Mod Naming Consistency

[JamesRook]

Thanks to all the modders for their efforts and unpaid work. You guys are great. I do have a little request though. Most modders are pretty good about doing this but occasionally I run into a problem with NMM where I'm searching for a particular mod to maybe update or get more information about the mod. It has a distinct name and author in the NMM mods view, but when you go to the plugin view the plugin name and author's name are completely different. It's really difficult to try to figure out which mod I'm looking for, especially when so many have similar names like crafting, settlement, or weapon. Very often a search on the Nexus using the plugin name or author comes up with nothing. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but other authors seem to be able to stay with pretty consistent file naming. Just as an example, I have a plugin named WeaponsCraftingYAY.esp by Leon(Mattdamon420) in my plugins. In the mods view, I have about 10 mods that start with crafting, maybe 10 with weapons and assorted others. Nothing with the plugin name and nothing with the authors name. Searching the Nexux came up empty for me. Process of elimination will find the mod, but it's tedious. Thanks for listening.

 

[Ethreon]

You can rename mods yourself. As long as there's no dependency there should be 0 issues doing so. Problem solved.

[Rabbit1251]

Just don't rename the esp's.

 

 

The Rabbit

[Chaophim]

If you use Win 10 and don't mind a small learning curve, I'd recommend switching to Mod Organizer 2. I can hover over a plugin in the plugins list and it tells me exactly which mod put it there even if I have renamed the mod in the list.