Idea: Vortex Collections - Importing/exporting lists of mods or a game profile of mods. Can have its own section on NexusMods only for Vortex.

[Deleted69319988User]

This idea may have been suggested before, but I just wanted to share my take on it.

 

 

SUMMARY:
> Concept is called "Vortex Collections"
> Import/export mod collection lists
- Mod lists of whole game mod profiles, enabled mods, installed mods
- Examples of possible user submitted Vortex Collection ideas:
- "Game Fixes Collection", "Graphics Overhaul Collection", "Real World Weapons Collection", "Custom Quests Collection", "Realism/Survival Collection"

 

RATIONALE:
> Increasing user satisfaction:
- It a more pleasant and seemless experience for casual players and players who mod heavily to have a centralized and reliable way to easily keep track of their mods.
- Could attract more people to game modding if it's quicker to install a bunch of mods at once.
- Could contain lesser known mods and increase their popularity.
> Monetary support:
- This could be a premium feature to handle the likely new download traffic increase in players downloading whole lists of mods.
- Anyone can export but you must be a premium user to import.

- I know you can just screen shot your list of mods and share, but Vortex Collections would be a quick and automated way that would handle many of the tedious steps.


IMPLEMENTAION:
> General:
- Save Vortex Collections to user accounts and share them on nexusmods.
- Have a section on nexusmods dedicated to Vortex Collections that have their own caterogies.
- The Vortex Collection file could be a JSON file that saves the titles of mods, their download links and so on.
- Lightweight version that has only the nexusmodpage, download links an no other details.
- Simple text file that has a title and uses new line delimiters for each link.
- Importing would be the same process.

> Importing Vortex Collections:
- New sidebar button called "Collections" or "Vortex Collections".
- Direct import:
- To a new game profile, merge with an existing one or create a new profile.
- Installs mods sequentially with the window/panel title "Install Vortex Collection (name of collection)".
- Show table list of mods:
- Select which mods to import.
- Sort by category, endorsed, date and so on.
- Check version (if applicable):
- grey text = newer versions unknown
- green text = current version
- red text = new version

> Exporting Vortex Collections:
- Exporting the list of mods to a simple JSON file and encrypted/compressed into a vrtxcol file.
- Example fields:
- description
- datecreated
- categories
- Mod list fields:
- nexuspage: Nexusmods page of the mod.
- name: Pull title from nexusmods page (download names often differ).
- author: Pull author from nexusmods page
- Custom file extension like .vrtxcol which registers to Vortex in windows explorer.

> Mod availability:
- Before finalizing import, check if mod is still available.
- Mod removed by user: Offer to open link to original author in browser.
- Mod banned: Display a message saying mod was banned due to TOS violation or whatever the reason.
- Mod under review: Display a message saying mod is under review.

> Verifying pre-existing manual downloads:
- Hashcheck on both nexusmod download and local download to see if it's the same file/archive.
- Verifies archive zips/rars only. If valid, vortex will install it.

 

If you'd like me to expand on this idea, please let me know. I can work on some mock UI screens.

My github: https://github.com/h-cheema

[Pickysaurus]

Hi cheejin,

 

We announced a while ago that we are actually working on a Collections system.

 

At the moment we don't have anything to show or discuss publicly, we'd rather have everything laid out before we show it to you all. Just know, we're working on it and we're doing our best to make sure it's awesome.

[Deleted69319988User]

Hi cheejin,

 

We announced a while ago that we are actually working on a Collections system.

 

At the moment we don't have anything to show or discuss publicly, we'd rather have everything laid out before we show it to you all. Just know, we're working on it and we're doing our best to make sure it's awesome.

Oh, that's awesome.