The MOD mentality....

[Oscarito]

Interesting thread! I've read almost all the posts just to realize that everyone has a good reason. Talking by myself I could live without Mods if the official team paid more attention to some subtle aspects of this game.
Realistic FM's and all related historical/technical stuff are very important, of course. But this is still a "game" (at least for me..), and games are intended for fun. In this sense I mean sound and image, basically. Yes, terrific sounds, amazing effects, etc. Like a Matinée
For example, I can not understand why that ugly smoke effect from damaged planes remains untouched all these years! Same for some engine sounds that remembers me a scooter instead of a fighter plane. Such things seems to me as easy to be implemented. I'm sure you can do that at a wink of an eye if you want. Then everyone would be satisfied, with realism, historical accuracy, immersion, fun, everything! Community would be joined again and we could experience a revival!
You see, currently I have two game versions installed:
.Official version, to play campaigns, etc, alone at home.
.Modded version, to make vids and proudly show to my friends.
Why not just one game?

[csThor]

The sound issue is quite easily explained: Daidalos has to do things "by the book" and adhere to copyrights and such things whereas what an individual does on his own PC is of no importance to anyone else. Which means TD just can't pick sound samples from "somewhere" and plug them in. The result could be an ugly copyright infringement and that would be the end of TD.

Remember TD signed a contract with 1C so we're bound by rules and regulations which we can't and won't break.

[daidalos.team]

Oscarito, we will be turning our attention to visuals/audio in the future (within the limits Thor has mentioned above). For the last 4.10/4.11 TD patches, we wanted to update the core features of the sim first.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by daidalos.team

Oscarito, we will be turning our attention to visuals/audio in the future (within the limits Thor has mentioned above).

Interesting.......