Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon

You'd have to define "realism" first, but the important point is 
Conway's law. In terms of my definition of realism, artificial traffic 
influeces downstream user expirience.

Keith

On 24/05/2026 13:46, David Hudach wrote:
> I wouldn’t say others could care less about what you are working on. 
> But aside from that, isn’t there a common goal, a desired end result 
> whether stated or not.  I think that is the point. What is your goal 
> in your area? Is realism a consideration?
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 2:09 AM Keith Paterson 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     On 22/05/2026 23:04, [email protected] wrote:
>
>     > On 5/22/26 1:09 PM, David Hudach wrote:
>     >> I guess I look at it this way. If the intent isn't to make FG a
>     >> realistic flight simulator, then why put all of the time and
>     effort
>     >> into realistic scenery, live weather, accurate instrumentation and
>     >> data (GPS, VOR, etc). Why not just call it a game and be done with
>     >> it. Why put in all the work to model the real world on just about
>     >> every level except for the actual airplane itself for which FG
>     exists?
>     >
>     > it seems to me that the separation between the (ad hoc) development
>     > groups is not known to you... if it is, you seem to be, somehow,
>     > glossing over it...
>     >
>     > first we have the ""world simulation team" that has developed the
>     > world simulator... then we have the various "craft simulator teams"
>     > that develop the various craft they decide to work on... each team
>     > works to develop their chosen area to some level of accuracy...
>     >
>     > all the teams work together with the "world simulation team" so
>     their
>     > craft can operate properly within the world and the "world
>     simulation
>     > team" works with the "craft simulation teams" to help make the
>     world
>     > easier to interface with for the craft to work properly...
>     sometimes
>     > this means adding new routines... sometimes it means deprecating
>     old
>     > methods and introducing new ones...
>     >
>     I was reluctant to pitch in, but this post really agreed with my
>     view.
>     Basically I am "Team AI/ATC". Maybe we should ne more aware of
>     Conway's
>     law a bit more. Like you describe it we have more a bunch of teams
>     than
>     a single organisation. Each team has their own goals in my view.
>     Mine is
>     to improve the AI/ATC, which others couldn't care less about.
>
>     Keith
>
>
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