![]() ![]() But IP address is just the wrong thing to test. :-( It sends a mixed message to do stuff like this. I just don't want to waste my precious little teensy amounts of time doing quality contributions to the X-Plane universe and/or just having fun, on trivialities such as this. I want to support you guys - you're awesome and have an awesome product that's insanely cool - and money is no object. In fact, I have two keys because of that exact problem.īut when did you add this IP restriction? Has it always been there? Or is it just that I'm hitting it now when I wasn't before either due to my environment or some combination of factors? ![]() So you're saying I can't develop and test on the same machine, and keep downloads happening in the background while I'm testing the previous tile in the foreground?Īlso, re: the "not need to buy another key" issue - that's my exact point: you are awesome, but sometimes (last time it happened to me) it takes you more than a few minutes (usually up to 24 hours, which totally makes sense) to reset my license key. And in my testing, I'm convinced the "reload scenery" developer menu option doesn't work with mesh and/or tile changes, only airports that have already been loaded that may have minor changes - which means I have to restart X-Plane for each mesh/tile/ortho change to test it out. In my case, it's entirely impossible to turn off VPN when I'm running X-Plane precisely because of the experimentation I'm doing (which has to do with building OrthoXP tiles/overlays and World2XPlane OSM overlays).Īmong other things, loading high-resolution orthophotography (for reasons I will not detail here) requires me to be on a VPN. There might be many reasons why people's IP addresses would change (if not daily, at least within a week or two). My point is primarily that it's unreasonable to ask people to "turn off VPN" every time they want to use X-Plane. Hi, thanks for the quick reply - but I knew all that (sorry). I can imagine people on laptops who use different networks are even more frustrated by this (?). Please let me know if there's a way to force the key to stay working regardless of IP address. :-( That's not a great thing to always live in fear of. (2) With regular re-authorizations using my same license key but with multiple IP addresses (all of which are really just a single instance of the simulator on a single machine!), I'm very worried soon I'll be stuck with a failed authorization and I'll have to buy another key if I want to continue same-day. In fact, I shouldn't even have to type anything, it should just do what it does (like X-Aviation's plugin does) and let me know if it failed. And senseless if it's really the same machine and the data is identical, then the stored license key should still be available. ![]() Which of course is not hard, but still a huge interruption to my flow. But there's maybe a bug (?) that makes this even worse: the license key is auto-filled-in only the first time you have to do it, but then the subsequent time, you are forced to re-enter it again (the autofill is gone and it's blank). (1) It's super inconvenient to have to re-authenticate, and I really shouldn't have to. ![]() But IP address? Not the right thing to key off of. The better way if you really want to do this is to check the primary MacAddr or something similar. IP address may have been a good way to identify a single machine back in the '90s, but today it's simply not useful for this feature, and doesn't really help (only hurts) security and usability. Because of this, and sometimes rebooting in between, and using a VPN, my IP address changes regularly. Since I'm doing some testing right now, though, I happen to re-start many times a day (3-8 times a day, maybe more). Whenever I change IP addresses on my desktop (which I do all the time because I use a VPN), since XP11.10 beta (and maybe before, but I just started using the VPN so I'm not sure if it always happened or not) I am forced back into a full re-authorization of my copy of X-Plane (of course, only when I re-start X-Plane). Platform: 64-bit Windows 10, X-Plane 11.10 beta (currently b4), digital license key (i.e., code, not DVD or device auth) this will be much more terse and less flowery than my last attempt: Ugh, I just wrote a nice, full detailed report, but the web app to enter the report is broken and a misplaced backspace does a page-back adn then page-forward deletes all the text I just entered. ![]()
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