06.01.2009, 19:31
Indeed, cheers to the AAA site owners, moderators, contributors and, of course, the users whose enthusiasm makes all this possible.
This is quite a change of heart for me. I was initially dead-set against this site and all it stood for. Over the course of time I've seen how Mr.Jolly, Magpie, Fly-Zo, and the rest have worked their butts off to ensure this site and all the mods created and released here have maintained strict adherence to a set of rules that allows those of us particularly interested in the multiplayer aspects of the sim to retain a level playing field. My hat is off, thank you gentlemen.
There are plenty of places out there on the net living up to my initial expectations of a massive "Pandoras Box", creating mods that are less than well intentioned and letting them loose on unsuspecting (or unscrupulous) players. One doesn't have to search hard to find them... but once you do, good luck trying to find friends to fly with once you've demonstrated the effects of mods from "those" sites.
The flip side of that is other modding communities throughout the globe, diligently working on superb new aircraft (the Fokker D-XXI comes to mind), maps, objects and game enhancements to polish what is already an outstanding sim series. In the future I hope more of these global communities working the same path as the AAA site will be able to further pool their efforts.
I still get a bad feeling when I consider how all this came about ... or at least my limited knowledge of how it all came about. From that (bad?) seed has sprung a grand crop though, and in the end I am grateful for it.
This is quite a change of heart for me. I was initially dead-set against this site and all it stood for. Over the course of time I've seen how Mr.Jolly, Magpie, Fly-Zo, and the rest have worked their butts off to ensure this site and all the mods created and released here have maintained strict adherence to a set of rules that allows those of us particularly interested in the multiplayer aspects of the sim to retain a level playing field. My hat is off, thank you gentlemen.
There are plenty of places out there on the net living up to my initial expectations of a massive "Pandoras Box", creating mods that are less than well intentioned and letting them loose on unsuspecting (or unscrupulous) players. One doesn't have to search hard to find them... but once you do, good luck trying to find friends to fly with once you've demonstrated the effects of mods from "those" sites.
The flip side of that is other modding communities throughout the globe, diligently working on superb new aircraft (the Fokker D-XXI comes to mind), maps, objects and game enhancements to polish what is already an outstanding sim series. In the future I hope more of these global communities working the same path as the AAA site will be able to further pool their efforts.
I still get a bad feeling when I consider how all this came about ... or at least my limited knowledge of how it all came about. From that (bad?) seed has sprung a grand crop though, and in the end I am grateful for it.