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

On 5/27/26 18:28, Curtis Olson wrote:

> Jumping from overly generic to overly specific ... I wonder if some sort 
> of aircraft review system (like an amazon review) would be useful?  
> People could give aircraft up to 5 stars and attach a comment or 
> review.  I would want these comments to be currated to avoid spam or 
> inappropriate things (not to filter negative comments.)  But developing 
> such a system and integrating it in a way that people would see it and 
> contribute to it and benefit from it would be a significant effort.  The 
> current self rating system is far from perfect, but no system will be 
> all that great.  Don't forget, each person that comes to this project 
> has different interests and different priorities.  What is fully 
> developed with a 5-star rating for one person might be severely lacking 
> for someone else.  What is fully developed for someone running 
> flightgear on a laptop might be different from what is fully developed 
> for someone building a physical cockpit in their living room or garage.

There is another thing; When I developed the the F-16 it was state of 
the art, among the best available aircraft. And then time passes, 
FlighGear evolves, new tools emerge, shaders get introduced and what was 
5 star back then would now barely made it to 1 star.

So chances are that aircraft with a too high rating for the current 
state of affairs just haven't been touched for  a while.

Erik

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