Feedback - Suggestions

[piperman123]

Ok, so far Vortex has been great! GUI looks amazing, everything is easy to use/setup and really intuitive. User control still feels a fair bit more limited than with MO but I like the more straightforward methodology. I think it would still be nice to get more fine control in the advanced settings further along in Vortexs development however.

 

Cracks do start to show a bit when your mod list starts to get a bit extensive though. At least that's when I started noticing some features that would be really handy to have:

• Drop down menu for filters/multiple sort options
• Filters, sorting mods is nice but it would be nicer to be able to filter mods by highlight for example
• Filter highlights by colour then icon and similar combinations therein.
• Deploying mods after a purge should enable plugins that were last enabled for that profile
• Purge should happen upon switching profiles
• A means to distinguish what is in a mod (plugins, scripts etc.)
• Change the highlights of multiple mods simultaneously.
• Hotbar for quick launching tools, perhaps a game specific bar under the games one?
• Allow for searching using "," to separate keywords? It would be useful when searching for mods that have a number of interacting patches etc.

I know bsa extraction is quite strongly debated, I won't bring it up here, so I'll accept that if users want that functionality it'll have to come in the form of a 3rd party extension? But I definitely think Vortex should at least show conflicts that take place (as an advanced option) so that users who know what they're doing and want to then go and resolve those conflicts can do so.

 

I do think, personally, the Vortex team should consider implementing the option for vortex to manage bsas, throw plenty of 'limited support' warnings, hide it in the advanced options somewhere, whatever you have to do to, but have it there for the users who ware aware of how it works, the risks etc. and still want/need that functionality.

 

I don't know if this one can even be implemented or not but make it so Vortex retains information on pending downloads so they can resume/start after closing the program. This doesn't seem to happen at the moment.

 

Lastly, It would be great if Vortex could display more information about plugins like wrye does for example. Such as showing what plugins are in a merged plugin, what plugins have been made redundant by Smash/Wrye etc.

 

 

[simsrw73]

 

...But I definitely think Vortex should at least show conflicts that take place (as an advanced option) so that users who know what they're doing and want to then go and resolve those conflicts can do so.

 

 

YES!!! There are some things that Vortex can't reasonably do, but I believe that it should at least inform the user as much as possible so that the user can figure out how to resolve the issue. For Ex. Vx could catalog the bsa on initial install in an easily readable configuration file that it can read like a vfs to compare against other installed mods and show conflicts, differently that regular direct conflicts. It's up to the user to decide what to do with that info. Always, always, always give the user the info they need to intelligently resolve the issue.

 

 

 

Lastly, It would be great if Vortex could display more information about plugins like wrye does for example. Such as showing what plugins are in a merged plugin, what plugins have been made redundant by Smash/Wrye etc.

 

 

Ditto. Give the user as much information as possible. Although this level of plugin management could be much more expensive(?) and could reasonably handed off to wb/xedit since they already do that well. Maybe. I'd still love to see it more integrated in Vx if reasonable.

[sopmac45]

 

 

...But I definitely think Vortex should at least show conflicts that take place (as an advanced option) so that users who know what they're doing and want to then go and resolve those conflicts can do so.

 

 

YES!!! There are some things that Vortex can't reasonably do, but I believe that it should at least inform the user as much as possible so that the user can figure out how to resolve the issue. For Ex. Vx could catalog the bsa on initial install in an easily readable configuration file that it can read like a vfs to compare against other installed mods and show conflicts, differently that regular direct conflicts. It's up to the user to decide what to do with that info. Always, always, always give the user the info they need to intelligently resolve the issue.

 

 

 

Lastly, It would be great if Vortex could display more information about plugins like wrye does for example. Such as showing what plugins are in a merged plugin, what plugins have been made redundant by Smash/Wrye etc.

 

 

Ditto. Give the user as much information as possible. Although this level of plugin management could be much more expensive(?) and could reasonably handed off to wb/xedit since they already do that well. Maybe. I'd still love to see it more integrated in Vx if reasonable.

 

 

I concur. I have been asking the developer's team via this forum and some feedback via Vortex to give us more information via manual or added to Vortex ( same principle already implemented when you click on the " I " ...