NL2000 on the move
NL2000 has been in holiday mode for a while since the release of version 3. During the months after the release everybody enjoyed the feedback of the community, and assisted where needed to get installations on the go and fix problems. We are very happy that we could offer a beautiful scenery to an ever increasing user base. We are still seeing an additional 100 new users per month installing it.
The end of February saw the review on Flightsim by Andrew Herd. He awarded us with the Golden Armchair Aviation Award.
A quote from the description of the Golden Armchair Aviation Award:
“(…) Now… the Gold.
The Gold award will be rare. If a package gets one of these, my socks will have been totally destroyed in the explosion and my dinner will be inside the dog. My first feeling on loading the plane, scenery, utility, or whatever, will have been ‘Yeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaa!!!!’ and that feeling will have persisted until I finished writing the final word of the review. The product will be an FS classic and you can pretty much guarantee that it will not be improved upon for a long while – famous last words here, but I only plan to hand out a few of these, ever. If a package merits a Gold, people will be talking about it in the forums in years to come, ‘Do you remember WidgetSim’s rocket assisted Piper Cub? You know, the one that got the Gold award and meant Andrew’s dog had to be put on a diet?’ I jest, but a Gold will mark a product as being a real one of a kind, coded to a standard that even the best developers can only hope to achieve once in a blue moon.”
Of course we are very happy with that!
In the meantime, it’s back to business. We haven’t been sitting idle at all. We have organised several workshops, and some new team members have joined us. We expect a lot from them, their main task will be to help us extend the scenery further.
Finally, we’re happy to see that professional organisations are approaching us: we have been contacted by LVNL (air traffic control Netherlands) and the NLR (National Aerospace Laboratory NLR). Our scenery objects are being used in several simulators. Several agreements are in place, and these organisations are sponsoring us with data that we use to improve the scenery. We are very happy about that and hope to maintain a long lasting relationship.
In a short while, more on what we plan to do with version 4…
