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Hello everyone, I am back after being gone for several years. It is good to see everyone here! :) By the way, I have been organizing five separated installation of SF2 after setting them up in my external hard drive. I did lot researches and experimenting to ensure everything works. I am using Dell laptop so I am unable to have huge folder with many mods in SF2, so I installed SF2 and mods in an alternative methods with an external HDD. I did it in this methods: 1) Installed all SF2 titles and patch it to latest version 2) Configured option.ini file to have it changing mod path to external HDD 3) Tested add-on mods in external HDD and everything worked. 4) Spend each days installing 5 mods into 5 different installations, they look like this: - Strikefighters2 US - Strikefighters2 Russia - Strikefighters2 Asia - Strikefighters2 Europe - Strikefighters2 Israel And the rest (SF2:V and SF2:NA) are not used because they are in these 5 different installations above. When i was flying in any one of these titles, I noticed that when I go beyond mid 1970s, I no longer am able to select any years beyond that when selecting modern aircraft. For example, I selected F-16I in SF2:Israel, I am only able to select 2004 instead of different years around that. I went to option.ini to change this specific lines of codes and it look like this: (Note: I edited opinion. ini from this file path --> C:\Users\ --- names --- \Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Israel) [SingleMission] AircraftType=F-8H_69 Service=USN MissionMap=VIETNAMSEA MissionType=STRIKE MissionTime=NOON MissionWeather=CLEAR AirActivity=RANDOM AirDefenseActivity=RANDOM FlyAll=FALSE LoadMission=FALSE LoadMissionFilename=G:\_My Files\Games\Strike Fighter Series\Mods\_ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Israel\Missions\640802_TONKIN_GULF_INCIDENT.MSN MissionDate=1975 StartYear=1900 <--- changed this to 1900 EndYear=2100 <--- changed this to 2100 EditMission=FALSE And then I used CAT extractor to extract IsraelME.ini and created folder in SF2 I mod folder. The path folder path look like this: G:\ --- (several folder paths) --- \Strike Fighter Series\Mods\_ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Israel\Terrains\IsraelME And then I changed the lines of codes in ISRAELME.ini: [Terrain] TerrainFullName=Israel, Middle East DataFile=IsraelME_data.ini TargetFile=IsraelME_targets.ini TargetTypeFile=IsraelME_types.ini MovementFile=IsraelME_movement.ini NationsFile=IsraelME_nations.ini LocationMap=IsraelME_Location.bmp WaterMap=IsraelME_Water.bmp BriefingText=IsraelME_briefing.ini DogfightFile=IsraelME_dogfight.ini DogfightOnly=FALSE Longitude=34.80 Latitude=32.08 MagneticVariation=-5 LimitedNations=TRUE GroundObjectTexture=tan [Map] FilenameFormat=IsraelME_Map%d.bmp Width=1000000.0 Height=1000000.0 NumZoomLevels=3 [WeatherChance] ScatteredChance=25 BrokenChance=25 OvercastChance=4 InclementChance=2 [AllowedDates] StartDate=1900 <-- Changed this to 1900 EndDate=2050 <-- Changed this to 2100 I launched SF2: Israel and went to single mission and selected F-16I and realized that I am still stuck in 2004. I am still unable to select any years to before and after 2002. I am still confused and is not sure what to do next to solve this. So i am wondering if any of you have faced similar problems and have solved it.