@Canuck:
Hello,
I would like to say thank you to the BMS team.
Lately there have been a few post that were not very positive about BMS and the BMS team in particular. I’ve read those and i felt uneasy because it isn’t supposed to be like that.
I am going to speak for myself but i am sure that my words will be the words of many, at least i hope so.
I have grown with falcon 4.0 and BMS. To put is simply, when i am having a bad day at work or simply a stressful day, the thing that makes me unwind is BMS. I start the jet, taxi out and i go fly. When i come back from work and it was a redeye flight and i get home while the rest of the world either gets ready for work or school, i jump into my armchair and i fire BMS up. When i am on standby for the day or i get called to be ready within the hour, to pass time i fly in BMS or i do mission planning. My wife looked at me with big eyes the first time she saw me coming home from a night flight and instead of hitting the rack i hit BMS, with time she understood that BMS was my hobby and something that brings me joy.
For some it is a game, for some it is much kore. For me it is much more than a game, i sincerely would feel lost if BMS would cease to exist, i have invested so much time in it (5237 hours today)and i have pulled my hair more than once. Most of the time i really suck at BMS because i sometimes think i have it and i fail miserably, so i hit the books, i hit the replay button on the ACMI and i shamefully share my mistakes with people who have the same mindset as me about BMS. Sometimes i get so sucked into BMS that my wife gives me the look, we all had it and we all ended up in some shopping trip just to make it up, and even then while running around the stores i still figure if i can squeeze one hour here and then. At the same time that she gives me the look she tells the kid not to touch my gear and buys me a new pair of nomex gloves.
BMS devs, sometimes i feel like you forget how much some of us value and love what you have given us for free. Sometimes i feel like it only takes one guy to say something negative and we as a community all look like spoiled kids to you. Please BMS devs, understand that the voice of one is not speaking for all of us, especially not the trolls and negative people. Please, look at the screenshot thread, full of passion, Everyone wants to share and show how he enjoys BMS, there is no bad way or right way. Videao thread also is full of passion, even if we are not all to the standard of movie makers.
Lately on the BMS forum, there is a real effort of older BMS community members to help out youngers, there a fewer and fewer RTFM answers, i think there is more positive than negative. I think that the community is more than thankful to the BMS devs.
So i say it again, thank you.
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I share the same sentiment as far as BMS goes, however your first comment I’d like to say simply that there does need to be an improvement on the way some people talk and treat folks (Y’ALL KNOW WHO YOU ARE) and wish that some would be more helpful with others requests/questions/concerns. We’re grown adults but sometimes stuff gets childish and I wish it would stop.
I’m not trying to start anything but I am merely voicing what I see from my perspective. How you take what I’m saying I couldn’t care less but I do care about dev/pilot or pilot/pilot relations and how they are made and maintained. We don’t have to like each other but can’t we all just be respectful and get along??