sattyre

well said

L LOL. I have multiple mods out and the one that got the most endorsements over the shortest time period was a minor mod that simply replaced a stone column with Dibella's statue at her shrine. Dibella's vanilla statue is if you didn't know, a topless stone statue.

I'm a little old, but personally, I have never seen the need for either up or down votes. They just tend to attract the wrong kind of attention and don't really give any valid feedback. I'm fine with endorsements and Kudos simply because lazy idiotic people can't be bothered and they do give some idea what you may expect from a person. However, I really have noticed that anything remotely to do with a woman's breasts will always get more endorsements/Kudos then anything else. It's kind of a statement about humanity in a way. I think moderators have enough to worry about. I don't think having moderators reviewing comments on peoples opinions is going to do anyone any favours. I've gotten caught in the middle of some really childish arguements and I find the best thing to do is just stop and move on. You can't reason with overly opinionated immature people who don't listen or want to be reasonable. The nexus already attracts a young audience. Lets not give them ammunition to start flame wars.

I always set steam to offline unless I want to update something. It literally can't update when it is set to offline, and if you don't use steam products that require it, like online gaming, it isn't an issue. Once in a while some games force you to go online (Stellaris) temporarily so you can continue playing, but in those cases I make a backup, let it do it's thing, and then revert everything to the backup. Did I mention I absolutely detest STEAM. ``I refuse to buy another game from them, and I've replaced most of my games with GOG versions.

Well i have to say, if that Nigerian Prince finally was to send me the money he promised me that would make me happy and confused.

Steam also has a setting to keep it offline. It means it can't download anything at that point, and will often force you to turn it on to verify whatever ? it wants. Once verified I always turn it back to offline mode again. I don't know if this will help anyone, but I thought it worth mentioning.

LOL. I understand that perfectly.

there are a lot of RS children patches out there. If you can't find one for a mod, I simply take an existing patch and forward the record into a new patch, change the formid to match the child and then take the facegen texture and mesh and rename them to match the new formid. Generally, I use a kid of the same race and sex. Easy peasy. The other black face you have is solvable. If you use Mod organizer, check the conflicts tab and see if something is overwriting them. If they're in an archive I suggest extracting the archive and then looking. Black face is easy to solve once you know how. One thing I forgot to mention was file corruption. It can also cause black face and the first thing I do with NPC overhauls is re install them to see if that fixes them.

I've been down this road before and honestly hated steam from the moment I heard of it. I'm old. I like having my game in my control. I don't want a third party involved. I'm good with just me and the devs. I'd love to burn valve to the ground with thier ideas about ownership and control. I preferred buying a cd from a store and bringing it home. The first time I bought an empty CD with a steam key, I was pissed. I hadn't realized it was just a steam key. Anyway that's a long way of saying I keep backups of the original downloads for everything from the start of the steam era. Cause they can go f%$k themselves.

I've heard some fo4 f4se mods will need to be manually placed in the game folder under f4se and the relevant folders to work as they don't otherwise recognize GOG. I haven't actually tried this myself, but it's worth trying if you're wanting to use one of those mods.

if you don't know how to modify your appmanifests, then the next easiest solution is to copy your entire FO4 directory/folder and then allow steam to update. It will change the appmanifest to show it's been updated and you can simply delete the new FO4 folder and rename the old folder back to the the original name. Then go and mark the appmanifest as read only. Voila. You have now got an updated appmanifest, but an old FO4 version.

Sounds like it may be asset based. If you have assets for NPCs that change appearance in any way those assets can overwrite the assets of npcs, especially if the NPCs are in an archive, because everyone should know, Loose files always overwrite archived files, regardless of where they are in your mod list. So if it isn't a problem of race records, which will or can affect only a single sex or race or vampire, then it is one of several issues. 1: out of order assets and esps. 2: Assets from a mod overwriting assets needed for the NPC faces. 3: Loose assets vs archived NPCs, (which is actually the same as 2) or 4: sometimes it is that a mod created in Skyrim LE hasn't had the head assets imported from the creation kit for SE. If I was going to make a guess, it would be an asset overwrite somewhere, unless of course you got your town overhauls from LE If the problem isn't asset order, but Loose vs archive, the answer then is to archive the offending assets. It will also work the other way around, but SE works best with everything in archives. It seems contradictive, but the game actually retrieves and uses archived assets faster then it does for Loose.

Is that you can simply stop it from updating. Check the box and it will never update. Steam on the other hand, likes to be heavy handed even when you check the box to only update when I start it. It does this by forcing you to go online to start the game periodically, as it's Steam connection software needs to update. I've had this multiple times with Stellaris.

Mostly what you need to copy is the FO4.exe and Data, though I usually simply replace the entire folder since it doesn't take much more time and there's no guessing. They definitely changed the archived .ba2 files since the regular archives can no longer be opened by my regular archive extractors or Xedit. So that's everything in the Data Folder, esp/esl/esms included, since the strings no longer match, and at minimum, the base folder exe's.

I also agree. I personally don't care for it either. It's a meaningless distraction.