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Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby CaptB » Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:28 pm

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Spoiler alert: Fire in the hole !

Postby Hooray » Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:59 pm

Okay, just spent 10 minutes going through the whole thing.

If anything, it merely proves that there is next to nothing to be gained by the FG community by attracting the typical MS-Windows based multiplayer-flight sim enthusiast (what a surprise !).

That is, except for targeting high school/college students specifically.

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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby stuart » Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:13 pm

Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware that a survey had taken place. I wonder if that's a reflection of where it was advertised, and if that means it under-represents the FG community.

I agree with Hooray that we're going to struggle to attract the typical flightsimmer - it's particularly interesting that they are more likely to be using payware than previously, and are spending significant amounts on an ongoing basis both on software and hardware (a lot of 10XX graphics cards :)).

However, I think there are some interesting nuggets there:
- 2.2.2. The gender gap is just depressing (98%+ male)
- 2.3.3. Surprisingly high proportion of RL pilots (> 25%)
- 2.5.5. Looks like people are saying they are increasingly using payware. I wonder if that's partly a reflection of the ultra-high fidelity payware that's available - OrbX, PMDG
- 2.6.2 Given the relatively low proportion of mainland Europeans in the FS communtity, interesting that FSWeekend is so popular. I guess it is attracting a larger proportion of the community than (say) the Flightsim Show at Cosford.
- 2.6.5 Higher proportion than I would expect are writing software or are 3d modellers ( 13%), so my view of them as purely consumers is perhaps unrealistic.
- 2.6.8 Not quite sure what to make of this data. Discord, Facebook, Reddit are being used constantly, but unclear if this is just for flightsim purposes.

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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby StuartC » Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:34 pm

Eye candy.
The Typical casual Fs user is more interested in eye candy than actual flight dynamics.
After spending over a year with FG in the line of fire against the other sims ( Helicopter users ), we can and do win hands down on flight dynamics but yet users will not stick with FG due to the lack of the eye candy scenery and that its too much effort apparently to make it run well. Also in addition to that, the other gripes fired back at me are - lack of head tracking, lack of VR support.
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby curt » Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:55 pm

One quick comment. Based on web site stats, our main user base is the USA with Germany being about half of that, and the UK following in 3rd. (Then Italy, France, Brazil, Canada ...) Usa represents about 21% of the visitors, so the rest of the world is pretty well represented. If you look around at the code/core developers, my subjective sense is that the larger percent come from Europe.

I agree that if the survey wasn't advertised in common flightgear channels, then there would be a pretty good chance we were under represented ... if it matters. My sense was that this survey was created to serve commercial developers and help them tune their efforts.
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby Isaak » Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:16 pm

Sad, I did fill in the form, but didn't think of posting it on the mailing list/forums. Will do next year!
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby Hooray » Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:33 pm

It would actually be very interesting if the parties/communities involved here could also be involved in suggestion topics/questions to be covered, depending on their main focus - I could imagine 10-20 additional questions that would be highly relevant from an OSS standpoint.

Next time, we should probably promote such polls via the newsletter/forum and devel list, just like we are doing for sourceforge'ns project of the month...
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Re: Spoiler alert: Fire in the hole !

Postby msalama » Sat Jun 29, 2019 5:22 pm

typical MS-Windows based multiplayer-flight sim enthusiast


Not so sure about that. Some DCS realism buffs, including myself, do want a civvie sim alternative that's inclined towards maximum realism. And isn't FG just that?
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby Hooray » Sat Jul 06, 2019 12:11 pm

I wouldn't necessarily say that FlightGear development is by and large driven by striving for maximum realism, there are too many different goals/priorities involved, and people with different backgrounds.

FlightGear development is primarily shaped by contributors who are able, and willing, to accept some very real constraints (think resources like time, manpower, funding), and who nevertheless still want to be part of this effort/community for a variety reasons. While "realism" clearly is a declared "goal", it's not necessarily being worked on in any kind of orchestrated capacity, it merely "happens", i.e. in an organic fashion - as in, a piece of software that is evolving over time, with functionality/features sometimes collapsing over time, and being re-invented/adjusted in an incremental fashion.

I'd say, none of the long-term contributors are consciously working towards competing with commercial counterparts, it's just "en vogue" to occasionally highlight that /some/ aspects of FlightGear seem superior to what these products have to offer, "under some circumstances" - but that seems more like a way among contributors to mutually motivate themselves ;-)

While this development model may seem rather fragile and even inferior to commercial products, it's a rather self-sustaining model actually, because those people who do put up with those previously mentioned constraints, get to shape FlightGear without being faced by constraints that commercial products face regularly.
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby legoboyvdlp » Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:39 pm

I mean I would hope that nobody is striving for maximum unrealism... :P
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby xDraconian » Sat Jul 06, 2019 6:01 pm

legoboyvdlp wrote in Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:39 pm:... striving for maximum unrealism... :P

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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby frtps » Sun Jul 07, 2019 12:42 pm

Some interesting tidbits from an Australian point of view: Australia is at number 5 in terms of responses (5%), and YSSY (Sydney International) is in the top 10 departure airports. And there is an Australian flight sim expo! Who knew? Except they only accept certain commercial sims as exhibitors according to their webpage.
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby msalama » Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:30 am

Well the development process doesn't seem to strive for maximum arcadishness either :mrgreen: No, I get it that goals, priorities and personal preferences differ, but by and large it at least seems that maintaining a high overall level of realism is important for the core devs. And that's one of the things I like about FG.
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby V12 » Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:23 am

Results of the new Navigraph'survey is here :
https://blog.navigraph.com/post/1906239 ... 19-results

Results are very similar with 2018 survey. Still to few woman in the sim community, still 10% users use old FSX. Interesting thing - 56% users want MSFS2020 without any knowledge about quality of the included aircrafts.
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Re: Navigraph's Flight simulator Survey Results.

Postby tdammers » Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:22 am

Well, have you seen those preview videos? **OF COURSE PEOPLE WANT THAT**.
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