Good day CS team.
Is there a discount for people who purchased the Exterior C-130 model?

Captain Sim wrote on Apr 20^th, 2024 at 1:45pm:


Thanks for the quick reply CS team. 

It has been a few years.  I did send an email to the support address last Thusday hoping to catch up with you all again.  I've sent another just now. 

I was beyond excited when I saw that you had made another C-130 expansion.

I recognise your name Dave. I downloaded all your RAF C130 liveries in the FSX days. Brilliant work.

Good day Capt Sim, I will be purchasing this as soon as I get back to my PC thank you so much for releasing this beautiful model! I really loved the C-130E exterior model, if it only had a cockpit.  I think most of us were under the impression that when you guys finish the cockpit, it would be an upgrade for the existing model that we Had already purchased. My question to you is will there be a way to use the cockpit from our model that we purchase, With our previous E model?  I hope that more Hercules variants will come, similar to you old legacy C-130 experience product.  I love having all the different Hercules shapes to choose from!  Thanks for all the hard work and beautiful modeling that you guys do.  Sincerely, Preston Martin

Good day Capt Sim. 

I understand your dilemma. For the first issue: I think if you could give us a cockpit product for $19.95, for example on your website. I would be more than happy to pay for that and manually install it into my Sim to get the model working fully. 

As to the Microsoft Marketplace issue, I think a mega pack with all the previous variants priced at $79.95 is reasonable enough. You could also sell complete individual products as part of a base design giving a little more value to an individual “E” or “H” purchase. 

Final thoughts on the “E” exterior only model for marketplace, I think another good strategy would be to add the cockpit. And at the same time work with Microsoft to create a discount code that could be entered for those of us who were early purchasers of the Exterior only.  An alternate option could be to remarket the Exterior model, as an “Ai” only model and update it to add some flights plans for it coming and going to various locations.  This could in turn lead to more follow on products of more liveries with attached flight plans.  For example, you could start to make Liveries and flight plans that complemented popular airbases.

Just a few ideas that I had rattling around. 

-Preston.

Understand the comments about the marketplace. However, the F-16 product by Dean includes 3 separate variants - the C single seater and the D twin pit. It also includes the “big spine” D model.

I was thinking about how for example you could add the semi-glass cockpit and new 5 bladed props that most of the remaining H models now have.

Shand359 wrote on Apr 24^th, 2024 at 3:47pm:

That's not true.
We never promissed any cockpit upgrades to the C-130 Exterior buyers. Ever.
The product was always marketed as the EXTERIOR ONLY AS IS with no further upgrades. So no one has been "dumped".

It's a pity that the older posts for the C-130 Exterior are not available, because there was a whole Topic (30+ posts) about it. People were posting about being disapointed, and refusing to buy it (or anything else from Captain Sim ever again) because a VC was not included, planned, nor guaranteed in the future.

Anyway, here we are 2 years later and we have a C-130 with a VC. I find it a lot of fun to fly seeing as I only did a few flights with the C-130 Exterior model because it didn't have a VC.