Oleg and Team.

[LEXX]

Well Thor, for those who would like to stay with Oleg's FM, they can do that. Its so easy, even a flight simmer can do it.

For those who wish to experiment with FM, apparently they now can. Assume a little better than what I think is your worst case of 100% of aircraft modders are "bad" -- lets assume 90% of aircraft modders are "bad" and would place XLR-99 rocket engine and Phoenix missiles on the P-51 Dora, but 10% of modders are interested in adding a decent Hs-123 for Eastern Front ground attack. I would use the products of the 10%, and if I flew Online, I would fly with or against them.

More important to me would be the AAA advances in grafix, sim functionality, and most important of all -- new maps, especially for Pacific and Eastern Front. New 3rd Party aircraft are not as important to me (in this sim). Now, in the StrikeFighters I totally depend on 3rd Party aircraft modders to make 1940s to 1960s SAC and PVO aircraft that have always been ignored by all combat sim developers everywhere. For strategic size maps and grafix effects matching early jet age strategic air warfare, I have to depend on myself.

[tater]

BTW, I am the least involved of the pacific mapping team. If the machine I can post with during the day ran il-2, that might be a different story

I'm no more fanatical, either

[GOZR]

Thx guys good to see the discussion going somewhere..

[LEXX]

Ya, and modding offers the possibility of Spanish Civil War. Oleg once poasted that he would personally love to make a SCW sim, but, I think, he doesn't have the time. Maybe the new modding could bring JG_52 Tuckie's Spanish Civil War project back home to FB, and away from DukeNuke...er...TargetWare Forever.

Below is the TargetWare thread on Tuckie's SCW work, but the last poast dates from early 2007, so it may be dead.

~> http://www.targetware.net/modules.ph...=196&start=100

Interestingly, modder interest in simulating the Spanish Civil War offers yet another contradiction to the (again) false claims made by hostile behaving anti-social FB/PF computer gamers that aircraft modders (1) only can make UFO's and (2) are not interested in researching military aviation history.

Indeed, by definition, a good modder must deeply research his or her subject of modelling.