Been a while....

[Rama]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Well I am glad that those folks dont come into any of the coops I fly in...

For coop, you don't have much to fear...
Most of these communities are also flying in inside their communities (one squad or a small group of squads), playing their own coops or their own online campaigns.
The online community is split between many communities, each with their own mod packs (and since mods in different packs use the same java classes with different modifications, these packs are not compatable together)

Someone like me who don't belong to any of theses communities, can't play in games hosted by members of these communities... except if accepting multiple installs of multiples modded games.
If this someone is like me and don't want to fly any mod.... then he's restricted in HL (for flying coops) to fly Airforce War (which attendance has dramatically reduced since 1 year... even if HL global attendance, mostly in dog sessions, hasn't reduced that much).
The time everybody could enter a coop proposed on HL is over.

It isn't a big issue. ROF will be available sometimes in 2009, and SoW:BoB probably end of 2009/begining 2010.... and IL2 will then be restricted to some peoples only interested in modding (like for CFS3 for example), but all non-modder players will switch to the new sims.
... and the IL2 online agony will get an end...