[OldBuzzard]

We "were told" a lot of things by Oleg that turned out to be, to put it bluntly, flat out lies.

Am I 'cheating' because I use Voice Activated Controls? After all, that isn't something that is "in the game''? Are all of us that have WS monitors and are forcing WS in the conif.ini 'cheating', since IL2 dosen't natively support WS? I'm at a disadvantage to others since I don't have TIR. Are those folks 'cheating'?

I've heard a lot of "They could ...", 'It's now possible to ...", "It may lead to ..." from a lot you people here, but none of you can show that it's actually happening on any sort of regular basis. As far as I know there has been ONE documented case, and that was very blatent. Which brings up another point.

We know based on past experience in CFS1 & 2, which was 'open', and modifying FM/DM WAS as easy as using cut and paste, that the 'mods' were always outragous and easily spotted, and that the folks that were willing to use them weren't content to just give a 'small increase' in speed/ammo loadout/survivability, etc. Anyone wanting to 'win at any cost' isn't going to be content with a 5-10% increase in speed. If they aren't good enough to win at 'stock', 10% isn't going to help them anyway. Thats what we saw in the CFS series, and that's what we will see here IF, modifying FM/DM is as easy as 'some' have said. How did we deal with them? We booted them, and let everyone know in the chat room on the Zone who they were and what they were doing. CFS1 didn't 'die', nor was it 'ruined' by the mods. We delt with the mod users, and the MOD users finally started running games that were MOD ONLY. Each side (for the most part) respected each other and we co-existed. Are you 'anti-mod' people claiming that the IL2 community isn't just as capable of doing that as the CFS community was?

Some claim that modifing FM/DM is easily done in notepad using cut and paste. Really? Tell me, just how many aircraft have you modified and used online to test that out? You guys seem to be the 'experts'. I'm sure it would not be all that hard for you to make the changes, make a few tracks, and show us that you did it now, would it? If you can't, than maybe you should stop making claims that you can't backup.