Vitos, OPRF were also told that its only a civilian sim.
But we thought about it and decided to do military for these reasons:
1: Only Torsten D. seems to have a strong stance against taking damage from weapons. He is a core dev, but only 1 of several. (not Thorsten R., Torsten D. without a 'h')
2: F-14 with working missiles have been one of 5 core aircraft that shipped with FG, that was a strong signal to us.
3: Our weapons only do damage if the receiver has damage enabled.
4: Bombable exists and there has even been talk of including it in FG. With bombable you can take damage from weapons. Nobody seemed to mind.
5: We have strong rules about not shooting at civilians, even though all that happens is an annoying MP chat message.
6: We have rule against any working Nuclear weapons. Due to the outrage one of them caused some years ago in these forums.
So OPRF decided to push ahead and do full mil sim stuff. We have tons of fun, and have over 110 discord members. We mostly fight on our own server though.
Until now, nobody have complained that I know of.
But foremost we just like to fly, many of us also fly/develop civilian and hang out in the main FG discord server also.
We are not a hostile fork, much of what we develop (GPL 2.0) trickles back into FGAddon, fgdata. We report bugs to the core devs and jsbsim. We help people on forums and writes stuff on wiki.
And anyone is welcome to download the aircraft we work on, also those that are not pushed to fgaddon yet.
And couple of us also fly the SU-15, its nice that you finally made an English manual. Its a nice and advanced aircraft.
There is room for everyone, live and let live. And let the past be the past.