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I did a clean reinstall on my computer and went to add in my old mods. I used to have a mod that added extra power generators under the power options, but can't remember what it is. I'm wracking my brain and the search option isn't a real help. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I'm getting ready to toss Skyrim back onto the computer and give it another go. What are your top ten mods that you'd say are a must have? I'm going with the alternate start mod since i hate the way the main game picks up. What would be your top ten that would go into your load order first?

So I found an odd bug with no idea what's causing it. A while back I got the tesla T60 armor, set it up in my settlement, and left. After a while I left and came back and found it missing. I figured someone hijacked it and I'd use console commands to get it back. However, that's when I noticed that all my power armor was T45, regardless of what it had been earlier. I hopped out of the T60 I was wearing and then saw the appearance changed to T45, but was reading at T60. I have no idea what is causing this bug. Someone said it had to do with the settlement being reset, but no idea what it means. The only mod I have that really pertains to settlements 'resetting' may be the scrap everything. I'm going to disable that and see if it helps, but if not any ideas?

Clean slate is a DLC that removes the main quest from the game and instead puts you in the shoes of a random vault resident of 111. The DLC starts with you creating your character in their frozen tube and then lets you run out in the world. There is a quick option for a background: War Veteran, Doctor, Lawyer, Used Car Salesman, etc with a corresponding perk boost. Instead of finding Shaun as your overriding goal you're now just going to make your way in the Wasteland. They could rework the main quest to be revenge against Kellog (somehow you find he killed everyone) and that leads you to the Institute. It strikes me as sort of New Vegasy: Revenge quest turns into world changing quest. You can then chose to side with any faction. The DLC would rework the ending to allow for a main faction 'win' followed by an option to destroy, neutralize, or ally with the other factions. Of course some alliances wouldn't be possible (Institute/Railroad) but a non-violent solution would be possible. This seems like the easiest way to sort of reboot the game without having to do a lot more voice work. Since a lot of the voice acting and companion dialogue doesn't touch on Shaun or your background/profession, it wouldn't require much more recording than a regular DLC. Most of the dialogue usually revolves around you coming from a Vault and the pre-war world, so I think that point has to stay the same. I'm a big fan of mods that let you pick your starting background. My favorite Skyrim mod allowed you to choose a background and avoid the main quest till you went and picked it up. For me it was much easier to justify running around and killing bandits or delivering little old ladies their groceries without the threat of a soul eating dragon hanging over your head. If not being a DLC I think this is best way to attack a mod. Any inputs or thoughts?

Personally I don't think you can ever really have a consistent lore for anything if you get multiple people working on it. Or really even with one person. The way I see the Fallout universe is this: humanity never invented the transistor so there was no way to shrink the size of things like computers. However, they were able to master nuclear power easier so that led them to become resource hogs. While they may not be able to make an iPod, they are able to make a laser rifle. Every other nation in the world aside from the US and China fell apart due to lack of resources. Even then the last two super powers were tottering on the edge of collapse. Near the end China invaded the US to grab the last easy access oil. The US got power armor and started to push China to the mainland. Then the Great War happened, and it all ended. I think some of the incorrect lore could be attributed to a lying author. There was a major war and 200 passed so there is no real first hand accounts and those that exist are colored by the ideals of the people who wrote them. It could also be that they are trying to clean things up. Sometimes when you start a project you aren't thinking down the line. To me its why Star Wars often doesn't make sense. Lucas was looking at making maybe the trilogy at best and didn't expect things to go as deep as they did. While I agree things should be a bit more advanced than they are now, I can see why progress has been stunted. The lore, and common sense, say that a nuclear winter followed by a radiated rain caused a massive extinction. Living without modern technology is hard enough, but trying to do so with all of the plants and animals you know of dying off too makes it even harder. Getting wheat to grow is hard; trying to get it to grow with radioactive water is harder. Even forgetting radiation poising there are tons of diseases out there to kill you. Let's not forget that the flu is and was a dangerous killer of humanity. The flu that followed World War 1 killed 50 to 100 million world wide; World War 1 killed 17 million. I do get why there is so much junk lying around unlooted. The city of Boston is obviously not to scale. If you have modern day Boston (population about 650,000) and kill off 90% of the population its going to take a long time to loot. Since you're now surviving in what amounts to little better than a pre-Industrial Revolution period your population will grow slowly. Pre-Industrial Societies didn't grow fast and while there is some technology around that might help, the hazards of the Wasteland might kill you off early. Overall I agree that the places where people live should be nicer, with at least the holes in the walls patched up. But the patches of human civilization will be small and scattered with the remains of the great cities on the horizon.

Every time I use the Mod Manager and try to link it to my nexus account it crashes. I have never had it successfully sign on. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, but nothing seems to work. Anyone have any ideas?