chaospearl

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to stick with what works for now. I love my Oblivion setup as-is, and I need to just stop worrying about whether any of my current mods have been tweaked. Sometimes I feel like I spend more time trying to upgrade everything I have than I do just enjoying it as it is now.

(bangs head on desk) I haven't even started RST yet... or half the other quest mods I've got installed. Pardon while I reshuffle my priorities quickly. I've always been a fan of yours.

Honestly it makes no real difference. There are plenty of modders who upload a separate file for each of 25 different companions. With the thousands and thousands of mods on this site already it's not like another dozen will bring the system to its knees. (resisting arrow joke, resisting... must... resist...) So do whatever you're comfortable with. If it were me, I'd release all the dog companions as one mod upload with all the choices in it, and another separate for the one that includes other creatures.

So, I run Oblivion with something in the range of 300 mods, courtesy of Wrye Bash and Gecko. I have most of them installed via OBMM. Recently I started using NMM for my Skyrim mods and I really like it, most particularly the feature that automatically notifies me when a mod's current version number has changed, so that I know it's been updated and I can go pick up the update. This way I know all my Skyrim mods are always current versions, whereas with Oblivion I have to manually check hundreds of mods by looking up each one and crossing my fingers there's a version number somewhere, which a ton of older mods don't have. Obviously, I don't regularly check for updates to all 300+ mods. I mostly just try to keep track of which mods are older and haven't been updated in years, and which are still being tweaked from time to time, but some of these mods I've had for years and I just don't know which ones are current anymore. I'm on the fence about switching to NMM for my Oblivion mods. It just feels like it'd be a headache of nightmarish proportions and I haven't yet even looked at how to go about it. I'm hoping there's a way to add each mod into NMM without having to uninstall and reinstall all 300+, but frankly I'm not even 100% certain which mods I currently have installed. I mean, obviously there's the esps in the Data folder, but the 7zip archive files for every mod I've downloaded and chosen to keep are kept organized in folders by category, so I don't have a big folder anywhere containing the original 7zips of only the mods I'm using right now. It'd be a project in itself trying to match up the esps I've got installed with their archives. So many of my Oblivion mods are years old and haven't been updated since long before I started using them, and I just don't know if it's worth the hassle of changing over to NMM. Any opinions one way or another?