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Plea for a New Mod Category On Nexus (Skyrim SE) there is a mod category "Quests & Adventures" (where sometimes " new lands" are incorporated but not always, such as in the case of the delightful "Helgen Reborn") Then there is a category "Locations - New" (usually without, understandably, quest-related content). Being always keen to expand my "Skyrim Experience", I regularly check the former category but not the latter since, despite the artistic creativity of such mods, for me they lack the "surprises" awaiting when there are quests to undertake! Well, I certainly received a magnificent surprise when last week I downloaded, as a "new location", the mod "Orpheus Project". Were it not for the "ungainly" English (excusable since the mod author(s) obviously do not have this language as their mother-tongue and some of the text was not translated, thus proving unreadable), this mod could become an all-time classic and one of the very best "quests and adventures" mods produced for Skyrim. Congratulations to the author(s) on a novel, well rendered, concept. The mod just needs an "English expert" to correct the text. There has been much criticism of this mod's "quality" (I plan to respond to this later), in which the orc struggle of Gothic is brought to Skyrim. The "chorus-like" blood-flies made me smile! However, having completed the mod in its entirety (except for accessing Xardas' Tower) without a single problem (no CTDs), simultaneously running "Alternate Start" and travelling between lands (world spaces), even having some of the Gothic NPCs as followers back in Skyrim, it has nevertheless raised an issue I believe ought to be addressed. Restricting myself to 100 mods because I run an "ordinary" Win7 PC with no graphics card (having merely a graphics chip) and of which some 90 are "must have"; the remainder are the likes of "Orpheus Project" and which usually get removed when "finished" and replaced with new ones. Unlike "Enderal ", "Orpheus Project" does not "replace" Skyrim but, like "Beyond Skyrim - Bruma", for example, extends it. It is, as might be expected, a massive mod, being the equivalent of a DLC (a new world- space with a story-line quest, in which the player can move between world-spaces). There are now over half-a-dozen of this type of mod, listed under a variety of categories, into which the authors have lovingly invested a great amount of time and expertise. By creating a specific mod category ("DLC-like"?) for such mods not only would authors be able to "showcase" their creations, but players would know what they are letting themselves in for (computing overhead, for instance) on downloading. They would be forewarned at the outset of what to expect and so, hopefully, stop them from castigating the authors when they discover that the newly downloaded mod causes problems with their 800 other installed mods! Opinions, please.

A most worthwhile read! Keep up the fun-work. And thanks to Nexus for providing this feature.

Dark0ne, whilst appreciating your financial considerations (see my comment on your last post) are you not ending up making everything more complicated? As a Premium Life Member, who does not have ads on my site pages, what sort of bandwidth do I now have access to and how does feedback affect users like us? I consistently provide feedback but not necessarily every 30 days - only after having downloaded the mods in question and finshed the particular version of the game being played (on average every 3 months) do I provide feedback, for that batch of mods. For some mods this would mean 3 days after download; for others 3 months. Your problems (according to your own assessment) would be resolved if you simply charged everyone who used the Nexus Sites £1 on their first (or a subsequent if already a user) download. No one could surely object to this and, in addition to raising the funds, would be much more simple to manage!

As a fairly long-standing premium member I've always admired your "service philosophy" and hope it never changes. I've only had one occasion to complain about not getting into the site, but when my version of Firefox was updated, the problem was resolved. (Moral - pull out the weeds in one's own flower bed and don't blame the neighbour for them!) In the same way as monetary contributions can be made to modders, don't you want to organize a server-cluster contribution option? In view of the magnificent return I've had on my "premium membership investment" I, for one, would be more than happy to "cough up some more"!

Haven't noticed a mouse problem with 1.04. However, have you noticed that after using it, the date of the bsa files changes from 2012 to 2008? There're NO viruses on my system - just hope there are none in the Steam download. (Incidentally, Steam should permit one a download option, inbstead of doing this automatically).