schrecksekunde

thats....scary o_0 but why not just use a proxy addon for the browser ? it works with U-tube so i assume faking a not-UK-ip would work here as well. i was "located" in north-corea for quite a while, didnt know they have any copyright restrictions in that country (and it was possible to choose it, no idea who thinks people from there would be able to even reach those pages vpns and stuff are nice but in most cases a simple proxy does the job...and btw, those restrictions are completly senseless. its only forbidden to UPLOAD stuff (thats protected by some sort of crazy copyright-stuff), downloading is absolutly legal (I cant know that the ubuntu-distri i download actually is a hollywood-movie with a changed filename....). and for quite some years i´ve not heard of any actions against so called "pirates", the only news i got on that topic was that most of the lawyers who made a fortune by sending out countless warnings lost their license and are forbidden to ever work as a lawyer again in germany (where most of these stupidities took place in europe). and it got FAR harder to ripp someone off that way, you actually have to have proof he did something illegal on purpose to send him a bill, guess the "pirates" that really went to court when they received such a letter made the jugdes realize that if that went on they´d never see a different case in their life again..... most of the stuff i fabricated panic, i never ever had anyone i know getting even a warning (but in .at its a bit different,we´ve got 4 cops for all criminal activities in the net and they from the start on made it clear that they´d for sure not do copyright stuff) nor did i ever speak or talk with someone who actually _knew_ someone who had received any form of punishment. thats a thing that was made up, pushed trough the media and after 10 years still frightens users and yes, i also dont like the net as it is....and am scared of how it will be in 5-10 years...dont even want to think about it... ps : forgot one thing, the magnet links should also work perfectly, afaik they´re not able to track any seeder when using those (cause in the end there are some thousand seeders, they´d have to find out who loaded which bit up), maybe take a look if thats still working. if there are some people who want some bigger file packages hosted i can arrange that, got some servers in the area of vienna which havent got anything to do and bandwidth is unlimited, only need to talk to a buddy and they´re available.....

ok, i followed the whole process again (1st time with mod organizer didnt work so i tried it after reinstalling a new setup with wyre bash. and, not even using 30-40 (incl. smal fixes),  it crashes right wehen i start it....i really limited the mod,s used a lot of thoe who seemed to cause possible problems not andstill its the same issue. adm drivers ar the newesr ones ( no beta) - but i cant seem to get it to work. an SOMEONE please help me ?i i´d really just need some advice so i can start looking for the errror mysself, waiting for a resonse here just takes so long that i get tiirefd goinh on / trying it again. i swear, no hand-holding and doing the work for me...al i want is to get it going so i can fix it myself. if not : please tell me what i should post what you need on info and whad i COULD try (wb or no nad so on) thx in advance, i finally want to start edit : ok, i guess i set the alternate installers directory wrong/by accident split the mods in two directories, will restore and try again

ok here is the problem(s) i´ve got : i check the installed mods tab in mod organizer and have a lot of conflicts, mainly textures. how do i solve them ? i got for example some hd tex and some other replacements....so do i just delete the ones i dont want and its solved ? other thing is that i got a crash at startup. i had boss running (2 warnings, solved) but got no idea why it actually crashes (right after start -> skse with mod org). help ?

99% step, using mod organizer + boss edit : well when i go to categories/conflits it shows me a lot of mods and most of them are in conflict with the unoficial skyrim patches

so i was modding and modding...and finally it crashes again. that wouldnt shock me that much but what´s weird is that nearly all conflicts i get to see have to do with the unofficial skyrim patches....is there a reason/solution for this ? if someone could help that would be awesome, i´m kinda stuck and finally want to play cheers, schreck edit : mainly i need help on all those conflicts....they always were a problem for me.....please o_O

yes, _can_ be.....but think about a console-player (may they all burn in hell !) who finds out that skyrim on his "computer" looks damn much better. you´ll have done some installs, some configurations and other stuff before....they dont.i had a guy asking me if he could get step done in 15-20 minutes, he´d buy the super-ultimate-deluxe version anyway. when i told him that i had avout 20-30 complete modifications /with up 1to 230 mods + 3enbs by now and maybe played them 10 hours he replied "Oh, too much work then, i thought that´s a dlc." these guys are the ones telling you that he CANT play a shooter wiith a mouse, that a keyboard is far to complicated and asks you what he should do with a .txt file (i ckicked it 20 times now and all i get is word" o_O and skyrim IS extremly easy to mod (when you know how to handle the tools an which pages to use. " but I'm pretty sure that the description for STEP is 100% clear" is a thing i habe my problems with. cause then you know how to benchmark (what it even is), how to clean mods and get compaibility patches together and also that just because a mod says "all in one" - like lanterns of skyrim - doenst mean you just have to put ALL esps in the game. pls. dont see this as an negaive critics, step is the BEST    modding guide-compilation with the best info on what do do and so on. but i doubt thaz someone without some years in moddin g can handle resedit lright , the texture bombiiner pack working or even is able to satr the game after the 6tj ,pd

i was searching the forums for some kind of channel and found one posting that said it existed - and that it was removed again. so is there maybe an irc-channel or anything where someone could ask some quick questions, talk about step and modding and so on ? would for sure be a lot of help and not so much effort. thx in advance, schreck

was taking a look on this thread and am really surprised...by now i didnt get called a *insert insult containing flamer, n00b, something regarding hitler* ...weird o_0 ok, the main thing still doesnt seem to be clear to all : i dont mean step claims, fakes or anything. what i mean and meant is that a "standard nexus user who just registered and didnt mod a lot before" who takes a look at this page (https://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11//?) 1st of all is looking at "enhanced skyrim experience". then he doesnt read all words ("step by step blabla enhancing blabla best mods (!!!!) blabla improving and fixing" - and thats it. sure, it says "guide" but when you can download it on nexus it _has_ to be a mod ...who would upload a pdf with a link to another page anyway ? (cynism) then he flies over the next parts ..."Oh, performance....extreme...THATS mine"... and sees the word "released". and that´s it. he´ll for _sure_ not read all the other stuff on the description, he´ll not care to take a look on any other info....he has the GEMS logo, the word overhaul and - when it isnt exactly THAT - he´ll be pissed. i know that because that was (mainly) the way i started a long time ago on nexus.they have no clue of the work, the problems (copyrights, yeah !) and all that stuff...he´s looking for a simple, easy and especially _perfect_ solution. thats why stuff like edws, cot and so on are always the top mods. and i´d really ask you to take a look at the edws page cause i think they´re presenting the stuff it does, how it does it and what the user has to do in the best way i´ve seen (i dont mean the quality of edws, thats another story). fancy compare-pictures, some (short) sentences on "super-new"-technology and thats it. same with a lot of the other top mods. take for example WATER. easy to understand, you get what it does in 1 minute and you can see what you´ve got to do in the same time. tons of mods aren´t on the top 50 files cause they´re so good but because a) they got a pic of a half-naked elve on the starting page and b) cause they have nearly no text. and, to be honest, what is the good of all those lines of text on the page anyway ? make a short - and clear - description, add some other tabs for "how you can help" and so on and you´ll have more happy users and far less people who dont even try to use step cause they cant read more than 5 lines in a row. i´m working through the guide now for 3 days (with a lot of breaks), rank step close to god for showing me mod organizer and will for sure break your kneecaps if this whole bunch of mods wont work ;) and if i wouldnt have played the pdf-link-forum-nexus-game a dozen times i´d be playing it already for some weeks...really....less is more, especially in times when the average user in the net is too lazy to google stuff (you wouldnt believe what i get asked - and the answers i get on "did you google it already?" ) thx for the whole project, thx for your patience - and think about how much you love your kneecaps ;))) cheers schreck

thx gyro, was looking for a solution to get rid of that damn ncc error for 5h by now yeah, you just need to DIRECTLY extract the ncc zip into the mod organizer folder, unpacking it before putting it in will get you the error msg that it isnt installed

maybe i said it wrong (alltough i doubt it : " i can imagine (even if i dont want to ) what work it is to check all the mods, to even find out if this 19 year old guy who had a great idea 3 weeks ago even checks out the nexus page or still plays the game/remembers he had uploaded "this small mod"." <- that was ment to show that i dont think all you do is copy-paste the top files of the nexus, i saw you were checking which mod was actually installed as it should be with wyre bash, nmm, you spent for sure a lot of time with the texture combiner (as i did) and that alone is a HELL of a work). i just had a guy asking me if there is a "complete pack where he can run the setup" so it looks like the videos of sharpshooters extreme end on youtube.....i didnt know if i should laugh histerically or start screaming......for them STEP _could_ maybe, when they read every word, never get careless and have a understanding of modding BE a help. for me it is a nice "ok, if i use THOSE mods i can at least be quite sure that i wont end up smashing my head against the keyboard when the 175th mod for whatever reason makes it crash"....all i wanted to say is the "advertising" that is obvious on the nexus page is - maybe because you put that much work in it and just want to let the users know that it WAS hard, maybe because you dont want to have it sink into nirvana after 2 weeks - not "done well" if i had never modded anything i´d expect this to be THE solution. one file, i´ll install it (setup.exe) and then i am in cyberspace ! and most people on the nexus DID never mod anything (and for sure never modify/create a package-system game like skyrim is before. so they´ll end up with the pdf, write some flame-**** into the comments, tell all their friends that nexus is comolete crap and will never touch it again. they dont KNOW there is hard work to be done for a game thats just a modular system made of interacting parts so it even gets 20 mods running. that´s all i wanted to say, never intended to downgrade the effort you´ve already put into it. but if you dont tell them that this wont be a ponyride like buying a dllc on any other game, pressing install -done then you´ll - by accident - make it hard for your own project. and that would be sad. that were my 2000 cent, i hope i could make my intention clear.....just add some lines on top of the descrtpion saying "No, we will not reprogramm the game as you wish, you´ll have quite some hours ahead. but we´ll help you and it WILL be worth it" and i think it will get it out of some trouble / flames. good luck guys, will now (AGAIN) start from the beginning - but this time with your help ;) good luck chris ps : is there an irc channel or anything like that were i could ask some quick questions if i happen to get lost in the process (or maybe show you a part that isnt explained as well as it should be) ? i´ve got steam running all time (nick is schrecksekunde), if someone would be so nice and just add me (i wont let HIM do the work...but when you´ve just got 50 working and suddenly something isnt working posting it, waiting 12h for a response ... no, i´d shoot myself but irc/whatever would be fine too....thx anyway !Â

oh thats what i mainly wanted to know ! i modded the previous parts a lot, even made some myself (just small edits or additions to new items etc, nothing that´s coming close to the mods actually existing) so i know that there isnt "one big pack" that makes the game work the way you want it. i had the impression from the nexus page - and thats the part i think should be changed or explained better - that STEP is like a basic mod pack of "you _really_ should use those"-mods in 3 categorys that saves the normal player the annoying installation of exactly those mods (skyui, immersive armors, wet+cold etc) which has to be repeated limitless times because _everytime_ there is a point (at least i experienced that) when one mod, if not installed by this or that manager, if not installed in the correct order or so forces you to start over again. just because after installing 20 mods most players lose the patience to do each mod at once, check it, if there´s an error roll back and undo all edits in the .ini and so on - or because you find yourself having to install 5 mod-addons for making this specific mod work with 3 other mods (and again in a special order) and make one move wrong. and, if you take a look on the comments of the STEP page on nexus, i´m not the only one who got that wrong. i had some experience already modding TES, but a LOT of people even feel tricked because the description speaks of a "complete overhaul" which you can "download" and "update" - and after downloading it you have a (lousy) pdf with a link. why not explain it better, just put the link _directly_ on the nexus page and by doing this dont make the wrong impression that STEP tries to get the download-stats pimped by letting them download a pdf which could - instead of the 10-page (and inaccurate) description - be put on the page itself with a 1-page explanation that SAYS "this is a project that keeps track of which mods are still being updated, which ones can work together, which ones are recommendable but you still have to do it yourself -mainly because we dont have the right to put other modders stuff into a collection and we dont have the energy or will to contact 500000 people if we might use them". i checked out gems and step and really like the idea but some things are just....not well done or even make the impression to chisel endorsments or downloads (for example linking gems to step and other way around....i am for sure responsible for at least 10 downloads in the counter because i repeatedly tried to finally get this "package" just take a look at this part of the description : "STEP provides an enhanced vanilla experience by utilizing a minimum or “Core†set of game enhancements adhering to the original vanilla feel of the game according to the STEP Mandate. All Core mods are considered essential to all STEP "versions". Non-Core mods are optional but highly recommended." doesnt that make the impression that STEP actually DOES something ? it would be much more accurate to say it helps to keep track of those mods and informs you, but "provide" is just not the right word. i can imagine (even if i dont want to ) what work it is to check all the mods, to even find out if this 19 year old guy who had a great idea 3 weeks ago even checks out the nexus page or still plays the game/remembers he had uploaded "this small mod". but check out the comments...8081 atm and most of them are people asking where the hell the actual "mod" is, if its broken and so on....you dont get this number from people downloading a pdf and then having the feeling they had to express their deep thanks for a list of mods. i dont want to sabotage STEP, i dont want to say i could do it better....i just think it´s better for the project to clearly say what it _actually_ does, not what someone may get when he does everything exactly as told AND if nothing goes wrong (cause a badly done new version ruins the whole chain, cause you didnt find one of the million incompatibilities between those mods). cause thats exactly what made a LOT of players stop using the steam workshop, i tried to use 3-4 collections (from the best rated, even one from pcgamer) from there and the 1st run of BOSS threw out like 5 complete errors, tons of obsolete mods and other stuff - and i had to restore the backup for the 50th time. just my 2 cents, its your project and it´s your business how you present it. i think its better to tell the users what they have to expect, what they will have to read and learn and that it means a lot of work for them too instead of using amazing words to describe the possible result that´s even hard work for people who do this for years. thx for the answer and please dont get it wrong, i just think it´s better to tell someone when there is the chance that people might expect something completly different than having hundreds turn away from a project in anger. good luck, schreck

hi, i am maybe the biggest idiot alive but i dont get STEP.... i was looking for an "overhaul", some sort of package which i could download and use as a base for additional modding (if i wish to do so) - and thats what i thought STEP is. the whole page and the constant repeating of "release", "update" and "version" made me believe this, especially the constant mentioning of (for example) "STEP v2.2.3 has been released! Download the file and check out the changelog for details on how to update. etc". then i downloaded the file - and got a pdf. the pdf linked me to a wiki. the wiki links to some guides which explain basic stuff you should know when modding. and then to a liist of mods (very similar to the top list of nexus. and thats where i got stuck. please dont think this is ment as an attack/critics/an attempt to flame STEP - it _really_ isnt. IF STEP is actually a pack which i can download PLEASE can someone just post a simple link to it ? the pdf leads to the wiki and so on and so on, in the end you run in circles. if STEP is a LIST of mods you _should_ install (each mod on its own, based on the rating of this community) but doesnt provide anything than this list then please say so on nexus. i was/am really asking myself if i am a complete idiot or if someone is trying to make me one. i am playing tes since part 1, modded everyone massivly but just couldnt keep track of all the possibilities that exist in skyrim (in oblivion there was the mod tool and that was it, you could manipulate/create objects very easy). and if STEP is the same as GEMS (a "you should do this..." and no overhaul/collection) then you should really change the text -cause i know some other players who are also completly confused and frustrated by this pdf-link-linlk-nirvana" thing (or are just as blind as i am, no idea), the nexus page is not clear on what step really does/is and is expecially completly misleading everytime the word "download" is mentioned. please dont see this as flaming/whatever, all i ask for is a simple answer if i´m completly unable to find an "overhaul" or if this project is a guide.and that, for the sake of this project, you shoudl clarify that on nexus. cause i already heard some players speaking about step "being a fake which tries to get endorments by faking things it doesnt offer" with best wishes and plea for clarifying, schreck ps : i´ll keep this thread open as i hope to get an answer soon, i just want an easier way to get the base mods running than having to install/clean/sort the same 20-40 standard mods over and over. i dont want a flame-war nor any insults, i´ll try to reply (as long as i can stay awake) and am willing to accept that i was wrong if i am.