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

[Sven]

Offline players are the source for new online players, dont forget that, to maintain high level of offline players we need mods ( Apparantly ), I know of many people who enjoyed offline so much thanks to mods that they wanted to go flying online, they joined our group and now fly online campaigns along with us. The pure online flyers are in thin numbers compared to all these groups with different mods ( although the standard seems to be 2.01 )

I have to agree that those like youself Thor benefited from the non split up online community, and would have liked to keep it that way, but that is just not the puplic opinion apparently, that's why we end up here with the divided community, so locking a game up would certainly not be good for the majority of the online players.

Sven

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by Sven

Offline players are the source for new online players, dont forget that, to maintain high level of offline players we need mods ( Apparantly ), I know of many people who enjoyed offline so much thanks to mods that they wanted to go flying online, they joined our group and now fly online campaigns along with us. The pure online flyers are in thin numbers compared to all these groups with different mods ( although the standard seems to be 2.01 )

I have to agree that those like youself Thor benefited from the non split up online community, and would have liked to keep it that way, but that is just not the puplic opinion apparently, that's why we end up here with the divided community, so locking a game up would certainly not be good for the majority of the online players.

Sven

That is because the majority of people who once played are now just waiting for SoW, playing something else... Playing IL2 with all the latest mods is like having a part time job now.

It has nothing to do with public opinion - if there is no control then there is anarchy. Anarchy might not be the best word to describe it but it comes close. With stock we had a control over what was available to every player out there and thus equal playing field.


I never said that the locking of the game is a good idea. I do agree on the part that offline players feed online player numbers.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Sven

Offline players are the source for new online players, dont forget that, to maintain high level of offline players we need mods

I play only offline, and I have not ever used mods. That may be in part because I don't know them, but then again, I don't know because I haven't been interested enough to look for them. I'm currently using the stock 1946 disk install (4.07?), I installed up to 4.08 once, but reinstalled Windows since then and I can't be bothered to install and install and install to get up to the current version.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

I play only offline, and I have not ever used mods. That may be in part because I don't know them, but then again, I don't know because I haven't been interested enough to look for them. I'm currently using the stock 1946 disk install (4.07?), I installed up to 4.08 once, but reinstalled Windows since then and I can't be bothered to install and install and install to get up to the current version.

To get up to the current version you need to install two patches... 408m and 409m. After that I guess if you did want the MOD stuff that'd be countless amounts of installs and tweaking.

In any case bog standard IL-2 1946 comes with so much content. Yes I want more but I'm enjoying what I've got right now. So much potential and 4.10 with all of that new content will be really great to have in a full out release.