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Originally Posted by Evgeny
Well, you may discuss this aspect of the game, but, please, don't insult each other. All of you are people, who respect theirselves and should respect each other. The only useful thing is a discussion, but not obscene words and the hatred in each word. Respect other members and they will respect you. Hope for the understanding.
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Evgeny,
i think that is a mistake and the people hacking the files should be kicked out instead !
the hacking of 4.08 causes:
- online cheating, and we are already seeing plenty of this on full real servers, like people with unlimited ammo, hacked and enhanced flight models, and no cockpit settings.
- the online servers have been much less busy since the hack started, the online community is fragmenting, ths will worsen in the next 12 months while we wait for BoB
- the hacks are not aimed at improving or fixing the game
- the hack will reduce 1946 sales
- the online community has been a strong and vocal proponent of il2 and supporter of oleg since the beginning, and the main reason for this has been the realism of the aircraft behavior and its good flight models. as you could see from the recent poll at ubizoo most of the online il2 users are more mature and older people, not 12 year old gamers that get a game bought for them by their parents. the reason for this older age group is because of the quality of the il2 game to simulate real ww2 flying better than any other game. undermining this by now tolerating any 12 year old hackers to create their personal flight models for each aircraft and then go and have "fun" online by creating havoc will seriously undermine il2's previous good reputation. magazines like computer pilot will publish this type of information, and it will undermine il2/1946 sales further.
- new people that are interested in buying il2 and 1946 often go and check the official game forums to see if there are problems/bugs with the game. once they see the game has been hacked and that this is openly tolerated they will be much less likely to buy the game.
why bother flying online if it is full of cheaters ?
why bother buying 1946 if flying online isnt going to be honest and legitimate ?
if that is however your and olegs official response to the hacking of 4.08, then you can tolerate on your forum whatever you want and choose, but i think you will create a frankenstein monster instead which will be hard to put back into the grave later.
why not just release the source code then ? at least that would open up everything for editing and some ligitimate coders/programmers will contribute to improve the game further, rather than have cheaters online kill the game for the rest of us. it will then evolve like falcon4 or the rowan BoB did.