IL2 and Sound Modding

[Billfish]

Ok, example time;

Though I disagree in principle as to hacking the sim, and have strong objections as to how the hacks are implimented exposing hidden content, also in that many of the hacks are quite simply cheats unbalancing online play..........A request of many was made for the ability to switch the reticle on and off, and remove the gunsight for racing tournaments.

Those two requests and any subsequent attempts to make such alterations "IF" delivered in a coded package making it difficult for "cheaters" to alter the sim further are though infringing on sim copyrights tolerable......In that they would not aid cheaters, nor unbalance online play....Simply adding features to the sim which do no harm.

If all of the hacks from day 1 had taken that course, and been presented in a responsible way...........I'd have zero issues AND would of never even taken a stand on this issue letting a group I respect, Maddox Games deal with their copyright infringement themselves if they so chose.

.........and no, it is NOT simply a matter of taste or preferance, as anything supplied to the masses will get used, and we all except the most unintelligent can tell what hacks will unbalance online play.

What stuns me most of all is where are the new objects, where are enhanced features in the sim itself (making currently locked items such as F6 server switchable, adding recon photos to briefings, adding the ability for briefing sounds to be downloaded, making the plane icon on minmap paths server switchable, etc.).....Where are all the things that really enhance the sim "expanding it"....While doing no harm in any form?.....Various attempts at mapping all I'm seeing in this regard.

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