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PhantomTweak:
Hi Tre!
I'm lazy, so if I shorten words, I'm sorry.

The main reason, I think, that there is the .cfg file, and the conf.d folder is so that you can swap formations in and out more easily.
I leave the AICarriers.cfg file alone. If I want to add formations, or hoist loads, etc, I just drop a .cfg file into the conf.d folder. All done, or want something different, remove the one you were using, drop in the new one. I personally make a BACK folder under the conf.d folder, and keep all my .cfg files there. I only have what seems like a few hundred :D If I want to use one, drop a copy into the conf.d folder. New one in, delete the old. Saves a ton of time.
Remember the fewer formations, boats, hoist loads, etc you have to sort through in the SHFT+J menu, the quicker and easier it is to find what you want. I would  rather have 2 menu pages than 10 to search through. And, as I mentioned, I'm lazy. If you keep adding things to the AICarriers.cfg file, you wind up with a long, unwieldy SHFT+J menu.
It is also more dangerous. What happens if you corrupt the AICarriers.cfg file somehow? It can mess up the entire program, or stop it from opening entirely. Safer to drop .cfg files into the conf.d folder, and delete them when adding something else. Just make sure you keep an original stashed away someplace so you can re-use it any time you like.

Long-winded, I know, but that's me :D
Pat☺

ols500:
Hi I click the link on Page 1 to Github and download Aicarriers but there is no download for the .net?

-Ollie

PhantomTweak:
If it's the one authored by Orion Lyau, THAT's the .net version. Do you see in the Readme that you need to DL and install the .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile? Other than the author, that's another way to check you have AICarriers.NET. You need thee 32 bit version (X86).
It's virtually identical to the .EXE version. The file names are all the same. It's referred to as AICarriers.NET at Orion's request, to make it easier to differentiate his version from the original, JAVA based version. Notice the extension .NET is always capitalized, again, at Orion's behest, to ensure everyone knows which version is being discussed.

It's functionality is identical as well. The biggest difference I've seen is that the .NET version uses much less in the way of computer resources. Memory, CPU cycles, the whole nine.
Some have said, also, that it's the only one that works in FSX:SE and P3D, but I only have SE, so I can't speak to it one way or the other.

Over-all, and this is just an opinion, I believe the .NET version just to be better.
But that's just me.

Does that help, Ollie?
Pat☺

Tregarth:
Sorry to be slow in replying.  The reason Orion produced the .NET version is that it does not use Java code which apparently is not very secure.

I have used the orian version, it works exactly the same as the original with the advantage it is more safe.

Good luck,

Tregarth

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