suggestion: download all buttons for mods that are required for another mod to work

[MrMage750]

title says it in a nutshell, I'm relatively new to nexus and I just got blades and sorcery and I'm ofc getting some mods for it, but one in particular that I want has at least 20 other mods required for it to work and I'm too exhausted today after a tough day at work to click on the links to these mods and download everything and the requirements for those mods as well, so I'm thinking that a great idea for user convenience would be a couple options for buttons that would download all the required mods for a mod to work, one would be a simple download all button that downloads the requirements for one mod and then maybe a universal download button that downloads all the required mods and the required mods for those mods, and so on, maybe the latter could be a premium feature, though a feature that convenient probably wouldn't get good reception from the community if it were locked behind a paid subscription, but with all these mods for all these different games that nexus has I think it would be a very good idea to implement this so users will no longer have to get arthritis from clicking so much just to get the mods they want, but if this is already here then I understand if a moderator were to lock or delete this

[showler]

Upcoming sort of with Collections.

[MrMage750]

Upcoming sort of with Collections.

collections? sorry I know next to nothing about nexus but what is this upcoming collections feature? and when will it release? I'm just downloading one at a time just to get the meme weapons on blades and sorcery and it's exhausting without a doubt with all the little mods and their requirements, hopefully whatever's in the works will release soon because at this rate I'm gonna be burnt out before I can get even half of all the mods I need

[showler]

https://www.nexusmods.com/news/14568

[MrMage750]

oof that's done with vortex, don't know much about it, but I have heard that vortex screws mods up a lot. in that case I'm gonna be stuck doing things the old fashioned way

[Guest deleted34304850]

oof that's done with vortex, don't know much about it, but I have heard that vortex screws mods up a lot. in that case I'm gonna be stuck doing things the old fashioned way

where did you hear that bullshit?

[showler]

oof that's done with vortex, don't know much about it, but I have heard that vortex screws mods up a lot. in that case I'm gonna be stuck doing things the old fashioned way

Yes, of course it does. That's why the biggest modding site on the planet has spent so many years developing it. Everyone knows that the best way to promote a site is to spend all your time and money making a program that screws everything up.

[xrayy]

this suggestion sounds good but it would ignore all the descriptions (and included advices) of the (one button) downloaded mods. in my opinion a very bad idea. same is with mod collections idea. but this one is at least curated (even if i doubt that this will ever work in a complex game environment like bethesda gamebryo engine related games). simple and fast or recommended does not mean it works or it is free of issues. reading comprehension, following descriptions, and at least some minor personal understanding and experience will always be one of the most important parts of a flawlessly working modded game. i'm sure this will be proven in the future as it was already proven in the past.

 

it lasted years of growing experience for me to get a stable and flawlessly working gameplay with my modded oblivion, skyrim and fallout setups. if anyone thinks he can accelerate or compress time by ignoring mod descriptions and the related experience by introducing one button downloads or mod collections for any complex mod constellation, i'm sure that this will not work out as intended. people who currently already ignore mod descriptions, warnings and mod changes will not do better just by using one button downloads or mod collections.

 

mod collections or downloading mods as a bundle may work as a chain of some simple texture replacement mods or mods with a comparable simple internal structure. everything else will be a risky experiment with questionable effect on stability.

 

the only visible effect of pushing this will be that more and more mod creators will refuse to offer complex mods due to ignorance of mod users believing wrong proposals spreaded by a tale of simplifying complex mods setup using mod packs while making it nearly impossible for a single modder to further develop or change his mod freely. it should be always the free and proven decision of the mod creator(s) to combine mods with each other and for example to download them as a pack. urging modders to do so or taking their rights to do so will destroy the idea of free modding in long term and as far as i can see we are already on this path.

 

one last suggestion. even if i would get an automated endorsement for my mod due do such kind of "optimized download features" it would not mean anything to me. i'm sure these automated constructs will be meaningless to mod creators and they will contribute to destroy free modding.