After DLing UOP and some basic replacers, I thought about repacking Oblivion (SI) BSAs with updated files from these mods, not so much for performance, mainly to keep the basic things separated from the stuff changing more often and keep the HDD less cluttered with lots of small files. Should make updating these things easier. Could also be a benefit when using MOM cause I only have to copy the updated BSAs to each profile (or maybe even share them between the profiles) instead of updating each profile. That was at least my thinking.
Did anybody here try this (I am kinda sure somebody did)? Good idea, bad idea? Anything I should keep in mind when doing that? And how about merging BSAs for e.g. Shivering Isles into one instead of four.
So, my plan is: unpack original BSA (e.g. textures) add UOP files add basic replacers clean and optimize where possible set timestamp to something early (e.g. 2000-01-01) repack BSA
Help, advice, thoughts appreciated. Thanks