic version never have the chance to get these planes because they are exclusive to a more expensive Version and they bought the wrong one in the first place. Hopefully there will be at least the possibility to upgrade later on.

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In December 2012, over six years after its release, the FSX multiplayer matchmaking system over the GameSpy network was discontinued. On July 8, 2014, Dovetail Games, the developer of Train Simulator, announced that it had signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft to continue development on FSX and the production of new content.[2] On December 18, 2014, the FSX: Steam Edition version of the simulator was made available through digital distribution via Steam. The updated release of FSX includes support for Windows 8.1 and later, along with updated hosting of FSX multiplayer features through Steam.[3]

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