Is this like Top-Trumps?

Quickly contribute with my idea. I think the best it's the add-on ability rather than the modification ability. I would rather have a great system where I can put an add-on later, and this means that from the beginning the algorithm must be made with that intention so in the end is easy to integrate third party or even self company projects than just having the tools to modify the content of the game. Or even better providing the tools (if that is remotely possible) for the community to work and then with the producer approval integrate that in the simulation so that way everyone can quickly have access to the same thing, meaning a unique version of the simulation.

In an ideal world we'd be using open source tools to develop the sim. Not only would we be able to get into the code to modify the tools, fix problems and add features, we'd also be able to throw up a download link and let potential modders try them out and eventually contribute to the sim.

The reality is that the Leadwerk's engine we're using has it's own content creation tools and specific exporters that require a license to use. At this point, that license is quite reasonably priced. However, it's possible the price will increase as the engine is developed further and becomes a more lucrative asset. It's not difficult to predict how modders would feel about spending serious cash simply to mod a game.

A policy of you make, we integrate seems simple enough, it's been tried by a few simulation developers before. Those development teams were much larger than ours, and I can't see us having the time and resources to polish and integrate the work of others whilst at the same time pursuing our own development cycle.

Cheers

It's already good if you guys make some kind of "modules" (this "modules" could be a helicopter pack, map pack, missions pack, etc) so you (as developers) just install new modules without great deal of effort.