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Originally Posted by DerAlte

Wow..........alot has happened since I last posted here!

I can understand both sides of the issue. What I do see is a very, very vocal MINORITY, who is worried about what this mod does to online play. Did not Oleg Maddox once say that the MAJORITY of sales of this game is to offline players? If you fly regularly with people you know, what is the problem? It is always a hit or miss afair when you fly on public servers.

Lets see what "whining" from the online crowd has added to this game;

1. Bombs a torpedos that do NO damage after the pilot is killed..... "Oleg, he may use a Kamakaze attack to sink my carrier!" Very, very realistic.......NOT !

2. The LW 30mm boomstick......I seem to remember a post from Oleg a fews years back were he admitted that the ROF for the weapon is too high, but he would not change it for fear of the whines that would happen.

3. No cockpit.............. nuff said, VERY REAL!!

4. Icons............again, nuff said.

Those are to top 4 that I can think of. Yes, I know, items 3 and 4 can be shut off. But then again, 99.9% of the Onwhine(tm) players would not fly.

I heard to other day at the local Media Markt (tm), 2 young guys talking about the mods, both told me that they have BOUGHT the game because of some, not all of the mods that they have seen. The group they play online and at LANS with have decided to get away from the FPS and give a try at this game. One main factor in now buying the game (other than it costs now only 15 Euro), was what this mod has (in their opinion) brought to the game.

BOTH sides have justified beefs for and against what is now happening to the game. What is very sad, is that some people just see ONLY one side of the coin. Very sad indeed.

The old " I am right , you is wrong" attitude. And honestly, it is getting a little sick now. People who I have read posts from and who I thought were smart and upstanding members of the community have turned out to be rather stubborn in their views.

BTW, I have 2 setups, plain vanilla and banna-fudge-walnut sundae version of the game. One for onwhine(tm) and one for offline.

I think some should take a chill-pill and let history run it's course (were as, ALL online games will someday be hacked/modded).


DerAlte

excellent post.....two versions HUH? SMART!