[Aymar_Mauri]

oh, i can see offliners that can do it, doing it..and all the more power to em

if and when i see "corrected" P38 mods, etc, im on them, and will then likely start DL campaigns stuff

i understand yoru sentiments precisely Aymar

Good to know.

but theres no denying, as bad as some ppl ahve gotten over the mod issue, FM tinkering is a hot rock, really hot..the prob is, one guy says "this is correct P38"...5 million others have thier own "correct" P 38

Well, and this is only hypothetical, it could be possible and advisable to create a council that has the contribution of many moders and historical experts from all origins and inclinations to create a community mod who's only interest is to insert the proper historical data in the files. Everyone of these people would be able to check the data and be certain that there were no bias and porking/uberizing of any plane for an hypothetical release of a correction mod.

This has been done is many other games and I do believe that it is possible if there is will and honesty. But maybe I'm just naive.

for the overall state of FUBAR-ed-ness among all types in game, id rather have everyone flying the same porked 38, than 42 completely different, yet "correct" 38s

You do realize that this is conforming to mistakes, right?

this all applies of course, to online

while there are servers i can go to with CRT=2, and the servers that run 409 (until 409 itself is broken/accessed), i couldnt care less about 2000kph U2s or whatever...i have the optioon of going to "cheat-free" servers to avoid that....whjen i dont mind supersonic biplanes, i go to 408 server and have fun

Precisely my point. IIRC, running in a CRT=2 closed server should and it seems to me safe. I can read about cheating here and there, but how much people has presented any proofs of it?

the prob is, once 409 is beaten, there will be little or no refuge from the spectre of cheating, or at least the threat of it

then we may see some servers going to password format...not good

I hardly think this will ever happen. And do you know why? IMHO, it is necessary to have a quite a bit of knowledge of the internal parts of the game to be able to cheat. So, the number of possible people doing it will be very low. Add to this the fact that most with the knowledge to do it will have more fun doing stuff other than cheating.

And referring to my previous words above: "I can read about cheating here and there, but how much people has presented any proofs of it?"...

But this has little to do with what I was referring. Which is offline moding.

again, i dont mind the idea that FM tweak/alteration will happen...but i simply cant imagine how it will go down if the time comes when several ppl can and will be seen doing it

i think the game was "good enough" to begin with; the mods have breathed new life into it, i feel its simply not worth the strife over FM crap for the mistakes that do exist in game, having flyables, reticles, maps, etc is more than enough as is

but thats just me 8)

Good point. To each is own. I really don't care about new flyables with wrong cockpits. But that's just me...