This sub-forum name

[thefrog]

Shouldn’t this sub-forum be called Prepar3D V1-4?

[Dangerousdave26]

Prepar3d always causes challenges when they create a new major release. At least they did starting with Version 4. Its one of those bad but good things. The Good part is its actively being developed with a bunch of major changes. The bad part is figuring out how to best modify the forums to make it user friendly but easy to moderate. Expect to see a few changes here and there until it gets ironed out.

[fsafranek]

Just my 2-cents but I think we should have a section for V1-3 as we did before. Then the one we already had for v4.
Then a new one for v5. Kinda like we had a couple days ago.

It's fine that they are all under a higher level Prepar3D section.

[roger-wilco-66]

The thought behind the current structure is is that we will always have a top P3D forum where everyone using P3D gathers, regardless of the version, and specific sub-current version topics are discussed in the sub forum. That pattern worked well in the FSX forum. The participation in the P3D sub-version forums where very low in the past, so it is better to congregate them in one place rather than to make four which get hardly used.

We'll see where it takes us, this is not cast in concrete and can change if the need arises.


Cheers,
Mark

[expat]

The issue with that Mark is you need to check two forums, for example, if you are using P3Dv4.

[modelr]

The issue with that Mark is you need to check two forums, for example, if you are using P3Dv4.

Agree here.

Since V1-3 are basically FSX, having them in one forum was/is logical. However, V4+ and V5 are totally different, usually requiring mods to FSX items to use in V4+. So... to my mind, while agreeing I'm not in charge, the P3Dv1-3 subforums should actually be attached to the FSX forums, keeping the v4+ together with the V5.

Just my $0.02/2p

[roger-wilco-66]

The issue with that Mark is you need to check two forums, for example, if you are using P3Dv4.

We'll see where it takes us! I suspect that the number of V4 users (and lower) will quickly wither away, as it has always been when new versions came out. And the non version specific topics can be discussed in the top forum anyhow.

Cheers,
Mark

[roger-wilco-66]

Agree here.

Since V1-3 are basically FSX, having them in one forum was/is logical. However, V4+ and V5 are totally different, usually requiring mods to FSX items to use in V4+. So... to my mind, while agreeing I'm not in charge, the P3Dv1-3 subforums should actually be attached to the FSX forums, keeping the v4+ together with the V5.

Just my $0.02/2p

That is the most exotic suggestion I have seen yet, Don :-)

But as far as technical compatibility goes, P3D departed the FSX (ESP) route quickly, already in 2.x, where you could not load p3d compiled mdls back into FSX, and I think the modeldef.xml was already different in 1.4. But it is not only a technical question and where to draw the line.

Cheers,
Mark

[blanston12]

My two cents.

I agree the main forum is for the current version. Then a sub forum for the old 32 bit versions (v1-3) and a sub forum for the old 64 bit versions (v4)