Hades, I admire your effort to bring the most historically realistic aspects to the game, especially in terms of FM and DM. But do you think it's quite impossible to make everyone united in this sensitive matters? Firstly, people have never been united on the ultimate answer of the question: what should it be in real life? You got 1001 theories, twice that number of counter-proof. Secondly, we normal people never know what really happend inside the game engine. You proclaimed that Russian bombs have twice larger effect radius than German ones, TD said that those numbers don't always say the truth (but refuse to give the right numbers). I, having no idea of java or IT, cannot say who is right and who is wrong.
But, since you have the tools to change it (with mods), I'm pretty sure that you'll change it sooner or later, no matter which outcome of this discussion is. So, what's the point of bring up the whole debate? Those who think you're right (including myself), just use the mods. Those who believe in Oleg, don't use it. Isn't it the win-win situation? Everyone got his candy. Remember, IL-2 is just a game. No one will punish you for having the wrong data of bomb blast radius.
And some words for you DT. Your works have brought the ten year old game a new life. You've done, are doing and can do things that we never think that's even possible. So my big big thank you for all of you. I know you intend to fix some old issues regarding DM and FM. Just my humble suggestion: leave it alone. It's not the matter of "can you do it", but "what should you do". As I said above, this matters are extremely sensitive. I've read numerous threads debating about FM and DM in ubi forum, and not one of them came to a consensus, or even a compromise agreed by both sides.
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