+2, With the exception that I believe it a bit unfair to call out FSX for add-ons vs XPX. At the end of the day the XPX stock hanger feels more incomplete to me as it ships out of the box, thus it still needs add-ons to be better rounded out. Plus, eyeballing it, it seems many of the top-shelf addon's for XPX aren't up to par with top shelf FSX add-ons. XPX fans would defend by pointing out XPX just launched. FSX fans could counter that's because XPX is a generation late to the party.


Finally, XPX costs $80, FSX GOld (includes the Acceleration exp-pack) is $30. If you equate the budgets, that gives you some extra spending cash out of the gate to put toward add-on's. If you like combat sims (such as DCS) you're first Add-on is a no-brainer: The DCS VRS Superbug (soon to get some teeth with the Tacpack). There's some fantastic (and free!!!) carriers out there too to fly it off of.

In fact, shut-up, stop reading this, and go buy it.

You are looking at the wrong price. For Prepar3d, you need to look at the Developer subscription. It is about $10/month.

XP is developed by a much smaller team and emphasizes multi-platform capability. So they can be as late to the party as they want.

Shutting up...

On Mac's at least.




That your not smiling tells me you didn't buy it....

FSX is such a simple choice here. It has all you want although it will take a few addons to maximize the experience.

If there were a legitimate alternative to FSX, we wouldn't be talking about FSX. It's had plenty of time to be taken out but nobody ever has succeeded.

<sigh> Not just yet. A couple irons in the fire to deal with first, but this thread has me pretty convinced about FSX.

Regardless of platform.

Well then, the alternative is to spend $30 just on FSX gold, and look around your freeware site of choice for the "Sludge Hornet" pack for the stock Acceleration Baby-bug. Basically, a very generous gent names Christian "Sludge" Snow gave the bug a very detailed over-haul.

I actually prefer XP10 over FSX.

XP10 has some real nice additions graphics wise, and it always felt more like flying to me than FSX. For some reason, most of the aircraft in FSX, payware and freeware (that I have tried) just feel like they fly on rails and that they aren't "moving through the sky". It just feels stale at times. Flying at night is also really lacking in FSX.

FSX definitely has a lot going for it with the AI and variety of add-ons (including both aircraft anf locales) with huge 3rd party support, but overall, it just feels "off" to me. Almost like the "feeling of flight" was an afterthought in favor of "How much can we cram in this product?". XP10 is $80, I imagine, because the (Full) scenery install is over 50GB and includes a LOT of terrain out-of-the-box for the world.

Both are great products. It just really depends on what you are looking for.

I do love XP10 + The JRollon CRJ though.