I'm sooo on the fence right now about whether or not to bother with a playthrough on SE with MO2. Half of what I read screams "no, wait for better horizons." The other half, "Just do it. There's no way to tell when the improved stuff is gonna be here." But then I look at the timeline originally submitted as a rough outline. I always prefer to take the max time stated as the more likely outcome. But are we not nearing that max timeline scenario? It would just be nice to know if close (1-2 months) or come back in 2018+. If 2018+, THEN I take the dozens of hours long plunge into the abyss relearning all about modding Skyrim, especially on SE with no SKSE. I mean, really, it's no small time investment. It could take me 2+ evenings after work just to get everything in order to possibly play on day 3. Not the worst thing in the world but would stuck to see that many hours end up wasted. Not to mention there's no telling how stable the end result of the effort will even be. I know before there were considerations needing to be made for things like TES5Edit, LOOT, Wrye Bash (plz no). To anyone who says, "It's not complicated" is either a mod creator / dev or someone who has repeated the setup process many more times than I have. 1.) Install Skyrim. 2.) Backup Skyrim install in case you need to revert without downloading entire installation again (since validation ignores non vanilla files). 3.) Install MO/equivalent. 4.) Download a bazillion miscellaneous attachments to MO. 5.) Look up half a dozen Youtube videos on how to run them all. 6.) Look at the clock and try not to facepalm. 7.) Run TES5Edit to clean a game that Bethesda could have cleaned with minimal effort despite the obvious modding community interest. 8.) Finally start downloading and installing mods. 9.) Run LOOT and pray to the LOOT gods your mods are in order or else. 10.) Edit a half dozen or so INI files. 10.) Experience intense A.D.D. and obsessive compulsiveness as you stress over the likely potential you failed to back something crucial up as you tab back and forth across a rugged and endless landscape of browser tabs. 11.) Consider the possibility of having to merge mods together. 12.) Realize it's past 12am and you haven't even eaten dinner yet, you silly fk. 13.) Dinner can wait; you came this far. Launch! 14.) CMD opens, game opens (good thing you disabled the damned intro), CTD. 15.) Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo........................................ Where did it all go wrong? 16.) Go to bed hungry and without Skyrim. Worst fears confirmed.
