Could 4.10 Update lock the SFS files again and reunite the online community?

[MicroWave]

Originally Posted by mazex

Yes, stick the head in the sand if you like to. Reminds me of the managers at the large record companies that missed the wide open market opportunity that Apple, Spotify etc grabbed from the table in front of them... Soon there will be no market for music that is not online and they will sit there with their "there is no third option" mentality and no customers. I don't think that I have ever heard of a game developer that fights people that wants to create mods for their game? This is actually rather amusing - especially with the bunch of now made "official" mod developers that now rant about the others that are not in the club... Why not work together instead?

Let's cut the story short.
You want DT to officially support and endorse mods? It's not going to happen. Until developers and/or publishers change their views, DT is not in a position to support modding even if we wanted to.

As far as I know Il2 series included officially a significant amount of 3rd party projects (3D objects, maps) long before the modding started. Even a plethora of 3rd party programs was welcomed (HL, DCG, MAT manager...). How is that fighting people that create content for the game? DT hasn't changed that policy.

And finally, I really sympathize with your resentment that now made "official" mod developers get different treatment. I really can't imagine what kind of devious actions they have taken in order to achieve that.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by MicroWave

Let's cut the story short.
You want DT to officially support and endorse mods? It's not going to happen.

Naturally I'm not talking about TD... Lets end this discussion now. You do a great job and I'm happy that there is still life in the old product while waiting for SoW:BoB!

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by MicroWave

As far as I know Il2 series included officially a significant amount of 3rd party projects (3D objects, maps) long before the modding started. Even a plethora of 3rd party programs was welcomed (HL, DCG, MAT manager...). How is that fighting people that create content for the game? DT hasn't changed that policy.

I never saw any official welcome. And I'm sure no financial support either.

1. HL (Hyperlobby), was there before IL2 Stumo v1.0 and was picked up by IL2 users because the UBI servers were useless and ended up dysfunctional almost from day 1 of IL2.

2. Lowengrin's DCG from CFS series was before IL2 v1.0 and developed for IL2. After Starshoy stopped supporting and developing IL2's Ngen and Dgen, Lowengrin filled a gap desperately needed from stock unsupported DCG.

3. Mat Manager was initially a useful program to make the default aircraftmarking look reasonable and enable the Swastika/Hakenkreuz.
it later developed into a bigger program for tweaking the games settings.

So none of these are included as content that required the SFS to be altered just programs that filled the slow failings of IL2 as it evolved and become full of bugs and out of date unsupported code.


I like to see new DT content added, but fixing some of the old stuff first would be nice too
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