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[captainChaos]

I no longer feel at home here.
Indeed, some members (increasingly rare) and myself, try to do our best to offer you original “hand-made” mods and skins.

More and more non-skinnable, especially WT, adaptations are changing the game.

My Bunny and your venomous second, the moment you've been waiting for.

Au-revoir .

[Knochenlutscher]

WT has a different style of dealing with Templates. I searched my ass off, just to find
these are sometimes locked under personal guard and just available for VIPs sorta.
It's a bit like the old claim and fame times in 1946 before 2008. The sitting hens attitude.
That's why I came to SAS, because the Founder cared about collecting things of general interesst
and offering them publicly.
Then, there's less Templates comparable to our Sim. This is time when things start to get funny.
But don't hesitate, maybe take a brake, write a list what Templates are missing and
we can look if there's sth. out there. Dunno? 

[HaFu1939]

I hope it means à bientôt, not au revoir. You will be just MIA, we can hope to see you again. Bonne chance.

[gunny0134]

Through Mick, I've had a few exchanges with cC.

I also have a skin that he made me personally.

It is very sad to hear that he is leaving this place after losing his vitality.

But when I experienced it, the fish could not live away from the water.

I hope to see you again soon after recharging.

[Alex_355th]

Best of Luck CC, we hope to see you again someday.
 Досвидания
-Al

[sgt.wingspan]

  watching from a far distant.

[Draken]

This topic opens some psychological and philosophical thoughts .

Artists expects perhaps gratefulness when they show their production , made with hard work .

Myself do some screenshots and videos , and I am happy when people like them .


Philosophically , our favorite game is very important because it is the only combat flight sim which belongs to its players . ( There is also " Flight Gear " which is open source , but does not include combat feature ) .

It is why every member should stay in our community . Even a solitary offline player contributes to maintain the game alive .

I understand  that there are some evolutions that can disturb members having habits .

We  cannot stop the evolution of computing technology .

Let's try to use it to expand our favorite game .

I think that the next opportunity is the AI .
Imagine an AI which could create new planes  , new skins , new objects , simply by entering a text prompt ...

There are big possibilities coming in  a near future .
And we need veteran members to make them compatible with our favorite game  .

[Dimlee]

I hope it was not the result of a conflict of personalities.
The community is shrinking due to natural reasons and it would be a shame to lose even more talented contributors because of bad feelings.

[captainChaos]

I pity those who don't know the joy of creating.
What I do with layers, I could do with paper and a brush, it would take longer!
I don't want a machine to do it, it's my pleasure.

Laziness of the mind.

[Kopfdorfer]

As Dimlee said , the loss of each member of the community , by whatever circumstance ,
is felt by all who remain.
For this reason it is vital that correspondences and interactions are made honestly , transparently ,
and through the lens of mutual cooperation and with mutual gain in mind.
It is also important to remain aware that using translation , and using typed comunication rather
than direct conversation poses difficulties in nuance and feelings that can negatively effect the
perception of the intent of comments and observations ( though one must always account for the
natural statistics of assholes appearing anywhere humans interact ) .
So let us continue to look forward we little band of brothers , and remember the overall goal is
enjoyment of a wonderful product , that all here have contributed to in  some manner.
When in doubt , go back into your game version of choice and make a mission , fly a mission ,
make a skin , or ponder a mod that you have imagined would make the experience more fun ,
and offer it to the community .
Hopefully after a break , CC will be drawn back , even if just to fly .

Kopfdorfer

[Esv_Pato]

Well, I don't incorporate any mod that is incompatible with old skins and campaigns, maybe there are more like me. So there are people who appreciate your work.
Greetings and come back.

[UberDemon]

Gosh, I am not sure what WT is, but that is probably because I do not do skins.

Doing mods, and in my case, applications, is a work of passion.  I do want to make life easier for players and mission designers, but I do it because I enjoy doing it; if I didn't, I would not do it; I think that makes sense.

I have received both praise and downright nastiness from people in the IL-2, CFS, and Star Wars Sim community for the last... let's say a few decades.  In the end, no matter how much you intend well and you deliver what you think is a good product, comment, etc... my philosophy is... just don't expect anything back...  if people like it, they will use it, if not, they won't... and sometimes they will give opinion even if they don't use it.

As my wife says, don't expect anything, then you won't be (as) disappointed.

Take the good and refuse to accept the bad.  Keep trucking.