QUESTION: Patch 4.10 state

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by David603

Mission4today isn't exactly a centre of modding, with only 5 mods available.

Also, mission mate has 10,000 downloads from 13,000 views. The forum topic for downloading the latest version of one of the biggest modpacks has 115,000 views, which would indicate around 90,000 downloads if the proportion of views to downloads is similar.

Actually, there are no 'mods' available at M4T, if you use the IL-2 community's usual understanding of the term.

As for using a forum topic to estimate downloads, this is utterly illogical. If I download something once, then post 10 questions about getting it to work, I've not downloaded it 11 times, have I.?

Simple logic also says that the number of people who've downloaded the 4.09m patch cannot be less than the number of people who've downloaded it, and then installed mods.

I use mods myself, but recognise that the majority of IL-2 users almost certainly don't. For what it's worth, M4T currently has 27,000+ registered members - people who have signed on to download, since they made this a requirement. TD are making new features available to users in a way that the modders (for all their dedication, and skills) never will.