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Thanks for the info everyone. Much appreciated.

Hi! Wow...things have changed. I haven't had time to play anything in about 12 years and that was mostly console. Always loved the fallout games and the series got me back into gaming a bit as well as a friend of mine telling me about TTW which led me here. I'm still installing it, but while that's happening I thought I'd ask a few general questions. I have skimmed over the wiki's and some of the forum topics so I'm not looking for anything in depth here, mostly just good starting points and things to avoid. 1. Premium Accounts and general support of creators - If I'm being honest, I wasn't going to pay here. I signed up because I got tired of clicking while installing the Begin Again modlist. Now that I've seen how much work goes into everything here I will definitely keep my subscription so long as I have time to game. I did notice there is donation options as well. Since there are so many mods involved here, I'm wondering what's the best way to make use of any money I can part with to support mod creators? I'm assuming my account subscription is mostly to support the site and staff. 2. Security - I did see some info that mods get quarantined and everything appears to be open source. I'm just curious what I need to watch out for from my end. Call me crazy, but there aren't always good people out there. 3. Managers and other tools - I see guides for Vortex, MO2, and Wabbajack mostly with mentions of some other utilities. The answer to this is probably "it depends", but should I favor one over the other or just keep doing what I do and reading docs/guides? I think more than anything this is a history question as it seems some older solid tools are being replaced by newer tools to fit newer games, but I could be wrong here. 4. General Modding - I am a crappy developer during the day, but definitely not talented on the artwork side. I'm more curious about how to create missions, characters, behaviors, stories, functional items (cars, drones, other gadgets) and what that entails. I'm assuming it's highly game/engine specific here and each has their own tooling. I'm mostly going to be playing fallout 3, NV, and 4 for the foreseeable future. It's amazing what the people here have created around these games to the point that they are entirely new experiences. Hate it when work gets in the way of fun. Anyways...Thanks for reading if you did - Looks like my installs are almost done and I should see how well I followed instructions.