Been a while....

[Rama]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Well IMO the IL2 online agony is self induced.
The reason why there are conflicts with mods and unmodded flyers is because one may not have a certain map or aircraft

The conflicts I pointed are not just between mods and unmodded flyers, but between different mod packs from different modding communities (mods that modify the code by using the same java classes with different modifications).

Install them to the duplicate folder... and try it for yourself.

I certainly wont... no way will I participate to a system that has the unavoidable effect to split the community of players.
I'm not against mods (I did participate to modding, I helped with many ingame maps, when it was official and controlled), I'm against Chapels. Chapels are unavoidable when the modding isn't controlled by a central authority that decide what's official, do the necessary quality checks and decide to include (or not... which is what potentially bother most of the actual modders that wouldn't accept any control) the mods in the game.
With a non-controlled mod distribution, you can surelly get some good quality mods... but you can't have a unicity of the game (which is for me more important, in the online scope, than the individual quality of some components).
And... the only way to get a centralized management and control... is to have it done by the game dev... there's no alternative.