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We've been down that road, it's why we do OOB work the way we do it now. The BMP-2M issues recently brought up on the MBT forum come from copying the OOB of a "reliable source". That said we do exactly as you suggested on a very limited basis with a couple of the OOB's only because we haven't been burned by them....yet.

The thing is, OOB work is another no win game. The stock example I use is the Tiger 1. You would think that after all this time and the popularity of that vehicle there would be one universal set of stats but that is not the case and given the number of units and weapons and formations this game models it's a given that SOMEONE is going to find some source somewhere that when converted to usable game numbers disagrees with what we have and sometimes, when buried in "corrections" and given we've been doing this for 15 years now it's hard not to think that 5 years from now someone else is going to show up with a "new" source that shows the info we are putting in now is inaccurate and the frustrating part is... yes, I WOULD like the OOB's to be 100% accurate but minor corrections , and most now are minor corrections but there are the occasional doozies that are caught..... minor corrections don't change how the overall game plays at all. If the game plays different now than it did 5 years ago it's due to code changes not OOB tweaks