I am a little weary of the constant refrain that the mods have zotzed the sim forever for online. How can the the people who enjoy "Med Air War" and "Over Flanders Fields" play online if their massively modded items can't exclude non-regulation mods from servers? As I understand from the MAW forum, anybody trying to play with unofficial mods on their MAW program gets automatically plinked by the server, and they warn people to keep their personal copies of MAW with their own fixes separate from their online version. I am getting the impression the onliners are simply taking their marbles out of the game because they lost on the mod matter. Oleg left so many things undone which were not difficult fixes (as we now know): mirror for the frasting Hellcat, getting rid of the obnoxious nav lights on the AI so that night air battles can occur, 6 DOF (the doing of which proved possible despite countless official claims to the contrary), and on and on. I cannot help but wonder if Oleg was conducting a Darwinian intelligence test: are you going to be a dunce and passively accept you will never have what this sim needs, or are you going to pass the intelligence test and fix the sim yourself? I find his silence on the matter fascinating.
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