[Radoye]

How many different people are authoring these Buttons files?

I read somewhere that the UI uses a different file structure/names for the sound files...could this cause a problem?

As I understand the rules were changed about a month ago, so only official AAA buttons files may be released/posted on the site. This makes good sense as the buttons file is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for this game.

However, it seems that the powers that be on this site don't seem to have the time to add certain aircraft (or WIP/Beta) or veto certain aircraft that appear on here, so not every aircraft on this site is included in the buttons file as far as I can see.

To work in the game, any aircraft with an entry in air.ini must have a corresponding FM in the buttons file. Obviously FMs are the holy of holies for all stock A/c and must not be altered. As you can hopefully deduce, if all sorts of people start putting out random buttons files then there is the scope to insert ones own nefarious code and datum for even stock aircraft.

Although this all makes sense, imho the baby was somewhat thrown out with the bathwater as Muas and Karaya were putting out 'almighty' buttons files with all know a/c and these worked a treat. However, this was stopped and now only UI related buttons files are put out which seem to be much less comprehensive and indeed problematic for some, at times.

Unfortunately, in order to protect the integrity of the game, some seemingly draconian measures must be enforced. They are of course meant for your and the games' protection. If you use AAA then you accept that AAA know best what this means for both them and you.

Well there is a simple solution for the buttons issue - just stay away from WIP and Beta mods and use only finished AAA approved content.

Or alternatively you can go rogue and use someone else's buttons file, non-AAA, but in that case you'll have trouble running UI. And UI is supposed to be the new common AAA standard on which everything new will be added in the future. So you're not really doing yourself a big favor if you're goung outside the AAA realm...