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There are very informative images of the real Mirage 2000 HOTAS in the manual. I used them to bind my own HOTAS and replicate as close as possible the real pilot's workflow. Are these images not explicit enough ?

Do I think they could do it in a couple of months ? Of course I don't. I can only imagine how difficult it is to code all this stuff into DCS. What I am saying for a few weeks now is that Razbam keep working on new modules when they have so much to do on the ones already released with very limited ressources. You cannot hope to finalize an already three years old module with only one system coder when he has to work on the Mirage, the Harrier, the MiG-19 and all the upcoming modules in the queue line. Razbam is just proving that it cannot be done, it's not a one man job and I sincerely feel bad for him to have to deal with this situation. Decoy stated that Razbam has one coder for each released module. Questions were asked to clarify his statement a few days ago ; at this time we did not hear from him. I do enjoy the Mirage as surprising as it can be for some of you. And this is because I deeply care about this plane that I'm following its development process. I said it multiple times but I only own the Mirage and fly her daily ; this is why I'm feeling constrained by the module limitations and bugs. At this time I cannot engage in very complex missions because of some systems lacking in functionnality or behavior. I know for a fact that some of the MLO updates informations had already been provided way before the FAF deal was made by a very knowledgable Mirage 2000 person, his comments has been ignored. I also know that some users are sending very detailed reports of malfunctions or incorrect systems behavior to Decoy for months and that he does not reply to these reports. This is the work of several hundreds hours of flight on the Mirage that are just being ignored for unknown reasons. You'll find some screenshots of a document I just found yesterday and sent to Decoy several months ago. That's clearly not your average report. I love the Mirage being flyable in DCS, I love the fact that Razbam got the courage to develop a baguette plane, I definitely love their deal with the FAF. I only have a simple request : finish the job in a timely manner while respecting the promises you made to your loyal customers.

I could not care less about others developpers, that's not the point of this discussion. I own a Razbam module and I expect only excellence from the people working on the project I chose to support. If someone at your job is mediocre, are you going to set the bar at his level or do you have enough respect for yourself to give the absolute best you can provide ? Rethorical question of course.

Hello Decoy, I quote, from your January update at the 5'44 mark : Did I missed something ? Did I really spread false information or did I just relay information you actually provided ?

It was the plan several years ago at least. If they stick to their plan it should be around by 2020.

Of course coding is not just a copy/paste exercise, I never said it was. It just means that 20 years ago there was already an excellent rendition of airport operations able to manage several dozen aircrafts - yes, several dozens. As usual, it's all about priorities, if ED decided to put a lot of efforts into ATC procedures we could have it pretty fast I guess. That's what frustrating about our sim, we don't know how they manage ressources, we are in the dark regarding the development process.

It means Mid-Life Overhaul. A major rework of the Mirage systems.

Yeah sure, but since the November update we only had a 12 minutes video update and won't have one until April 2019 at best. At this point Razbam should rename the video series and avoid to use a "monthly update" reference. Razbam has currently 16 people working on different projects and each aircraft released has its own coder according to Decoy. If that so how have we seen so little functionnal updates on the Mirage systems (don't know the Harrier status) in the last few months ? We supported Razbam by purchasing one or various modules, I think we deserve a little more than a 12 minutes video update in four months. I want to believe™ the team has put some heavy work on the Mirage since October/November 2018 and this is exactly what I was expecting to aknowledge on this January/February update. They let us down, once more.

Why shouldn't we expect AI to be able to operate correctly on airfields when the other modern combat flight sim is doing it since 20 years ? The core functionalities of the sim (ATC, weather, ordinance effects, updated 3D models objects) is what I expect the most from ED. It can't get delivered soon enough.

Ok, thank you for taking a bit of your time to reply)

Take Aerogator's comment with a grain of salt, despite his attempts to minimize the supply chain issues there's plenty evidence of people trying to get their hands on a MCG Pro for more than a year now. Just take a look at this page of the topic and you'll have plenty of very recent accounts of members trying to buy products from VKB. Do they manufacture quality products ? Yeah, for sure, no doubt about that. Can you expect to buy them in a heartbeat ? Not a chance.

I do not mod my game. What about IC ?

How can you not have control over a dealer selling your products ? It seems non sense to me. I'm glad I bought the GF/KG12/MCG Pro before the VKB hype thing, but I fear the day you'll sell your throttle or the Tomcat grip. We'll surely have the same problem for european customers if not worst as your brand is now far more known in the flight sim community.

A paddle would be greatly appreciated despite not being present on the original stick.

Meh ... It's now official, no update for February.

Yep ! I try to see the bright side of the situation, I spent my entire life without a Pimax headset, I can wait a few more months to get my hands on it. Who knows, perhaps the new GPUs will be out by the time they fix their supply chain and I'll enjoy better performance too ?

I got a surprise today as I received an email from Support after being ignored for weeks. I was told they were busy with all the peorders but I should not worry as my order would be sent shortly to me. They don't realize I have been refunded two days ago … I am torn between telling them my order has been already cancelled or waiting and see if the departments communicate with each others and tell the warehouse to cancel the shipment.

Oh wow ! Thank you for sharing 200+ pages of goodness !

Thank you for the links)

In a previous post and on the October 2018 video update they said they were going to Orange, home base for the 2/5 Ile de France. Someone is specifically flying there to scan the cockpits with their new technology.

Do they translate those for the non russian community members ?

All valid points. I just wanted to share my opinion, it is done now and I have no reason to harrass the team who made my favorite and only module.

I remember this one but I was thinking about something revolving around the dev team. The AMA session with Nick Grey was interesting but heavily oriented to WWII products.

Hi there ! I was wondering if Eagle Dynamics was planning to hold a AMA event someday (in the near future would be great I won't lie). It is sometimes difficult to interact with the dev team and it's even more difficult to follow all the projects via the forum. As we don't have a way to directly ask questions to developpers, it would be great to have once or twice a year the opportunity to do so. I realize there's an enormous amount of work to do and the team is hard at work, but if you could spare two or three hours a year to talk with your community, that would be fantastic ! Thank you))

Regarding the lack of data, they said multiple times they finally had all the requirements to finish the module thanks to the FAF deal. I assume they set an initial MLO release date in regards with this data and their ability to integrate it into their module. You can have a setback once, even twice in a row, but at some point you need to learn from your mistake, that's what we all do on a daily basis right ? But to be honest that's not even the point, you're just diverting from the real problem in my opinion, which is : the same team is working on multiple modules despite the fact they said it was not the case. Don't assume unhappy customers are not aware of the current business model dilemma. As I stated in the message you didn't quote, it's perfectly ok that artists and coders who are done with their work move on to the next project. As you said, nobody is expecting them to sit in a corner waiting for the module being complete. A new question arise : how others 3rd party developpers sustain themselves with long term projects ? As you mentionned another 3rd party developper, I will just say that in the last year they just redo entirely their Air to Ground radar with their own expertise and made their specific ordinance operational in single and multiplayer while we are waiting for the BAP 100 for more than two years. I do understand people who are supportive of 3rd parties developpers, they add so much to the DCS environment. But it must not become an excuse to accept some dubious behaviors. If you really want to support them, pay their module full price, the money is everything and they need it if we want them to provide us quality content.