NZFF

The other day I took a look at Robin's new Queenstown offering in his subscription series. Done deal, new subscriber and here are my first few - from the Mt Cook area - colors are a bit different for an old RGB guy but it all looks pretty real to me.

SUPER SCREENS DAVE .. in computer terms your a SSD , It is brilliant , photoreal will always wins out with me .. for seasons, we just change the weather or follow the real world weather , you can't go wrong

Thanks for your support! I appreciate it more than you'd think, the response to the Queenstown shots has been great, but it doesn't translate at all to orders, for some reason. Yours was the only order for over a week, so you are my best customer at the moment:)

toprob wrote:Thanks for your support! I appreciate it more than you'd think, the response to the Queenstown shots has been great, but it doesn't translate at all to orders, for some reason. Yours was the only order for over a week, so you are my best customer at the moment:)

You're in competition with the Orbx dynasty and they seem to have a lock - for now. I never had been a fan of photoreal but your stuff reminds of how it used to look during my several thousand hour piloting experience. What you could do with my old home state of Alaska.

Olderndirt wrote:You're in competition with the Orbx dynasty and they seem to have a lock - for now....

That's very true, which is one reason why I'm very grateful to have customers from outside New Zealand. I suspect that the locals are hoping that Orbx will reverse their decision to abandon NZ development, but I wouldn't hold my breath. But I think the main reason why things are so quiet is that it has been such a great summer this year, we've all been lured outside by all that non-sim stuff. Roll on winter!

toprob wrote:Roll on winter!

Arr Negatory on that, no Rolling at all , I been trying to pin the earth so here can stay all year summer .. noticed a declining change already , six thirty this morn looked like ten AM winter but a mild day.

Ian Warren wrote:

toprob wrote:Roll on winter!

Arr Negatory on that, no Rolling at all , I been trying to pin the earth so here can stay all year summer .. noticed a declining change already , six thirty this morn looked like ten AM winter but a mild day.

Your biggest problem is all of us in the other hemisphere who want their turn at mild days.

Arr you Hemispherians , If only "The day Stood Still" .. come to think the months and years as well

Very nice Dave ..... i dont think your in Rochester at all ... i think your the guy 3 houses down from me
Great screens

88% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, so I can't begrudge them a bit of nice weather...

By the way, typing 'what percentage of the world's population...' into Google drops down some interesting auto-completes:)

toprob wrote:88% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, so I can't begrudge them a bit of nice weather...

Ive seen the movie .. all hell breaks loose, they will be your next door neighbours real quick, ya better get more firewood in

toprob wrote:88% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere

Yeah well, that's what you get with all those Chinese and Indian people right?

And to be honest, I never heard of Godzone from anywhere else than ADX and this forum. I'd love to support you, but flightschool is sucking me dry sadly New Zealand isn't nearly as popular in FS as it should be, especially with the scenery you produce. I still hope you continue producing scenery though, because from what I've seen, it's amazing!

Before I forget: Great shots mr. Oldendirt!

Roelio wrote:And to be honest, I never heard of Godzone from anywhere else than ADX and this forum. I'd love to support you, but flightschool is sucking me dry sadly New Zealand isn't nearly as popular in FS as it should be, especially with the scenery you produce. I still hope you continue producing scenery though, because from what I've seen, it's amazing!

Roel ... RealNZ it should have stayed, 'Godzone' was a tourism template name, one thing is once and well place photo with AGN for flight simulation, your right, the final work dose look amazing ..... Welcome to New Zealand.

'Real New Zealand' is still a product line, it's just that I don't have any new Real NZ products, nothing since Real NZ Nelson. Once the Subscription areas are completed, they will each become a separate Real NZ product, and I'll stop selling the Godzone Subscription. If and when this happens, subscribers will get a very good deal, with continued access for a while, at least until all the four areas are completed fully. That's the theory, but it does require support from new subscribers in the meantime, as that is what funds the full scenery.

Roelio -- I will reply to your email, once I get some time this week. The Subscription started out as a way to get locals to have access to more New Zealand scenery, even if they had committed to Orbx, who have since opted out of any further NZ development. I expected 90% of Subscribers to be from New Zealand, and I've aimed it at them, but I'm really surprised to find that only somewhere between 55 and 65% of sales have been in NZ*. I am very pleased with the overseas uptake, but quite disappointed that New Zealanders haven't been interested. I admit I do this mainly for locals, who shouldn't have to miss out on continued scenery development just because the flightsim developers have passed NZ by.

* The figures are a bit vague, because the Subscriber site doesn't ask where subscribers are from, I've just had to guess based on the email addresses and just getting to know people here.

toprob wrote:Roelio -- I will reply to your email, once I get some time this week. The Subscription started out as a way to get locals to have access to more New Zealand scenery, even if they had committed to Orbx, who have since opted out of any further NZ development. I expected 90% of Subscribers to be from New Zealand, and I've aimed it at them, but I'm really surprised to find that only somewhere between 55 and 65% of sales have been in NZ*. I am very pleased with the overseas uptake, but quite disappointed that New Zealanders haven't been interested. I admit I do this mainly for locals, who shouldn't have to miss out on continued scenery development just because the flightsim developers have passed NZ by.

* The figures are a bit vague, because the Subscriber site doesn't ask where subscribers are from, I've just had to guess based on the email addresses and just getting to know people here.

Don't be so sure of that. Especially Germany has a huge flightsim community and they aren't all only interested in German or European scenery. For some amazing VFR flight with alot of different terrain, Europe isn't really the place to be. Sure we've got the Alps (the original ones ), highlands, deserts, lowlands, hills, Fjords and ice, but those are very far apart from eachother. While NZ you have different landscapes everywhere relatively close together and they are breathtaking. And the FTX NZ regions were quite popular, too bad ORBX let it slide completley!