I'm a flight simmer. So there are times where I will immerse myself in MSFS2024...The Career Mode is pretty engaging but there are periodic bugs that break your flight and therefore affect your career path.
for anyone not familiar with the structure...you start an aviation company after you earn certain certifications: Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot, IFR rating, Helicopter, ATP rating, Jet Training etc.. and so on...Then you start a company and buy aircraft and sell charter flights..all the while flying for other companies as a pilot for hire to earn income...
There are basically three metrics that affect your pilot rating:
1. Passenger Satisfaction
2. Following Airline/ATC procedure
3. Respecting the condition of the Aircraft
You have to score at least 90% ( i think) to earn cash and boost your reputation rating...the higher this value is, the more flights become available to you...if your reputation rating starts to tank, you will lose out on potential flight opportunities....
This is where the bugs can affect you...on occasion you will be flying at altitude, auto pilot engaged, everything is perfect..and suddenly the autopilot shuts down, the Throttles don't respond..next thing you know you are stalled out and nosediving to a crash...problem is that the software doesn't realize that a bug happened and things that you crashed the plane because of pilot error...so your reputation tanks...
This is infuriating as it takes a while to build a solid reputation and it can be undone in one flight....by a bug...