ORIGINAL: Bad_Daddy
There were rumors of a rebate when they went to 3.5 that never materialized, but I thought I read they would rebate a whopping $25 for 3.0 and 3.5 owners. Be still my beating heart.
Their interpretation of rewards to their loyal customers is very lack-luster, and that's exactly how I feel about wasting money for version 4. Upgrading from 3.0 to 3.5 caused me the expense of upgrading my video card, and the card I now have is not powerful enough to run their latest version of whiz-bang, so I'll get to spend another $100+ for a new video card. Their Expansion discs only have a couple of models that interest me, but you have to load the whole damned disc to get those few models.
I think I'll wait for version 5+ so they can finally get the @#$@! physics corrected, and get the software fixed to allow me to use the hard drive space when / if I want to, and save myself the money and headaches.
ymmv
Well the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.5 was free....
3.5 IS a much bigger resource hog than the 3.0 (IMHO) and I had to monkey with the physics to get more realistic flight characteristics. I'm pushing the hardware on this little computer as it is and don't want to put it on the other computer. I was hoping for some improved physics, kind of like the first or second (?) update to 3.5 did address a lot of the physics problems I saw with the initial release. The other thing that interests me is the better controller.
If it takes more RAM and a bigger video card AGAIN.... I don't think I'll go for it just to get a better controller...[sm=idea.gif]