No offense intended at all. I greatly appreciate the work that goes into INF and I have full understanding that it is not 'perfect', nor will it ever be. I still think it's worth trying and worth trying to get as close as possible.
However, my impression is that a lot of work is being put into implementing new weapons (which is a good thing), while other, much more basic parts of the game are still very far from realistic. You are right on, Bill Lee, woth your remarks, only that I personally think that since INF tries to distiguish itself with it's realism, first and foremost realism in the weapon handling and aiming department ("No Crosshairs"), priority should be on making the weapons in INF *right now* handled realistically rather than putting some AUG or lord knows what other "Every-other-mod-has-it-so-why-don't-we"-weapon in too. I know I'm a little bit alone with my views, but I don't dig eye-candy. INF claims to be realistic, and I'd rather there were only four different weapons, but that I feel like I'm actually handling them, rather than a dozen and the M16 is practically unusable compared to the MP5 because the reticule-implementation sucks. I also don't care if the third-person view remains the way it is. I would just like the first-person view and handling to reflect reality.
Besides, I never put a deadline in any of my posts on this subject or the 'reticules'-thread. I never even said it needed to be changed "now" or "with the over-next release", because I figure the INF team has enough other things on their mind. I don't care if it's implemented a year from now, I just think that it must be implemented someday, because otherwise we lose the distiguishing feature of this mod, namely the realistic weapons handling and aiming. Right now it isn't realistic and I'm just writing it off to the fact that it's still in development. I have no problem with that and I am making no reproaches. I'm just stating that eventually that's something that will need to be changed if you want the mod to be decently 'realistic'.
Since many still seem to think that firing from the hip is 'realistic' I make my point a little more forcefully than if we were just pointing it out, but I am still only pointing it out, because there's not really any discussion on wether firing from the hip is realistic or not, it's only a matter of knowing that it isn't, as several posts from other people who have military experience have shown. Same goes for the reticules, actually.
Again, maximum respect to the INF team for trying and for doing what they do. I myself would never find the time and I am grateful they do. But this still is the suggestion forum, right?