I don't think the skin pack actually affects loading times very much. The main thing affecting loading times is always "Regional air activity" (2nd page of the workshop) - if it's taking too long to load, I suggest taking that setting down one notch, that should improve it.

Otherwise, the real point of the skin pack is not so much for you to use the skins, but for the game to use them on all the historical aviators, making your squadron and all the other squadrons fly all the different machines they did historically.

If you want to cut that down as well, all you really need to do is (on the same page of the workshop) set "Historical aces" from "All aces" to "Top aces only", which will only leave about 100 top historical aviators, meaning the game will not load any of the custom skins when you go into missions.


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