tweak275 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 There are beginning to be a whole bunch of FO3 mods. Some with all kinds of promise... and some not so much.It's beginning to be difficult to wade through some of the crap that gets uploaded to find that stuff that people spent all kinds of time and effort on. For example in the weapons section there is a HUGE number of mods, some of which just alter the stats of a currently in game gun while others create entirely new guns and others still have created a butt load of new models for guns (http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2307). It may be presumptuous of me but I have a feeling members of the fallout community are gonna want to know about the one I just linked and care less about changing the damage and spread on the 10MM pistol. Ways to accomplish this:1. make a "moderator's choice" category that can't be directly uploaded to but that some forum administrator can push mods to as they see fit 2. It would be nice to list some of the mods in order of most downloaded. That would in part help.3. make a trash heap category that mods will get pushed to if they get too many "1" ratings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 If you browse the Weapons Category, you have an option to organize based on the following (either Ascending or Descending): NameUploaderUpload DateLast UpdateFile SizeDownloadsRatings People also publish their favorites lists (like mine) which are also sources for finding the best-in-class but they are ALL very subjective, subject to being out-dated and you have to take each piece of data you find with a grain of salt. There is also a Files of the Month that is being generated. A Top 100 list has not been created yet but will eventually show up. You can also find very specific items you are looking for using the Tag Search feature but that relies on author and community feedback to tag mods. If you only tag your favorites, I guess that is another way to "whittle" the list down. ;) LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtSweetieBelle Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Things like "uploader", "upload date", "last update", and whatnot don't really have much to do with what type of mod someone is looking for, aside from the possibility that one author may develop several similar mods. Honestly, I think a lot more needs to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddah Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Well every try the tag search, or category search, or the advanced search options. Seems to work fine for me, but I use it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHammonds Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Yamamoto, being a database administrator, I assume those fields in the dropdown list are there mainly because that is data readily available on the data table being queried (very little overhead to use) but most of those options can be useful based on what you are looking for. Posting suggestions like "it could be better" is useless without specific examples for improvement. The OP had specific suggestions and there are existing solutions for each that s/he did not know about. LHammonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtSweetieBelle Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 My apologies. I did create a thread concerning all of my suggestions for improvement, but it was dismissed as unnecessary by another administrator after the post here had been made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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