I am not a modder. I will admit, the reason I have gotten to where I stand in my interactions with the game, my computer and the mods is credited to my ignorance, not to be confused with the deliberate ignorance which plagues the minds of lesser men. I am where I stand because I failed to complete two tasks before uninstalling a mod that led to a fatal Crash to Desktop cycle; a mod many of you know well, a mod I will only refer to in its abbreviated form: A.P. To those of you who know my mistake and feel compelled to humor at my ignorance, I will say that you have every right to do so, but we must move on. Sitting inside the bowels of my deep thought, I pondered quite easily, "What if there were a way to go back?" To change it all back to the same blank slate we all started from? For any other circumstance, it would be like asking a child to build a time machine from elaborate blueprints constructed from the most brilliant scientists and engineers in the world today. But, we are in the cyber realm, and in the realm of the data chip, many things are possible. I'm sure there have been mods constructed to alter the data of the Fallout 3 Files automatically, without manual process. Such files, at limited ability, like the Fallout Mod Manager and ArchiveInvalidation_Invalidated! are examples of the very few Mods that I am aware of that have such a capability. Why not take that a step further? Surely the modders of this community should be fully able to make a program that could help hundreds, thousands of desktop crash victims. What I propose is the production of a mod capable of reverting the entirety of a owner's Fallout 3 database back to its original state, the "vanilla" condition. The mod simply has this: names. Names of all the vanilla Fallout 3 Files. Upon completion of installation, if activated the mod will automatically search and save all original Fallout 3 Files. Those it will save, while all other files that do not match the vanilla name or are corrupted or altered will be removed, forever. Afterwards it will perform a scan to make sure all vanilla files are accounted for. If not, and this will most likely be the usual case, the mod will download via links to the internet any missing vanilla files. Once the gaps are filled, restoration of the vanilla Fallout 3 Files will be complete, and the owner is free to forge again his path through the mods, able to note and prevent any mistakes he made that lead to the crash of his game. Think of it as similar to the FEV Virus, specifically the modified genophage in Fallout 3 produced to purify the Wasteland by destruction of the impure. That at least explains the first of the mod's functions. I do not know how modding works, nor do I pride myself in computer engineering prowess. Obviously clear, I couldn't manage mods to save my life. But there has to be a way, maybe not possible the way I imagine, but somehow, there must be a way to create a mod that can restore the Capital Wasteland to the way it once was: order, peace, prosperity. But... war never changes.
