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Which part and why? Can't have a dynamic script running when the map is open to show where all the random Minutemen patrols are? Failing that, why not just a simple dialogue option like: 1. Damn it, Preston! Go do it yourself! 2. I'll take this one myself, no need to trust it to people who will bungle the job. 3. Grab some of the soldiers from the barracks and take them with you, Preston. 4. Tell the settlement to sod off, we have death claws to deal with. If you're the head of the Minutemen, shouldn't you be able to look at a map, be able to assign troops to certain areas (if for no other game effect than to reduce random encounters with hostile NPCs to reflect that the Minutemen are making it less dangerous to be out and about)? Isn't that what a general does? I'd like to see more done with the factions like that. Maybe even a simple map script to turn sections of the map a different color when you've "conquered" that area to show the spread of the Minutemen (or whatever faction you belong to)? There's so much more that could have been done with this system...

Couple of things I'd like to point out. There are a couple of questions that I think might clear up some of the confusion: 1. Is there a set number of modders who can benefit from this system per month? I.e., only the top 25 modders (as measured by the Unique Download metric) get the cash rewards, or whatever. Or is it wide-open so that there's no cap on the number of rewarded participants? Because what happens if there are more rewarded participants than there is money in the kitty to pay out? I understand that this will be supplemented with members' own money, but I'm thinking specifically of the Nexus budget. 2. Will there be a cap on how much a modder can receive this way per mod per year? Or per month? Or at all? Provided Brumbek isn't soaking up all the donation money with SMIM or Gopher isn't soaking it with iHUD, there should be enough money left over to carry from month-to-month. I ask only because some of the older mods are so functionality-based that you can't really play Skyrim or other games without them--SkyUI, SMIM, iHUD, and Valdacil's Sorting to name a few, and those are always "hot" as they are required 101 for modding a stable game. 3. Will there be a cap on how many times a member can donate to a specific mod, or will there be controls in place to limit it? Say, once a year, or once a quarter? I think this would help address the previous question as how many of us download the same mods over and over in a year? Especially if we ourselves are making mods? I get the whole "it's a hobby, it shouldn't be a job" argument, but a lot of hobbyists get paid as a side-line. How many people started out tinkering with something as a side-job to raise a little cash, discovered they have a passion for it, and turned it into a career? These modders we are building up in this community today are going to be the game designers we *censored* good-naturedly about tomorrow when they land cushy jobs in Bethesda, BioWare, Zenimax, DICE or other game companies. "Can't believe that damned Gopher! Finally landed a job at a game studio and forgot all about us!" Well, maybe not Gopher...we're not giving him up without a fight... :tongue: I'm more curious about the logistics of it from the standpoint of stepping back and taking in the sheer breadth of what Nexus is trying to accomplish. And here's another feather in the modding community's cap: Pretty sure Nexus has become the authority on online modding, and is the site that game companies look to first for trends and feedback from the gaming community. For better or worse, this moment is rapidly becoming a watershed event. Congratulations, Dark0ne and company, you are making history. Think about it. What other site does everything that Nexus does? Donations, chats, forums, mods, artwork, now a storefront for donations that may turn into a profitable store-front for other stuff down the line when Bethesda gets interested and sees the profitability of it (let's just hope they don't try to lock it down and then take a heavy-handed approach to it, a la Creation Club and lets it grow organically). The only thing missing, honestly, is an Etsy-style storefront for the modders to show off their cosplay and kitbashing expertise to make money selling hand-made Skyrim swag (and have you actually seen what is being sold on Etsy? Some of the stuff on there is ridiculously complex and/or detailed, rivaling any prop-making Hollywood studio). Looking forward to a great year. Vortex, then the new site, and now this. Interesting times.

Yeah, but there could be times where you would actually want to run the mission (low on junk supplies, for instance). By opening up the map interface, you should be able to see where all the Minutemen groups are by flags, and be able to highlight one of those groups and then click on the quest flag and send that group to do the mission. If they fail, you get a notification. If they succeed, you get a notification and whatever recovered lootables they get.

http://oi68.tinypic.com/6p0wug.jpg I'm coming to believe this more and more, especially since socialism seems to be so en vogue. I love the one quote from a professor which basically said that the mere fact that socialism is so popular is a sign that the education system failed.

I actually wouldn't mind seeing an overhaul where you can assign nearby groups of Minutemen in the map screen to handle the jobs Preston gives you. It will just take someone skilled in scripting. This is a cool idea because there may be some missions where you do want to go for whatever reason, and that way you could either tell Preston to grab a few men and hop to it, or do it yourself.

+1. Where are our scripting artists? Also, is there a way to edit your initial post so you can add tags to it? I'd suggest scripting, Preston, Minuteman, settlement, and automated. Capital idea. Have a kudos.

Let's remember one thing, though. The government black projects are usually about 50-80 years ahead of anything the public has seen, judging by past performance with the SR-71 and throwing a bit extra in to account for the increase in technological development's pace. I don't think that's an unreasonable number, and especially true for anything with even a remotely potential military application. And what kind of military application do you think a fusion generator has? However, they're talking about trucks. It will be a while before they scale it up if for no other reason than security.

Here's the thing. The patent record of Farnsworth stands. He perfected the fusor, and ITT suppressed it, cut him off, then said it was a dead-end and wouldn't release the patents back to Farnsworth. Then, even though the twenty year expiration for US patents is expired, ITT still maintains that they own it and won't release it. That means that all these researchers are automatically barred from pursuing research along the lines of the Fusor System, which was already perfected. Gee, thanks, ITT. Source See also US Patents 3,258,402 and 3,386,883

I have the perfect solution for the government on how to profit off of fusion reactors (because after they're initialized, they're essentially "free" energy): 1. Sell the fusion reactor to the city/state. Completely, no residuals. 2. Just like a sports dome, a bid takes place to name it after some corporate wh*%#. "Today, the Governor arrived to do the ceremonial tape cutting at the new Coca-Cola Fusion Plant." 3. The city pays it off through taxes, and whatnot, just like a sports dome. 4. Once it's paid off through bonds, and taxes (after ten years or so), then the cost of running it is simply the cost of keeping employees there and maintenance, security, and fuel. There is no radioactive material to deal with. Safeguards are easy to build in--cut off the supply of tritium, the fusion reaction ceases. No pollution, no radioactivity, minimal danger. 5. Coca-Cola builds a sports/recreation complex right next to it to capitalize on its investment, using the exhaust cooling water to provide clean water for heated pools and gardens, as well as possible hydroponic applications (subsidized by Monsanto, I'm sure...) Everybody wins, and it's still profitable. Because every city is going to want their own.

No. It's CONCEPT. It is not functional. Its what they WANT to be able to do, not something they have already done........ Currently, NO ONE has a COMMERCIALLY VIABLE fusion reactor of ANY size. Everyone is still in the develpment/experimental stage. Just like they have been since the late 40's. Granted, we are further along, but, at the current rate, don't expect to see fusion reactors powering anything at all for another 50 years or more. If even then. Yes, corporate america owns our government. (not just big oil.) That's been the case for decades. The american people are well aware of that, we are just too stupid to do anything about it. The first link was to a magnetic-bottle style containment grid for the plasma. Magnetic bottles suck. They eat up huge amounts of energy, and sustaining them takes too much energy out of the loop. Notice that Lockheed-Martin's Proof-of-Concept image uses a fusion reactor that looks like this: http://oi65.tinypic.com/2ibkx85.jpg ...which looks just like this: http://www.teslaboys.com/Fusor/2.JPG ...which is a FUSOR. Hello! Wake up, people! Lockheed-Martin is clearly aiming in the FUSOR direction, not the magnetic bottle direction. That means that Farnsworth was right, and if it's scaled up and re-engineered with some of the technology that they have squirreled away, it's going to damn well work perfectly, believe that. Lockheed doesn't make that kind of announcement without something very serious to back it up. And the fusor technology is in widespread use as a commercial source of neutron radiation. They're using it for testing in labs, not trying to engineer it for power production. If they did that, a la Lockheed-Martin, we would have commercially viable fusion technology within 10 years, flat. EDIT: I think the problem will be convincing everyone that it takes a lot of effort to produce this energy so they can jack up the prices when in reality, this technology is old-hat and easily accessible by garage-tinkerers.

I assume you're from Alaska? Sure hope you like oil spills and the sight of wells all over your Arctic Refuge, because the Republicans just opened it up for drilling. Did you know that according to Skunk Works at Lockheed-Martin, a group who are by no means known for exaggerated claims, for less than the cost of a single year's federal tax subsidies to the oil industry ($40B), our country has the capability to do the remaining R&D work for commercially viable fusion power plants? Erm, they have been drilling in Alaska for quite some time now. They may have opened up more areas to allow drilling, but, that isn't anything new either. I have been hearing that "we are so close to viable fusion power" for decades. We still don't have it. Too many companies researching and experimenting, in too many countries, for a viable 'suppressed by X' argument to work. There is a company in Ann Arbor that has been poking at it for more than 30 years. They still don't have a working fusion reactor. That's because they continue to try to use a magnetic bottle method to contain the plasma, which is not how nature really works. Philo T. Farnsworth, the father of the television, had created a working fusion reactor he called a "fusor" in the 60s as part of his other electronics research. He is responsible for over 300 patents in electronics, and wikipedia says the fusor wasn't viable for energy. This, however, demonstrates a skewing of the experimental information. Dr. Farnsworth was testing this on a softball-sized fusor sphere. The bigger they are built, the higher the output exponentially. A quote from here: The Mark III Fusor produced startling high records in quick succession. By the end of 1965 the team was routinely measuring 15.5 Giga neutrons per second. It must be remembered that this Fusor was yet the size of a softball. A Fusor having a diameter of just one meter would permit greater ignition power for a smaller time period, while multiplying its output power volumetrically. A Fusor could be built to any size, as power was required. Dr. Farnsworth reported that his team achieved a self-sustaining reaction on several occasions, and could repeat the effect. The thunderous vibrations of the Fusor are well reported by those who worked with Farnsworth. Many laboratory workers saw the brilliant white light of the Fusor in its early test runs ... right through the metallic shielding! Dr. Farnsworth once invited a few individuals to watch a test-run of this feat one evening. As power was applied to the Fusor the neutron-reading meter achieved a steady threshold and there remained. Only a slight additional increment of power was applied. Then the needle went off the scale and stayed fixed. The room thundered. The light released behind the shield would have instantly and permanently blinded anyone. Although the ignition power was completely removed, the needle remained off-scale in excess of thirty seconds as the fusion reaction sustained itself. Controlled self-sustaining nuclear fusion of tritium nuclei was historically achieved in 1965. See also the wikipedia entry for Fusor. Also, the disturbing aspect of their drilling is that within months of that stupid Keystone pipeline becoming operational, it sprung leaks that damage the local ecology. As predicted would happen.

True. The constituent elements might be easily identifiable--"Clearly, doctor, it's made of Lanthanum!" However, manufacturing techniques of the material could be something never seen before. For example, if it's a piece of metal that's made of layered gallium arsenide and bismuth, how was it layered? For what purpose? Or perhaps it's meta-materials (much like the leading edge of the B2 being barium titanate, an electrically-conductive ceramic that is also one of the strongest dielectrics known to man). Just as in a commercial jet crash, it takes the FAA months to piece everything together, it could be a similar situation. Yeah, they know what it's made of--but not why, or how it went together and for what purpose. ...not to mention that they failed to mention any retrieval of organic matter.

Here's the latest update: Scientific American picked it up in an article here that smacks of back-pedaling or misinformation. It's interesting in that they're making a big deal about what the materials are made of, but they don't say what it is, just there is nothing unusual about them. Unusual how? In their makeup? Probably not--we're not going to suddenly discover new elements. But is it a meta-material? What is its origin? Terrestrial? Or...?

I'm beginning to believe the US is playing the Sauds against Iran, to keep Iraq and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan And Kazakstan very quiet. This keeps both the oil and the heroin flowing. That's the golden crescent for heroin production. And here's some facts for you. Within one year of us invading Afghanistan, their heroin production went from a paltry 180 tons of heroin per year to over 4000. Tell me that wasn't the result of systematic planting? Our government is using the drug epidemic against its own citizens to keep the crime rates high to keep these idiots in power. It's that simple. Our government has a precedent for using drugs and narcotics, in particular, to destabilize countries before, such as Iraq, where suddenly, after decades of zero drugs coming in, the streets of Baghdad were flooded with heroin and opium. Suddenly, the country destabilized, and Saddam was on the run. Psh. We're being lied to. If our government wanted to cure the addiction rates, they'd employ needle exchanges, and sentences of rehab and secure rehab/mental health treatment facilities. Not prisons. And prisons, they would re-institute trade skill training again, and stop privatizing. That is the worst idea ever. CCA is run by the brother of an ex-head of the CIA. Or it was. I don't know who is in there now. So this Net Neutrality will last so long as the repubs are around. The people who should be complaining are the dems to get the people running for mid-terms next year ready to run on the net neutrality ticket. Or the Libs, but I doubt they'll do that. They'd see it as too much big govt, I'd think. The dems repeal stuff the repubs do, the repubs repeal stuff the dems do, ad infinitum. Meanwhile the plutocrats rape the country for its wealth and land, destroying natural resources to line their pockets. Tsk...no wonder I want to abandon ship. Good thing I have my passport. Get yours now if you don't have one before they go crazy with it.

Fascism is more properly called Coporatism, for it is the merger of State and Corporate power. --Mussolini (disputed) IF, and that's a big if, Google wakes up and remembers its mission statement, it would be a vast bastion against the government, but it would take a visionary from within. Man, would that generate them some revenue. lol

+1. Even though for me the site still loads the page fast, it would be nice to see a zoomed-in preview, and then, if we like what we see, click on it to open the page so we can comment or like it or whatever.

First of all, junk? Really? That seems a bit harsh. The more I use the site, the more I've come to like it, especially the search function. Much better than it was before. Second of all, you can't just arbitrarily change a thread. This thread isn't yours, it's Dark0ne's, and it's for his web dev, Kit, to look through for feedback about the site. Vortex will mean nothing to her by the time she turns her attention to the site. The goal of this thread was to have everything in one place.

Link-a-rino?

I've been following three of these threads, page-for-page, (mostly because I have no life and nothing better to do) so I think I've seen a bit more of both sides than others who post here, or are only aware of one thread for the new site. To whit: There's this thread There's Redesign Launch - Stage 2 (Been following that for over 100 pages) And the newest one I picked up, New Nexus Mods design launched As far as the details about Vortex go, Dark0ne is playing it close to his chest. However...the first page of that last link explains the method to his madness, and from the things that have been hinted and said by SirSalami, my guess is that Vortex will integrate directly into the site. This means, while you browse on your phone, you will have the option to "like" something, or favorite it, or whatever, but the result will be that it will activate le site-wide Vortex profile (I'm going out on a limb on this one, ain't I? lol), which will automatically download the mod for you as soon as Vortex is fired up on your pc and connects to the site. That gives you the timeline. This isn't a Vortex thread. This is a thread for constructive feedback for the new site. There are already threads up about Vortex, which can be found here.

There is no changing back. You'll find all the details here. The good stuff is around page 49-52. If there's "bugs," that is why. If there's ugly UI, that's why.

lol That's what little black bars are for.

Yeah, but this site experiences a lot of downloads, more than other types of sites, I'd wager. That's where the rub will be. We'll have to see how HRM England-Bell telecom (or whatever it's called) reacts to the sheer amount of data traffic from the Nexus.

Meh...as long as your information is okay, and her email address is only for her official capacity, you should be fine. Have a kudos just for having the balls to write and post it here. Wish more people would. ...can't believe my state spawned Paul Ryan...smh...he's all for saying, Adios, Net Neutrality! Makes me wonder if the Koch Brothers are lining his pockets. They illegally threw the election for governor by creating tv ads that made it look like the Lib party was sponsoring attack ads on others, but really, it was the Kochs. The more important consideration, and one we haven't really heard from Dark0ne yet (so please, no hysterics, yet), is what effect this will have on the Nexus and downloads.

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Most likely the admins playing with the site in the background. You've already reported it in the Bug tracker, so you already provided a huge help to the admins. I'd give it a day or two, not unlike SKSE when Skyrim updates. I was getting oddball load issues for the site, too. For a day or two, every time I'd load a page, I'd have to reload it as it wasn't loading all the elements properly. After a day or so, it stopped happening. Hang in there! :)