IT KNOWS!
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I just found what is (to me) the single COOLEST easter egg in the airplane. If you even wanna call it an easter egg. Nevertheless, this tells me everything I need to know about how Nick thinks, and what makes him tick. Just be warned, you need to be at least an 11 out of 10 on the nerd scale to find this as fascinating as I do.
As part of my round the world trip, I decided to "resurrect" a Starship that's long since met its demise IRL, and give it a new life in MSFS. I chose a tail number, made a livery for myself, and off I went. Well today, 83 hours and 24000 miles into my trip, I saw something I hadn't noticed before.
When you go into the checklist menu for the first time after powering up the airplane, you get a little welcome message with the disclaimers, just like you would in the real airplane. And it says, "Welcome Aboard Starship Nxxxx." Obviously the tail number being there isn't a great surprise.
Then I saw it.
The serial number of the airplane is right above the N number. And it's correct. And I'm thinking "I didn't change anything that would make it show that...how the hell does it know what serial number this airplane..."
And then I remembered who coded this masterpiece, and took a quick dive into the MFD .js file. What did @Black-Square Nick do? He wrote a section of code including EVERY single real starship tail number ever flown, and told the MFD to associate that N number with the correct serial number.
This product released with only a handful of liveries. And yet he took the time to make sure that if you put ANY historically accurate N number into the sim, the MFD will display the historically correct serial number.
If THAT doesn't describe a "passion project," I don't know what does.
My hats off to you, Nick. Truly remarkable.
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Piece of art!
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I'm glad at least a few of my users notice such things
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Need a Black Square shirt...Trying to support Nick's work , so I've purchased every one of his products. I just bought a taxiway sign for Taxiway Bravo
(Also bought other letters from the airport to have my initials, i'm not insane) (I promise)
