[FA_Bong]

Rock, the first and foremost reason for the UI is to have Everyone on the same page, to have all the same mods and to insure that no-one can join a server that is CRT=2 with unacceptable mods (those that would give them invincible planes or Uber weapons, in other words no cheating). If you have already downloaded some of the mods that is fine, you can save your mods files before install and then replace them after, so long as they contain no class files you would still be crt=2 compliant, if you have maps that aren't in the 1.2 you can put them back in you'll just have to add them to the all.ini and you're good to go. For instance; I have a folder called National Markings which replaced the default USAAF star with the correct one and the NOMAPFRAME mod which is self explanatory I added those in after the UI1.2 install and I have a couple maps to add back in as well as the new F-86 and Mig and it's no big deal I'm still able to get into a crt=2 server.
With any other modded game, say BF2 for instance you would not be able to join with a version different from the one the server is running, PunkBuster would Kick you. So think of it as our way to insure that you have the same experience as everyone else and no punks can bust your fun, the version of any Mods included in this UI is tested to make sure they have no exceptions that will cause you problems. This UI and the one before it are fundamental to getting everyone up to date, and subsequent updates will not likely cover any Mods already included.

[Trooper117]

When I started to get storage space problems there was only one solution.. I bought a cheap 175gb external drive.. I now have several versions of the game installed and working.
You just cant get by any more with a single install I'm afraid.
If you don't play online then you don't really need 1.02.. I have my original modded game with all my goodies that I like to play offline, all manualy installed and will except any mod so far.
For online play there is the UI version..

[mig88]

I'm an offline player and I would also like to have several features of the UI 1.2 more easily available. For the time being I'm going to try and put them in manually.

[Guest]

I too only play offline and prefer to add only the planes and effects mods that I want. I recently installed the UI to replace a bodged together array of mods added over time. I have to admit that I liked the effect of having the UI as it had some features that I didn't have and liked. However, I now want to go back to just adding planes and effects piecemeal and I'm worried that I won't be able to. I really like some of the mods that I have recently added, and don't really want to do another install of the same game, just so I can have a CLEAN UI 1 install to install UI 1.2 over.
Does this make sense? I also have no desire to load the 4.09m version, I'm much more happy with the mods I've gleaned from this site.

Is there anyway to load 1.2 and future UI's over what I have already? like I used to do with the new A/C uploaders. I really liked just downloading the new one and having it overwrite the old one. Or will I have to end up doing the 1.2 thing just to continue to download new planes? In other words can I stay at 1.1 and still just download the latest A/C uploader to contiune to download new planes? or am I screwed?

Chris Rummel