Bishamonten

Alright, I'll go ahead and give them a go. If they work out and I backup my mod(or actually, with the help of mod organizer I can do that easily), can I continue merging mods on top of it? Because last time I did that, the script was showing the merged esp itself and not the esps I merged it into the first time. I figure constantly renumbering the formids won't do any harm due to the very nature of renumbering all of them. And one last question, it's totally ok renumbering formid's for a patch and it's mod, whether you decide to include a patch's master in the merger or not? Because I thought renumbering a patch's formids would screw up the idea of it being a patch. EDIT: Also, do I have to manually copy down the assets myself?

Alright. Now can I merge a plugin that has a patch with it? For example, I want to merge all the populated series mods, but one of them have a patch for it. Do I just set it to NOT renumber formid's? Mods can be found here: https://erkeilmods.altervista.org/skyrim/populated-skyrim-civil-war-rs/

There is 2 questions I do have, first, could you clarify this statement here? Do you mean while in the merging process, don't leave out the master mods that aren't going to be merged inside a group of mods that I'm going to be merging, because the renumber formIDs option will go haywire? Also what is the "group" that you're referring to? When I load the mods I want to merge, TES5Edit loads up the masters along with it, but when I apply the script, I just select the specific esps I want merged. My second question is, how best should I go about merging the ETaC Patches and the Populated Series together? I've heard(including from the reports) that they merge fine, so there must be something on my end that's going wrong, and they're currently the mods on my list that use the biggest amount of esps, which would free up a significant part of the load order if they were merged instead, even in two esps instead of one. When I try merging the ETaC patches, well there is at least one I found errors with, so I did not include it, however when I tried merging, one of two things happened, either certain records did not survive the merging(which I heard is a fixable process), or I found errors after the merging, and could those errors be because I chose to renumber the formIDs for patches? Or am I missing something else entirely here?

https://pastebin.com/K0SceuQB Above is my load order. I was wondering if someone could help me out in merging some of my plugins as I need to run a merged patch, bashed patch, and the skyproc patches afterwards, and I was thinking this will be a perfect place to ask around. Currently I'm looking at the ETaC patches, but so far, I haven't been able to merge them perfectly. I haven't actually run the game testing it out, but I'm afraid of the errors that it produces, and not sure whether it was smart to renumber the formid's on them or not. Some did not have all their records making the process despite the reports showing that they were good to go. I'm also looking at the populated series and thinking about merging them too, especially since they have no scripts on them.