[kleinnak]

Kosmev, find one mod that changes the FM or LM in this site and I ;ll applause you.
Unless you think that repaint cockpits and accurate engine sounds can give you an online advantage.

That is not the point! I don't blame the site! I simply state that the MODding tools are too powerful!
It's like giving shotguns to kids to play with!

Shotguns to kids...how is that in any way a rational comparison? And if that's not the point, then state it a little more clearly before you go off attacking people who're just trying to get a different enjoyment out of the game than you apparently. Who is reeeeally hurt, and I don't mean pride, by these mods? I agree, if you're basing so much of your happiness on this game you need to take some time off mate. Personally, I don't play online, and to those of us who don't, who just enjoy playing the game for the purity of a chance to put ourselves back in time in different planes to see how they perform (or as Oleg has deemed they should it seems), these mods are a dream. Now, onto some of your other points.

"Are you joking? If moderators won't ban me, I can send you a MOD which will turn I-153 into an UFO. It's just one file you need to place into the \files folder."

Mmmm, not exactly no. You could full well make it LOOK like a UFO, but for all intents and purposes based on its performance and weaponry it will still be an I-153, because it's bound by the uneditable (or at least that's how I've come to understand them as being, new as I am to the modding aspect of this game) FM. So in the end, you'd certainly look silly with an extra-terrestrial Chaika, but I'd have to say you wouldn't hold any more of an advantage over you opponents than having them look at you and go "what the heck.....?" for a bit, before "boom and zoom"ing you in their 109 and ruining your little life anyway.