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Re:Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine by lupire on Monday June 17, 2024 @09:13AM (#40705296)
MSFS is a flight simulator, not an aircraft operations simulator. Similar, but different.
Re:Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine by Retric on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:33AM (#40706018)
MSFS can be used as a flight simulator but the default c172 is unrealistically easy to fly. That’s exactly the kind of thing you see in games which care more about fun than realism.

So people can argue around MSFS’s trim modeling, ground modeling etc, but the issue isn’t with the physics engine’s specific compromises it’s a more fundamental problem.