Whatever the Mods did for giving the sim new legs the division within the community the red vs blue mentality has put asunder. It can be put as simply as Mustangs vs 109's. Don't get me wrong having later marks or even earlier ones gave plenty to the mission builders and the maps were sorely needed, a lot of talent out there. But, they couldn't agree on anything, they had to put their own opinions into the mix and that doesn't work. I believe that the Original Mustang isn't correct but I have never flown one so it's only my opinion and nothing more. I like having a 4 engine Bomber even with a B-25 cockpit but that isn't what Oleg intended to do with his sim. If he had we'd have a lot of stuff with just plain wrong data and incorrect models. Yes the sim is old and he is making a new one to replace it and the fact that TD is carrying the torch now doesn't mean we should expect them to change the house rules about what is allowed. I will have two installs when the 4.10 comes out; one vanilla, and one Modded because I like the extra content. I'm sure that there will be servers for both, unfortunately some servers will be so specialized as to be impossible to match unless you already know what they are running. Will I be angry about it? Will I register my protest that it should all be locked back to vanilla? No, and why should I care what one squad does with their game or even a dozen squads in a myriad of possible add-ons? look at Red Baron, European Air War they are still hanging in there and getting new content from people who like to play those old sims as dated as they are. One day IL-2 will be like them and people will be on a forum like this begging for SOW to be locked again while some third party is making content for it. It seems rather pointless to argue about it from that perspective. The Mods aren't going to dissappear, they will only grow and grow complaining or begging for a lockout isn't going to do any good it's because of them that we even have new content to look forward to, embrace the now.
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