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Bridge Team: Ship Simulator aims to provide commercial level simulation accuracy in a consumer product sold on Steam, making it in the category of "Serious Game". That said, we've received a couple of questions regarding how pricing would work, and whether customers could use it in a commercial setting. To answer your questions: the Consumer Edition sold on Steam and the Commercial Edition are nearly identical. Which means, the accurate features such as wind/tide effects, a fully simulated radar with EBL/VRM/Trails, or autopilot with waypoints/heading control/speed control -- these are all available in the Consumer Edition to provide the consumer a very accurate ship simulator -- something previous developers refused to do because it competed against their training simulator. The catch is: the EULA (end user license agreement) for the Consumer Edition prohibits use of the software in a revenue-generating environment: meaning you cannot charge money (such as tickets or education tuition) with the Consumer Edition. To use our software in a revenue-generating environment, you must purchase a Commercial Edition. Long story short: if you plan to use Bridge Team: Ship Simulator at home, you can buy a copy off Steam. If you plan to use Bridge Team: Ship Simulator in an environment where you make money letting people use the software (a school, training centre, museum, etc.), you must purchase a Commercial Edition from us, as accordance with the EULA (end user license agreement). Hope that answers your questions. For prospective commercial customers, please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any further questions. Cheers, - HC

As announced at the London Startup Fair, we are currently working full swing on Bridge Team: Ship Simulator. Bridge Team is a ship navigation simulator to build off the existing Ship Simulator series. We are not affiliated with the original developers in any way; however, we recognize that a new ship sim is long overdue and many of us at Forest Studio have either owned the previous ship sim titles before, or have great interests in maritime simulation. Hence, we set to work on our own, and we have ambitions to release a Steam Early Access version this year. You may check out our trailer at the link below. Note: everything is actually very heavily outdated, as that trailer was shot in Feb. 2021 and two months later, very great amounts of work have been put in, so I have included the trailer only as a preview - the current version is 20x better looking. We will be giving regular updates very soon, as the product is entering a good phase that we can start showing more of it off. Cheers, - HC TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w526w7VL_Y0

Hello, Since you managed to get both the server and client working I am assuming that the software is working as intended. SkyShare is not a shared cockpit plugin but rather share controls. So whoever has the client open will need to screen share their aircraft so the person who has the server open can control their aircraft. If you have anymore questions please let us know. Thanks.

Hi me and my frinds bought the program, my friend start server a me start client but when we start simulator we have two plane and not one, How it work?

It appears that this issue has been solved.

I've just realized that members are not able to download the Test Connection within this forum. This is my oversight with the permissions; apologies to those of you who were trying to download this for the inconvenience. This has now been fixed. You must sign-in in order to download the test files. Cheers,

Hey, Thanks for your purchase. Please have port 32000 forwarded for the person who is taking control. Have this same person go to whatsmyip.org and grab that public IP. Afterwards, have the person taking control launch the Server window, and the person with the simulator (receiving control) launch the Client window. Ensure the server is started, and then on the client, go ahead and follow the steps written on the client window (the step 1, step 2, etc.) If you have any further questions, feel free to let us know, or if you prefer a member of our team to walk you through the process step by step, we can do that as well on our public Discord server with invite code: h7puYEe

My friend and I bought the program. Installed. And we don't understand what to do next. What conditions and settings should be in the simulator? Where is the normal manual? In what is told about port forwarding and about antiviruses, but not about setting up the connection process. Money wasted. Hope you can help. If not, I will ask for a refund in the store.

Well howdy! Since the release of SkyShare we have been having tonnes of support from the community and we have enjoyed helping you with any issues that may have while using our product. We're committed to making your life easier and so we have implemented a support ticket system which is up right now! We highly recommend using that, as we get notifications when someone creates a ticket -- meaning you get assisted even faster than before. If you still wish to use our forum, that is completely fine as well! If you wish to contact us directly, the support ticket portal is the best place for that. https://foreststudio.freshdesk.com/support/home

Hi all, If you would like to test and see if you and your partner can establish a connection to use SkyShare before purchasing, I've built server and client test files for you to run. They are command line console programs that simply just connect to each other - you can use this to see if you will be able to successfully connect to your partner, or if there is something blocking your connection (e.g. antivirus / firewall). They are attached to this forum post. Download and run - that's it! Before running the program(s) -- ensure whomever is running the server has port 32000 forwarded as TCP in their router. Cheers, SkyShare Test Connection.zip

Hello everyone! It would be reasonable to assume that you're looking for some help regarding one of our products since you're looking the Support topic of our forum. We do have some simple requests that we ask you to keep in mind when posting. Those being: Ensure that your issue has not already been answered in another post, refrain from posting inside someone else's post since it can add delays. Please put the subject of your issue in the Title Describe the issue that you have been having including when it occurs If you have tried something already please do tell us since it can make your ticket progress quicker Attaching a picture or video of the issue is highly recommended since we can what is actually happening instead of assuming. Say whether or not you're open to chatting with our virtual support agent, @FSIoan, on Discord. We are here to help you and will ensure that your ticket is handled promptly. Thank you!

It appears that this issue has been handled. If you're having the same problem please see this post:

Hi all, We've tracked the installer issue down to only customers with MS Store or XBox GamePass copies having this issue; my entire company staff and I run the Steam version, hence, we never caught this issue when testing. If you are affected by this issue, please open a support ticket with us. I have authorized those handling Support to distribute copies of a .zip file to you, which contains all of the binaries / .exe files for SkyShare for a manual installation (your Support Tech will show you how, just unzip to desktop or any folder you want). Appreciate everyone's patience and thank you again for your continued support!

@njt522 Sorry I should have been clearer with you, my apologies. When you're in the User folder please go to View which is at the top and it should open another row of options. Within those new option if you direct your attention to the right side of it you will see three checkbox options with one of them saying "Hidden items". If you select that you should be able to find the Appdata folder. Thank you for your patience and I am sorry that you're having this issue.

There isnt a folder with that name in my appdata/roaming

@njt522 Do you mind going to the following Directory: C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator and posting a screenshot of what the contents are of the folder.

Im having the exact same issue

@LuRoCk_PRThank you! Expect a message from me shortly.

@LuRoCk_PRCould you please provide me with your Discord if you have one? Best Regards, Ioan

I'm sorry but I've never had any issues when buying and installing from SimMarket this is actually the first time. Apart from that this a brand new PC especific for Microsoft Flight Simulator

@LuRoCk_PR Hey there! I have analyzed your issue and based on what you have posted above, the following can cause this error: Registry problems, such as invalid keys Problems with a connection Wrong file resolution Source volume may contain disk errors If you can, please check those for me and if you cannot find a fix, we will be able to assist you further. Best Regards, Ioan

Interesting, alright. When I am back home, I will reach out to you via DM and let's schedule a time so you can come on our corporate Discord to address this issue further. At the very worst, if we can't get the installer to work, I'll just drop you a .zip version of SkyShare so you can manually install it. Just make sure you manually uninstall it when we push an update.

Already did this is what they replied

This looks like something with the simMarket installer not detecting a specific file in your system. Can you reach out to simMarket's support at: https://secure.simmarket.com/customerservice.php And keep us posted, in case there is something also required on our end. Thanks,

With SkyShare being released, we are already looking at the horizon ahead for all of us here at Forest Studio. We have ongoing projects, including one that isn't MSFS-related, but... we'll talk about that at another time 😁 For SkyShare, our plans are: Linux and macOS support for SkyShare Server (co-pilot, who doesn't need the sim installed) Note - the Client is the SDK-based window that controls the aircraft after receiving input, so that cannot be ported. Only the Server can. Support for multiple throttles Rudder support Yoke support -- currently in progress This will be a free Service Pack 1 update for all customers in the next week or two. New customers after the release of SP1 will get the update automatically when downloading. I appreciate each and every one of you for your support towards my new startup. It has been amazing to watch our aspiring dream of releasing a flight sim addon turn to reality as we released SkyShare. Thank you to those of you who have purchased -- we see the numbers growing, and we all say thank you for your support! For future projects, our team of 5 is planning to grow! If you are interested in working with the MSFS SDK and would like to work with us, please feel free to get in touch! We do have a requirement of 18+, as you will be required to sign an NDA, but exceptions may be made if labour laws in your country / area of residence allow and we feel you would be an excellent addition to our team.