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Originally Posted by Pursuivant
Being able to downgrade a plane's performance by up to ~20% or uprate it by ~5-10% would shut up most of the "chart wars" and would eliminate many mods which purport to "fix" a particular plane's FM.
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It seems from from this that you don't have a proper view of what FM "modding" is about
An upgrade/downgrade does not make an FM more convicing regarding specific behavioural properties of plane in flight.
Sometimes it is really just about correcting obvious typos...
What about mistakes like a plane using the wrong engines? upgrade or down grade all you want, it is still a mistake.
Take a dive bomber whose dive brakes do not have any effect (just eyecandy) because a typo in the FM? downgrade/upgrade all you want, it won't fix the problem.
What about 2 variants of P-39 in which one has fuel tanks removed to get it ligther, but in game has the weigth & fuel reduction inverted (the ligther variant is actually heavier than the other one)
But sometmes it is about emphazising certain properties over others (say acceleration vs top speed), ie about subjective criteria on what is more important to capture the essence of an aircraft personality.
It is not about "upgrading" and "downgrading"... FMs are not THAT simple. A plane's behaviour is not a linear thing and requires making hard choices.