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Thanks for the responses and answering my questions. I think I'll be sticking with SF2 given what you guys have said. Hopefully the TW store won't be down for much longer.

Hi I am new to SF2 and this community having bought SF2 Vietnam in July 2011. I've been more of a lurker and tend to play games in bursts every now and then so I'm not really up to date with what's going on with SF2. I originally bought SF2 Vietnam for three reasons. I had heard that it had a great modding community, it covered the Vietnam War (which I am very interested in) and it was well supported through patches years after release. My plan was to buy SF2V and if I enjoyed the sim I would get the others down the road. I was going to buy SF2I but the store was down so I came here to see what's been going on since SF2NA was released. Going through all those threads it sounds like SF2 has hit a rough patch or worse? Modding is becoming more difficult (why didn't I keep my July 2011 download!?!), the modding community doesn't recieve the same attention as before and there isn't much news about the future of SF2. I recenlty tried DCS World and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would as pressing 50 buttons to arm a missile never really appealed to me before. I hear the main aircraft like the A-10C are quite detailed so I'm not sure if I'd enjoy it. The A-10C is the only thing in DCS that appeals to me although apparently there is a lot of payware in the making. Looks like DCS is going to be the FSX of combat sims. On the other hand, SF2 holds more interest with the era and conflicts it covers. There's a huge amount of mods available and it's cheaper. Still, with the way things seem to be going, does SF2 still have a good future ahead of it? If modding continues to get more difficult then newcomers like me won't have earlier versions to fall back on, correct? I would like to be able to buy both but I don't have enough free time or spare cash for that. TreeHugger - because I'm always crashing in flight sims