posibility of flying fsp together?

[DanSteph]

The answer is: it's possible but not in a simple manner,

let me explain:

I planned during a long time to do exporting and importing database function so VA could use
this feature to share the database along it's members...I even started to do those functions,

Then I had somes discussion with VA president and somes others
peoples than stopped the development for several reason:

1-Doing the code I saw that I started a very difficult things that could take me month before being user-proof, secured and simple.
2-A VA that would use FsP would become a "payware" VA (anyone have to buy FsP) wich is the contrary of VA philosophy.
3-Only a few people would be intterested to make a VA that fly exclusively with FsP.

Considering the positive point and the negative (a lot of dev time for a few peoples intterested) I stopped the dev of that.

This said, if a VA or somes friend want to fly FsP together, it's possible with a bit of work
The main limitation is that you can't fly in the same time otherwise the database would be wrong.:

1-make a fly with your pilot.
2-zip the database, put it on a site or send it by mail to other users
3-the other guy unzip the database in it's folder
4-restart to point 1

Someone that would render the things really cool can make a site in PHP where members are allowed
to upload/download the shared database, when a guy download it to make a fly the database download is "locked"
until the guy finished it's fly and upload the new database with his fly or after a time limit.

We have a system like that on my Orbiter site for Orbiter "scenario", when one download the scenario
the download is locked until he come back and upload it with his new flight or until time-limit expire.

Hope my explanation are clear enough ?

Dan



Post Edited ( 04-16-05 22:00 )