Talk:Combat flight simulation game

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Historical Inaccuracy
Namco's Ace Combat series is mentioned here. They are arcade action games, not flight simulators in any serious capacity. They do not belong on this page. Compare Ace Combat 5 to Falcon 4.0. Not in the same league. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.0.239.250 (talk) 04:50, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

I am new to Wikipedia, and I plan to add a number of links to other articles, and possible a graphic or two to this article. Of course suggestions (or edits!) are welcome.FlyingSinger

I have uploaded and tried to dispplay two JPG's here but they are not displaying as graphics. Maybe this is related to the power failure though they show up in the image search page. FlyingSinger 19:32, 13 May 2005 (UTC)


 * No, it's because someone's Bot is being a dick about what images you can use. 66.229.160.94 10:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

This article seems to be lacking on citing sources, and could use quite a bit of tone correction. I added appropriate tags. -Edlin2 05:36, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

The "history" section is incoherent and as such, also very inaccurate. Using the three CFS series games (which all center on WW2, except the dogfight mode in FS4 and earlier) Microsoft has published as the centrepiece of combat flight simulator history is simply ridiculous, whereas other software houses may have published many more combat flight simulators which have in many case been forerunners to what Microsoft has been doing. Unless, of course, one wants to detail the history of Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (tm) which already has its separate page. The history part also completely overlooks MicroProse's early years (from 80's to mid-90's), and it could be argued that during this time it was MicroProse, not Microsoft that held the dominant position in combat flight simulator market. LucasArts' early sims escape mention, Rowan Software, Spectrum Holobyte, EA/Jane's and Sierra/Dynamix are mentioned only passing in the later paragraphs... wish I had the time and patience to edit the article myself. 213.246.227.18 14:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I tried to contribute following your indications, convening that the hystorical section is rather imprecise and lacking a lot of milestones, but I see that my work has been deleted by a punctilious inquisitor who takes pleasure acting as destroyer of works made by others. Have no time to redo or to enter litigations because I have other to do in life that lose time with such pedantic guys. Have a good life.--Corrado72 (talk) 15:59, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Incomplete survey
while somewhat informative, this article should include a comprehensive table of apps along with current version, currently active development, time since last release etc. as other articles on software genre do.. as it currently is, a typical user looking for currently available titles is not informed at all. (Anuoldman (talk) 19:02, 20 July 2012 (UTC)).

"Historical" simulators
In the list of examples of "historical" combat flight simulators I definitely removed the sentence Simulators of current modern wars are usually classified not by the period of war, but rather as a separate category of "modern jet simulators". The sentence is right, of course, but there's no reason to don't expand the list with the corresponding examples of modern jet fighter simulators... So, instead of leaving the sentence where it was, I deleted it and expanded the list, creating a new category on it. The so called "modern" jet fighters started during the Vietnam war, 40 years ago. Fourty long years should be enough (and indeed, it is) to create a new historical category in the lists. I created it not following a series of conflicts (like the former simulators in the lists, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam) but by noticing to the reader that these simulators correspond to the jet fighters of fourth and fifth generations. This is, in my humble opinion, the proper way to present the list of historical sims. Kintaro (talk) 00:19, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Neutral tone for content
I've modified the text to use neutral in multiple places. Old text did not have basis or reference to comparisons made so it was not justified to leave it as such.

Also the old list is changed to use tables now for better clarity. Many titles could be classified in various different categories so it should be possible to add those for each as necessary.

Ipr1 (talk) 11:21, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Also, I think I've resolved quite a lot of linking errors with various different pages relating to topic. There may be more, it was a huge mess but I think it is on the right path at least now. Ipr1 (talk) 12:51, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

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Planning Edits
Hello fellow editors. I am enrolled in a Technical Editing class at Texas A&M, and I will be editing this article as a part of our Wikipedia project. Please be patient with me as I am still learning. The following is a preliminary list of the tasks I plan to work on:


 * 1) Clean up the content of the article for better flow and organization
 * 2) Overhaul the "Types" section to better fit with the rest of the article
 * 3) Correct the tone of the article to fit Wikipedia's standards
 * 4) Remove redundant information
 * 5) Add citations where I can

I will continue to list major issues as they arise. Do not hesitate to reach out! --Scott Rayner (talk) 18:54, 7 March 2018 (UTC)