How many mods is too many?

[Darkangel13]

255 ESPs is the official limit Texture mods that do not have esp in them do not count. You can have as many you GPU is able to hadle. HOWEVER you need to know what you are doing to get to that number meaning bash patch and merge patch is a must. So start learning. I am pretty sure you shoudl have a merche patch done by now.

Anyway good luck.

[tomomi1922]

Don;t they already have a snapping point? I honestly just got into building stuff like yesterday. I did build beds and stuff before, made some prefab. But Yesterday was officially building stuff. Yay I gotta play Sims in FO4. I like how the foundation and floor/wall snap together already. But still can't figure out how to build stair (and 2nd level) since the floor doesn't like to snap to 2nd level (as first level roof).

There are 2 mods I think you should consider: Intersection mod, and build in red (need to find exact mod name). First mod expands your build zone to collide a little against other object, so you can .... try to put things as close as they can. Second mod let you build anywhere in the red. Not to be cheeky, but sometimes you do want to build in where "supposedly" buildable but it goes red.

Something still needs to be done about the camera angle when building. Too hard to see.

Guess why I quit Skyrim .... No matter what I did, I crashed when I ran across the field outside Skyrim. So I was supposed to diagnose all 100+ mods .... and ... procrastinated .... and never looked back again :(

[tomomi1922]

255 ESPs is the official limit Texture mods that do not have esp in them do not count. You can have as many you GPU is able to hadle. HOWEVER you need to know what you are doing to get to that number meaning bash patch and merge patch is a must. So start learning. I am pretty sure you shoudl have a merche patch done by now.

Anyway good luck.

I am at 168 mods now ... give or take. Should I worry about merging ESP yet? Because there are still quite many mod problems from the last patch. Funny ... before patch .... problem FREE: like ZERO problem, everything works as intended with only problems as wrong load order causing certain mods to not show up (like Combat Armor, I got about 5 different mods playing with their crafting properties). But now, a lot of things don't seem to work right (and very hard to verify). I am still shifting around because I feel "Valdacil's Sorting" doesn't work half the time (it doesnt rename some of the vanilla item, but some other time it does, for the same item). And all these patches drive me crazy: Sorting has a patch for Craftable Combat Armor that has to load after it, CCCA has a patch for something else that must load before CCCA, and that something else has a patch for Sorting that must load AFTER sorting mod .... Like a dog chasing its tail, never ends.

 

This is why I haven't found a "workable" load order to strike a balance. Not to mention my dear companion (female only) have dark face and cannot be fixed by any redesign mod (even placed at the very end). So I haven't considered merging.