Its individual I would say. What is more interesting about his coment imo is that there are people coming to DCS ( World ) because of the civi planes. What is good sign.
Hope we will see more civies coming to DCS.
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Iâll beat my pet drum about DCS, we need better nav aides for civilian flying, and a LOT more of them. Iâm pretty my little slice on central Texas has more VORâs than the DCS maps combined.
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Comrade, who you think we are? Idiot capitalists with guided smartphones? In Russia, real man fly with glorious eyeball of motherland, fly course on compass, sometimes smell of Dmitriâs vodka.
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Not to mention the ATC and AWACs need a major overhaul to the point where they are actually useful.
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Whatâs wrong with AWACS? it could certainly be improved, but itâs not useless by any means.
So, the Val is completed!
First and foremost, this couldnât have happened without @PorcoRosso86 templates, so⊠Dude, youâre my hero!
Second⊠I canât do the props blur in motion as of now because itâs a godawful time sink for very little gain.
It doesnât look horrible anyways.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O_nC9TB-_ACrCOoa3jQ_1msLdJ0dhZlj
Here are some screens, feel free to download it and take better ones!
Next up, the Pre War US Navy trainer version!
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Actually⊠I think the black sides of the nose should be arcing a bit⊠UhmâŠ
Well thatâs for version 2.o âŠ
Sorry to be contrarian but I donât want DCS to be all things to all users. DCS has a specific funtion and it performs that function well. I just donât see it as ever being a good civilian sim in much the same way that I donât foresee MS Excel as ever being good photo editor.
Why do I care? Because if DCS starts offering users the navigable world at itâs current prices, it will become even more bloated and buggyâŠand expensive.
I think the point is more about DCS giving all sorts of tools to modules makers.
ED has, IMO, a good idea of where to go- that doesnât exclude fleshing out also non combat related apsects of flyingâŠ
Iâm willing to elaborate better but not.on the phone. Typing like this is killing me.
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I agree! ED should stick to what they do best.
In order for DCS to ever become a civilian flightsim, they need to open up for modders in a big way.
But I donât mind a civilian airplane in DCS, now and then 
As well as campaign/mission designers. Should the possibility of a career mode come up, then something like a Yak-52 would allow a start from a basic trainer, then up to advanced, before finally transitioning to a selected aircraft. Done right, this can be a lot of fun, even for sim veterans.
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Totally, think about Take On Helicopters!
Fixed it⊠Also added another detailing.
Hope anyone likes it. Still uses the same download link.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O_nC9TB-_ACrCOoa3jQ_1msLdJ0dhZlj
PreviewâŠ
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Arguably the Yak is aligned with the primary mission behind the platform: Providing a desktop sim environment for professional aviators. the first 2 modules, Black Shark and Warthog, were borne of military contracts for a desktop simulator to gain systems familiarity. The very concept of there being a consumer version of those products is in and of itself a diverging path from that mission.
Taken on those terms, one could argue the Yak has more in common with the KA-50 and the A-10C modules than any of the recently released third party modules.
Iâm still not buying it till thereâs a sale though.
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Italian Abyssinian Scheme
https://uploads.mudspike.com/original/3X/5/4/54bbe84b5445ec8855dc4ecde2369bb224bc0fc6.png
Largely still a WIPâŠ
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I agree. I wasnât referring to the Yak specifically (even though its the yak thread).
Actualy I dont expect DCS being competition to XP or P3D.
But as there are people who just fire DCS for some quick dogfight or mudmoving there could be people who will fire DCS for some patern work and aerobatics.
After all its Free2Play
This was right along my chain of thought; Take On Helicopters fizzled out a bit on the end result, but I see a very real possibility for similar in DCS. Further, we have to keep in mind that while a lot of us may have cut our teeth on sims since the 80s and 90s, there are a lot of people who havenât â and thereâs a dearth of games that portray flying at all nowadays. Sure, they might grab the bug first because itâs cool, but they might be readily discouraged by the complexity and thus throw it aside, never to play it again. Being able to catch these people and say âHey, thereâs something a bit easier to get started with, oh and it has this cool and fun campaign to go with it!â just might get them to invest long-term in the sim.
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Yeah, I donât think of a Yak-52 a civilian aircraft. Although, in my fantasies (Trade-A-Plane), Iâve begun the process of making a strong argument for one to the finance manager
Forget Trade-a-Plane. Barnstormers is where its at!