FANATIC MODDER

Even with this system, someone that has access can then re-sell what is downloading so for example if I pay 90$ per year and find 3 people to sell all the content that I download for 30$ I covered my expenses.

Indeed for a lot of people around the world giving 90$ is a significant sum. I know that for some others in the US this may sound crazy, but I know a lot of people that their money are ending before the end of the month and they are just waiting to get paid and this cycle goes all over again.

Happy New year to you too. Honestly, I didn't open this discussion because I was seeking a modder status, it's up to you guys. 1000$ a month???????? This is a crazy !!!!! Sorry I was not aware of this, it never crossed into my mind that it could be that much That sucks...I was thinking a "IL-2 Sturmovik" like solution, however if he's not willing to negotiate about the game makes things difficult. Well if he's not willing to talk about it with you that you are the Combat Ace man I don't think anyone else has any chance. No, never. It's much more than the twenty files because I worked on the data.ini (mainly FM), avionics, loadouts and as a beta tester on many projects. Indeed, after Guruu presented his Tornados (I worked with him for them a lot) I was largely inactive because of real life issues despite my attempts to return. I was a beta tester in the ODS campaign but I failed to work on it properly, it was an unfortunate timing for me at the time. A few times that I came back was when my HD crashed and I re-downloaded planes that I had in my old HD. There are many files in my folder that I downloaded and are still there unistalled because I had no time (if I don't have time to "fly" them, I tend not to install them). It's a couple of months that I made a slow comeback via PMs of others that urged me to come back. Therefore I downloaded a lot of stuff recently. One more thing, my fears are genuine, it's not a complain because I am just a "free down-loader" as Daddy implies. After your reply I have second thoughts because the 1000$ per month struck me in the head, I never thought that much. I hope that TW will reconsider and open us the way to do an update to the SF2 series the way Oleg Maddox let the IL-2 to others because some parts are getting very dated like the mission planning, AI, the gameplay suffers a lot in comparison with newer simulators. The IL-2 survived that way and frankly I don't see any other way for the SF2 series.

Definetely NOT, sorry, what else should I had done to be named a modder??? You can ask Viper63a and Guruu.....also when in the original F-16 release ALL VERSIONS HAD YF-16A specs on them. Do you know how much time it took to adjust them and put the correct values?? Modding is not only skinning, you should respect the work of others.

It's better that way. Having free access but to pay for new models. Not everything, e.g for old SFP1 derived mods but something like these fantastic new Sabra Dogs of course it's fair enough to be payware

If you are referring to me, I contributed in so many projects. Namely F-2/F-8/F-15/F-16/F-111 and lately F-102 but also other projects too.... And of course Tornado. You may think that it's a just a DATA or Avionics ini change but in reality it gets a lot of time do research and Beta testing. I had to do many times calculations all over again. Many times it was difficult to spot out the differences between various versions. I was also checking the performance through beta testing. The avionics are very tricky too, radar ranges are approx many times the data are very difficult to find or classified. Radar strength is relative too. I had to put values based on reports and use a point of reference from stock TW mainly using the F-4, F-14 and F-15. And of course adjusting the loadouts and the respective weapons. All in the shake of realism. It took countless hours to do all this. I never complained for anything or asked to be put in a "modder" status. I never asked for anything, really. I am not questioning what people are saying about the problems that they encounter trying to maintain this website. To be honest I was not aware of all these problems. Usually I am so tired by the time I am getting to CA, that I am just looking if they are new downloads and that's it, I rarely participate in the discussion section. I am sure that it could had been done in some other way. If someone had PM about the CA problems, I would had donate some money for help. But above all, it's not about my personal gain. I believe that this would be indeed the nail in the coffin. People were still bothered with SF2 EXACTLY BECAUSE IT WAS NOT LIKE STREAMING, now most of them they won't even bother commenting they would just move on elsewhere.

I can understand the problem of multiple accounts and something should be done about it. I can understand that it may be in deficit and some source of income should be found. But charging 10$ a month for a simulator that started in 2006 and had its last update in 2013, it's crazy. Especially since it was envisioned by its creator as open and easy to modify. And it was a freeware for all these years. And there is more on it. I am now not able to download not even my own uploads, which is crazy. I was recently convinced to come back to modding, despite my severe lack of time, but the reworked RAZBAM F-102 was the only one that I managed to upload before the announcement. I have ready in my HD a veltro2K F-102 with reworked skins by me (something that I don't do often) + all the FM upgrades + a lot of goodies from Eagle (avionics, cockpit + IR delete). I have also ready reworked F-89s with new FMs (LOTS OF CHANGES, MUCH MORE REALISTIC NOW) and the new avionics and cockpit of Eagle. I have also reworked the F-104s, I have ready all the F-104A/B/C/D models both TW and AJ, now that I corrected critical values the Starfighter suddenly became the handful that it really was, I was talking also and used as a beta tester a person that his dad actually flew the F-104 he is himself a pilot and I was working on the F/G/J/S models. Well, guess what. I am not going to release now anything. Let it be I am finished with modding with SF2. Now, someone will ask, is this that much to pay ? As you may have been aware, I had purchased most of RAZBAM and DLCs are well as YAP, so it's not that I am not willing paying. My answer is that since 2017 I had been largely inactive. While I was regularly logging into Combat Ace, I was more into looking and rarely downloading let alone installing. I haven't played the sim for almost a year until a couple of months ago. And I think I am not the only one. As years are going on, more and more people are becoming more casual with the SF2, simply because they are growing older and newer sims are becoming available. So giving that sum for me it's something excessive. If you keep this, the SF2 modding will slowly fade away and die. You can see yourselves that there is a drastic decrease in downloads in comparison with what was happening a decade ago – which is to be expected, it's an old simulator now. For sure, it's the end of the FE2. Which is so unfortunate. Now could had been done? Some talk with the TW maybe? One of the main reason that someone would still want to purchase from TW this old simulator WAS the huge aftermarket support from Combat Ace that now there's no more. Would TW still want to market this? Why not just give to you the rights? Or if not be enabled with Combat Ace somehow? Or even better work on an update? Why not having an update that we can download only from CA (and of course pay for it)? This is will keep the SF2/FE2 alive. If not, you just put the nail in the coffin.

This is amazing, excellent! I 'd suggest to do a repaint of the F-106A cockpit to bring it up to stock TW standards - now as it is the textures still look as stock SFP1 standard from 2006...also the polygon of the radar scope should be made a real circle at last...I am making this suggestion because as we have seen with the F-89 cockpit you really did a marvelous job, so you can be really good working on textures.

I am really sorry I hope that he recovers, I am not asking anything from him, to be honest I have no idea who is the person who created this pilot LOD.

I plan to rework the veltro's F-102A too. Actually I had made a few years ago a reworked version that also remained in my folder, however this needs an update with the latest skins and some other minor improvements that I did for the RAZBAM's but I didn't bother for the veltro's. Be aware that Veltro's is a case X version. Now as it is now, it's almost perfect. Whatever improvements you can do in the cockpit/avionics, they are welcome. My only issue as it is now are the attachment angle of the SUU-11s. Also another problem is the pilot.LOD if someone can modify the LOD to be correct for protruding visors like the ones that existed between the period '55 - '65 and then from '85 onwards.

View File F-102A RAZBAM pack v1.0 YOU NEED RAZBAM F-102A FOR USING THIS PACK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had this reworked F-102A in my HD for a long time. I have combined Paulopanz 's skinpack in RAZBAM with my own improvements. I made a complete rework of the performance specs, engine data, cockpit and avionic mods, new pilots, and ravenclaw weapons with completely new loadouts. There is also - a Vietnam specific version that can fire Air to Ground AIM-4s, converted by me, and SUU-11 pods. - a HAF specific version which is not much more than deleted AIM-26 capability in case X aircraft and a new pilot. Credits must really go to - RAZBAM - Paulopanz - Ravenclaw Known issues - the SUU-11 pods are not placed correctly. I didn't have time to fix it. I hope someone will fix them. Submitter FANATIC MODDER Submitted 11/17/2024 Category F-102  

I checked the F-89s first impressions are excellent

Hello, I did some work myself for the F-102s looong time ago which I never released it and afterwards I forgot about it. It was as complete as it could had been....avionics, performance specs, everything... Also, please check this all this work is inside dragon's packs, I first presented avionics rework for the F-8s back in 2016.