Arthmoor

Nah, the only juvenile 3rd grade behavior going on here is people bleeding the site dry for years and crying about it when the site finally decides to encourage you to help support it.

In response to post #75919248. #75936883 is also a reply to the same post. Bad security practices on your part is why your gmail account was compromised. This isn't Nexus' fault.

This also assumes there's an "elsewhere" to go to though. For pretty much all of the games here, there exist no other viable alternatives. The only exceptions being Skyrim SE and Fallout 4, which have large collections of stuff posted to Bethesda.net and represents one of the few viable alternatives out there for those 2 games. Anywhere else is going to run into the same issues with bandwidth costs and storage capacity and the need to have large sums of money available to pay for both. Unless of course you want to go back to having to track down mods on dozens of small sites with no guarantees they'll remain online because users feel entitled to drain them dry of their monthly bandwidth allotments.

The reason they're able to mistag things is precisely because those games are being incorrectly categorized as subsets of the mainline versions.

Part of this is because Nexus staff has chosen to treat VR games as a subset of the originals when that's simply not how the VR games work. They are distinct entities with different support needs and are NOT compatible with things designed to be run in the mainline editions of the games. So this leads to all kinds of problems caused by mod authors tagging for VR when their mods are not likely to work in VR anyway. Put simply, Skyrim VR and Fallout 4 VR need to be distinct game sections on the site. Not buried half-assedly as categories in the normal versions.

So stealing from people is your solution to being asked to pay for being a long-term leech?

Don't let the door you never paid for hit you on the way out. And don't forget your tin foil hat. We wouldn't want you to miss it in your new home.

Then I suggest you get started on your grand plan to replace Nexus with an equivalent database of mods, but be entirely free for all users, forever. Because you are so opposed to paying anything, you will not be allowed to solicit monetary aid in any way to keep this site of yours online until the heat death of the universe. They're also operating on a shoestring server that's barely adequate for the tiny number of people who actually download from it. They sure as hell are not offering something on par with Nexus. Not even close. So they're not a valid comparison.

I think it's an even bigger shame that leeches who have been leeching for 10+ years are upset at being called out for being leeches. Don't want to be counted among the leeches? Pony up instead of lashing out with self-entitled rage over something that's not yours.

There's been some talk of it on Discord as well. Traces and pings are showing heavy packet loss to Nexus servers. So something is definitely not right. It's not taking 5+ minutes for me to load pages, but it's definitely several seconds and very noticeable.

Were you in the military or using a college computer lab? If not then your internet was never free. Nope. Cause this isn't a viable business model and anyone trying to run a site 100% free went out of business very quickly. YOU may not have clicked on those ads, but plenty of other people did. There were a lot of companies involved in internet businesses that WERE their day jobs. Moreso before the dotcom bubble burst, but plenty of them survived that and went on to become profitable entities. Time to wake up now. In order for something to come back, it had to have existed first. Your description of the internet is not in line with reality. You do realize that your ISP is the only one who gets the money you pay to stay hooked up, right? They were never in any sort of profit sharing arrangement with various websites to keep their content online. In fact your ISP is probably quite happy to have you pay and use none of your connection capacity at all. Blame the EU legislature for this. Take a look in the mirror.

The only thing likely to drive them to bankruptcy is self-entitled users who think they're owed lifetime freebies. Websites don't run on unicorn farts and rainbow trolls. 1. There are 858 games on the Nexus, not just the few games by Bethesda. 2. Bethesda can't and won't tell the Nexus how to run its business. 3. Consequently, the Nexus can charge for any number of things related to its services, including storage space, download rates, traffic/bandwidth limits, file upload/download limits, page limits, API limits, and other systems and features. There are many, many places where Nexus can monetize and, you know what, they don't. I'd further add: 4. Nexus could make the entire site subscription-only and it would not be in violation of Bethesda's (or any other publisher's) terms because there is no right to free access to someone's bandwidth and Todd can't tell them otherwise as long as the mods themselves are not being sold as products.

Nah, there'd just be something else for the non-paying members to find to complain about instead. It seems to be the norm for anything to do with modding and modding websites.

I only donate to mod authors because mods can exist without Nexusmods but they cannot exist without mod authors. What you say is true. But then it would be like the old days, with mods for 855+ games scattered all over the internet. I like the convenience of one-stop shopping. This may be true, but to play Devils Advocate for a moment, suppose Nexus does something wildly unpopular and a bunch of people not only decide against paying for Premium, but existing subscribers stop renewing and the site eventually goes under? Those mods "scattered about the internet" will be all you have, though I suspect strongly the real response would be "oh well, there's always bethesda.net".

And that's totally not going to piss anyone off at all, right? Also we see how rich the modders have become with the same logic.... oh. Nope. We haven't seen that happen at all. Trust me, people talk alot about donating instead of other means of paying out but the reality is it's just talk. It never actually happens. If they didn't care about their community then they'd have gone a lot further than what you guys are complaining about now and they'd be charging serious money for premium membership instead of something that currently costs less than a game on sale.

Just that you're wrong and that we can "download in peace" just fine because the screen you're whining about doesn't show up for us. Also the only hate filled comments I've seen so far come from yourself and a couple of others who share your self-entitled opinion. Ah yes, the people who have paid for supporter status to show their support are ALSO self-entitled. Good job proving to them that anything less than premium is worthless and 'inferior' to your almighty premium status. Of course you'd say something like that. That's all most of the premium backers have been doing. God forbid we don't want to be nagged to pay for something, right? We must be entitled. As opposed to you, who comes out of nowhere, making their very first post a complaint about how awful it is that you see a nag screen when you don't pay a dime into the system. There's a term for people who do this - sucking bandwidth from a site and never contributing back to it - leech. Old term but IMO entirely appropriate to describe someone who's only post is an attempt to make contributing members look bad for having contributed in the first place. So maybe instead of complaining that your freeloading ways are finally being called out, you could fork over the $2 and be done with it.

Just that you're wrong and that we can "download in peace" just fine because the screen you're whining about doesn't show up for us. Also the only hate filled comments I've seen so far come from yourself and a couple of others who share your self-entitled opinion.

It's actually not "just bull" even if all you consider are responses from free users right here in this very thread. They're the only ones complaining, yet doing nothing to help themselves with the problem. And before you repeat your story of being unable to afford to pay for stuff above and beyond your internet, if $2 is too big a financial burden to ever consider it, you don't belong on the internet at all because you have obviously got more important things to spend your monthly ISP costs on.

Actually that doesn't happen near as often as it used to (ie: no more than it does here now) since they banned the use of the "private mods" feature over there. As with any sufficiently large system driven by user content, they don't do something about things people don't report. Like Nexus, they don't have the time to spend on it either.

That's some next level conspiracy theorizing going on there.

It is necessary if your quest is flagged to start the game enabled and it has NEW dialogue lines in it. If all it does is alter existing ones or the quest is started in some other way (trigger box, story manager, NPC dialogue script, etc) then you don't need the SEQ file.

Looks ok right now, no more sluggishness except for a few random mod images delaying when the image window comes up.

Northern Utah, same thing, site's been sluggish for the last couple of days. I thought it was just my local internet but apparently not.

Here's the thing. This had nothing to do with All Natural and everything to do with having used MO2 when it's not recommended for use with Oblivion. Stick to Wrye Bash and you won't have an issue. If there was actually a problem with AN and vampires like this it's something that would have come up a long time ago (the mod is over 10 years old now) and would have been diagnosed and solved back then.

Backporting meshes is not at all the same as trying to backport the .esp file and it's disingenuous of you to imply otherwise. There is no such thing as a successful backport of the .esp file - which is the most important part of 99% of the mods you'll find out there. Those will break, period. Actively campaigning to break peoples' saves is abhorrent.