Need help with installing mods

[muhabla]

Hi there, first off, to the modding community of TES, Amazing work is being done here, and this modding community makes these games what they are, a living breathing form of art.

Truly amazing work, and my hat off to every modder involved!

 

Now to my question, I apologize if I'm posting this in the wrong place, I figured this would be the right place to ask though. If that is not the case, please move this thread to where it should be, or let me know and I will start one there, and if my question was already answered, please feel free to simply provide me with the link.

 

Now the issue is, I want to modify my Skyrim experience to the point where it feels like a completely different game. And that will definitely lead to issues that I am not capable of solving myself.

 

I want to use a lot of mods, somewhere in the range of 300-500 different modifications. I did, however, put in a lot of time and effort making sure there are as little compatibility issues as possible. so I did not list mods that change the same things (for example, UFO vs any other amazing mod that changes followers)

 

However, I do have a lot of mods that add an abundance of content, but change the same thing (IE. Monster Mod, PISE, Economics mod to name a few)

 

I am also aware of Wrye Bash and BOSS, and I want to use them to create the BASH patches in order to make them run, however, Ive been having difficulties with that.

 

So here is my issue, in order to see if I can use the said programs, I installed the mods with NMM (amazing tool btw), and tried to use Wrye Bash (another amazing tool) to merge them together, but no matter how I tried, it simply did not work. I tried using BOSS (yet another amazing tool) to no avail.

 

I will not ask anyone to spend hours sorting through my numerous mods, and most of them are standalone, such as Armour mods and such, and some are modular, like the Lorecraft mod, which technically should not conflict with anything.

 

But I am absolutely stumped when it comes to merging leveled lists and mods that add mostly the same things, but slightly different, like the crafting mods that let you craft misc items. And that is where I need help. I tried goggling tutorials, but they were mostly either too complicated and I didn't know what most of the acronyms meant, or simply did not help. I also noticed, that when I use Wrye Bash, there was no button for BOSS, and I had to use BOSS separately, but I never figured out how to transfer the tags to Wrye Bash. Further more, I tried staying away from BAIN files, because I wanted everything to stay same file format, I figured it would be less complicated that way.

 

When I tried running the game, it started up with the Bethesda logo, then showed the Skyrim dragon logo, and immediately CTD'ed with no error. Since I am not capable of fixing that, I deleted everything and the game runs vanilla again just fine. So before starting over, I decided to enlist some help here before failing miserably again.

 

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, and my apologies if this is confusing. But thank you very much for taking the time to read this!

 

P.S.- I am not good with acronyms, so please tell me what they mean if you use any, thank you.

P.P.S. - I am hoping on extending this further by adding new locations and quests further down the road, if I manage to make game run with ought them.

[FalloutBeast]

It might just be from too many mods. 300-500 is a lot and the more mods you add the more un stable the game gets

[LuDux]

Technically, the maximum number of mods that Skyrim can load is 255, no matter how small or big. Go past that and the game will instantly crash at the start up screen.

[muhabla]

That is why I want to merge as many as possible, but so far I count figure out how to merge the mods..