@Mav-jp:
i really would like to see “live” someone not able to set up his joystick in BMS, i dont get it, really
edit: i must admit i dont use anything else than a cougar….
however, pitbuilders are able to set up extremely complex set up, so i beleive BMS is not so shitty finally in that area
Based on my personal experience, I think the biggest difficulty is for new users which are not already knowledgeable on the functions of the F-16 HOTAS.
For example, I started up BMS for the first time and went in the “settings” menu to bind the keys of my Thrustmaster HOTAS-X… Only to be presented with a reeeeeeally long list of callbacks, with very cryptic names. Which are the useful ones? It is really difficult to know if you have no experience. This is especially true the less buttons and hats your joystick has compared to the real HOTAS: how can a complete newbie know that SimTMSUp is much more important than SimTMSLeft, for instance?
Luckily there was a ready-made profile (by Blueraven, I believe) for my model of joystick, which allowed me to start playing around a bit and learn by doing.
Nowadays, if I had to rebind all my keys I could probably do it with no problems (except maybe for the pinky shift, for which I would have to look around the forum), but what if I didn’t have the ready-made keyfile? I would have had to study in great detail the manuals… I probably would have given up playing BMS, instead!
All this, in addition to the points raised by chihirobelmo, which mean the process is a bit counter-intuitive even for an user experienced in the F-16 (but not experienced in the quirks of BMS).