Nice idea! Why not add a system like: 5 stars for a very complete aircraft like the Senecca II or one for the not so goog like the fokker 70/100?
So everyone can see, where is potential to develop?! Regards HHS --- Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The aircraft discussion has been interesting. One > stumbling block I've > come across when deciding which aircraft to download > before is the > quality guessing game. The web site lists the > author's assessment, but > I've found that to be less useful than it could be, > because some > authors say "alpha" when in fact the plane is much > better than one > which says "production", esp in the case where a > "production" plane > has bitrotted. The subjective judgement by different > people is not a > good basis for making decisions. For me personally, > the decision in > question is not the download itself but the hassle > of putting the > downloaded file in the right place and firing up > flightgear for a test > flight. For others with slower internet the download > may be the big > thing. > > I'm not sure what the solution is, but here's a few > random ideas. > There could be one person that assigns the > subjective quality tags, > maybe out of a set, e.g. "flies, 3d, realistic" or > "2d, crashes" or > whatever. Maybe a committee of 2 or 3, or 2 or 3 > individuals that have > agreed on what each tag means. > > Another possibility is some kind of user voting > system, but I like > that idea less and it probably means more work. > > Another idea is writing up some guidelines on how > the authors should > describe the plane in the status field, so that even > though it's still > a subjective description by many individuals, at > least they are based > on some common ground. > > Just my $0.02. > > -- > Hans Fugal > Fugal Computing > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > __________________________________ Ihr erstes Baby? Holen Sie sich Tipps von anderen Eltern. www.yahoo.de/clever ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
