The gaming world hates Noobs

[Wulfrune]

Noobs, we sit alone with no friends, we don't go to LAN parties because people draw on our foreheads the word...... Noobs, then everyone would know our shame.

Sure, you'll get the kind "Leet" out there that sometimes are willing to help, but they ain't doing it for us noobs benefit, no. They're doing it to impress "Greshilda the Half Elf" who has a 38DD upper body enhancment.... however who is really Colin the fat 22 stone dude, who lives with his mom, works for a tech support for a post surgical appliance company & lives in Basinstoke.

So it's to Colin I address my question to.

Colin, I downloaded Nexus Mod Manager (0.61.3) and went onto Nexusmods.com where I found a bunch of mods, to which I added to my MNN, however, when I launch the game, nothing seems to happen. The only thing that I did notice was that my NPC's were taking items, that I would assume, hiding them and selling my ill gotten booty on the black market somewhere, because I could'nt find any trace of it.

I'm doind somethig wrong Colin, and, you've always helped me in the past..... So... For Greshilda, one more time Colin buddy.... wtf should I do?

Love your noob friend

 

Wulfy

[DrakeTheDragon]

Don't know what gaming world you're living in, but mine's not hating noobs, it's educating them, and with a passion.

 

You're not giving away much information here for anyone to go by, but I'm getting the impression you may have become victim of the latest official patch from Bethesda, and this topic here might be relevant to your case as well.

 

Then again, I don't have the game myself and am not exactly following its modding developments much, so what do I know? But I think by speaking of vanishing items and mods (plugins?) not having an effect in game, chances are it's because they were deactivated before you entered your game.

[Wulfrune]

Don't know what gaming world you're living in, but mine's not hating noobs, it's educating them, and with a passion.

Yeah, I was just having a little joke. Sadly, when you have to explain that your joke is supposed to be a "joke", the joke failed..... never mind, I'll stick to my day job.

 

Anyway, your reply was helpful, so I'll go RTFM and hopefully the picture might get a little more clearer. I assumed that the modding worked on F4 like is does on Civ 5, which was extremely easy to mod,

 

When you get to my age (55) I hate having to learn new s#*!, it means I have to forget some off the other stuff I learnt in the past :)

 

We all ran with smaller memories back then lol.

 

Anyway Drake, thanks for the reply.

 

Regards

 

Wulfrune.

 

 

[Dhegonus]

Noobs... Noobs never change.

[Deleted3507349User]

 

We all ran with smaller memories back then lol.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, alleged (and denied/unproven) quote.

 

I'm 47, so I feel your pain too :)

[jones177]

At this point in the games development I would not use any mod manager. I do manual installs until the patching faze is over. Also this is a good time to lean how the new system works.

Knowing what things are & how they work brings you to the realm of Geekdom.

 

I am 62 & work with a bunch of kids doing 3D. I have to learn new things every day just to stay afloat. The old stuff is stored on my HD/Smartphone.

 

Later

[hammons556]

Did you enable your FO4 for modding by editing your .ini lines?

 

You will need to change the following line under [Archive]

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\

Also add the following line under Fallout4Prefs.ini below the section marked [Launcher]

bEnableFileSelection=1

[Wulfrune]

Thanks for all your help..... RTFM helped a lot.

I am find some compatability issues that keep causing the game to crash and burn, however, I'll just go through the same procedure of switching them all off invidually until I find the cuplit. Unless there's an easier way, then feel free to tell me.

As for the help that the rest of you gave, please allow me to give you all a big "Boom Shanka"

Roughly translated means: "May the seed of you loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman"

 

Wulfrune

m(_ _)m

[UhuruNUru]

First ignore the instructions above, they do work, but cause longer loading times.

 

The best thing any noob can do is watch the Beginner's guide to modding Skyrim on Gopher's Vids on YouTube.

 

Though for Skyrim little has changed as far as the basics are concerned. He is making Fallout 4 ones and his first has been posted with the latest methods to enable modding with the latest patch.

 

Gopher's a little long winded if you know what to do, but every video assumes no knowledge of even the most basic things.

So they are ideal for noobs.

 

My experience of all modding sites is roughly.

90% just use mods and most bad posts come from these.

10 support mods by helping test or other users and are the ones who help noobs with generally well intentioned advice.

As with the post above, which is only just obsolete and not actually wrong, but a better way has been found.

 

Mod Authors are less than 1% of users and can come from either group, generally they become part of the helpers, at least for their own mods.

 

The one thing I would emphasize is RTFM (Read The Effing Manual), on installation that means check all the requirements are met.

When you think an installed mod is buggy or broken read manual and description, search the forums for answers.

 

We were all noobs once and 80% of questions are answered in the description or readme file and 19% in the forums.

Only 1% of those who have a question couldn't have found the answer faster by RTFMing.

 

I was one of the main helpers for Mod Organizer and got burnt out, not by the awful single Forum thread we had for support, that meant a tutorial post I spent hours creating disappeared after 10 posts and no matter how much effort went into a clear layout, it looked awful on the stupid posts tab whilst clearly formatted on the forum.

That I fixed by instigating the support moving to STEP.

No what tipped me over the edge was the last of thousands of posts asking,

 

"Where are my mods, the Data folder is empty?"

 

When the main feature of MO is that it never, ever, puts anything in the damn Data folder and as the key features it's the very first thing mentioned in Description.

 

So even the most helpful of us gets tired of these noob questions, not because they are asked, but because they are asked without RTFMing first.

 

So as an ex- noob to a noob, I say this, RTFM first.

Gopher's enabling modding guide is on the Nexus front page.

A simple search will find the answer for noobs every time.

 

As for old dogs learning new tricks, they can and so can you.

I'm 51 and 3 months before I became a major support giver for MO, I was that much a noob, I had never even used a mod.

 

You're never too old to learn something new and use so little of your brain, it will never become full.

[bben46]

You may be surprised at how many older people are on Nexus. The kiddies tend to forget who actually invented computers, internet, Computer games and all of the technology they take for granted. :tongue: Hint, the 46 after my name is not a random number.