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Originally Posted by crazyivan1970
DEBATEABLE? Are you friggin kidding me? The most disrespectful, poor and baseless post i`v seen in years. Few changes made by group of hackers (sorry, modders) that pleased few people compared with years of work. WTF is that?
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Only debatable because for one thing.. Gozr can
say what he wants.. but anyone with half a brain knows that whatever work the modders are doing would not be possible if Oleg & his team had not made the sim in the first place.. and the sim itself is an undeniable work of art regardless to what anyone else may say about it's warts...
Gozr's choice of words is not the best.... because let's face it, unless I am getting something completely wrong here even the "new" stuff that the modders are making is not really "new" per se... it is modified, repackaged old stuff.. But the
basic point he is making is a good one.. and that point is.... there is a lot coming from one mod site in particular, (the only one I know of.. since I don't do mods thus far so I don't know all the places.. but I am sure there are at least a few more... ) that would have been GREAT stuff to have had added to the sim by the 1C team. Is it better than Oleg's team? In true quality? I doubt it.... best analogy I can come up with is that Oleg built this sim on the atomic level... and the work of the modders is on the molecular level... and no matter what they do it will always be on the molecular level so it wont have the same ...... dynamism for lack of a better term as Oleg's work done on the atomic level... but .... it is still some good stuff.
I would love to be able to skin the statics..... which I still cannot do... unless I use the mods.... or skin ships..... or have more maps in the QMB... or have a K-14 on a P-47.. or have a loadout for rockets on a P-51... or have HVARs on a P-47... and I could go on... but as I said.. I still cannot do that... unless I mod up... which I have chosen not to do as of yet..... but the fact that these guys can offer those things is a good thing with hindsight... and I would hope that if these guys "only care about the sim" as so many of them have said... that they would be more than willing to have their "mods" incorporated into the sim if Oleg was willing to make whatever corrections that could or had to be made to make it more seamless.. Yes I know.. wishfull thinking perhaps on my part... but it would be nice.
I think all Gozr is saying is that things many thought were impossible were not impossible.... I never thought it was... I always thought that it was just a matter of priorities.. and 1C's priority was not and is not fulfilling every single wish of every single member of this community.. [i]especially for free[i]... which is as it should not be. I hope that if nothing else the things I mentioned above .. and yes I know it is purely selfish of me.. because there are probably as many "wishists" as there are community members... but I would hope that some of thiose things could be less painfully added to the sim by 1C... since .. lets face it.. how can you have proprietary rights on wrongfully obtained modifications?