jags78 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Someone contacted me about my mod not working for him. Like, not at all... After some correspondence with him I figured out that he installs all his mod manually. For testing purposes I changed my esl flagged esp to a pure esp and it worked for him... Anybody else had this issue with manuall installations of esl flagged esps?? If confirmed, why is that so? Installations with mod managers (in my example Mod Organizer 2) always work flowlessly. Do mod managers change something with the esl/esp when creating the virual envirement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIitS Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Nope, as long as you actually activate the plugin it will work fine. Last time I played, I installed most of my mods (several of which were ESL-flagged .esp) manually, using NMM as a plugin.txt editor to activate it, and never had an issue. Manually editing the plugins.txt file would work exactly the same (and I did that a few times too). If he is not manually editing plugins.txt, he is using the in-game mod manager, which is a mod manager (and a terrible one). I refuse to touch that, so don't know if it has any issues, but what I have heard about it makes me think it shouldn't. So in all likelihood, they were just doing something wrong beforehand, figured out what they were doing wrong/did something different with the non-ESL version you sent them, and didn't want to admit it/didn't realize that they were installing it differently then the original version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jags78 Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 OK. I'll ask him to test it again with the flagged esp. Thx for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorkaz Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Most likely he never updated and can't use modules from a certain update on. People mostly do that out of piracy reasons... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jags78 Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 Oh.... that's something I didn't think about. In his case he changed the pure esp file I sent him to a esl flagged esp for testing purposes and I worked. I guess my mod got corrupted when he download it, since no other user out of 350 downloads complained about this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorkaz Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 This bugged me a lot and I got agitated the first time I encountered such a user, desparately trying to find out what I did wrong. Only to find out that he had the basic version you can't even find on Steam anymore and "refused" to update Just know there are quite a lot of them, so it's not your fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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