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In response to post #24597829. #24598674, #24599279, #24599624, #24621674, #24622339, #24622439, #24623969, #24626364, #24630889, #24631304, #24631609, #24632534 are all replies on the same post. @Asyrin Money is not the only form of "compensation" (reward, you mean?) for one's work (read my post above). Not to mention that Valve does not pay the authors in the form of cash, but in the form of Steam credits. This is ironic since this little 25% can only be spent on purchasing games, DLC, and in-game credit through Steam, which means it will eventually return to Valve's pocket. Good guy Valve now owns both the mod and the money, the money that is supposed to be used to 'support' the author. It sounds more like supporting Valve to me. Buying mod is utterly an unfair way to "compensate" the mod authors; just give donation instead.

In response to post #24597829. #24598674, #24599279, #24599624, #24621674, #24622339, #24622439, #24623969, #24626364, #24630889, #24631304, #24631609, #24632799 are all replies on the same post. @Shadow_Dragyn Shadow, you need to look at this not only from a financial perspective but from other aspects as well. For example, "The truly greedy ones are people who blindly oppose this, who've never in their life donated a single penny to actually support a modder, all because they want to continue getting stuff for free at the expense of someone else's time and energy." Your view in this statement implies that it is natural for people to be rewarded for their work in the form of money, and those who do not reward the creators with money are wrong and greedy. Now think about this in a broader perspective. When someone creates a mod and decide share their work for free, other people would use it and comment on it. While most users would just install, endorse, and vote for their favorite mods, some of them would take time and make compatibility patches, improvements, updates, and some would even be inspired by the author and create their own mods. After some time, there would be a lot of different mods shared within the community created by these authors who used to be mod users and, at this point, members of this community can choose from a selection of many different mods. These mods are free and people will continue to produce free mods as long as the rules within the community does not change. This extensive network of mod sharing is a big reward to the mod authors. The common goal of all mod authors is to improve the game, and what they reap from giving out free mods to the community is a collection of mods that they can install to improve their games, for free. In fact, everyone benefits from this free sharing system. Your implication was that money is the ultimate form of reward, and that everyone should pay mod authors for their hard work. No, they can reward the authors through other means, by creating their own mods, by giving positive comments, by giving modding advice for the authors, by sharing their assets, etc...And by deciding to do one of those things instead of giving donation, they are not being greedy. From what I've seen, the Nexus is a healthy community and, if greedy users exist, I believe that there are very few greedy users here in the Nexus. "People do not donate, and that's why something like this is necessary to help support modding and let it grow." As I stated above, donation is not the only form of rewarding a mod author for their work. People can support modding by other means as well. "Finances have been the main thing keeping me from being able to mod as much as I would like, and I'm not the only person who has been facing that kind of issue." You mod because you enjoy the game and want to improve it, or perhaps you are inspired by some mods you saw, or maybe you just want to practice your skills in modeling and photoshop, etc...I don't know what your reasons are, but it doesn't make sense to me that "finances", or money, is the thing that "keeps [you] from being able to mod as much as [you] like". Modding does not cost money except for the electric and internet bill you have to pay. The only thing you spend is the time, creativity, and interest that otherwise would be put into something else. If your internet is cut because you cannot pay the bill or your laptop got damaged and you have nothing to work on, you can just mention it in the comment sections so the users will understand and some kind users would help you finish the mod or even donate to you. The mod author of RLO, Sydney, posted a plea for help and got quite a bit of financial support from Nexus users, including me. After all, since you are spending your own time for modding and sharing it for free, the users would always honor your decisions and understand your circumstances. I will stop here because I believe that you get the idea of what I'm trying to say. I'm not bashing you nor your argument. I'm only trying to add to your argument and to correct it. Have a nice day.

In response to post #7639683. Or maybe it hack into the download server directly, redirect the link into its download link?

In response to post #7639494. #7639715 is also a reply to the same post. The main reason they do this is to get people's money. It is considered fraud, and is a serious crime.

In response to post #7636580. #7636673, #7636717 are all replies on the same post. I also recommend ESET NOD32. Even the Antivirus version I have been using is enough to protect my PC from viruses, not to mention that they have an Internet Security version with firewall. Their real time scan is awesome. I have not seen a single file coming into my PC that can get through it. Their daily database update is also unparallel. The best thing about the Antivirus is that it mostly works silently in the background and does not consume all of your CPU usage like other antiviruses tend to do. I recommended it to my friends, my sister, my mom, and they all love it.

I can't believe that after I searched almost every corner of the Skyrim Nexus website, I still haven't found any mod like this. People please reply and let me know if this is a good or a bad suggestion/request.

Thanks for the info. Yeah I expected that too, so is there a mod that already did this? I found Skyrim really annoying and sometimes unplayable with all these mages around, and the Dragon Priest Guard is just awful. If a mod like this does not exist then I hope someone would make it come true.

I have played the game version 1.7 Dawnguard for about a week now, and I found NPC mages overpowered. Mage players are too weak: too little magicka with too little damage, too vulnerable too, while the the NPC mages are clearly overpowered: too high damage, too high magicka, deadly accuracy that can one hit kill my character with full steel plate armor. I have come across most of the good and popular mods, but I haven't found one that reduce NPC mages power. In my opinion, NPC mages should have the same magicka as a mage player should, their damage should be the same as player's, their spells should match their level, and they should miss more if their level is lower. In other words, their accuracy would increase as they level, and they will have access to higher level spell as they level up as well. In my situation, I encountered a level 10 mage who shoots fireball to me furiously, and use chain lightning that can kill two giants instantly. Those are level 50 destruction skill, how can they get it so fast? NPC mages in the game are wayyyyy overpowered. Even a Master Vampire is smart enough not to mess with them. If you can fix this problem, then don't forget to fix the NPC mages perks too. It would be pointless if they don't kill you in one hit, but make you die slowly and painfully by stagger you with the dual cast perk. Unfortunately, I tried balanced magic but it doesn't work. If someone knows a mod that can fix this, or can create one, please leave a post here. I think it would benefit not just me, but many other people. I'm seriously tired of Esc, Load, die, then Esc, Load, and die over and over again.