Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon
Keith Paterson <[email protected]>
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Sorry I knew it was a mistake to tea bag here. I'm a software architect. Conway's law states that the architecture of a system will reflect the organisation structure. Flightgear perfectly reflects this law. Keith On 24/05/2026 18:04, David Hudach wrote: > Please state Conway’s Law as I’m not familiar. If we need to define > realism then maybe the discussion has no sensible purpose. I will say > that the goal isn’t perfection, just continuing to strive to model the > real world. I thought we all know that, hence realistic flight > dynamics, instruments and so forth. > > Thanks, > Dave > On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 7:24 AM Keith Paterson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flightgear-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flightgear-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel