[Bearcat]

Just to clarify something.. When I mention mods incorporated into the stock sim by TD I mean mod features.. because I dont know what is what when it comes to the code... All I know is that there are a lot of features that were suggested/requested by myself and others over the years that appeared first in ORR .. and then in the GD .. to no avail. Later many of these things began showing up in mods.. from bi directional radiator on an axis, to bi directional map zoom, 6DoF, multi axis support, a more detailed QMB, more slots in the QMB etc.. and now many of these features are in the stock sim. Which to me is great.. and I'd like to see more of that where possible.. I'd like to see some way of addressing default skins implemented in the stock sim.. I'd like to see a few more maps and AC implemented into the stock sim.... I do not know, nor do I care for that matter how many former mods were taken into the sim.. or whether or not the code was reworked totally by TD and just the features were added or if they used the same code .. As far as I am concerned no modder has a "right" to "their" mod anyway.. or to put it another way .. they have just as much right to "their" mod as far as intellectual property goes, as they have given to 1C in terms of using and altering the code... If someone takes my car and hot rods it without my permission .. it is still my car and should I chose to have someone else drive it and hot rod it .. for me that is my prerogative ... this is what 1C has done with TD from my perspective.. I am in no position to cast moral aspersions or claims of legality on modders in this issue .. I just know what I like and I like what TD is doing and I hope that they continue to try to find ways to incorporate many more features that were revealed first as mods into the stock sim. WE IL2 simmers have been asking for some of this stuff since day one.. if ORR were still here you could go back and see literally dozens of things .. heck even FB & PF and everything after it started out as requests in ORR.. Anybody remember all the requests for Cats and Zekes and Mustangs and carriers in ORR back in 2002 and before?

So Rock on TD... I have said this often.. but it bears repeating.. IMO it is a testament to this community and the robust nature of Oleg's code that this sim is still here thriving today over a decade after it's initial launch and has not gone the route of so many other products where competition, ego and skill or the lack thereof all congeal to make a recipie for disaster and the demise of an otherwise decent product.