IL2 and Sound Modding

[csThor]

jb - Resorting to the tactics you criticize (namecalling and insults) shows how little substance your "defense" really has. Just to refute your ridiculous claim on who disapproves of the hacks: I'm 27 (about to turn 28 next week) and play 90% of my flying time offline. I disapprove of hacks and modding in general because the now 8 years of flight sim experience have shown me that "the community" cannot be trusted to deliver historical and technical realism without an independent entity checking the work - precisely what was done for Il-2. I regard it as grave error to allow modding for SoW but woild have prefered a more fleshed-out and more thought-through system of managing 3rd Party development, a process which should (must!) include the basic component of historical relevance for any inclusion. Free choice, as Il-2 development has shown, leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to how individual projects fit into the game's environment.

Am I a cynic? Perhaps (or most probably) but all I have to do to get some hard evidence on why "the community" is not able to be civil and police itself is the collection of message boards with the UbiZoo at the top. You'll find loads of people thinking of themselves as god's gift to the flight simmers while they fail to realize their own stupidy and the blinders they wear. I'd rather give up flight simming at all than give these people the slightest chance of influencing development - regardless if it's FM, DM, armament or even the most basic decision on which planes/objects/ships get made.