Upgrading to Vortex - Will I Lose My Mods

[rmm200]

Only multiplayer I can find is:

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/383530/Vortex/

[Tannin42]

In my opinion, Vortex is not completely ready for primetime.

 

1) Vortex doesn't recognize any of the mods you currently have installed, BUT it does store them in the same folder and it replaces your config files that are in those folders. That seems nonsensical. Config files don't alter Vortex so why revert them to base? And why not recognize the mods that are clearly installed? I'm sure there's a logical reason, but it evades me.

 

2) Multiplayer mode doesn't seem to work. The concept is kind of, eh anyway. Who would I be sharing my PC with? My family, sure, but not likely my friends. "Hey man, can I come to your house and play XXXXX? Oh, and can I change your configuration too?" "Ah, nope. You want to play on my PC, you play with my configuration." In any case, why when I have Multiplayer enabled does it not show the mods I installed on my login and my child's login? I don't have to fool with anything in a manual installation, just switch Windows logins and the mods are all there. The concept is nice, sure if my kid wanted a different configuration they could switch to theirs, but if I log into Vortex with my account under either Windows logins my config should show up, it doesn't. At least that is how I would like it to work.

 

3) Config files should be editable from Vortex. It's nice Vortex will let me disable/enable mods without deleting the mod folder, so why not make the users life really easy and let us edit the config files too?

 

4) Once I have my mods setup and the config files edited to my liking, how often am I likely to change it? Almost, never, and I still have to go to Nexus Mods and find new mods and get updates. So, where is the overall usefulness of Vortex? What am I missing?

 

5) Oh, and if I login to Windows user1 and login to Vortex user1 and I answer the survey, then I login to Windows user2 and then login to Vortex user1, I shouldn't be asked to a) setup Vortex again and b) take the survey again. This is the cloud storage era, save my preferences to the cloud. Google Drive can do that, so can Vortex. That would make spending $50 on the pro version valuable.

 

Just my opinion, for what it's worth.

 

re 1: By their nature every mod manager has its own way of maintaining the mods they've installed. It would be extremely limiting if Vortex tried to "synchronize" with NMM because a) we would have to reproduce all the nonsense NMM does as well and b) may not be able to implement certain features because NMM wouldn't be able to.

Vortex can import from two other mod managers (MO and NMM) which is more than any other mod manager can

 

re 2: It's not multiplayer, it's multiuser. And what do we know who may be sharing computers? Family? Couples? Roommates? Just because you don't need the feature doesn't mean others don't.

 

re 3: Should they really? How many duplicates of the same functionality does the community need? If you're playing bethesda games you can use BethIni for a great tailor-made configuration tool, is there really an advantage in Vortex trying to copy that just so you don't have to run a second application?

 

re 4: That depends on what kind of user you are, many users have several mod setups they switch between. Many users try out mods they then find they don't need. This is the same as q2, do you really not comprehend that other users may have other requirements than you do? If you don't find Vortex then don't use it, no one ever said everyone needs to use Vortex.

 

re 5:

a) again: Your use case may differ from other users use case. We can not assume that multiple accounts on the same PC are the same person, usually they aren't.

b) Vortex is free with no limitations. What you pay money for is an adfree site, unlimited download speed and supporting mod authors. If that is not valuable enough for you you're welcome to use the ad-supported site.