Sorry for telling the old stories again, but I'm just answering to an old theme here:
Take 1nsane e.g.
The game was designed for multiplayer, it was biiiiig fun and the first game I actually played online only, I think with an Athlon 1200.
In that game you could see a list of games, the cars/classes that were driven and the track afair (as far as I remember).
When the big modding wave came there were many many new servers running special cars on special tracks. Invictus (the game devs) didn't want the players to flood their HDDs with too many cars and tracks, so they restricted the max. number of these to 128. I had many of the cars installed, mostly funny small ones like the old Mini and stuff. But I could only join Servers with special cars that I had too. Some of them were made on big fast machines, so the poly count was too high to handle for my system.But the main audience of this game were young 13-year-olds, they all built their ÜBER cars, put them on some download space and raced ugly, square boxes with 11084 hp and 8 wheels. That was exactly the point why 1nsane went down.
In lfs we have (guessed) 80000 users, in the evening there might be some 500 online. If I look at the server list there are about 500 servers, so why should we allow modding cars etc.? The community would even split up more.
Today we have drifters, draggers and racers. Some like Formula cars, some GTRs and some frontwheelers.
The moment the devs decide to allow mods the community will split IMO and break apart like it did with 1nsane!
We would have non-modders, ricerfans, stupid kids with ugly 239234 hpboxes, cheaters (think of that point!), group C, 5, A, B, whatever fans, guys twho drive `70s concept cars, lawnmower endurance racers....................................
I really like the cars and tracks in lfs and I'm afraid of breaking up with the best racing game atm, so please no additional stuff here!
If somebody wants to do something for the community, there are still gadgets to be made up... Use in/outsim or outgauge and build up something as special as carribean cruise e.g.! Try to do something great that keeps us lfsers together!
Or go create a car sim yourself *g*
greetz
der butz
PS: the greatest fart in 1nsane was a modeled plane pink square!!! In game the driver was sitting on/under/in the middle of it, holding his wheel. When I asked the "creator" of this thing why he uploaded such a crap he told me that this should really be a flying carpet!!!!!