05.08.2009, 08:41
bigbossmalone
No sweat man, just felt that the fact that SAS is primarily an offline site and not an online site obviously needed to be pointed out. Seems to be a recurring theme about online conflicts using their button files/mods. As far as conflicts go, this is why I have several copies of IL2 on my HDD. I use one updated to UI v1.1 w/patch v1.1.1 for testing of new and beta mods/aircraft I want to use. If no conflicts arise, then it goes into my modded game file that I use for flying the sim. If there is a conflict there then I know which was the last mod installed so I know which one to remove until I can find the conflict. Winmerge REALLY is your friend! I highly recommend this program to everyone. On top of that I keep a text file of all mods installed by catagory and date of installation.
Other thing is that if you immediately download and install the next thing to come out, the other sites may not be update yet. There will always be a lag time between releases from different sites, unless everything is co-ordinated for release from all sites at the same time. But then, all you would have is a bunch of mirror sites. So, to maintain any sort of variety, folks will just have to understand that not all mods are going to work with other mods. Not being a programmer, I can only imagine the enormity of the task to get all mods from different sites to work with no conflicts. What I've noticed is that you really have to read the posts, not just skim /scan the information. The useful information is usually only one or two sentences long out of a couple of paragraphs. Fortunately I am a fast reader. By the way bigbossmalone, I go by PBoatAvi8tor at SAS.
Take care,
C2
No sweat man, just felt that the fact that SAS is primarily an offline site and not an online site obviously needed to be pointed out. Seems to be a recurring theme about online conflicts using their button files/mods. As far as conflicts go, this is why I have several copies of IL2 on my HDD. I use one updated to UI v1.1 w/patch v1.1.1 for testing of new and beta mods/aircraft I want to use. If no conflicts arise, then it goes into my modded game file that I use for flying the sim. If there is a conflict there then I know which was the last mod installed so I know which one to remove until I can find the conflict. Winmerge REALLY is your friend! I highly recommend this program to everyone. On top of that I keep a text file of all mods installed by catagory and date of installation.
Other thing is that if you immediately download and install the next thing to come out, the other sites may not be update yet. There will always be a lag time between releases from different sites, unless everything is co-ordinated for release from all sites at the same time. But then, all you would have is a bunch of mirror sites. So, to maintain any sort of variety, folks will just have to understand that not all mods are going to work with other mods. Not being a programmer, I can only imagine the enormity of the task to get all mods from different sites to work with no conflicts. What I've noticed is that you really have to read the posts, not just skim /scan the information. The useful information is usually only one or two sentences long out of a couple of paragraphs. Fortunately I am a fast reader. By the way bigbossmalone, I go by PBoatAvi8tor at SAS.
Take care,
C2