One of the hardiest things I have found is learning who is who. There seems like a never ending list of modders out there with more getting added each day. And even between here and the other Skyrim sites it's hard to tell who one should be looking at for. This is before factoring in that a lot of these mods are ported over from other games like Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3 and alike.
I am not just on about who people think the best modder is, but people who put Document and screen picture folders into their mods, and have an FOF file if needed. I think I did what most people do when they first come over a site like the Nexus site. Shiny object syndrome took over and I down loaded lots of mods. I started playing this game on the 31th October 2012 and as yet this is the first install of the game. One look in my data folder tells me this was a bad idea.
At the end of the day best practice it would seem is what is at the heart of the TES Alliance philosophy. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall was published in 1996, and here we are 17 years later and I think my data folder still looks the same. (sort of)
Not sure if I have a point or just voicing what my mind is thinking. But if modding as it seems will only keep growing, best practice could save people a lot of time and trouble in not breaking their game.
So is there a list of people who use best practice, or is this something one learns over time?
It's my Data folder so does that mean I should be repacking all the mods that don't have these files?
Other EXE files in skyrim game folder, sure I had been told that this was never a good thing to do, yet some mods have this, is this right. Or should they be moved?
BOSS tells me that things need cleaning, what's the etiquette with these, if I was a modder and I got 100s of mails telling me BOSS doesn't like my mod, that would not be a good day.
Any ideas?
and i didn't see the Please Read Before Posting. Sorry