X-Plane 10 is looking very promising to me, much more promising considering it has a live development team unlike some other civil sims out there that are unsupported yet have their own forum

Seriously FSX has been around for so long, and the planes still feel like flying on the moons gravity. Something fresh is needed and I'm looking forward to X-Plane 10!

Can we have an X-Plane forum?

Not sure if I agree with the "moon gravity" comment, and I'm not sure what your referring to with a "live development" team, but I do second the notion that X-plane could use a dedicated forum section under civilian aviation.

Xplane.org has the biggest xplane forum online.

...and Simviation has a much larger FSX forum than SimHQ. The whole reason I come to SimHQ is so I don't have to worry about following/posting on a dozen message boards for all the sims I play. I suspect the creation of this site was to serve the community along those lines. Acting as a type of Head quarters for simulation software discussion...

I think a while ago there used to be an X-Plane forum, but as most of the SHQ users have been FS flyers, participation was low, and it got merged into a more general forum.
We just need more X-Plane posters. =)

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Yes, x plane 10 is the main thing that will move people over from FSX

I doubt a new release would encourage people to move from FS* simply because FS has a much wider array of *good* 3rd party addons; X-Plane doesn't quite have it the same way, and FS people would have invested quite a bit of time and money into that goodness. Casual players would be an easier target.

Well, that's a matter of timing. Laminar needs to get this game shipped out within this year, before MS flight gets more ramped up. If they delay it more than that, they'll just be playing catch-up. Right now, the only competition is FSX, which runs like a dog on all but the most expensive systems. Assuming they can get X-plane optimized for modern hardware, they should be able to compete.

We've actually had an X-Plane forum 3 times before. Problem was, all three went dormant after a couple of weeks, so they were shutdown. We're tryin'

Plan to try again once X-Plane 10 is released. BeachAV8R will be the main contact for it and he has agreed to focus some of his time here on it and the forum.