The MOD community has done an amazing job in fixing and enhancing the Asobo Planes.
One assumes that over time, Asobo will also correct issues and bugs in these planes, and maybe even enhanse them to some extent.
So the obvious question is, should Asobo use Community Mods as a basis for improving the planes.
How would the Mod community feel about that. ?
While I am so grateful to these Mods in making the planes I fly, “work better”, the number of mods are growing, as are their interactions between each other, and the who management of these mods by users is a potential issue, when some “may” be causing issues that Asobo have no control over.
There as so many aspects and maybe differing thoughts on this,
I am wondering what both the Community in general, and particularly the creative people doing the Mods thing about this.
Interesting. All the freeware mods are as it says freeware. If mods were incorporated as part of the commercial MSFS package then Asobo/MS would/should have to pay the developers for their intellectual property.I believe this would be against the spirit of freeware and open source development.
The method I use is to load only what I need for a particular flight/aircraft. The exceptions to this protocol are the Working Title Garmin mods. I have the G1000, G3000, and G3X mods installed all the time.
The benefit to the community would be not having to separately install each scenery or livery, but having them stream instead. A large catalogue of 3d models would be handy to have too, and would only need to be loaded when a certain area is loaded.
It would probably need a lot of work to get this streaming to work as these things are simply saved locally on your computer right now.
Perhaps in the future, a selectable geographical area of freeware could be added to the marketplace downloadable and updated as a pack with each sim revision. (Eg: Australia - adds upvoted freeware and liveries that both update over time as they get revised, and expand over time)
Initially, I was thinking about Mods that specifically fixed unfinished items in an Asobo Plane.
Yes, using such mods as a basis for fixing the Stock planes open up a whole question about “consideration”
Then again, what is to stop Asobo from just “reviewing the Mods”, and then having a shot of inspiration on what needs fixing, and how – without anyone knowing - and either use the Mod’s code, or a “version” of it to achieve the same ends.
No doubt t lawyers would have a field day with this whole question !!!
Personally :-
( and I am working on a AP MOD at the moment (as I type this) - I am fed up with AP spirals to death),
my though on my Mod would be : Great – if it helps incorporate it so my Mod becomes redundant.
Then I don’t have to support my Mod, get blamed if anyone “perceives” it is damaging their Computer, and I can wash my hands of it and more on to something else., while knowing that the whole MSFS community is benefiting form my Free work, which is reward enough.
