Maybe I was lucky... but I installed the launcher and patched up then played. I never ran into a single problem with this mod. I don't understand what the issue is?

The truth is, you never know with computers.There are just so many variables when it comes to computers.  Hardware and Software conflicts, Operating System Quirks.  The Devs did an excellent job in working all of that stuff out while still pushing the envelope with this Mod.

And they and the community have been very helpful in helping those of us that run into problems to get up and running too.

But a solution for those people who can't update because the launcher doesn't find the right link in the regestry would be nice...
(a simple requester to set the path ?).

A temporary solution:
Ask a friend for a copy of his FirstStrike Mod Folder...

If you could do better, please be my guest take your FS-free time and make a mod, and consistently update it.

Goodbye.

The launcher may be more complicated than it needs to be, however getting it to do what it is designed to do is usually as easy as clicking a button.  Why you had the problems you did is beyond myself and everyone else who has seen the threads.

The launcher is there because releasing patches individually is impractical and hamsters damn difficult to install.  How would we be able to tell new comers they are out of date? We'd have to write an .exe for every minipatch. Some of these matches are tiny, not even 5 meg. What a waste of time and effort.

Perhaps you will make it back some time later.  Good luck if you do attemt to try again in the future.

Servers are empty basically because most people who play 2142 don't care for mods.  Or never hear of them.  FS had a ton of bugs at release (which could have been handled by a launcher) which put alot of people off.

this is not meant to offend anyone, but why make it more complicated that it should be?