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The above question illustrates the challenge for XA in developing a robust installer. The installers used have to be programmed to handle a wide variety of cases and some unknown number and type of files that may or may not be changed by the IXEG team in the future. This requires some time of fore-thought to determine what will be required by users and ensure those cases get coded into the installer. Bandwidth on this level is quite expensive so just downloading everything every time is not a valid option...so crafting a "smart installer" is where the time is going currently. The payoff will be a robust and quick installer for future updates. This whole transition to V11 has caused a bit of a "traffic jam" in our infrastructure and that's all this is....best to proceed through it cautiously lest we end up missing something obvious. Once past it, we expect a clearer road for updating. -tkyler

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Yes. Mr Cameron please close the thread as it will turn into world war 3 again. Obviously, it is very disappointing that software delivery is severely slowed down by a vendor but there is no other way about it at the moment. Let's wait

Also keep in mind "texture sets" only affect the look of individual cloud puffs, not clouds as a whole. If you're used to weather add-ons from other simulators where entire clouds are a single texture - SMP doesn't work that way! Each cloud is a 3D object composed of many individual puffs, and changing the puff textures won't change the shapes of the clouds, or their positions.

Now that is response that clarify everything. Thanks!

Not really for me. I just ignore the fact that IXEG has announced that they have finished the update and the game is now at XA. Sometimes a little less information is better, even or let's say especially when the community is very impatient. I'm sure XA is working hard on the release, for whatever reason it takes some weeks. So let's keep calm and patient. Get out of the simulator cave and enjoy the summer. The update will come.

Let's stop running around in circles here. Read this very thread if you're somehow confused. Deep down you seem to know what's up and were initially just trying to be "smart" with your link to software reply. That's enough, really. If this spirals further we're just going to close up this thread.

Well, copying files based on OS and X-plane version plus a Gizmo dependency check alone doesn't really sound like "weeks" complicated, but it is what it is, I guess.