Robomac88

I would second as others have said for anyone new to modding Skyrim to check out the STEP guide, http://wiki.step-project.com/STEP:Guide as it gives a great list and extremely detailed tutorial to enhance the vanilla game. The main STEP guide is a little out of date, and another branch of their guide is the excellent Skyrim Revisited Legendary Edition or SRLE, http://wiki.step-project.com/User:Neovalen/Skyrim_Revisited_-_Legendary_Edition# SRLE goes beyond STEP a bit by adding in more overhauls and survival mods, as well as extensive texture, audio, and animation enhancements. It is a wonderful resource for both beginners and experts.

Great news! So now the best thing is the community reaffirming support for the mod authors involved, especially Chesko and Isoku. While we may not agree with their actions, we cannot fully blame them for taking a risk on an opportunity that sounded like every mod author's dream. Donations and such will show some of our best mod authors that they will always be a vital part of this community. Nothing can make up for all the immature hate they received, be we should do what we can to show all is well again.

Thank you for the explanation. I know right now the plans for the funds are to upgrade the forum servers, then a programmer, mobile friendly site, etc. Perhaps one thing to consider with this money source would be to protect the modders. Steam itself is not going to police for stolen mods, and there are rumors there that Workshop authors can delete and limit comments themselves, which destroys community policing. If Steam stays on this course and the system grows, maybe the Nexus could use this pocket change Steam tosses them to pay someone, part-time or whatever, to scan the Workshop for stolen mods and resources. Otherwise popular free mod authors are going to have to check the Workshop constantly to catch their stolen work. Really this is Steam's responsibility, but if they continue this system and neglect it, the Nexus could take up the slack as a goodwill gesture to the modders. It might be beneficial for the Nexus to use its current positive relationship with Steam to open the talks of setting up an official channel, employee, whatever, for the Nexus to report stolen content to Steam for removal.

In response to post #24561869. #24562264, #24562649, #24591259 are all replies on the same post. Improved donations would be the Nexus' best response now. There are lots of models to get ideas from like Patreon. Maybe they could add some sort of system where users can select modders they want to regularly support, and those amounts are just added to the Nexus premium member fees. Or have a general "support the community" donation pool option where Nexus distributes what funds come in to the current top modders. Just thinking out load on these. Paypal is great for donations, but once transactions change to payment for products, then Paypal also has its own steep fees to deal with. In situations like this clarity and over-communication are the key. Openness on the process and percentage cuts helps keep community goodwill.