Don't worry it wont be locked.
During initial talks we all decided we move forward and adopt new updated FM for the AI based on HSFX (the MOD SFS files guys) . That way we could all adopt a standard.
1.2 adopted much of the AI FM to start off with and 1.2.5 and beyond will do so as well. This we did in part because the community at large has a huge legacy mainly in the former AI where online/offline/single user campaigns have been distributed on forums. Another reason is that this also helps in reducing the mod footprint by not adding yet another aircraft slot.
As noted, the AI will get an update but items that will remain core to any UI are:
- NO changes to existing flyable aircraft, hence no FM (Flight Model) or DM (Damage) changes.
NO changes in default weapons for any existing human flyable aircraft.
NO cockpit bashing of TD aircraft. We will wait for those in the near future.
New Slotted aircraft, here the rules are open as long as it it historical we can add correct FM, DM, weapons, skins, new paintschemes and the like.
The reason for dividing behavior is because modded servers (not running crt2) can host either existing game aircraft knowing that their weapons and FM have not changed.
If however, the server CRT2 then the issue becomes mute because the user needs to satisfy the server's content requirement.
Getting back to the Avenger and Kates, we used HSFX as the standard. If tweaks need to be done then I will wait for the originators to update and when the update is complete we will use it. Why we will wait is simple, "too many chefs in the kitchen" kind of thing. Since HSFX is making the changes we will stay out of the AI FM Kitchen.
Unfortunately and historically speaking some users take the FM's tweak it but no one shares that data with the originators making compatibility next to impossible.
Seeing that the HSFX guys sent us their FM so we could be in synch I'm not changing the AI FM's as that would break any compatibility. Therefore we wait for updates.
Hope this answered your question.
