LE Request for Community Expansion Pack

[damvcoool]

I remember that in the old day when i played NeverWinter there was a community effort to create an expansion pack that included most of the nice mods out there for that game. now i am wondering if something similar can be achieved for Skyrim.

 

knowing that there will likely not be any further official development from Bethesda for skyrim, it would be really nice to see several mods to be pack together are a Community expansion. specially keeping into account that the legendary edition is coming out and contains all the official expansion kinda removing the need to create a patch per expansion per mod.

 

so it would be awesome to see like a poll where we the mod users vote for what we would like to see or have. like integrating the Unofficial Patches, with the nicests Retextures, some added quests (like Path to Elsweyr, and other one).

 

I know we can pick and choose from many many Many mods that enhance gameplay, and improve textures and shaders and all, and also pick from a lot of added quests through mods, but it would be awesome to see like a default community choice neatly packed into a single (very large) installer like a real expansion.

 

This could also be something that differentiates nexusmods from any other skyrim mod communities out there.

[Xilante]

Making packs is a bad idea/can't be done because of different owners

[damvcoool]

This was also an issue with the original NeverWinter CEP (Community Expansion Pack), but these were overcame for the benefit of the game and the community, cant the Nexus/Skyrim community do the same?

 

Also, again citing the Legendary release on summer, for new users it would be a lot more convenient to have a single "sure shot" at getting the most out the mods, and having to hunt down what mods are "better" than others at certain tasks, and mods complement each other, or what mods conflict with others.

 

I know that there is G.E.M.S, and STEP which both are great to help on picking out individual mods, but again is not easy to install, and someone with little experience on mod installing may even get discouraged by the complexity of this (not that the guides are complex but are certainly intimating at first).

 

With a Skyrim CEP we can encourage newbies to try out the preferred community Mods that do not conflict and enhance the game. (newbies being people who get Legenday)

 

NOTE: by "better" i mean a consensus of the majority for better quality and integration, not single person preference.

[bben46]

I have seen this kind of request for a premade mod compilation many times, and have even seen some attempts to implement it. It has never ended well. In fact the problems associated with them have caused us to BAN the uploading of large compilation type mods.

 

From our Terms of Service

Do not upload compilations of other users work irrespective of whether the authors of the work you would like to compile together have agreed to your using their work in your compilation. For example: no "my favourite mods" lists or "best weapon" compilations. uploaded with all of the mods already bundled into one ginormous download.

 

And a link to my own rant on compilations http://s1.zetaboards.com/bbenlibrary/topic/5139302/1/?x=0#post789817