[Bearcat]

It's silly, in my opinion, that 1C refuses to recognize all the AAA MODders for having saved his IL2 series....throughout 2008-2009 at least, while he dedicated his efforts to other profit-making Games and to SOW:BOB development. This 4.09 patch should have been finalized hand-in-hand with the AAA (UI) MODders...

A smattering of new Eastern front and Italian and Czech planes, and some minor tweaks here and there such as of the QMB, will not induce me to delete all the wonderful AAA-hosted MODs. imho

Slow your roll there... I don't think that will even be an issue.. and lets get one thing straight.. AAA did not "save" the series.. it may have taken it in another direction.. a good one but had there been no mods at all I still would have been flying 4.09b1m.. and I am not alone either. This sim is STILL .. totally stock the best WWII sim to date... To give credit where it is due.. modding has made it even mo' better... but AAA by no means saved the sim and AAA is not the only modding site for this sim..... This sim has always and always will stand very sturdily on it's own two feet.

The fact that most of the TD members from my understanding are former modders says more about Oleg's opinion of mods.. He wants the sim to be honored and the standards that he set ... and I bet if we took a roll call of all the TD members who were modders, most of their mods were top notch.. which is not to take anything away from other modders who are not on TD but let's face it... if the sim had not been hacked there would in all likelyhood be no TD... so for anyone TD or otherwise to suddenly develop wings and halos or start that whole modders vs the world BS again... is just that BS and it needs to just stop.

Right now. Along with that whole legal illegal debate... Oleg's primary concern, at least from my understanding, was that the online integrity of the sim remain intact.. For the most part that has happened..

We all appreciate this sim.. and we all want what's best for it...

I look at it this way.... perhaps the modders at AAA can join forces to some extent with TD... That's what I'd like to see... I have no intention of deleting any of the mods that I have... I will try to install the patch over my modded install (backed up of course..) If it works great... if not then I will do a clean install and try to install the mods... if they work great.. if not I'll just have two installs.. but either way I will continue to enjoy this great sim every chance I get.